FrancisMoodie

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by FrancisMoodie 19d ago
I mean, not really, since the UK was trying to renegotiate an existing deal (which they profited from for decades) towards a deal that would favor the UK more than the EU and would trigger an entire blow-back of other member-states wanting
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by FrancisMoodie 24d ago
Huh? In your example these many teachers were paid for teaching these students and were able to make a living off of teaching without the students compensating or attributing their financial (or career) outcomes to the teachers while now we
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by FrancisMoodie 25d ago
For rich people who want to uphold the status quo these two things are identical, sadly.
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by FrancisMoodie 4mo ago
But doesn't the fact that WE have to feed the existing chats back into it and WE have to do further RL prove that your point is moot? Consciousness does not wait to be prompted. Consciousness does not need anything fed back into it bec
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by FrancisMoodie 7mo ago
This comment is being down-voted because this post isn't talking in favor the Iranian regime, it is talking about the atrocities that the people of Iran are having to live through, how their own government is self destructing and willi
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by FrancisMoodie 7mo ago
Ofcourse we're gonna compare being against the use of technology for Mass surveillance/Autonomous weapons with being racist, like wtf kind of argument is this? So because businesses can't implement racist policies they should
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by FrancisMoodie 7mo ago
Journalism isn't valued by how many opinions have changed, it is there to report on stories that are or have happened. You ask for consequences in your comment but how can there be consequences if there are no reports? Absolutely baffl
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by FrancisMoodie 7mo ago
Yes, and AGI will cure cancer, Alzheimers, Huntingtons and all other diseases known to man... by killing us all. /scifi
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by FrancisMoodie 8mo ago
Something I think people forget when it comes to the valuation of bitcoin is just how much of it is used to fund illegal activities (Betting, Drugs, anything on the darkweb,...). I honestly believe much of the valuation is linked to that, b
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by FrancisMoodie 8mo ago
If all companies fire 50% of their engineers, how will anybody find similar new jobs? In an ideal world software productivity doubling WOULD be a huge boon for the economy IF companies used the increased productivity of their engineers as a
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by FrancisMoodie 8mo ago
They had a control group who also went on a reduced calorie deficit but without oats and found that the oats eating group had a much higher decrease of cholesterol, it's in the article.
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by FrancisMoodie 9mo ago
I don't understand why it always has to be one or the other? Why can't we have both? More sources of energy means more reliable energy distribution, multiple fail-safes, in summer there is more solar, in fall there is more wind, i
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by FrancisMoodie 10mo ago
Bitcoin and other crypto coins have a practical use. You can use them to buy whatever is being sold on the darkweb with the main product categories being drugs and guns. I honestly believe much of the valuation of Crypto is tied to these ma
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by FrancisMoodie 10mo ago
I wanna push back on this a little, sure, openAI has a certain level of detail in it's dataset because of the fact that you actually have conversations with it in order to use their product, but we're talking about a short window
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
> So why is the assumption that AI will magically delete all jobs while discounting the fact that it will create careers we haven’t even thought of? I think that in a vacuum you could reasonably believe that this might be the case but I
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
What? They don't check your credit score where I live (west-eu). They check your pay slip to see how much you make monthly and if it your rent is less than half your paycheck they can decide to let you rent. After that is a two or thre
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
This is such a weird argument. People were dumping on google because they had already been working on LLM's and machine learning products for quite a few years before Chatgpt released their first public model, and with how much capital
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
And it pays artists a fair share per stream, a lot more than other major streaming platforms.
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
Genuine question but since when is being a "survivor" a politically loaded label? Is this an American thing?
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
Could you expand on your comment that life has entropy moving from high to low? Doesn't aging increase the entropy in our biological system? I have always thought that we are at our most structured in the early phases of conception wit
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
It says in the article that people who lose their drivers license on account of speeding usually keep on driving anyway. I also feel like this is already the case in a lot of countries yet speeding still exists so I don't know if I agr
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by FrancisMoodie 1y ago
I get your point, but also, so what? The point of this whistle-blowing is that the public gets to make informed decisions about these companies that provide us with services that much of us use daily, and that the government gets a chance t
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by FrancisMoodie 2y ago
Huh, so you're claiming that GDP data and such is not correct? Any source on that? Because I see multiple sources reporting that in 2023 the GDP of Russia was $2,009,959M and that of Italy was $2,300,941M, although Italy has a higher d
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by FrancisMoodie 2y ago
I like this take. To add to that, it feels that for a company to maintain their software effectively, there needs to be a certain level of cross-departement knowledge, people who can connect the dots between frontend and backend for exampl
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by FrancisMoodie 2y ago
We all know negative content drives more engagement, see: Facebook. But I've also noticed this trend and for me it makes sense seeing as most of the content on the internet nowadays is negative content. Social media is used to belittle
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by FrancisMoodie 2y ago
Gödel, Escher, Bach - An eternal Braid is a great book about consciousness from a logical standpoint. Is this a work you're familiar with?
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by FrancisMoodie 2y ago
It's hard to pick any singular company that started to make tech suck because it's a result of the economical structure in which these companies are trying to exist. The neverending search for more profit, more growth every quarte
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by FrancisMoodie 2y ago
AFAIK the protest surrounding the tesla factory were more related to the horrendous work culture that is present at tesla and the amount of pollution that has reportedly been found dumped by tesla factories. 'Because reasons' seem