ChrisLTD

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by ChrisLTD 7d ago
Yikes. The old posters had an austere beauty
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by ChrisLTD 8d ago
a filling in of gaps in memory through the creation of false memories by an individual who is affected with a memory disorder (as Korsakoff syndrome) and is unaware that the fabricated memories are inaccurate and false vs. a sensory percept
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by ChrisLTD 8d ago
And the other two?
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by ChrisLTD 8d ago
There are degrees. Bernie Madoff died in prison. AT&T was broken up. Microsoft was strictly regulated.
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by ChrisLTD 8d ago
The law, as practiced in the United States, protects but does not bind elites, whereas the law binds but does not protect the lower classes.
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by ChrisLTD 8d ago
In the U.S. we hardly had what you’d call “lockdowns”, more like government suggestions that you shouldn’t expose yourself or your loved ones to a potentially deadly virus. Restaurant goers, teachers, commuters, and others wanted to avoid s
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by ChrisLTD 19d ago
Forties isn’t old. You might not have the energy reserves of a younger person, but you shouldn’t feel like your brain is mush.
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by ChrisLTD 20d ago
Yeah, that conclusion was nonsense. Perhaps hedging so he doesn’t sound like a crank?
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by ChrisLTD 20d ago
History is replete with counter examples for good and ill
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by ChrisLTD 26d ago
Something else they want to price us out of?
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by ChrisLTD 1mo ago
> AI agents are just software, after all. I wasn’t going to understand them by reading prompt guides. I had to use them for real work, see where they failed, change the prompts, tools, or environment, and try again. AI agents are just so
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by ChrisLTD 1mo ago
I'm not sure how you can be confident the things "you" built won't crash if you're not at least scanning the code that you're generating.
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by ChrisLTD 1mo ago
Some people like doing DIY plumbing and related tasks around their own homes. Work might not be "fun" in the traditional sense, but it can be satisfying to build and fix things.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
Would you say that the government telling those people that they should be afraid of vaccines will help or hurt in this case?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
> Yet, we all trust these things. We trust them - in large part - because we know that professionals took the care and responsibility to build the foundations correctly. And if the foundations failed in some way, those same professionals
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
> upper management who are already eliminating these assembly line, JIRA-ticket-taker software jobs en masse Is there any proof of this?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
> I fully admit that we have been surpassed by the machine in the ability to entertain. Why though? Daily here on HN, posts are pilloried for being AI generated and full of AI tropes. AI generated content might be drowning out human gene
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
This is certainly overstating the difference between compiled code and the source code. If I write an if/else statement, I understand what the computer is going to do when it's evaluated even if I don't know or see the litera
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
There are other benchmarks for that
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
"Our AI makes your workers X times more productive" "Our AI takes the drudgery out of X, Y, and Z"
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
The datacenter antipathy is odd, but then again so are the AI corps' marketing strategy of making everyone afraid for their jobs and the future of the species.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
If Linux doesn't qualify as open, then what does?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
and if you're an author that lives outside the United States?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
If the US implements export controls and China doesn't, it would kill the market for OpenAI and Anthropic.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
Why would this law make things worse? What would your proposal be for fixing what you’ve identified as the underlying problem?
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
You have to start somewhere, no? We have laws against stealing and murder and folks don’t usually go around saying they should be removed from the books because some people still steal and commit murder.
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
So why do you recycle? Based on your argument, you're just wasting your own time or "shooting yourself in the foot".
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by ChrisLTD 2mo ago
I've been using Parakeet Multilanguage locally, and it's super snappy
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by ChrisLTD 3mo ago
It's illegal to build dense cities like Manhattan in most of the United States. And while most people want to live in a Manhattan'esque area, plenty (like me) do.
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by ChrisLTD 3mo ago
If anything the first movers would theoretically be the first to destroy their own labor markets and economies.

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