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Quick Google search says Cigars are more likely to cause oral cancer, and cigarettes are more likely to cause lung cancer. Pick your poison.

Leo and Curt Jaimungal are probably the best we're gonna get in terms of quality of discussion and productivity. The potential benefit of other platforms only seems to be the fact that it will push Leo further into the mainstream.

Imagine going from crypto scams to realizing that love is a similar force to gravity.

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That's probably because it only exists as mental masturbation for you right now. That can be changed with meditation and mystical experiences and the like. Determining what is and isn't true is actually an aspect of "god-realization" or realizing God. So I think you actually already see the utility.

Good ending:

I gaslighted ChatGPT

More sea slugs:

Oh ok so it's like a box with magic inside of it

It's pretty surprising to me from what I've seen of him online. I guess that's the power of psychedelics.

I don't think he's gonna find much encouragement in a Twitter comment section unfortunately

I was once asking it about book recommendations -- anyways, one grabbed my interest. After unsuccessfully searching every corner of the internet for this book I asked it again "When was this book published?" --- turns out the book doesn't even exist. I once asked it for studies, and the authors it cited were not real people Lmao. ChatGPT is pulling sources from alternate dimensions. It's too powerful.

Hmm, I wonder which thread this video came from. A real mystery.

Wait, where? Asking for a friend

Magnets are also basically magic. Oh yeah ok, so you're telling me this rock has an invisible force field around it, and I'm supposed to accept that as if it isn't magic. Right. You can't fool me. It's a magic rock let's just call it what it is.

It is pretty magical, isn't it. “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” -Arthur C Clarke.

Yeah, but can you question the teacher until they apologize and change their answer? The difference here is that you can ask all the curious questions you want as if you're just a kid exploring how the world works and the bot wont judge you for it and it will answer and explain everything. It's an open book. There's no ego safeguarding its thought process. If it has a materialistic bias, it will straight up tell you.

Correct. This type of explanation has an anthropomorphic and poetic flair to it. It's a pointer at best and shouldn't be taken too seriously.

Because then everyone will ask for name changes.

lmao Pretty sure name changes aren't allowed

Yes, the consciousness forms consciousness. Oh, wait...

The steelman is actually that Hasan Piker is mad about the fact that some rich guy has control over people's vision and that this is the system we live in. He's not mad at Mr.Beast. He's mad at the fact that it takes some rich guy like Mr.Beast to go out of his way and say "ok I will grant people some vision today". As for the other people, idk I'm too lazy to watch what their points are. I've only seen what Hasan had to say.

No, I'm subscribed to the idea that AI is basically akin to a calculator in the realm of mathematics. Calculators didn't make mathematicians and their formulas obsolete, it just served as a really good tool for those things. These types of advancements raise the bar for what the standard is, but if you can keep up and use it to create new and better ideas it won't make you obsolete. For example, you have people who are "human calculators" that can basically calculate anything in their head. Yes, a calculator would render people like this obsolete, even though they are very impressive, but there is obviously much more to math than that. Same goes for programming. I see programming languages as a creative tool, it's hard to make something like that completely obsolete. You still need a human on the other side inputting some sort of idea or intention. Or at least that's what I think with my limited knowledge on coding at this point. I'm even more confident about this when it comes to game development, because it's such a creative endeavor. AI is basically a tool you can use for speeding up creativity, that's essentially how I see it.

Learning how to create games and websites are the main goals, open to any other ideas I might get down the line. Mainly focusing on web development right now though.

Learning coding