Barrin92

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by Barrin92 6d ago
>Maybe the reality is a lot of people have different feelings about this. yes that is the reality, but what I was saying was is that the abstract reason for that is what's called costly signalling in economics, biology or even relig
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by Barrin92 6d ago
Alphastar played with cheats such as full map vision, which obviously in starcraft makes a gigantic difference
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by Barrin92 6d ago
Game performance is one of those topics that makes it so abundantly clear how limited these systems still are. StarCraft is predominantly a mechanical game so the horizon of what you need to do is quite short and tactile, and even then with
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by Barrin92 6d ago
the point of advertising is to communicate something. If your kid draws your menu, you signal family values. If you pay a local artist, you signal investment in the community. If ChatGPT churns out your ad you've signaled nothing. And
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by Barrin92 6d ago
> Perhaps take more time to express your thoughts. bit of a problematic argument in this context given that the entire usage of generative AI rests on people's unwillingness to do just that
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by Barrin92 7d ago
>You can just do what my university did, hire a small shell firm with 3 employees to hold all your data except you can't in South Korea because PIPA (their data privacy/compliance framework) is as strict if not stricter than GD
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by Barrin92 9d ago
we're driving consumer prices up and delaying the climate transition for Rube Goldberg slop machines. In case any future historiographer decides to go with the title "the age of intelligence, our stupidest period yet" I'
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by Barrin92 9d ago
As a German guy who backpacked through Australia for a while when I was studying the drinking culture definitely made you guys seem European I can you tell you that much, I didn't feel far from home
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by Barrin92 9d ago
when you start to internalize that these kinds of statements are an indication of how the average developer of the last 10-15 years operated the adoption rate of AI makes a lot more sense
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by Barrin92 9d ago
data residency requirements in the EU don't categorically exclude data storage in other countries. The EDPB explicitly recognizes encrypted backups, for example, as valid as long as the keys remain in the EU and there's a secure t
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by Barrin92 10d ago
>The UK left, Iceland just voted not to join. I don't know if you even made it to the end of the first sentence I wrote, but the fact that the UK could leave and is treated with respect, the fact that Iceland, a country of four hund
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by Barrin92 10d ago
I'm proud to live in the EU because for all its faults we have one thing going for us, we seem to be the only large institution that countries still want to voluntarily join, and can voluntarily leave. In a world in which the other gre
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by Barrin92 10d ago
>whereas someone learning today from scratch using LLMs could give you good advice on what the real difficulties are if we're talking about the LLM usage as described in the article, they can't do that by definition because the
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by Barrin92 10d ago
it made sense because just as with software the marginal cost of production per unit tends towards zero. You have a largely fixed cost in production so each additional copy sold makes you more profitable, and that's why game companies
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by Barrin92 10d ago
>Where are these mythical people who admire companies more when they commit felonies? everywhere, I talked to a Palantir guy once and he said "every time someone paints us as a Bond Villain the stock prices go up", have you alr
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by Barrin92 11d ago
>everything digital be totally free and have no form of tracking or ads, that's not a realistic expectation for everything but it's completely realistic for text based short form communication given how affordable it is to run.
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by Barrin92 11d ago
You can't accidentally arrive at a building, that's by definition true for all architecture, it doesn't fall out of the sky. They also didn't design it to be ugly, that's your value judgement, not a property of the
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by Barrin92 12d ago
>It's a visual style, yet all your criticisms are about under-the-hood technicalities the very point of brutalism is to turn its material 'inside out', what defines brutalism is that it makes the material and structural el
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by Barrin92 12d ago
>You state a conclusion as fact without any supportive reasoning/evidence. No, it's the other way around, it's a reductive view on intelligence that mistakes its own methodology for ontology. It's obvious to see that
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by Barrin92 12d ago
>I don't think a correct remedy is to require companies to provide services even if they want to. (I assume there's a don't missing) Forced open API access/protocol transparency for tech platforms and a right to cli
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by Barrin92 12d ago
>I'm somewhat surprised at how poorly the cutting edge models do with being concise. because they're not intelligent in the sense you're hinting at (conceptual integrity or generalization) but they are as the name suggests
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by Barrin92 13d ago
is that accurate? Here in Germany minimal Kfz-Haftpflichtversicherung is I believe 7 million in personal injuries and 1 million in property damages. So if a broke guy in the US runs you over and causes you half a million in health damages
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by Barrin92 13d ago
>There's a general malaise throughout this continent of Europe The continent is remarkably resilient, we just love to complain. The fact that we're handling a de facto war with Russia, an energy crisis, a trade crisis and about
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by Barrin92 14d ago
>It’s interesting that a lot of U.S. law requires intent. mens rea and the shift from responsibility to moral guilt is genuinely one of the stupidest legal innovations anyone has ever come up with, it's like affirmative action for i
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by Barrin92 14d ago
>And what's the conspiracy aspect of calling a big company a liar? the conspiracy aspect is alleging a conspiracy without providing any evidence, which is apparently how 90% of people function now. Calling someone a liar because you
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by Barrin92 14d ago
they've already had a very similar idea at truth social themselves, they're now selling premium early access to market moving news https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/12/truth-social...
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by Barrin92 16d ago
The question to me in terms of memory is, if you're writing a weather app on windows why are you not using C#. The point of these low/zero overhead languages like Rust is you're in an environment where memory management is ul
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by Barrin92 16d ago
>but there's fundamentally nothing substantial to it in terms of gameplay. to me that has become a big positive aspect of the game. The non-teleology of it, that you just run around and immersive yourself in it is pleasant in its ow
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by Barrin92 17d ago
>That does not make "traditions flexible". It's just a cheap tactic to increase followers/harvest souls. That's not mutually exclusive. You're certainly right that religions spread this way, but it's al
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by Barrin92 18d ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough about Hinduism to argue the first point but that's too reductive of a view of Christianity and Islam. There's a rich history of panentheism in both. Ibn Arabi, probably the most famous Sufi schola

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