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7mo ago
I mean, walking through a door is easier than tearing down a wall, walking through it, and rebuilding the wall. That doesn't mean the latter is a good idea.
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7mo ago
Serious question: Why do doctors change their practice so much based on one case study? Surely, even if there isn't any malice, a doctor can make a mistake?
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7mo ago
Bridges tend to be highly associated with suicides. Should we ban bridges too?
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7mo ago
"Fake it til you make it" is near-universal in the space. You just never hear about the ones who do make it.
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8mo ago
XML is as old now as the PDP-11 was when XML came out.
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8mo ago
Fun fact: Weird Al has spent the last 2 years finding comments on videos of his songs that say "Is this AI-generated?" and responding "It's Al-generated!"
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8mo ago
You're presenting this as an argument against AI, but really it's an argument against all human endeavor. https://xkcd.com/915/
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8mo ago
But won't this solution still need: 1. A payment processor for users to turn money into tokens 2. A payment processor for news sites to turn tokens into money 3. A software provider to handle the actual microtransaction part of this (u
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8mo ago
Why? What does adding a slow database to the process help?
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8mo ago
I read a great article that explained that. It's called "The one we're commenting on"
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8mo ago
> Participants slept under different conditions, including being exposed to aircraft noise, pink noise, aircraft noise with pink noise and aircraft noise with earplugs And yet the conclusion is about pink noise vs silence. We may have a
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8mo ago
I honestly can't tell if you're trying to insult the engineer who wrote this post or the non-engineers that are in love with ChatGPT-4o
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8mo ago
> you’d think that if they could manipulate people into being so attached to the things, they’d also be able to manipulate people into accepting the end of the situation. That seems like a very unlikely conclusion to me. Why is it your
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8mo ago
I've never been Poe's lawed harder in my life.
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8mo ago
> My take on it is: you have to make your country/society a place where people will want to have children and feel/know that their children's lives will be good ones. It's funny to me that of all the crazy crackpot th
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8mo ago
Fun fact: Lockheed Martin advertises the F-35 during football games, because even though most of the audience isn't in the market for massive government contracts, the people who are are watching. I suspect the Ring mass surveillance a
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8mo ago
It's really funny to me that Microsoft's attempt to finally stamp out desktop Linux once and for all failed because one of Microsoft's antivirus vendor partners couldn't write secure software to save their lives. The con
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8mo ago
If you're so much of a better predictor than Polymarket, then why don't you put your money where your mouth is and make a killing off those manipulators?
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8mo ago
The Trump administration has made it very clear on multiple occasions that any company that does that will find that every law that affects them and has some amount of administrative discretion will suddenly be interpreted maximally against
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9mo ago
> I don't know how above board they are on this Saying you don't know something in the comments of an article that explains that thing is a bold strategy
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9mo ago
Slightly off topic, but it's endlessly funny to me watching people set the bar for AGI so high that only a small percentage of humans count as AGI.
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9mo ago
> Imagine a support guy on the other side of the phone to speak gibberish 10 times a day. A massive improvement?
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9mo ago
They never got cookie popups right. What makes you so confident?
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9mo ago
If you want regulations, try Baidu. They get rid of non-government-approved thoughts really quick.
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9mo ago
Honestly, I doubt it was an LLM because an LLM would have stuck closer to answering the question (avoiding non-sequiturs is the only thing they do, after all) . I'm not quite sure what the point of the response was.
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9mo ago
Wow, 333 words without even attempting to address the question. Have you considered a career in PR?
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9mo ago
I dunno. I think the fact that these sightings are always from sleep deprived individuals describing things at the far end of their range of detection (whether that's 5 miles away with the Mk 1 eyeball or 500 miles away with classifie
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9mo ago
How is that different from Discord?
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9mo ago
You know what they say about a stopped clock: it's wrong 1,438 times a day.
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9mo ago
The difference is that most of those systems have documentation that explains how to use their weird APIs.
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