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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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Speaking as someone who has one, the defining characteristic you actually need to get a Ph.D. (leaving the financial side out of it) is stubbornness.
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And a masochistic personality.
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