richardatlarge

But nothing here solves the problem of going from zero audience to some meaningful audience in a content saturated environment with a low attention span

[It begins: “Prune juice.” “Barbecued water.” “Elixir of the gods.” Those are just some of the phrases used to describe Dr Pepper, the un-pin-downable soda brand whose secret recipe is said to include…

If this article was posted on HN as commentary, it would be shredded for lack of substantiation. In the WSJ, it’s particularly pathetic. First, there needs to be a revolution, then it can lose steam. …

Get some new material, seen this one before

From Publisher’s Marketplace: [Earlier this year, Shaheen reached a five-book, 50/50 profit-share deal with S&S, accompanied by a seven-figure advance, represented by Rebecca Gradinger and Al…

We’re trapped once we believe a common set of symptoms means the same cause- it just ain’t so. It helps even less to confuse biological correlations to the mental/behavioral symptoms as the cause…

Sometimes quality rises to the top and people notice. Not often, but sometimes

Quote from the Post article: But while many hear an eerie resemblance between “Sky” and Johansson’s “Her” character, an actress was hired to create the Sky voice months before Altman contacted Johanss…

Quote for article: A recent search for Ikea on the online vintage marketplace 1stDibs pulled up everything from a set of Frosta stacking stools for $822 to a pair of yellow Lack end tables for $1,600.…

We are living in the future / I'll tell you how I know / I read it in the paper / Fifteen years ago - (John Prine)

Odd phrase here: [They had recalcitrant and comatose students, witnessed bullying and homosexuality, and were still subject to the hazardous authority]

1 point by richardatlarge 13 hours ago [–] In light of recent AI/LLM advances, and the common belief that consciousness remains too much of a mystery, I thought this review to be particularly exh…

In light of recent AI/LLM advances, I thought this review to be particularly exhaustive and compelling Quote: Converging evidence presented in this review suggests that, if we could precisely exc…

I always thought people borrowing books meant fewer sales, not more. Stephen King will be happy to hear it

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Now you tell me… awesome explanation- thanks

All the magic in the universe will not allow you to find anything about a human from looking solely at the neural structure of its brain, however sophisticated. The brain is a representation (genome) …

Too true. I often point out to others that a transformer like gpt-4 operates wholly on numbers- it knows nothing of meaning in the real world- nothing at all

Damn it Jim! If you want your manuscripts burned, then burn them!

Twitter must be free of your speech

Quote: Whatever the trigger, Qin, 57, was arrested and investigated soon after his June disappearance, the senior administration official said. In the version recounted by the former U.S. official, th…