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Writing sustainable software for real-time human behaviour experiments

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Show HN: UXF – Framework for creating human behavior experiments in Unity

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il y a 5 joursdiscuss

> LLMs are really only capable of combining different things into output

> The magic and absurdity of life is a necessary thing to create such works.

These two points seem slightly conflicting. Why if a human is truly more creative than AI, must it experience "the magic and absurdity of life" if it can be creative without "combining things into output"? Is a creative human then just not splicing and recombining their experiences into their creative output? And therefore, if an AI had more data that mirrors that experience in some way would it be sufficiently creative to create something "truly original"?

My view is that intelligence and creativity is all just purely recombination. AI can do that well just as humans can. The gap is that the data humans have access to is much more analogue, emotional, and grounded in the real world compared to the data that AI is currently trained on.

il y a 2 moisdiscuss

The irony is that beef and cattle feed use vastly more water than oat milk production. Oat milk would help reduce water use if its used as a substitute for dairy.

il y a 8 moisdiscuss

By that logic, 'Basque', 'Cantonese', 'Cajun', and 'Tex-Mex' shouldn't exist either

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

> why have mechanical keyboards become so damn popular and not "keyboards on screens?"

I mean... have you ever used a phone?

il y a 10 moisdiscuss

This reads a bit like like a pre-PC take: "Why use a computer when a cookbook works fine?"

Imagine it’s 1992:

Cookbook: Open book, follow steps.

PC: Turn on tower, wait for DOS, fiddle with floppies, pray the printer works, hope the shareware recipe isn’t weird.

Not saying you're wrong but its easy to miss the big picture

il y a 12 moisdiscuss

I tried for a while to get ChatGPT to generate connections style puzzles with some suggested topics, including red herrings to create some answers that seemingly fit in multiple categories. Then it would post them to https://connections.swellgarfo.com/. Overall they were really bad but that was using GPT4

l’année dernièrediscuss

just record as mp4 in the first place, gif has limited colour palette, low frame rate and poor compression

l’année dernièrediscuss

Yes I'd bet most users just 50/50 it, which actually makes it more remarkable that there was a 56% selection rate

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Playlists allow spotify to create a moat. It encourages you to listen to (and build) playlists, that wouldn't then be easily available if you try to switch platforms

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

It just needs a little hint

    Me: spell "strawberry" with 1 bullet point per letter
    ChatGPT:
       S
       T
       R
       A
       W
       B
       E
       R
       R
       Y
    Me: How many Rs? 
    ChatGPT: There are three Rs in "strawberry".

il y a 2 ansdiscuss

Apple delivers ads (for e.g. Apple Music) in the Settings app of iPhone. Wouldn't be surprised if macOS ends up with similar things.

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Well, my point was made in reference to the original comment which said

> If consciousness is not well understood, how is AI on silicon allowed, or any computing machines at all

Which implies that we should care about some kind of suffering inflicted on conscious beings. My argument was that we don't care about AI suffering because we don't really care that much about suffering generally, because of what we chose to do to animals.

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

We understand it well enough to know that animals suffer, yet still commit on the order of a Holocaust per hour (in terms of number of lives)[0]. We have accepted that we don't care enough.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/how-many-animals-get-slaughtered-...

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

How can you stop that? An intelligent AI will send emails, create companies, hire people, and literally anything else you can do digitally in order to create means by which it can manifest itself into meatspace.

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

No display, 2 cameras, much thinner form factor

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Maybe unrelated, but I think some people do this to check (at least partially) what email is tied to an account. E.g. if you suspect an anonymous instagram user to be your friend Bob, you can invoke the reset email procedure to see

    We sent an email to bo****@gm***.com

Which gives you a hint

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

not really

    marbles = (BlackMarble() for _ in range(random.randint(0, 10)))
    all(isinstance(m, BlackMarble) for m in marbles)

Surely should always be true

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Agree, if anyone knows themes that make this better I'd love to know

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

Also IGTV standalone app

il y a 3 ansdiscuss

The point is that Mark's vision is much more social... The most Apple showed was FaceTime but with added 3D on their avatar. There's so much missed opportunity here for true spatial social interaction that Apple avoided