Mordisquitos

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by Mordisquitos 6mo ago
I am ironically disappointed to learn that I have always been using bubble wrap correctly.
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by Mordisquitos 6mo ago
The value you are getting is not from the music as an artistic product, but from the social connection and entertainment it offers your friend group. The meme songs and lasting memories you are getting are fungible with regards to other ent
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by Mordisquitos 6mo ago
I only clicked on the article with no intention of reading it (no time), but rather out of morbid curiosity as to why on earth anybody would need to be told that LLMs should absolutely not be used to generate passwords. > [...] Despite
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I agree that using *asterisks* just feels wrong for italics, and are much better suited for bold. However, surely the _underscore_ is just perfect to visually indicate underlining? As for /slashes/, which would visually be perfect
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Good luck unsubscribing from the Internet. Our dependency on it is the final boss of dark patterns. An old web surfer paddles past a pair of young social media users. “Morning youngsters! How's the internet today?” The two users loo
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I suspect that, in practice, what many enthusiastic advocates mean by “learning AI” is actually “learning to need AI”. In other words, the aim is to get kids used to using AI as soon as possible, so that they do not learn the skills to func
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I really hope so. Now I must peruse all ToS that I have agreed in the past to ensure that they have an equivalent clause. I hope I'm not contractually obliged to keep using some random website or whatever for the rest of my life.
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Indeed. Just knowing that the subjects who followed through with the shocks were less likely to obey the rules could be interpreted in many ways, some invalidating the results of the experiment, some just suggesting a mechanistic explanatio
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Maybe we can do a meta-Milgram. A group of junior researchers are tasked with implementing what they believe to be a Milgram experiment, and while performing it the subjects (actually actors) start faking psychological distress in response
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Interesting. If we can assume the experimenter's failure to enforce the rules was mere clumsiness or incompetence, rather than an indicator of underlying intentional manipulation of the experimental conditions à la Stanford prison ex
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
What you say is correct, and that is why I was referring specifically for what's necessary for "features" (the term I used for "phenotypes" to make it more HN) to become ubiquitous. It is a general rule of thumb in
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
But surely we should expect some basic sanity checks on published data? This isn't some petrol stations being placed in the middle of a field due to minor typos or bad rounding, or some petrol stations' prices being listed as all
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Not a dumb question. The shortest (and at a glance unsatisfactory) answer is because it works, and therefore it evolved that way. Going in detail, first consider that for a feature to be evolutionarily selected for two things have to be tru
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Indeed. It is very disappointing that they chose that as the opening paragraph of their "Why" section, without even making the attempt to relate those points as to why Palantir in Europe would be bad for European citizens. As some
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Indeed. My comment about Google Maps (and Waze, etc.) exacerbating Alzheimer's was mostly in jest and an exaggeration, but I'm absolutely certain that there is a statistically significant proportion of society whose current overus
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I'm amazed that wasn't taken into account! Many years ago, in the final year of my Biology degree, I did a paid summer internship at an Evolutionary Biology lab here in Spain, assisting in a project where they were researching rel
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
And/or will we see an increase in Alzheimer's disease amongst Google-Maps dependent users? Maybe we will see a bimodal split in both directions.
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
There is also a very good TV comedy-drama film of 1979 about some characters working towards passing the Knowledge exam. The film was, of course, called The Knowledge : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Knowledge_(film
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
The argument is that Metaverse, as presented by its billionaire promoters as a paradigm shift, even though the public hated that vision , was a flop, therefore AI as presented by its billionaire promoters as a paradigm shift will be a fl
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
That fragment of the article is not blaming AI for that. It is criticising Marc Andreesen's literal response in this 2021 interview: https://niccolo.substack.com/p/the-dubrovnik-interviews-marc...
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I don't see the author implying that AI is a fad that will go away. I see her stating that "AI", as envisioned and sold by many tech oligarchs to their audiences, is not the inevitable future.
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Congratulations, this is a brilliant resource. You have done one of those countless things which I often think about doing, but my utter lack of follow-through and other distractions make it a fantasy. I cannot wait to clone the repo and ex
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Local authorities in Spain do have the authority to enact their own law-ish regulations, which are called 'ordenanzas' . For example, if I remember correctly, motorbikes are allowed to park on the pavement by default in Barcelona
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I may be wrong, but I think autonomous community legislation is not published in the BOE itself (the Official State Gazette), but rather in each of their corresponding official gazettes (e.g. DOGC for Catalonia, BOCM for Madrid, BOA for Ara
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I wouldn't go as far as assuming the author is projecting, but the last paragraph of the article is indeed aligned with your second point: > Many guardians of rock authenticity still complain that today there are plenty of people w
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Change the URL from instagram.com to imginn.com. There are browser extensions which will do it automatically.
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Even better, what about piping the different AI responses through another LLM to provide the summary? That way you save yourself the time and effort of reading all the different AI responses. You could even pipe the final summary directly t
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
Even better, reply only with the prompt that you would have used, not the resulting text. Don't even run the prompt through an LLM. That results in a shorter and more concise message, and the original sender can choose to use the promp
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
I'm curious, why would you use an LLM to translate French to English? Why not use a dedicated translator such as DeepL, which will not only save you tokens/energy, but will also be much closer to your personal phrasing?
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by Mordisquitos 7mo ago
> no innovation allowed unless it interoperates with other products that don't exist yet Products that don't exist yet... so, future innovation? No innovation allowed unless it incentivises and streamlines further innovation?

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