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Most people reading this will have no idea that these credible people are going all in on this or that there's a long history of such people coming forward. It's too bad, this is a fascinating topic. What I don't get is why anyone who thinks there is nothing there would care if this passes.

"Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!"

The downside here is I'd have to spend all my time with other me's. I'm pretty sure I'd get on my nerves very quickly.

This sounds like what I was learning 20-some years ago. The hardware and software are better (and easier!) now and the compute is so, so much better. I priced out a terabyte data server with some colleagues back then using off the shelf hardware: $10k CDN. :)

Edit: point being we are seeing things now that were predicted almost a century ago but it takes time to build all the infrastructure. That pace is accelerating. The next ten years are going to be wild.

You could just spread it across a bunch of GICs and then ETFs that were solid performers. You have your lottery money, you just need to earn enough to live the way you want. With enough invested but diversified you could make a fortune without influencing anything as a result of personal choices.

If anythjng, the initial lottery win will have the biggest impact on the timeline, assuming you lay low afterward.

Now, here's the thing. I'd say you would be sharing those winnings with the original winner unless you prevented them from getting the ticket so find a jackpot twice as big as you need and hope a bunch of yous from alternate timeline don't get the same idea.

That's what would happen to me and I'd end up winning about $3.50.

One of the things our sensory system and brain do is limit our input. The road to agi might involve giving it everything and finding the optimum set of filters, not selecting input and training up from that.

You'd need the baseline set of systems ("baby agi") and then turn it loose with goal seeking.

Thanks Mr Lahey. RIP

You just described all the men in my extended family that served in the Canadian military.

Every time I have tried a different app because I wanted some feature have realized I don't use the feature and end crawling back...

I was speculating about how you can overcome hallucinations, etc., by supplying additional training data. Not specific to ChatGPT or even LLMs...

Another way to think of this is feedback from humans will refine results. If enough people tell it that Toronto is not the capital of Canada it will start biasing toward Ottawa, for example. I have a feeling this is behind the search engine roll out.

I thought not paying taxes made him smart?

"Vampirize by 15%"

I also think some people are really good at refusing to see connections. Just a few bad apples, they'll think.

Or that the charges were not legit... Remember "process crimes!"

Or that they were doing what was morally right so it doesn't matter if it's illegal.

And so on...

There are a few other characters for who "being Jewish" is a defining trait in that book. All of them are part of the criminal underworld in some way. Yeah, super gross. To see all the "will not replace us" crap resurfacing in a big way over the last decade or so has been brutal to watch. Can't stand humans, sometimes.

Am not Jewish but have close friends that are. These types of slurs were very common when I was a kid (80s). You are probably aware this goes way, way back. Recently read Oliver Twist and being Jewish is shorthand for "morally bankrupt".

Love it. :) lol

Find a friend with the same tree in good working order and give them a goldfish then about two or three days later tell them you won a weekend in a nice cabin by a lake about an hour from their place. You can't go but they can take it a you'll feed the fish.

When they leave, go in and swap trees.

The great thing about this plan is you don't actually need to rent the cabin because they will never want to see you again once they figure out what you did, anyway.

When I was growing up they used to say "brush after every meal" and then it became three times per day, now it's "please just brush twice at some point".

That is what people miss. This is "the system". It starts and ends with government and "we" chose this (I'm Canadian, we have similar issues but not as extreme, yet).

By continually voting in sociopathic narcissistic social climbers as both public and private sector policy makers (think of shareholders and corporate governance boards) we ensure the system is rigged for the top dogs.

The truth is the system could work in the average person's favour very easily but it would mean limiting some personal freedoms; mostly of very, very rich people. It also would require the average person to get off the "everyone is exploiting me, so I need to do that to them first" treadmill.

Many people have never been on that treadmill (never had the chance or donate excess income or time to local food banks, etc).

The very, very rich don't care. They simply maximize the profit in any situation. Put them in prison and they'll give out legal advice for cigarettes and turn that into a burner phone they use to call their Cayman Islands broker.

It's the upper/upper-middle people who will feel the pain as income is redistributed to poverty stricken people. And if we just impose ubi without fixing the "CEO problem" it will simply lead to inflation. Sucess of ubi programs is entirely due to it happening in a local market. Expand globally without fixing capitalism and you get inflation.

A socialist approach that still allows significant room for upwrd mobility (e.g. CEO can make up to 10x minimum wage, as a non-expert guess) with some type of employee representation on the board of large businesses (state imposed labour union) would probably do it.

Then make ubi contingent on minor public service with free daycare that you can use when performing said services (exception if you have more than 2 kids under 12, or are disabled in some way) say two days a week (networking, activity, build resume) would be a brainstorming idea to workshop.