MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
A hammer can bonk someone or help Jimmy Carter build a house for someone. We digital logic folks are both tool builders and tool wielders. Usefulness is in the hands of the user, but that doesn't mean the creator isn't a dipsh_t w
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
We all must deal with other people to survive in this world, and our treatment of everyone every single day creates a karmic result that affects us proportionally. We are rewarded for our efforts, not their effects. If we truly try to help
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I have but one upvote to give you, good sir/madam, when I wish I had 100.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
By the stupid, for the stupid.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
LLMs just predict the next word, based upon the texts they were trained on. They are, by definition, a hallucination. It's just that, sometimes, they put words together that fool people. They're just ELIZA on steroids, people.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
And he is personally responsible for so much misery on Earth that he can likely never do enough good to make up for it, not that he's going to try. The reason he never looks happy is because he is never happy. Same with his fellow ol
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
We don't talk about products. We live very, very simply. We watch very little fiction. We mostly listen to music and watch a handful of soccer highlights. No Microsoft, no ads on the `puters, no kids on phones or the net except for che
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'll get right on that. Wait right here.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Who said anything about crime? Not me. Bye.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
None.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'm not worried, and thanks for suggesting that advertising would be a viable motive given our geolocation. Good thing Apple doesn't also have means and opportunity, too. Silly me! I guess we should all just blindly trust Apple. T
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> (aliens? CIA remotely controlling the dice?) No, more like Siri, bruh. To sell some too-expensive slippers. You used the word "absurd", didn't ya? > accidentally recording siri queries Sure. Apple does things by acci
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Technilogical causes are much more likely than accidental causes for such effects to appear, in today's world. Occam's Razor and the answer to the question, "What kinds of companies are at work in the environment?" push
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
My wife has a very new (<2yo) iPhone. We live in public housing, no luxuries. We were talking about getting her some slippes, and I made a joke about her not getting any Gucci slippers. The Gucci ad appeared on her phone within 30 minute
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Denzel Washington's movie (he's the EP) The Equalizer says: The two most important days are the day you're born, and the day you find out why. We're here to be happy because of the happiness we've creat
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I understand the truth that writing was very much a huge net positive for humanity, but that doesn't mean Socrates was in any way wrong. To my mind, though, LLMs are just plain inaccurate and I wouldn't want them anywhere near my
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
If you want to see the picture of success in spending one's money, find the pictures of Lebron James surprising the kids in the school he built in his home town of Akron, Ohio. His smile is the verifiable truth of "you reap what y
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I hope so! I am rather literal-minded, usually speaking plainly, which means I tend to read others as tho they speak in the same way. Thanks for the heads-up, friend.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Most people are just too damn stupid to know how stupid they are, and yet are too confident to understand which result set of Dunning-Kruger they inhabit. Flat-Earthers are free to believe whatever they want; it's their human right to
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
If Microsoft made it and distributed it, the only thing you can be sure of is that it will work out for Microsoft. I am not curious what Bing says about Microsoft's ethics.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That attitude will reap you a bitter crop, friend.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
There are many people who simply don't give a da_n about any one, even their own kids. I know that sounds crazy to the vast majority of us (and it is crazy, for sure), but we are not the super-rich, and they are not like us, my friend.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I like to say, "Make hunger your friend." That is the way to begin the process of getting a little hungry and then appreciating it as it grows. Taking that extra time then makes finally eating more enjoyable, in my experience. And
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Good point. I was only speaking to targeting other developers.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Documentation is useful, when done well. The code is always the authority, and there are very many ways the correct logic can be constructed. How it is constructed is the difference between good enough and excellent. And getting "compr
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well said, friend. Thank you for expanding my understanding of the situation.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I find 'tradition' to nearly always be merely an excuse to keep acting like a purblind fool. They're just a bunch of self-superior non-thinkers who don't give a damn about anyone from other cultures. They tend to lack cu
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, indeed. And all because the most important thing they are really protecting is that they are needed at all, when the reality is that they should be unceremoniously ejected from all such endeavors, once and for all. True democracy shoul
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Old people rarely like to see things change from what they deemed 'acceptable' in their life. As people get older, most people tend to become more 'conservative' in their view of how things are changing. It is usually mu
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
He gave his life to compassion in service to all of humanity.

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