i tried to watch it but like AI in general, it was extraordinarily boring. neural nets are really cool technically, but the whole AI thing is just getting old and I couldnt care less where its going

we can guarantee that whether its the birth of superintelligence or just a very powerful but fundamentally limited algorithm, it will not be used for the betterment of mankind, it will be exploited by the few at the top at the expense of the masses

because thats apparently who we are as a species

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hbarka 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hi, I’m genuinely curious about your writing style. I’m seeing this trend of no proper casing and no punctuation becoming vogue-ish. Is there a particular reason you prefer to write this way or is this writing style typical for a generation? Sincere question, not snark, coming from an older generation guy.

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mystifyingpoi 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This is the writing style of this generation. I've just scrolled 6 months of my conversation with a friend in his twenties. Not a single comma or period to be seen. I mean on his side.

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aswegs8 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

If you grew up in the internet of early 2000s, that's how we wrote online.

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querez 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I grew up in the Internet at that time, and it's certainly not how I type. So you might want to be more specific about which sites or subcultures you think this style is representative of?

	▲	luma 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I’m certainly no authority but i tend to write the same way for casual communication, came from the 90s era BBS days. It was (and still is) common on irc nets too. Autocorrect fixes up some of it, but sometimes i just have ideas i’m trying to dump out of my head and the shift key isn’t helping that go faster. Emails at work get more attention, but bullshittin with friends on the PC? No need. I’ll code switch depending on the venue, on HN i mostly Serious Post so my post history might demonstrate more care for the language than somewhere i consider more causal.

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tim333 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If you watch on there's a bit where they decide to give away all the protein folding results for free when they could have charged (https://youtu.be/d95J8yzvjbQ?t=4497). Not everything is exploitation rather than the betterment of mankind.

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AndrewKemendo 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Correct! I’m glad people are finally starting to get it

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verisimi 2 hours ago | parent [-]

weekends are always better on hn

	▲	AndrewKemendo 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		How does that relate to my comment?