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If the AI companies need to compensate the millions of authors whose work they’re using, that could “kill or significantly hamper” the entire technology, according to a filing with the U.S. Copyright Office from the major venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, which has a number of significant investments in generative AI.

Sublime is not:

• Sublime is not another note-taking tool to add your grocery list or to store your kids health insurance info – the ideas that move you should not live alongside the daily minutia.

• Sublime is not a read it later tool that becomes a graveyard of junk.

• Sublime is not a social network – there’s no likes, no comments, no vanity metrics.

• Subl

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Once written down, epic tales can become a fixed narrative of events that people take literally

if a system acts conscious convincingly enough, maybe there's no meaningful difference. Maybe "being conscious" is just about behaving like a conscious being.

My father explained to me that his vote wasn’t necessarily an endorsement of Georgescu’s nationalist beliefs – even though they did resonate in part with him – but more of a protest against the political establishment. “I wanted to sanction the mainstream political class,” he told me.

We know from endless studies of social psychology that diverse groups—with different forms of expertise, different pools of knowledge, different cultural backgrounds—tend to make better decisions than homogeneous groups. In a small-context world, you can get some of that diversity from a language model, in that its training data draws from a vast... See more

Mirror Neurons : These are neurons that fire both when we act and when we observe the same action performed by another. They play a role in empathy, allowing us to “feel” a story.

We should be getting ready for the moment when the physical and virtual worlds swap places, where everything happening in the former may well feel tangible and real only from the perspective of those unable to climb to the higher virtual plane. Virtual war is not a war between soldiers, tanks or airplanes, but a clash between algorithms. Here... See more