nitpicking here, but Cogito Ergo Sum (“I think, therefore I am”) has absolutely nothing to do with intelligence. in modern vernacular you might translate it as "i percieve/witness therefore i exist"
You might take it that way, but are you sure that's correct. The derivation/etymology of cogito appears to imply active thought, as does penser (I've always assumed Descartes conceived it in French, and translated, but I confess I don't know which natural language - if any - his mind was using). As opposed to merely passively regarding the World. The epigram's context is "application of reason", at least.
I'm pretty sure when Decartes said that, he meant that that's the only thing we know for sure to be true, since everything else could be a hallucination. He wasn't making an argument for cognitive enhancement... was he?
Yes, they don't give the data they harvest to an authoritarian government that already has proven they will use said data to target and ID people for arrest/detention/torture.
I was answering the question about following someone in the other silo (not possible), not implying that the siloing makes data exfiltration absolutely impossible.
Note however that for the Chinese silo, they can just open the front door, whereas doing the same for the international version would endanger their profits. Profit is an incentive the CCP responds to very well. For the surveillance agencies, hacking the database is probably easier than setting up an official channel that too many people would have to know about and agree to.
dumb question, but if VCs decided that the venture is profitable under a certain model (aka: no limits pricing), then why doesn't the domain registry just do so themselves?
Secretive from whom? I'd kind of hope that as people get richer it gets harder to hide vast sums from the tax authorities and the antiterrorism investigators, but that appears not to be the case.
not that i believe (or not) that this will eventually be feasible, but the dream is that if you feed an introductory paragraph (which includes a thesis) to the algo, it will be able to generate the next 4 paragraphs, which completes a 5 paragraph essay.
What I would be more interested in is feeding it a topic, it goes out and summarizes sources, then arranges those summaries to make a point. I'd actually really like this driving around. I could just have ai give me the tldr on topics I'm interested in.
known nothing about the results, i suspect that mid-ranges are poorer mainly because human frequency response is most sensitive towards mid-range aka vocal-pitch frequency
