I have been saving money until now because of the potential job automation impact first and the rising value of investments once AI really takes off but at this point it just seems better to start burning cash instead on personal holidays/consumption and enjoying the time until the short end (3-5 years). Do you guys think it is too early to say?
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OpenAI advanced voice mode available in the EU. I still haven’t found any reason to actually use voice mode, and I don’t feel I understand why people like the modality, even if the implementation is good. You can’t craft good prompts with audio.
I agree that I find it totally uninteresting and “weak” in English, in a sense that I prefer prompting in text for precision and responses. It is very good for learning languages though, along with Gemini Live mode—it works excellent for comprehensible input, voice practice and general smalltalk in a new language. If you wanted to pick up French for example you would find it way easier nowadays, otherwise it still needs scale and the next generation.
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In the spirit of Epistemic Effort could you tell us how long it took you to form these ideas and to write this post?
It seems to me that in our civilisation we have a quite nice way of dealing with deficiency of faith’s crises—assuming the narrative of epistemological societal progress the people with poor epistemic hygiene, along with a smaller mix of those with a better one die off and a new generation is generally more able to look at the issues with a fresh set of eyes.
Not sure however how true it is that accurate memes tend to live and propagate—there are quite a few cases that are still disputed despite being settled for hundreds of years, although I may be looking at not big enough time frame here.
I have taken the survey.
“It is wise to take admissions of uncertainty seriously,” Daniel Kahneman noted, “but declarations of high confidence mainly tell you that an individual has constructed a coherent story in his mind, not necessarily that the story is true.”
Superforcasting, p. 85
It would be so awesome to have such a stream as additional reference point—just one six year old without internet and external help doing a Pokemon run