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@Dan_Jeffries1 The European Commission estimates it at 334 million hours a year in the EU alone.

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@BHolmesDev Nice, but i highly recommend mole:
https://t.co/Ul6TYQgNbr

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@Plinz Have you ever regretted participating in a podcast?

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

The main reason for OpenAI to partner with Microsoft: Microsoft has long solved the Alignment Problem

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Notifications. Masquerading as tiny and helpful but in reality psychologically invasive and damaging to the brain - interrupting complex thought, forcing (expensive, taxing) context switch, spiking dopamine, making thought reactive instead of proactive.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

@insidebajwa @Gneelzer Hehe, we start out trying to explain to the computer how to become conscious, and in return the computer explains to us that we are computers.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

When life feels unbearable, I remind myself that I am not a person. I am a piece of software running on the brain of a random ape for a few decades. It's not the worst brain to run on.

[Joscha Bach @Plinz]

For understanding free will, it helps to focus on the difference between making your decisions and predicting your decisions

[Stephan J. Guyenet @sguyenet]

@sorahill Wish people would stop making a dichotomy between willpower and biology though. Willpower also has a biological basis.

I think the distinction people are actually trying to make is between factors that are easy to modify vs. hard/impossible to modify.

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Meta-Analysis: Self-control is around 60% heritable – that is, genes explain around 60% of the differences between individuals in their levels of self-control (N > 100,000) https://t.co/PxEJ7oO7io

[Kurt Vonnegut @Kurt_Vonnegut]

The practice of art isn't to make a living. It's to make your soul grow.