nimpnin

cars, computers, phones, electricity

Interesting that you bring up these examples. Giving up some of these is easier than others, yet there was once a world where none of these was necessary.

I think it’s indeed not a good argument that we used to live in a world without these. The question is more, how much do we lose if we want to give up, say, plastic packaging. Can we lose a little convenience and gain _a lot _of sustainability?

If you pick 4 random words, the attacker would still need to brute force through (hundreds of?) billions of word combinations. That’s the point.

yes

but iirc the bottom half has been sort-of half debunked

Any source for this? It's literally just random words. Just pick from a large enough list and you're good.

Charity is not getting us out of the climate crisis

Not really suprised. Being nice and polite is makes you more persuasive, and LLMs are definitely better at that than the average person.

Regardless, the implications of this can turn out to be dire.

The new BMI, which is more accurate for very tall and very short people, gives you 28 instead of 30.6. Which is overweight and not obese. https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/trefethen/bmi_calc.html

It’s never been so easy to download music. Soulseek, yt-dlp, torrents for older stuff, spotify downloader websites etc. I still have spotify but I started growing my local music collection a few years ago. Considering canceling my spotify subscription.

Modern thought not only relies on thought built upon other people, it relies on trusting textbooks, data aggregators like weather apps, google search results, bus route apps, wikipedia, forum posts, etc. etc.

I don’t think it’s ungenerous at all to question whether are LLMs really any different in this regard. You take in information from an imperfect automated source, just as we’ve done for a really long time, depending on the definition.

The no thought is truly independent is also a bit of a strawman. The point was, the more complex technology you have, the more the same ideas spread and thought is harmonized (which is good in some ways, standardization makes things easier).

It’s approaching the lower levels of human reasoning, which, as we have realized over the past few years, isn’t that impressive.

Depends on the circumstances. After one year of wfh in a 18m2 apartment, I happily go to the office 4-5 days a week, even though I am not required to.