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Why self-diagnosis is valid, all the arguments in one video

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The only thing I can think of is if a significant portion of people self diagnose as autistic and they really aren't. Say they're convinced by some silly stereotypes they've heard

That won't impact that person. But it could mean other people starting to take it much less seriously in others which may be harmful to them I don't pretend to know if that would happen. But just a thought

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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death

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That might be the case right? Let's say there a percentage chance that would have succeeded call it 10%

Now your first attempt fails, maybe because of some miscalculation or lack of engineering precision

Even if the older way more expensive version had a 100% success rate you'd probably still rather the cheaper version right?

Also not sure how this is about capitalism, replace the above for material cost and it's the same thing

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Odysseus has less than a day left on the Moon before it freezes to death

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So material waste can be directly tied to cost. If you're trying to bring down cost then you're going to try to reduce waste correct? That's why there is so much work being done for reusable launch vehicles

For space debris and pollution I don't think we can squarely blame capitalism. Under a purely communist economy there's no guarentee that anyone would care any more about it than currently And you can attack that issue by a combination of penalising companies that create debris and rewarding those that remove it under a capitalist economy

As for it not being entirely comparable. Sure the government spent a lot of money on that early R&D. But do we think that if we banned companies from doing this kind of work that govt agencies like NASA would be necessarily more cost effective, cause less pollution, and less debris?

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People should direct their anger towards capitalism, rather than being upset with artificial intelligence

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LLMs don't "understand" anything. They're just very good at making it look like they sort of do

They also tend to have difficulty giving the answer "I don't know" and will confidently assert something completely incorrect

And this is not generation 0. The field of AI has been around for a long time. It's just now becoming widespread and used where the avg person can see it

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People should direct their anger towards capitalism, rather than being upset with artificial intelligence

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If you can easily validate any of the answers. And you have to to know if they're actually correct wouldn't it make more sense to just skip the prompt and do the same thing you would to validate?

I think LLMs have a place. But I don't think it's as broad as people seem to think. It makes a lot of sense for boilerplate for example, as it just saves mindless typing. But you still need to have enough knowledge to validate it