WarmWash

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by WarmWash 22d ago
Better for day to day life, worse for science and engineering.
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by WarmWash 23d ago
Well we can say whatever we want if we have our own definitions for everything, no?
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by WarmWash 23d ago
If that was the case the My Lai Massacre would be meaningless, because the entire war would have been that.
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by WarmWash 23d ago
Where does the article you linked say "Public Place"? You just linked to a standard military tactic
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by WarmWash 23d ago
Smoking out villages and shooting everything that moves with cutting edge weaponry doesn't require much competence.
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by WarmWash 23d ago
If the US military was unethical, it wouldn't have lost in Afghanistan. The problem is fighting unethical enemies, because they do shit like use ambulances as troop transport, have soldiers dress the same as civilians, and given any ki
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by WarmWash 23d ago
I think the dishonesty is that if the tables were turned, the overwhelming chorus would be "Why the fuck would you convert former soldier barracks, still located on an active base, to a kids school and never update the publicly availab
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by WarmWash 23d ago
Considering most liberals still are doing this "We considered an EV but a gas car was still is cheaper" song and dance, I would bet all my money that people just stick to whatever is cheapest, as they always do.
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by WarmWash 23d ago
Meanwhile, Alberta, where all of Canada's "energy security" is located, is holding a secession referendum on Oct 19. The chances of Canada getting everyone to go along with this are close to zero. (As are the chances of Alber
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by WarmWash 23d ago
The problem with bitcoin is that the only real evidence of it's success is it's price has gone up. It's very reminiscent of stocks that rocket 500% in a year, while almost nothing in the underlying company changed.
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by WarmWash 23d ago
People always will talk to you about anything they know a lot about. You can approach any human, of any standing, anywhere on Earth, and if you ask a question that hits them right in their knowledge center, especially if it is something
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by WarmWash 24d ago
After a while of being in a position of high power in a big org, where everyone listens intently to every word you say, jots down notes, and even listens intently and affirms your theory that ice cream would be the ideal loss leader for dry
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by WarmWash 24d ago
Probably isn't by virtue of it being publicly released
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by WarmWash 24d ago
You know how despite climate change being very real, in day to day discussions with other level headed people, they still very regularly say stuff like "We ran the numbers for an EV, and right now gas is still cheaper, so we are holdin
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by WarmWash 24d ago
Keep in mind, social media and western online dialogue is extremely US centric. If every country was a house, the US is where everyone meets to party. So every spec of dust spawns endless content for everyone to dig into. Nevermind that peo
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by WarmWash 24d ago
Contrary to popular belief, you need a lot of training on something for an LLM to be good and consistent with it. People think that if one mention exists in the training set, then the LLM is perfect at it.
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by WarmWash 24d ago
Because the US started this mess, and it would essentially shift all the cost onto other countries who had no part in it.
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by WarmWash 24d ago
Banning exports would be legitimately catastrophic geopolitically. Tariffs are mostly just politics and pretty heavily partisan. Banning oil exports would be objectively evil.
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by WarmWash 24d ago
This situation reminds me of when I quit cigarettes because I got really sick, and then after a few months of recovery, I asked myself "Do I really want to start smoking again?" No, I did not, so I did not. I don't think we a
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by WarmWash 24d ago
Lightnings are awesome trucks
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by WarmWash 24d ago
As an "everyday mans AI" I'd say 3.8 Flash definitely already has. Smart enough for the vast swath of people, and only slightly eeked out by Astra(Max) on vision capabilities, like the kind of "Point your camera at somet
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by WarmWash 24d ago
For heavyweight work I have been using Astra, but for rabbit holes and brain storming Gemini is far more enjoyable to interact with. I'm worried in their push to catch up on the SOTA front, it's going to lose that natural sounding
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by WarmWash 25d ago
Sounds like primetime to bring charges against the labs with multibillion dollar fines, to force them to create a domestic lab with SOTA model development for Europeans. You know, anything but create fertile business conditions.
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by WarmWash 25d ago
China and (maybe?) Russia are putting weapons up there no matter what. People act like had the inventors of the powder explosive gun never used it, we would still be fighting with arrows and spears today. Completely not how it works.
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by WarmWash 25d ago
More unwise is doing nothing and letting adversaries have it.
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by WarmWash 25d ago
It's trivially easy to spin up a website and host your own content. Especially today with LLMs to handhold even the most tech illiterate person through it. I'd imagine you are totally confused why they don't do this. If you a
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by WarmWash 25d ago
Youtube pays 60% of revenue to creators...
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by WarmWash 25d ago
Rude that they don't give you free unencumbered access?
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by WarmWash 25d ago
The key thing to address is the near zero marginal cost part. If the philosophy extended beyond a binary blob, we would have a whole parallel economy of free tangible goods, from workers using their expertise on their own time. But this bas
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by WarmWash 25d ago
I can assure you that whatever the nymag article written by a creative writing major turned socialist journalist says, isn't going to be a life changing read to a long time economics geek.

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