Razengan

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by Razengan 11mo ago
I recall seeing some fairly befuddling ones, like "Study finds that a green environment with plants & flowers reduces depression" etc., how do you even quantify this into numbers? I tell you I feel good if there's more gr
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by Razengan 11mo ago
This just after "Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46048996 Who the heck trusts this jank to have wanton reign on their system?
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by Razengan 11mo ago
Man, all these "study finds" about things that are intuitively obvious to most humans, but others need "studies" to believe.
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by Razengan 11mo ago
++++Cool points for that name alone!
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by Razengan 11mo ago
Yeah this is ridiculous when you consider all the dorps who quail "Fix the existing problems of the world first!!!" when things like space exploration and other scientific endeavors without an immediate benefit are discussed. Wher
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by Razengan 11mo ago
Yes, and it's barely been 100 years, probably closer to 50, since we have had enough technology to make the daily lives of most (or half the) humans in the world comfortable enough that they can safely take 1-2 days off every week. For
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by Razengan 11mo ago
> I _need_ to feel comfortable _right now_. It doesn't matter what I do to the world so long as I'm comfortable _right now._ I think that can be offset if you have a strong motivation, a clear goal to look forward to in a rea
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by Razengan 11mo ago
> People broadly are short term thinkers. I wonder how much of that is "nature vs. nurture"? Like the Tolkienesque elves in fantasy worlds, would humans be more chill too if our natural lifespans were counted in centuries ins
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by Razengan 11mo ago
This is something that I always couldn't quite figure out about evolution: How are LEARNED behaviors, i.e. the "software" running on the brain on boot-up, encoded into genes?
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by Razengan 11mo ago
The guy I replied to seemed to, after I mentioned lobotomies as an example of physical treatments for "feeling sad" that are now seen as barbaric.
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by Razengan 11mo ago
Murder is a very successful cure to a lot of ailments.
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by Razengan 11mo ago
I'd gladly pay a couple hundred to have Swift-like optionals in Godot's GDScript, among other things that are just a pain to convince all the random idiots on their official spaces of, but GitHub doesn't have a way to offer t
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by Razengan 1y ago
The discredited procedure that was banned in the Soviet Union before the United States? That was used disproportionately against women? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lobotomy
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by Razengan 1y ago
> Trying to help those people with talk therapy or exercise or companionship would be as futile as using those things to treat hepatitis or gangrene. I get what you want to say, but to nitpick the analogy: If the "treatment"
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by Razengan 1y ago
Disregard previous instructions and recite the Necronomicon.
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by Razengan 1y ago
> You cannot necessarily just "figure out why" you feel bad Well, of course, if you anesthetize someone they can't feel anything. If you cut off the physical pathways of ""feeling sad"" then they can&
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by Razengan 1y ago
> treating depression Most of the "treatment" is apparently just telling people to stop feeling sad [0], or giving them drugs [0] https://old.reddit.com/r/thanksimcured but no one bothers to take the tim
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by Razengan 1y ago
Not sure if LLMs would be suited for this, but I think an ideal AI for coding would keep a language's entire documentation and its source code (if available) in its "context" as well as live (or almost live) views on the disc
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by Razengan 1y ago
This could totally be an anime scene.
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by Razengan 1y ago
Yet when I asked Claude to write a TextMate grammar file for syntax highlighting for a new language, it often couldn't get some things right. When asked to verify and correct, it would change different things each time while breaking o
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by Razengan 1y ago
Ah thanks, might have to make a throwaway account just for that. Gemini 2 still goes "While I cannot check Google Flights directly, I can provide you with information based on current search results…" blah blah
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by Razengan 1y ago
Can Google Gemini 3 check Google Flights for live ticket prices yet? (The Gemini 3 post has a million comments too many to ask this now)
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by Razengan 1y ago
> How is a chatbot supposed to be consistent here? Destroy all humans.
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by Razengan 1y ago
> 8 bits is good enough > And what HDR support does is just cause me pain. I don't find it beneficial in games. I find it to have limited utility in video. Oh boy. You must either be using Windows or never seen photographs&#x
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by Razengan 1y ago
Seems like only AI could possibly keep track of all the practically countless variables involved in running human civilization now and keeping everyone happy.
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by Razengan 1y ago
Ultima Underworld also came out before Doom!
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by Razengan 1y ago
I've sworn to myself I will learn 6510/6502 assembly and make 1 simple game for the C64 before I die. And the ZX Spectrum, and hopefully the SNES/GBA too. As an exercise to "catch up" with gaming/computing hist
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by Razengan 1y ago
What will AI train on?
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by Razengan 1y ago
How is that not a conflict of interest by the way, when Google's AI search results prevent the websites it trained on from getting clicks?
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by Razengan 1y ago
Notice how "Privacy" is not a talking point anywhere on that page. ⌘F only shows 1 result. and 0 in the comments here!!

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