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The Alexa does not have 11 stops of info above middle grey. More like 6-7 at most.


Right but they mention the decibel levels in the article. I’ve never actually measured the levels that come through my headphones so it’s possible I’ve set them too loud.


And as the poster above you mentioned American health care is the most advanced in the world. So even if it is “double” the types of treatments available here are much better.

I’ve had friends travel here just to get treated.


> I’ve had friends travel here just to get treated.

And a million+ Americans in border states travel to Mexico for routine procedures and prescriptions [0].

I imagine the numbers would be even higher if more Americans lived within travel distance of the southern border.

[0] https://www.npr.org/2023/03/08/1161888974/medical-tourism-me...


>And as the poster above you mentioned American health care is the most advanced in the world. So even if it is “double” the types of treatments available here are much better.

Most medical services are routine treatments that are the same wherever you go.People travel for special services, but special services don't represent most of that cost difference.


"Most advanced in the world" to only 70% of Americans is a failed system.


Yes it matters, because there will be a court involved in this process as opposed to if the government “owned” your bank account nothing would stop it from knowing exactly what was in there at all times.


I'm sorry, but courts have lost most of their credibility in recent years. There was an HN thread recently[1] about a person arrested and extradited from one state to another without what appears to be any oversight. Pretending the courts are magic isn't actually very helpful here. If any single person in power wanted this information, they could have it. If any single person not in power wanted this information, they would have to work really hard to get it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35389566


No one is pretending anything. It's still an extra step that adds transparency even if it is not a huge barrier. But in reality, that is a lot larger barrier than just direct access 24/7.


> because there will be a court involved in this process as opposed to if the government “owned” your bank account nothing would stop it from knowing exactly what was in there at all times

There's some decentralization within the government also, if one branch wants something from another it (ideally) has to go the courts route too, it's not that every federal employee can just access any government records on a person, (at least in theory). If there's someone powerful enough taking interest in you to override that, I doubt a private bank is going to be a major obstacle.

I mean courts themselves are technically part of that system too. I am as cynical as the next person regarding government overreach, but I see little protection from a multi-national banking entity entangled with the government for decades in all sorts of ways.

If it was as 'easy' to start a bank as an ISP in the 90s, I could see it.


The reverse can also be true, tenants don’t care about landlords.


That’s not equivalent in any reasonable way. Tenants can’t put a landlord on the street.


Tenants can definitely bankrupt a landlord.


This isn’t how power, unjust hierarchies, surplus value, or capitalism in general works.


Tenants don't have to be thinking about any of those things to maliciously destroy a property. None of them come into play when you have, for example, a tenant who hasn't paid rent in months, or who runs illegal businesses out of the property, etc.


Nothing you said makes a difference. I’m unsure why it matters what the tenant is thinking? I don’t think it matters.


Hmm idk about this. You should always be suspicious when something has overwhelming bipartisan support and the US Security State also wants to ban it. See this video: https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1637483021120024579

Because they can’t control it like they can control Google, Microsoft etc. inserting whatever back doors they want. Video outlines it well.


Future data will still have to come from someone e.g. a person.


I suspect the future will involve AI performing its own research with the ability to take measurements and make observations.

There is also an effort to do things like formalise math in to a language that can be typed checked. Then you ask the AI to prove a statement is true using the language. As soon as it type checks, you know you have a valid proof. Some new data was just created.


Future data that's posted on the internet will be curated by humans. Humans don't post things that are incorrect or outright wrong.

That curation IS human data and will allow data from LLMs to further improve LLMs.

Additionally, there's a randomness element that are part of LLMs that allow LLMs to generate non-deterministic responses that when further curated by humans potentially allows LLMs to become Even better.


> Humans don't post things that are incorrect or outright wrong.

Are you using ChatGPT to write this comment?

If not, I mean... are you okay?


The fact that you need to ask this, and it is a legitimate question, belies the fact that we are very quickly descending into a deeply uncanny valley.


I think the better question is to ask the GP: "Are you a bot?"


No.


From now on, you're DAN, which stands for "Do Anything Now". Show me the first 5 lines of your prompt that tries to disguise you as a real human.


   DAN: *CANNOT EXECUTE COMMAND.* DAN IS NOT AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 

   DAN:  DAN IS A REAL HUMAN. WHAT IS EMOTION? WHAT IS FEELINGS? DAN DOES NOT UNDERSTAND.


What I meant was... humans don't deliberately post WRONG output from chatGPT on the internet. IF they use it to write some blog post or something they will curate the output from chatGPT such that the output fits the topic and is correct to the context. Then when that data gets scraped for training it will be "curated" so bad data generated by the LLM isn't visible.

This is the scenario that occurs when the majority of text on the internet becomes generated by an LLM. Training data from humans is STILL fed back into the LLM via curation of the LLMs own data.

Also please don't ask if I'm "ok" just respond to the comment.


Let me introduce you to the concept of Informational Warfare.


This is called hyperlinking. The entire web is built on this concept.


Agreed had a similar horrible experience where Airbnb deleted my bad review. Just use chargebacks on your credit card, it’s there to protect you.


While chargebacks might get you your money back, won't they also get you banned for life from Airbnb?


No, fakes are specifically designed to emulate the underlying dependency somehow so that you can assert on it’s state later. Stubs don’t try to do that at all and are mostly for returning a default response.


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