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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life. But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
New version of chatbot reaches level of function where it responds to all queries by making a little twisty-wrist gesture with pinched fingers and saying “But isn’t it more *complicated* than that?”
Also, I been drinking with some of the greatest minds of my generation. PHD level intelligence is not the brag they think it is.
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I try to tell people this but no one believes me. They know a lot about some very specific things but some can't negotiate the real world at all.
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I know a guy with a PhD in astrophysics who thinks that liberals worship homosexuals.
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I have most of a PHD and regularly put stuff in the microwave that shouldn’t go in the microwave. I have destroyed so many mugs.
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See this is why I just learn little bits of knowledge from all sorts of areas. This has the negative drawback of making me unemployable lmao.
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dw phds are unemployable too