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by Veen 3y ago
If you're not familiar with how the British constitution works, this stuff can be confusing. But "The bill sought to transfer the power to authorise military strikes against Iraq from the monarch to Parliament" actually means
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by Veen 3y ago
It's worth pointing out that right-wingers say precisely the opposite and can produce plenty of evidence showing the BBC's left-wing bias.
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by Veen 3y ago
You can do just that in Kagi. It lets you boost or block sites from search results.
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by Veen 3y ago
I wonder if the people who implement this stuff consciously balance "it works" with "this is shitty" and feel a twinge of guilt when they do it. Or are they just scumbags who don't know the difference between effect
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by Veen 3y ago
That's survivorship bias. The ones that didn't collapse are still there. You don't know about the ones that did collapse because they aren't there to see.
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by Veen 3y ago
It's a silly name for a real phenomenon. It's better categorized as a form of rhetoric; instead of persuading people to do what you want, you're persuading LLMs using particular patterns of language. But no one is going to ca
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by Veen 3y ago
You should rethink that whenever you drive under a bridge or get on a boat. The reason they collapse or sink so infrequently is largely because engineers are accredited and held responsible.
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by Veen 4y ago
I've found that phind.com is pretty good, although I'm not sure which LLM it's backed by and I only use it for hobby projects.
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by Veen 4y ago
Some of the ugliest episodes in human history were caused by people who believed their political positions were not political positions, but unarguable statements of the True and Good.
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by Veen 4y ago
Is that a bad thing? It's quite nice to have a stable and consistent OS.
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by Veen 4y ago
I use it for similar stuff all the time. Yesterday I had a csv full of multi-word hashtags with no spaces between the words. I needed to split them all into separate words, add spaces, and remove the #. It would have been pain to write code
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, but The Sun was banned in my family, so we only "benefited" from her music.
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by Veen 4y ago
> They are strengthening and have more resources to assert themselves, which is actually what the US are hostile to. Seems entirely rational to me.
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, more "please don't be bad" than an ethics statement.
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by Veen 4y ago
It might be worth considering other crises and their impact on teen mental health. I grew up in the UK in the 80s during two crises. First, it was the Cold War and there was a very real risk of nuclear Armageddon; we were all aware of it be
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by Veen 4y ago
In the UK, we have signs that show a happy face when you're under the limit and an angry face when you're over. It's hard to resist the temptation to go a little over to make it frown.
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by Veen 4y ago
The widespread adoption of this credo would improve modern life immeasurably.
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by Veen 4y ago
> people with a shared history going back many hundreds of years and seeming to not want to be separated Many people in Northern Ireland—a narrow majority at the moment—consider themselves to be British and do not want to be separated fr
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by Veen 4y ago
It might be useful to genetically engineer hornier Giant Pandas.
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by Veen 4y ago
Doctors don't just "go to medical school". They are licensed professionals who are required to complete extensive theoretical, practical, and professional education in a system designed and governed by the state and relevant
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by Veen 4y ago
Just as real engineers find it extremely offensive when code writers refer to themselves as "software engineers".
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by Veen 4y ago
You may be interested in Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen's work on mnemonic media. - https://andymatuschak.org/ - https://withorbit.com/ - https://numinous.productions/ttft/
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by Veen 4y ago
If you have access to GPT-4, you can use it in the OpenAI API Playground. It’s a bit more reliable than ChatGPT and I’ve not run into any completion limitations, although my use is strictly small-scale.
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by Veen 4y ago
I think LangChain is more akin to Semantic Kernel than Jarvis: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/semantic-kernel/whatissk
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by Veen 4y ago
Sure, but many of the "progress is inevitable" people are also often the "get your stinking government hands off my hard-earned money" people. Increasing taxation of the beneficiaries of AI technology to provide a safety
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by Veen 4y ago
You're right, but the phrase "people complain" elides a lot and shows a callous lack of empathy. People complain because they lose their jobs, their homes, their standard of living, their future prospects, their ability to fe
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by Veen 4y ago
The union is using it to embarrass the management and drum up support for the workers. That’s part of their job. It’s in their interest to play up the insensitivity and impact of what was a stupid joke by a low-level moron.
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by Veen 4y ago
There really is no limit to this guy's shameless idiocy.
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by Veen 4y ago
No, we compete for community approval, the pleasure of “well actually…”, and meaningless upvotes.
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by Veen 4y ago
I’m curious, what definition of grift are you using here? Do you consider all paid writers who promote their work to be grifters, just writers who have newsletters, or just writers who have newsletters on Substack?

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