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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
That presumes the wrong information is corrected quickly. What about the cases when that doesn't happen? Aren't you often finding out things you thought were true from years ago are wrong?
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I think this depends on lifestyle. I know that if there's vital information on a piece of paper I need to photograph it (or type it up) and email it to myself because the paper will be lost/destroyed before too long. I could inves
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
The issue is far more serious with ChatGPT/similar models because things that are laughably untrue are delivered exactly the same as something that's solidly true. When doing a normal search I can make some assessment on the qua
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Their biggest achievement was getting other companies to sell through their store. This allowed gamers to build up their back catalogue on Steam. Their launcher has all the problems as the other ones but they're forgiven because most o
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
This is my own personal bias talking here but I think handwriting might be a poor subject to teach the wider lesson of taking pride in your work. My hand writing has always been terrible. It was a big deal 30 years ago (when I was at school
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I think we should be holding governments to a higher standard than some random dude.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Experience that it's useful to be clear what you're advocating vs explaining. Not particularly serious consequences but it's irritating when you come back to a post where you say "Holocaust deniers believe X" and fi
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
While it sounds extraordinary it's a commonly held view. Not in the sense that men (overall) are structurally oppressed but there are various places where males are disadvantaged. (Note : I am not supporting this notion, just reporting
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
What I find extraordinary is that Microsoft paid $8 billion for Skype only to let that brand wither and die. (I still support a Skype for Business system so I know it's not gone but it's faded from most people's consciousnes
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Speculating it's because (previously) the recommendation system was heavily tuned towards novelty. Once you watch a video (or channel) which opens up a new part of the network it gleefully pushes a disproportionate number of videos you
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Remote work is the main reason I've stayed in my current job. So yes I would probably quit but not to retain my remote status (I'm resigned to working on site in my next job) - it would just be that the cost/benefit calculati
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
This is giving Google too much credit.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
In that case though the data collection is presumably required (to some extent) for the app to function. If you're tracking a users periods then you presumably need to store data about their period. It's probably a case for why we
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I've not done a thorough analysis but it seems like most flagging of posters/comments here seems to be done on the basis of conduct rather than opinion. And that's a different matter. The thought experiment is always; if this
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Celebrating when someone kills themselves is a matter of opinion. Doxxing is another matter.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
The problem with "everything is an object" it doesn't tell you a great deal off the bat. It's like saying "everything is a thing". Sure, it's true but it's not helpful. In your "companies are j
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
>Finally there is the argument from the perspective of fundamental morality, that depicting children in a sexual manner is wrong in and of itself, and therefore the various potential effects are irrelevant. (Much like it's wrong to
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
It might well be defensible but I think you're engaging in serious mental gymnastics to not call it bias. (Some bias is fine but you should be aware of what you're doing.)
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Whether they lost the popular vote is not really that relevant as that's not the basis of elections. They were elected to the presidency, therefore they got to make appointments. And I'm not sure the Supreme Court should be consid
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
The issue isn't the answer to the question it's the fact he (allegedly) resorted to "You’re telling me the Pope has been wrong for centuries?" which is a comment I'd find embarrassingly stupid from anyone (if he mea
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Email is the victim of its own success. Because it had/has such dominance in the business world everyone had to live in their inbox, marketers appreciated that and lots of people grew to hate that. There have always been bad practices
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
My completely unqualified outsider perspective is that they're a slightly different phenomenon. The old school Microsoft security issues stemmed from security being more or less an afterthought or with comically bad default options. Ma
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I'm going to have disagree with you on misspellings. AI can trivially replicate them (the Elizabot you used to get on old school BBSes would make deliberate mistakes/corrections) and they just make it ever so slightly harder for y
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I'm not sure Google is a great example - although they've got worse there's no obvious competitor which is better at search itself. There's various other reasons why you might not wish to use Google but in terms of quali
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
>Don't you think it feels incredibly degrading and violating to have your face stitched into porn in a way that's supposed to be as realistic as possible? Without your consent? Not really. > And you know people are jerking o
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
My knowledge of Starcraft 2 is pretty limited so this is my lack of expertise speaking but it always felt like a strange choice to demonstrate AI skill. Even limiting the AI to human level actions per minute - so much of the game seems to a
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I don't know about taking offence but there's something grating about the tendency to try and "rank" everything (either explicitly or implicitly) - which underpins so much internet content. Such discussions always fee
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Isn't this what they used to say about Clint Eastwood - that he's playing himself in most movies?
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
I doubt they'd make the default dialect for a chatbot Glaswegian. Although presumably giving variable accents (based on customers location or even user input) wouldn't be impossible.
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by DharmaPolice 3y ago
Why do you think you can't own electricity? And taking credit for something you didn't do may or may not be some form of misrepresentation/fraud, but I doubt many jurisdictions would consider it literal theft.

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