thenondualtankie

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  1. How did you do this back in the day?
  2. like if you wanna do something several times a week it adds up really fast
  3. I live in London. How do I take advantage of this? I don't want to go solo clubbing, nor do I know anyone that I could go with. Right now my main idea is to go to a lot of new age events. Breathwork sessions is an appealing one. There's also the psychedelic society which does events and meetups. These events are usually super expensive though, like £40+ for a single session.
  4. There seems to be this strange delusion among programmers that AI has somehow plateaued. There's no evidence that AI has plateaued. The current best systems use only around 1-2 trillion parameters and were trained with GPUs from 2022. What will AI look like once we have 10 trillion parameters? 100 trillion? And what about compute, you think compute is just done progressing? Stop being so blind.
  5. I think getting them to open source the models would be a big step. You'd still need the compute power to be able to run the models though. Which might end up being cheap enough in the end.
  6. This post is especially for engineers / technically minded types, but please chip in anyway if you're not in that category. In a lot of circles it's considered bad to work for so-called 'defense' companies. You're directly contributing to the death of Middle Eastern children. I find myself largely in this camp. But is it always true that designing weapons is immoral? Surely not, because bad guys do exist. Under what circumstances would you agree to work on weapons systems? What country would you want to be working for, or what kind of country? Further, should one just take the 'the game is the game' attitude and simply follow the money? Defense pays. And the challenges are very interesting from a technical perspective.
  7. I agree with Leo 100%, not that my opinion particularly matters. AI has no survival agenda, it simply acts as it is trained. If the desire to destroy humanity isn't trained into the AI, it won't magically start doing it. Unbridled capitalism is the biggest risk associated with AI.
  8. Guys... It's ChatGPT. Generative Pretrained Transformer. WTF is ChatGTP? Generative Transformer, Pretrained?
  9. The role of government is much more than just providing physical security. It's to make sure society runs effectively. The point of society is to build material wealth (this holds true until we have superabundance). That means the point of government is to maximize the building of material wealth. This involves everything the government does, including the justice system, education, military (so yes physical security), whatever. If there were no justice in a capitalist system, then some companies would have an unfair advantage over others. This means that the disadvantaged companies cannot produce as much value. The result is less overall value production than if all companies had a level playing field. That's why you need things like the prevention of false advertising (as well as a huge range of other laws that make capitalism more fair). Because otherwise, companies providing real value by not doing false advertising are disadvantaged. This is bad for society. Education increases the amount of value that individuals can provide to society. That's the only reason it exists. And then of course we have private property protection (as well as other forms of physical protection) as you mentioned. But there's a lot more to government than just this.
  10. If small businesses were more efficient at producing economic value than mega corporations, then we wouldn't have mega corporations in the first place. Mega corporations are highly effective at creating economic value.
  11. Allow me to respond to you @Bobby_2021. Currently the prime objective of government is for corporations to run effectively. The whole point of government is the effective creation of economic value. Literally nothing else matters from the POV of society, especially at our current level of development. Hence government is literally just a tool for corporations to dominate the world. Because that's currently the most efficient way of creating economic value. So to say that it's just government to be blamed is stupid IMO. The government's main job is to represent corporations, which it does very effectively.
  12. Could you elaborate on the difference between consciousness and awareness? Isn't this just semantics?
  13. Hi Yimpa. Most of the GPTs are basically useless in my opinion. You get the same benefit by prompting the default system yourself. However, 'Consensus AI' is a pretty useful one because it lets you search a database of academic papers. I find it more useful to create my own GPTs as I need them. For example, I created a psychedelic assistant GPT that helps with things like testing, ROA and general knowledge around psychedelics. The main benefit is that it gets straight to the point without preceding its message with a thousand safety and legal warnings.
  14. I use ChatGPT quite heavily and very rarely reach the message limit
  15. Cool concept art. How does it perceive the world?