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> Countless voiceless people sit alone every day and have no one to talk to, people of all ages, who don't feel that they can join any local groups. So they sit on social media all day when they're not at work or school. How can we solve this?

Solve what? This is the world I have always dreamed of, before even computers became a thing in my life and community. I initially approximated it with books.


Are you asking about how it should be solved or how it's gonna be solved? If the latter then the answer is most likely AI.

Every software has bugs. The best course of action to avoid introducing into they world yet another piece of buggy software is to never write any software. But nobody pays for not writing software. Then writing software that will completely fail is the next best thing. You don't introduce into the world another piece of buggy software, but you can write the software, which is fun and rewarding and also get paid.

I'm always delighted if the software that I wrote ends up on virtual scrap heap.


> Adam attempted suicide at least four times, according to the logs

> [...]

> “there is something chemically wrong with my brain, I’ve been suicidal since I was like 11.”

> [...]

> was disappointed in lack of attention from his family

> [...]

> “he would be here but for ChatGPT. I 100 percent believe that.”


In modern world if you want to estimate validity of the message it's a better heuristic to consider the source than the message itself.

Americans were very efficiently suppressing such ideas. They were never interested in Europe having effective army. They only wanted to sell equipment and partially support their bases with European money. When the school bully is your "friend" you don't exactly have the freedom to do what's best for you.

Obviously sycophants of the dictator taken over all civil institutions as evidenced by the quality of this term when compared to previous one.

But are there any signs that they have taken over the military? Iran and Venezuela was something they had in mind for decades. But are there any generals itching to test themselves invading Greenland against European military? They don't have to obey the civilians. Rule of law is a thin veneer that this president stripped clean. Now personal interests of the people in power is what matters. Are there any generals with personal interest to invade Greenland and fight Europe? They obviously can develop some but it should take few years at least, right?


Are there coding AI benchmarks that show in which language AI models are best at solving tasks?

Sort of like Rosetta code but for AI and more complex tasks?


> without burning 10 years of cash flow.

Wasn't Apple sitting on a pile of cash and having no good ideas what to spend it on?


That doesn't make lighting it on fire a great option.

Perhaps spending it on inference that will be obsoleted in 6 months by the next model is not a good idea either.

Edit: especially given that Apple doesn’t do b2b so all the spend would be just to make consumer products


Apple of course does an emormous amount of b2b.

The cash pile is gone, they have been active in share repurchase.

They still generate about ~$100 billion in free cash per year, that is plowed into the buybacks.

They could spend more cash than every other industry competitor. It's ludicrous to say that they would have to burn 10 years of cash flow on trivial (relative) investment in model development and training. That statement reflects a poor understanding of Apple's cash flow.


> no one cares of treating caffeine addiction

If people were aware in how many ways caffeine messes up a lot of people there would be. Exhaustion, migranes, anxieties, twitching, insomnia, mental issues to name a few. Most never attributed to caffeine but mysteriously going away after a person manges to kick the habit.


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