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Why? There can't be an open source app to enable the camera without the light?

because the user will be able to install another OS written by any John Doe without troubles with drivers. Haven't you acknowledged about the Four Freedoms?

How does that prevent creepshots?

Paperclip maximizers are just corporations, we already have them

yeah that's definitely scientist. The two are easy to conflate since they both deal with manipulating reality to make it do things we want, but science focuses on understanding the reality itself and engineering focuses on getting it to do what we want.

Still seems like the same driving force of curiosity behind both, but one wants to know and one wants to do. It's like yin and yang, like two sides of the same coin.

I'm into engineering because I want to create what's never existed.

Science is more about discovering what already exists.


What's the original joke?

This'll go identically to bitcoin mining, which is literally a computer that you plug in and it makes money. The big ASIC manufacturers were running their own ASICs in-house until they were no longer profitable. Then, they would sell them to customers who pre-ordered back when it was profitable.

You mean stealing the chat logs of a researcher who was solving a niche mathematical conjecture, completing the last step and calling the whole thing their own.

That's how I understood it! Clever hack. You'll get more varied ideas by using many different seeds, than if you didn't use a seed and just asked the LLM in a fresh context.

Reminds of Freudian dream analysis.

The actual content of the dream is meaningless, lacks symbolism, but it prompts the patient to think deeply about personal feelings and memories that might otherwise not surface to conscious level.


Reminds me of the early internet, the whole declaration of cyberspace thing, the fantasy of information freedom.

And they made money on all of these stages, except for online poker.

CEOs already don't want to be contacted by customers and sales departments are fully AI.

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