AI is shit, I can hallucinate useless bullshit just as well, without needing to drive one of the leading GPU manufactures out of the consumer market.
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i tried to get away with not telling the people in my high school classes that i was 26 and in college but was immediately outed on the second day when one of the teachers frowned at me and asked me whether i was the 26 year old college student
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I didnāt do that and I got away with it and then a guy was vaguely sexist to me and asked for my number. He was like āhey is this [name]ā and I texted him 
and he never spoke to me again
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yeah modpeeks are bs sometimes
ok but what if you forgot to give a guy your number. then he might have to send a humiliating tumblr ask that gets posted to your friendgroup discord
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I personally would respond with bullshit from my downloads folder but that works too
(in Calc I)
āYeah Iām kinda undecided at this point Iām thinking of majoring in mathā [LIE BY OMISSION]
āHaha well if you do that youāll have to contend with guys like us (gestures to his buddy)ā
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He wasnāt even a math majorā¦
I had known calc for a couple years at that point and was just going through the damn class for credentialing reasonsā¦
LOL
i remember taking gen chem and on the first day i sat next to this guy and he was like. āhaha. the chem program at this school is meant to be really hard. i took AP chem in high school so iām definitely set, but you didnāt so itāll probably be hard for you :) good luck kiddo :)ā
and then he dropped the class in the middle of the semester because he failed the midterm
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lol yeah
my college doesnāt allow me to transfer DE credits that i used for my high school diploma, but they did allow me to either transfer AP credits or take the placement exam
the AP test had a ton of random crap that i literally just never learned in my calc classes, so the placement exam it is
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I guess I just donāt really think itās a zero-sum game, thereās an insanely large amount of money in AI that there would NOT be if it was just protein folding, and that this large amount of money in ChatGPT contributes to techniques that can be very directly applied to other fields, and I donāt really understand what theā¦ like, thing youāre criticising here is
i love this term btw people should say this more
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I took the AP test for that same reasonā¦ and iddnāt bother studyingā¦ and my school only took 5s at the timeā¦ I just had to figure out that random crap on the test
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one time I did that and then I had a high school mock trial competition that was being judged mostly by pre-law students and one of my classmates was judging
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and like itās not even a prestigious school. it is a decent school in new york but not like, an amazing school. the DE classes that i took were at a school just about as good so itās not about the quality of the class. theyāre just trying to squeeze as much tuition money out of me as possible
Given that my AP Bio teacher has covered basically none of the material in class and just walks around engaging in small talk with the students, Iām fucked.
The underlying technology is very useful, so that should exist. If ChatGPT-esque applications are well-funded, that improves collective knowledge of the underlying technology, and whatever gets you money, itās not like all that cash was actually gonna go to protein folding if ChatGPT didnāt exist. I guess we disagree on that, I guess you think other AI stuff would be better-funded if ChatGPT didnāt exist?
But thatās the kind of counterfactual Iām not really interested in, I donāt really care if ChatGPT is Good or Bad for society because it exists, and I think any kind of government regulation on it is not desirable and would be either ineffectual or incredibly repressive. So I donāt really care that it exists.
Is the debate about whether ChatGPT is Good or Bad? Is it about whether the government should regulate ChatGPT? Is it about whether the counterfactual where itās not actually possible to do good linear algebra on human language is a better world? Is it about whether I should use ChatGPT? Is it about whether the median idiot should use ChatGPT? Is it about whether anyone should use ChatGPT?
I feel like all these questions tend to kind ofā¦ blend together when people talk about it? And about any new technology. And that bringing up every case study about somebody with psychosis interacting with ChatGPT isnāt really useful at broadly answering any of the questions
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also the drowning child thought experiment is the wrong thought experiment for āthis thing kills people but also has large benefitsā imo, drowning child is invented by a consequentialist philosopher but the point is mostly that you should give all your money to global health and development charities
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choosing media to consume based of friends also then allows you to talk about it with those friends. chatgpt def may be able to give a better recommendation off what you enjoy and your taste, but whats the point of a story if you cant share your love for it with someone else?