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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
> It’s introducing a proprietary networked high latency chaos agent into the critical path. Well (and amusingly) said. The same (or at least a very similar) problem exists at the other end of the pipeline, i.e., whenever a user has to us
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
> The thing you're trying to do might be simple, but to do it, you might need to instantiate 8+ Java classes. It doesn't mean it's complex to read or hard to debug. I’m skeptical that code that needs to instantiate eight s
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Yes, it would have to be unable to reason about its own confidence levels, wouldn’t it? It produces content—and, as far as I understand, sort of simulates basic reasoning—by making predictions based on a huge corpus of text. The larger this
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GhyrpXcaIAAVs3W?format=jpg&name=...
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>I would call it an observation rather than an accusation. For crying out loud... The ADL disagrees with you: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/world/europe/elon-musk-ro...
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
That sounds about right to me.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I mostly do RCA, and at first I thought that maybe generative AI would be able to take a system report or a core dump and spit out something useful. It can't, though. It's interesting how some "lower-level" work might be
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) have both denied Grusch's claims, stating there are no such programs and that extraterrestrial life has yet to be discovered. No evid
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
FIDE has no leg to stand on here. They don't own chess and they don't have a trademark on the phrase "World Championship" as it applies to chess. They can and will sanction players, and that will be enough to shut this d
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Yes, I was 14 once, too. Moral nihilism is obvious and not helpful. Everyone knows that our moral language is just a manner of speaking. We nevertheless engage with moral concepts because we reject moral nihilism at least from a pragmatic p
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
As Are you claiming that the right to use a product or service implies a sort of ownership of it? If it’s free to use, I suppose that makes some sense. If you’re saying that the right to purchase use of it implies a level of ownership, th
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I’ll go ahead and say it: Common LISP. Cliche, but I really believe it. ETA: also, human beings will still program, if only for fun and mental exercise. There will also continue to be an (ever shrinking) elite who can continue to be most pr
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
TIL that there's a name for it. I always just sort of intuited this phenomenon.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Don't leave us hanging like that.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Well, within 30 years or so AI will be better than humans at everything, so…
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>Meanwhile, the “right thing” isn’t always so obvious. The “violent and disruptive” student is also a child with a right to an education. They may have a right to an education, but they need to be at an alternative school with teachers e
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
>Pro-homeschooling: At school, you’re in danger of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. Anti-homeschooling: Statistically, you’re in greater danger of all those things at home. And the risk gets bigger if you eliminate outside influenc
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The hat that you’ve used to display the various messages is falling apart, as can be clearly seen by zooming in. Also…$45? Is that some sort of joke?
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Well yeah, it’s an extremely complex system. If we’re just going to leave it at that, then you have no basis for insisting that working populations are proportional to the general population. But you seem to want to have it both ways.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Right, it’s a break. Actual thinking is like a physical activity, and we need breaks. In the past we had more frequent and longer breaks even if we were diligent, because we could leverage our knowledge. Increasingly we have to leverage our
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
There’s something that’s been in the back of my mind for a while, and I think I haven’t acknowledged it due to shame. I believe that many people will relate, though. As technology continues to automate more and more “mindless” work, knowled
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I mean, all of this is obvious. Group-level differences will still lead to the composition of individuals in a given profession differing from the composition of the general population, even if no hiring managers discriminate.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
I think that the most likely explanation is that both environment and genetics are factors. In order to view inequality of outcome as proof of inequality of opportunity, you have to believe that group differences are due entirely to envir
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
This is pretty spot-on. Whether they’re aware of it or not, most white liberals are motivated not by a desire to lift nonwhites up but rather by a desire to push “white trash” down.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
> Equality of outcome is implied by equality of opportunity. Only if you assume that group-level differences can’t exist.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
The sense I get is that those on the far right are worse than those on the far left, but those on the moderate left are much worse than those on the moderate right, to the point of being nearly insufferable.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Servers and cashiers have had no input whatsoever into decisions to add tipping prompts to PoS terminals.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
It's both a curse and a blessing. Women have a degree of control over reproduction that men can never have.
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
This is bait, but it’s tasty, so I’ll take it. > Ultimately, even as HTML has become the province of professionals, it cannot be gatekept. This is what makes so many programmers so anxious about the web, and sometimes pathetically desper
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by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
What’s the point of this link? It’s also to a paywalled article.

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