Comment by vunderba
10 days ago
Somebody a while back on HN compared sharing AI chat transcripts as the equivalent of telling everyone all about that “amazing dream you had last night”.
10 days ago
Somebody a while back on HN compared sharing AI chat transcripts as the equivalent of telling everyone all about that “amazing dream you had last night”.
I guess they were (unknowingly?) quoting Tom Scott, unless he himself was also doing the same: https://youtu.be/jPhJbKBuNnA?t=384
I think he was quoting some unknown person, since the made the same comparison shortly before on an episode of Safety Third.
The most famous literary expression of this idea comes from F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great Gatsby. While discussing the tedious nature of listening to others recount their dreams, there is a general literary consensus often attributed to him (and other authors like Mark Twain or Henry James) that:
"Nothing is more boring than other people’s dreams."
-- by Gemini
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Except sometimes you get absolutely banger dreams.
I still don't want to know.
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>But what you're specifically watching here is two brains from two entirely different species communicating and working together.
No this is a dude playing with his chatbot.
This is just some short polymer chains in a chemical soup.
Everything starts as a toy.
Look at early computing.
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You're watching someone press buttons on an mp3 player and calling it a religious experience.
What do you think humans are made of other than molecules and electrical signals?
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> This is the spark of fire that kicked off civilization.
How can the now influence the past?