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Here’s something that might ruffle some feathers: ChatGPT and astrology are doing the same thing. Before the pitchforks come out, let me explain. At its core, machine learning works like this: - Set up input features (words, images, data points) - Define desired outcomes (coherent text, accurate predictions, useful responses) - Provide training baselines and examples - Optimize a cost function to minimize the gap between inputs and outcomes The result? A model that generates plausible outputs. How about astrology? - Takes in a set of input features (planetary positions) based on astronomically verified ephemeris data - Maps these to outcome categories (abundance/scarcity, clarity/confusion) - Refines the correlation through centuries of observation - Minimizes the “cost function” between celestial patterns and human experience The result? Interpretations that are plausible. https://dragosroua.com/unpopular-opinion-chatgpt-is-over-engineered-astrology/
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When Titanic was sinking, the band kept playing, in an eerie mix of oblivion and resignation. Our world is that Titanic now, and we are its musicians. We keep going on, day by day, ignoring the rapid, and inevitable sinking of a human era. The way we do things has already changed. From coding to content production, everything now has some AI woven into its fabric. Tiny bits and pieces are already offloaded to “something else” — something cheaper and better. When I said your job is already lost, I didn’t mean only that your company is firing you and someone else will take your place — yes, this is happening, but it’s far more than that. Behind the thin veil of our familiar understanding of reality, there’s a more profound shift: a world in which a job is something that unequivocally defines us is disappearing. The entire concept of “job” is becoming obsolete. AI won’t take your job — because it already took it. And in the process, it made room for something far better than a job.
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