Sorry, working and not going to dig in that deep :) but seems like he is into restoration of classic cars from the muscle car era back to the 1930s. I am not into cars at all.

An older relative is here for the holidays and was watching some YouTube yesterday. Somehow, there exists a 30 minute which talked all about what a genius Trump was and how he doesn’t like electric vehicles. Just this endless stream of “Donald Trump visionary policies on…” and his brilliant predictions that were all true. No details, references, or a critical thought about how Trump probably doesn’t know that there’s anything inside the parts of the car he can’t see.

Edit - what I am trying to point out is that this goes way beyond traditional news outlets. I don’t think this guy watches a lot of news. I do think he considers himself well informed. We are Canadian, BTW. He’s into cars (and an incredible mechanic as well as being a generally good person I enjoy spending time with) so this is on his feed.

A long time ago I had a job cooking at a hotel in Switzerland (am Canadian). As a more junior person I’d get stuck working buffet stations and lots of Americans assumed the staff didn’t understand English. Anyway, my favorite thing was how the Americans would freak out because menu prices were not in US dollars. Lol. Harmless but indicative of a certain worldview.

When I was a kid, headphones had the beefy one associate with guitars. The smaller ones came out when Walkmans became popular. We called them mini-plugs and you’d buy an adapter to use them with older gear.

Memories based on being born in early '70s. Possibly incorrect.

I love NYC. For the first 48 hours. :)

Growing up, I knew of him as a desperate for attention blowhard as well. You didn’t need to be from NYC to know that but it says a lot when you guys did that (no votes) because you know him best.

Yes, that’s true and a big reason I don’t paint a Americans with the same brush (in addition to this being generally intellectually lazy).

I can’t believe the US voted this complete idiot in as president. Just wow.

They were perfect interviews.

Also at issue: maga people who donate to Trump think experts are “dumb” so they might see this a huge waste of their money.

Fortunately, they will never hear this so their peace of mind is assured.

Exactly. Right out of the authoritarian playbook.

In Hungary, Orban stopped government advertising and big business followed suit.

https://www.eurozine.com/viktor-orbans-war-on-the-media/

And we will all be merged with cars.

I heard this guy going on about this amazing machine a company had invented to sequester carbon. They were not happy when explained that a tree does the same thing and they grow like crazy just about anywhere.

We already know what we need to do but people don’t want to do it.

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.

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.

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.

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.