If 95% of the population were still farmers (not anymore due to technological progress) those laws would never have been passed, and wouldn't have meant anything if they did because you're going to starve unless you put in the gruelling hours every day ploughing fields, chopping wood, tending livestock - forever.
My problem with the AI-generated images that most people use for their blogs isn't that they're AI-generated, it's that they're bad. People use, I think, mostly DALLE-3 to make these super-busy infographic type illustrations that are completely devoid of meaning because they're AI, full of mangled text and nonsense logos. They're incomprehensible, they maybe kind of convey the idea of "business" or "tech" or something like that but they make no real point.
If you're going to use AI to make a blog image, use it to make something identifiable. If your blog post is about tigers, and you use a picture of a tiger, it doesn't make much of a difference if the picture is AI generated or a stock photo. You didn't take it either way. If the blog post is about your prediction on the next year of tech stocks, use the AI to make a picture of something simple like a computer rather than some kind of Bayeux Tapestry of random tech-like things.
For the right price, America could probably it. There are only 56,000 Greenlanders, meaning that you could give each a million dollars at $56b, only about 1% of the federal budget. Do Greenlanders feel that attached to Denmark that they would refuse a million bucks?
Interesting, there might be a right price but 1M per person look far too low and buys personal property only.
If you own just a little land and you get $1M can be a good deal but if you own a lot, then you will expect premium on top of what its worth and $1M not going to cut it. If everyone gets accordingly to what they own, then those who will receive non-life changing amount wouldn't accept the deal.
So the true price would be something like $1M each + current value of their property + premium.
Then you can own all the private land on Greenland if someone stubborn doesn't refuse to sell. Then what do you do about the rest of the land? Pay Denmark? How much? Start a war with Denmark? Maybe some kind of other deals can be possible but $56B isn't going to cut it.
It's still 20x their GDP per capita - given that Greenland isn't really an independent country I would feel pretty tempted to switch overlords for twenty years of wages.
Is it really alien or is it more similar to how we think? We don't think purely in language, it's more a kind of soup of language, sounds, images, emotions and senses that we then turn into language when we communicate with each other.
One false headline on one small part of the features and they want Apple to scrap the entire thing. Did people want IM to be scrapped the first time someone planned a crime on it?
This is an example of the fundamental underlying problem with anything LLM-based, though; the output is completely un-trustable. This _particular_ example, while likely shocking for, say, Luigi's granny, is not broadly dangerous, but it's very easy to imagine mistakes of similar form causing widespread panic.
I think the other example:
> On 21 November, three articles from the New York Times were grouped together in one notification - with one part reading "Netanyahu arrested", referring to the Israeli prime minister.
is actually a little more alarming. What if it read, say, "Trump arrested"? It is not hard to imagine that causing, ah, trouble; see Jan 6th 2021.
This feature seems obviously ill-conceived and should be switched off, at least by default, until they can guarantee it works properly (hint: as it's LLM-driven the answer is 'never').
You could, the further into the future that it predicts the less accurate the prediction will be, but you could probably predict a few sentences of the speech correctly. The LLM can only guess from historical context and grammar though, and the speaker is unlikely to make the most likely next word choice for all words (there are some sentences where the next word is extremely likely, mostly aphorisms, but a lot of the time you don't know where it's going).
You would want to use a raw LLM which just does next token completion rather than a model like Claude or ChatGPT, and you could probably use it to display branching chains of next most likely strings.
The "International AirBnB Style" isn't of a place but it's definitely of a time, and that time was probably ten years ago to now. I think it's fading. It always feels like styles will be eternal until they go out of fashion. Probably by 2035 it will be completely uncool and replaced by something different, maybe local. Maybe not, since we're more interconnected than ever, so styles end up propagating fast and wide. In 2050 though, it will be cool again, like all the other things that went out of fashion.
AirBnB is profit driven. So buy Ikea stuff or similar, paint the walls white, make it feel middle class for the $ but at the same time easy and cheap to maintain.
reply