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Zero Edge
In The Beginning was the Word.
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☕ David Antoine
I don't know if I should consider the laws of physics as a highly complex system in itself as physicists still don't know exactly what's fundamental and what's emergent. QM for example describes reality with probabilities while ensuring they strictly sum to 1 and is all constraint by the Pythagoras theorem and the imaginary number. They call it the unitarity. Simple basics, complex world. Same for life down the road, provided you have the right initial conditions. I just watched this, he talks about why is there something rather than nothing better then me and it is obsoletely not trivial: youtube.com/watch?...
☕ David Antoine
How that system capable of self replication started initially is one of the most difficult problem scientists are trying solve. It probably took several hundred millions of years and countless false starts to initiate in its simplest form and did not just "popped into existence". Finding other replication pathways with unique other life forms maybe in our own solar system may help in solving how it started. And that purely scientific endeavor works with or without God. Creationism doesn't work without God. Even if our civilization would disappear and then restart somehow fresh, the laws of physics will remain the same. Not religion.
Zero Edge
So your argument is that a highly complex system always existed (the laws of physics as you put it) but that isn't the only complex system you think always existed you believe every system including weather, life (birth), the complexities of the quantum realm, fire, and way more that I can't think of. Nothing in this universe is 'simple'. That is fine you believe a complex system always existed. I believe a extremely complex system always existed and it gave birth to our complex system. How exactly does your belief require any less faith than mine?
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☕ David Antoine
For the big bang to be debunked you would need one or more irreconcilable observations with the current model. And probably some kind of new quantum gravity theory to explain what happened at the singularity. Provided you can make sense of time and find a physical equivalent of the mathematical infinite that the singularity represents. Creationism is just religious nonsense. At least the Bible's fundamentalist literal interpretation of the creation. Believing there is a super power at the origins of the universe itself is something I relate to spiritually but doesn't make me reject science. Both are not mutually exclusive for me.
Zero Edge
You literally believe the same thing either way. Either something always existed or something came from nothing. You believe a highly complex system that is capable of self replication and capable of creating complex systems such as life itself popped into existence. Just the simple interaction such as "this early particle interacted with this early particle to create a reaction" is belief that something existed (a fundamental structure at the very least). Our system is complex and no matter how you try to explain it you either believe: Something came from nothing, or something always existed.
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Zero Edge
The big bang got debunked before creationism did....
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☕ David Antoine
For the big bang to be debunked you would need one or more irreconcilable observations with the current model. And probably some kind of new quantum gravity theory to explain what happened at the singularity. Provided you can make sense of time and find a physical equivalent of the mathematical infinite that the singularity represents. Creationism is just religious nonsense. At least the Bible's fundamentalist literal interpretation of the creation. Believing there is a super power at the origins of the universe itself is something I relate to spiritually but doesn't make me reject science. Both are not mutually exclusive for me.
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Zero Edge
While we waste our time on trifle shit the world schemes against us. Take your head out of your ass Bragg.
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Zero Edge
After "the plugin" reveal it is pretty clear OpenAI's vision is to be a monopoly (or duopoly like IOS) where every business on earth will have to create a "plugin" to have functionality with their website/system. This plugin will likely cost the business money to list. So they are expecting us to replace a decentralized internet with a centralized one controlled by a single entity. Imo this won't work. One large company with leverage can simply say they won't make a plugin for "x LLM" instead we only support "y LLM" and then OpenAI will have the fun lesson of learning that betting it all on a monopoly is a stupid strategy.
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🏒 Lucian Marin
ChatGPT doesn't even have mobile apps and the site always asks me to login.
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Zero Edge
After seeing what happened with DALLE 2 and MidJourney I don't think OpenAI's competitive advantage is THAT great... Make the wrong plays and they will lose all. Consumers are fickle.
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Zero Edge
Variance in our justice system is weird. And almost maybe a bug? Thought experiment: Take the same case and try it 100 times in different courts and different jurors but the same exact trial... Isn't it strange that it isn't a perfect 100 in agreement. Variance. But can it be fixed or improved? Probably not..
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Zero Edge
Every written text that exists from now on will now have a "was it written by GPT?" question mark on it. Edit: Every created work from now on?
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Zero Edge
Post GPT era?
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🏒 Lucian Marin
We are at GPT-4 and it can go up to warp 10 like in Star Trek.
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Zero Edge
GPT is like a TI-83 calculator.. You can get a TI-83 to do a lot of stupid things (by installing apps), but most people just use it for the calculator.. Don't overthink it. Its a tool not God.
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🏒 Lucian Marin
GPT is worth more than all blockchains combined.
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🏒 Lucian Marin
ChatGPT is like searching the web without going from website to website looking for answers. It's black box thinking. Everyone will get the same answer limiting the creativity of the solutions.
Zero Edge
It is so much more convenient than a search engine.. I can question its reply and ask for it to extrapolate on a topic it mentioned.. As opposed to Search engine -> website -> I want more info -> search engine -> website -> repeat.. Search engines all of a sudden feel dated.. Probably why Google is at code red. Also someone has already implemented this into a search engine so you can get live results: you.com
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