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Cake day: July 16th, 2023

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  • Are AI models then going to train on the content they themselves created? What is the impact of that?

    It leads to model collapse. The second AI starts to focuses on certain patterns in the output of the first AI instead of the actual content and you get degraded output. They are pattern matching machines after all. Repeat the cycle a few times and all output becomes gibberish. Think of it as data incest.

    So the AI companies are pretty desperate for more fresh user data. More data is the only way they have currently to push through the diminishing returns.




  • In the past, children were your labor force, health care and pension plan. People had many children so at least some survived into adulthood. There wasn’t much alternative back in the day.

    Now children are a net cost. They can’t even take care of you in old age if government pensions or retirement plans don’t pan out because many can barely feed themselves.

    So, the best time to have children was roughly before 1900. That’s when things started to change.