MattGrommes

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Why We're Surrounding Our Kids with AI(secondvoice.substack.com)
1 points by MattGrommes 1y ago|2 comments
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
Everyone deserves companionship, it's just that chatbots don't provide it. What I worry about is people who don't want to have conversations with people at work, or go do a hobby with other people, etc. and use a chatbot as a
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
This is the same argument people made for DOGE. "Don't we want the government to be more efficient?" Yes, nobody is going to argue the opposite. But there are ways of doing this that are rational, then there is the way this i
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
The problem I see is that since the chatbots are so easy to chat with, some people use them before they even try to do the work at getting human companionship. It almost never true that it's impossible for a person to find other people
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Hackers fooled Cognizant help desk, says Clorox in $380M cyberattack lawsuit(bleepingcomputer.com)
2 points by MattGrommes 1y ago|0 comments
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
With my kids, one of my main priorities was just making sure they knew that things were available and possible. Even if they never got into drawing or painting, we did them to show that painting or woodworking weren't some mysterious p
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
"Everybody wants to have written, nobody wants to write". Attributed to Mark Twain. I also use this quote for books and movies. Everybody wants to have read the book, people just don't want to actually read.
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
It was never a great user experience but as the dotcom boom died out and the money went away, they got worse and worse as they got sold a few times.
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Dads want to split parenting equally but are struggling to break stereotype(businessinsider.com)
1 points by MattGrommes 1y ago|0 comments
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
> Miami is the 'future of America' Probably true in that it's on track to be mostly destroyed by climate change and people are injuring themselves looking the other way.
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
I love how that scene looks but it doesn't work for me story-wise. They go up that high to get away from the machines but why wouldn't the machines build up to that level and put in giant solar collectors up there? Seems a lot eas
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
I assume this means you've looked over the study referenced and have examples of data you disagree with? Or did you just hear on Fox News that "USAID == bad" and have nothing substantive to contribute?
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
I agree, this article is basically what I've been thinking as I play with these things over time. They've gotten a ton better but the hot takes are still from 6-12 months ago. One thing I wish he would have talked about though is
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
Agree completely. The bit where Mace pulls the screws out of the droids with the Force and then uses them against the other droids is probably my favorite Force move in all of Star Wars.
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
https://archive.ph/hkDcZ
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The New Dark Age(theatlantic.com)
5 points by MattGrommes 1y ago|1 comments
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
I see this comparison to a camera a lot but I don't think it works (not that you're saying this, I'm just contributing). I'm not an expert but to me the camera is doing very little of the work involved in taking an artis
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
Agreed. There a lot of skills you only learn by being in a team environment that make you much more valuable in that environment than l33t coding skills.
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
Just following the letter of the law is so huge. Even people who think they're being nice by doing something out of the ordinary make the situation so much more dangerous because now you don't know what's going to happen. Eve
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Anthropic's Position on the Diffusion Rule(anthropic.com)
2 points by MattGrommes 1y ago|0 comments
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
The problem is not fixing diseases. The problem is what is defined as a disease or abnormality. The problem is people who are clearly choosing abnormalities based on politics, power grabs, and anti-science rhetoric.
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
Exactly. One of these days somebody is going to use a gun to defend someone from these masked/unmarked/unwarranted kidnappings.
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
You might want to start by googling reading lessons. Then work your way up to medical issues.
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
Ok, both of these comments made me doubt my memory so I just checked and my current employer, a very large consumer company, and the limits of the program are that you get a C or above, and the class is "related" to your job or an
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
My daughter is an archeologist and this is one of her bugbears, the idea that the Egyptians couldn't possibly have built something so huge on their own. Even though we're pretty clear on it, the originally racist idea that they we
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
In the book of 2001, one of the big "events" of that far-future world was all the phone companies making long-distance free on 1/1/2000. Even when I read the book in probably 1990, I remember my dad thinking that was rid
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
A lot of companies will pay for at least part of whatever college classes you take, without auditing whether or not it would be good for your specific job. I encourage people to look into it, it's a benefit a lot of people have but don
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
You're wrong. A lot of what constitutes an "abortion" is taking care of things like stillborn pregnancies and numerous life threatening issues with the woman's uterus. You would learn a lot googling on this topic. If you
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by MattGrommes 1y ago
Yeah, they were also very strict about the "types" of games that could be released for the NES. No porn games, very adult violence, etc. that might tarnish the reputation of the console.
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by MattGrommes 2y ago
This is nit-picky but you're probably actually referring to Cinematographers, or Directors of Photography. They're the ones who deal with the actual cameras, lens, use of light, etc. Directors deal with the actors and the script&#

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