Auracle

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by Auracle 7mo ago
Question - has any previous bubble been so thoroughly called out as a bubble? The dotcom and 2008 real estate ones sure weren’t. Some people did, but not “everyone.”
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by Auracle 8mo ago
No, see both. LLMs are great for second opinions, as long as you give it the relevant info and don't try to steer it. Even though we all know we're supposed to get second opinions on medical things, we usually don't bother b
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by Auracle 8mo ago
Unironically, maybe they should be scored by LLMs? My first thought was that the reviewers could score the papers but that would lead to even more group-think. Ideally whoever is paying the academics should just be paying attention to thei
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by Auracle 8mo ago
Price fixing is not a free market, and that’s (probably) not what’s happening this time. It’s simple supply and demand.
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by Auracle 8mo ago
It’s funny to see the treadmill on the term “AI” moved again. There’s a reason the term AGI is used a lot now. What are LLMs if not intelligence that is artificial? Just today I used it to debug code, write a shader (which, to be fair, it’
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by Auracle 8mo ago
From all the evens that transpired that day? Trump directly told that crowd to peacefully protest. I don't know what more he could have done (on the day of). It was supposed to be a protest. It turned into a riot. The media didn&#
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by Auracle 8mo ago
My mother-in-laws Facebook feed is full of fake news - from the left, politically. My own mom doesn’t have a Facebook, but she still manages to balance out the universe with fake news from the right on her YouTube feed. The internet is a mi
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by Auracle 8mo ago
It's more like "Mom, he punched me after I punched him after he punched me after I punched him after he punched me after..." Nobody would have cared about Texas' gerrymandering except for Trump (stupidly) called for it -
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by Auracle 8mo ago
Because the Texas redistricting hopes to bring the Democrats seats down from 13 to to 8, but a lot of those could still easily go either way. California made theirs to also pick up 5 but theirs are more sure. Virginia is the real whoppe
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by Auracle 8mo ago
Auditing won’t cause them to fire their workers that aren’t doing a great job. I don’t say it should be crisis level, but tightening the belt from time to time would force them to find efficiencies. Right now they have absolutely no incenti
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by Auracle 8mo ago
You realize that would be an utterly insane road to go down and would hopefully lead to immediate impeachment, right?
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by Auracle 8mo ago
Right, and the vast majority of most people’s budgets are their mortgage/rent. That doesn’t mean they shouldn’t cut out that streaming subscription they don’t need when they’re accruing debt every year. Every bit helps.
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by Auracle 8mo ago
So we shouldn’t try? Just let the budget expand forever? If I were king for a day I’d make it so the government agencies somewhat regularly (say, every 5-10 years or so) would be subjected to significant budget cuts (without stopping with
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by Auracle 8mo ago
As a bit of background, flash games were often sponsored. The bigger websites would pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to put their (clickable) logo in the beginning of a game, and sometimes would also have either timed or permanent excl
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by Auracle 8mo ago
It’ll probably be significantly more now that people know about it. And I doubt those 365 families a year think it’s useless.
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by Auracle 8mo ago
The US is very rural compared to Germany. If I had to drive to a post office for every package that would be a ridiculous hassle. Plus if the delivery try companies needed to hand it to people in person that’s going to take a lot more tim
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by Auracle 8mo ago
It's not a bug, it's something politicians don't want to touch because nobody wants to be the person that is soft on anything to do with minors and sex. Of course our laws are completely illogical - the fact that you could b
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by Auracle 8mo ago
Then you’ll eventually be generally unhappy to see no new medications come out.
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by Auracle 8mo ago
They’re down to hundreds a month, now, with a coupon. I can’t say I disagree with insurance not being willing to pay those costs (apart from diabetes patients etc.). I bet a large part of the reason you can get the name brands cheaper now i
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by Auracle 8mo ago
The government would still need employees to basically do everything that the people at insurance companies do. Theoretically it could be more efficient, realistically it would not. The real problem with our system is that for anyone who i
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by Auracle 8mo ago
Or potentially a sun that lasts slightly longer?
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by Auracle 9mo ago
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thank you.
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by Auracle 9mo ago
Yeah, great. Except we need to unload the dishwasher every day, which takes a lot longer when you have all sorts of kid's cups and bottles. We also need to bring the dishes over, rinse them, put them in, wash the pots & pans by h
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by Auracle 9mo ago
If you make a $10,000 robot that can do all of the dishes every damned household with kids in any semi-rich country will get one. A very good portion of our night is spent cleaning up after supper with just two kids, and that's time w
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by Auracle 9mo ago
Because, again, for home use we don't want a laundry robot, a dish washing robot, a cleaning robot, etc. We kind of have those (laundry machine, dishwasher, Roomba-types) but they all have big limitations. What people want is somethi
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by Auracle 9mo ago
I'm completely unfamiliar with these, but it seems like you need to press your palm against the device, no? The doctor's office is the last place I'd want to do that.
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by Auracle 9mo ago
It’s not as simple as that and you know it. There are upsides and downsides to both systems. Personally, I’d be fine with universal healthcare on the state level, but not the federal. The fact that I have thoughts like that shows it’s not a
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by Auracle 9mo ago
Benz's full self driving is only up to 40mph and only when it has a car to follow in front of you.
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by Auracle 9mo ago
I would think for a country like Australia a more moderate approach would be to approve things that were approved by other countries and have been in use for some amount of time - say, 5 years or so - apart from the things they directly app
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by Auracle 9mo ago
It happened at the same time enough users trained themselves to mentally skip over the ads.

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