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by _wire_ 11mo ago
blah blah blah doesn't mean what you think
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by _wire_ 11mo ago
Correction: People who are closer to death are less interested in voting.
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by _wire_ 11mo ago
The corruption is getting baked into the entire datasphere. Funny if e-coins might have to die because the data stores become irredeemably polluted. Meanwhile the LLMs are ingesting all of it into their matrices, implying corruption has bec
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by _wire_ 11mo ago
tl;dr Expect computers to amplify our bigoted nature. Btw: "Mumbo-jumbo"
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by _wire_ 11mo ago
Suspect the more uncomfortable truth is this stat correctly betrays the utility of AI agents but is of by 2 or more orders of magnitude.
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by _wire_ 11mo ago
This was discussed about Android years ago. Doubtful it's an iPhonre gotcha... But maybe?
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by _wire_ 11mo ago
When you have to train it to act human, it's not intelligent, just a parrot. Planet of the Apes will actually come to pass if Musk realizes that the path for Grok is through Neuralink embedded in primates.
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by _wire_ 11mo ago
Because a grocery list was part of Englebart's influential 1968 GUI demo. And because at that time, grocery mgmt was the responsibility of a man's homemaker wife, and Englebart needed to capture her list to help with the chore. Of
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by _wire_ 1y ago
tl;dr The browser itself is now a reader of what it browses and effects something like archive.ph. The term 'copy' is now as meaningless as the term 'idea'--the device makes copies in the same sense that the reader'
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Isn't a measure of intelligence being able to mediate your own edge cases? So what did the bot say about its performance? Assuming a person was involved to resolve, did the person ask another bot what to do? Couldn't the bot that
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Haha! What a joke "You can't believe how smart and capable this thing is, ready to take over and run the world" (Not suitable for any particular purpose - Use at your own risk - See warnings - User is responsible for safe ope
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by _wire_ 1y ago
> Yet we think AI will have it Lenny Bruce joking as Tonto to the Lone Ranger: Who is "we" white man? The lede observation depends upon whether "we" can expect our science to ever produce an intelligible theory of min
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Possibly the stupidest president of all time... He thinks with his colon.
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by _wire_ 1y ago
This is a goto claim for AI PR, and like so much AI hype, it's bragging about something that has not been accomplished with no story supporting the expectation it can be accomplished. Musk is the poster-child for hyperbolic promises, w
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Post is merely an ad for the game dressed in an award-of-failure suit. "It's actually a really good game now!"
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by _wire_ 1y ago
HN CMS could aggregate re-posts automatically to save labor of flagging and linking..., scrape comment links into an annotated subsection..., provide links to related posts... Nvm
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Here's a very clear, coherent and approachable talk by Zizek on the tensions within our reckonings over the "commons" (as in commonwealth) and ideology at this threshold of post-capitalism. Zizek: A New Kind of Communism: ht
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Saw a factoid that military payroll is $7.2 billion per week (~$375 billion per year) so 130 mil could pay approx 0.5%, or 1 out of 200 staff on average, for 1 month. So who are the lucky beneficiaries? The Presidents personal guard?
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by _wire_ 1y ago
For those on Mac with Linux leaning, BBEdit in free mode will endlessly please you with all the great text stuff it can do and it's excellent UI. What a great program. Plaintext only, no RTF. Good programmers support for many languages
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Aye, he is making so many people so unhappy in so many domains he may become unviable and have to resign, a la Nixon.
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Why not, like, contextualize it a bit? Note-- The political views expressed in this example are incidental and should not be construed as relevant to the, like, point at hand: https://driftglass.blogspot.com/2025/10&#x2
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by _wire_ 1y ago
My god, don't code like a surgeon! Code like a programmer. This article further emphasizes the obvious point that as programmers are well on the way to destroying their own profession and their work is poised to wreck the entire world,
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Aye It's perpetual motion
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Farms that spray animal waste into the air https://www.google.com/search?q=farms+that+spray+waste+up+in...
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Simpsons, house next to hog rendering plant https://simpsons.fandom.com/wiki/House_near_Rendering_Plant
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by _wire_ 1y ago
It's like the distinction between latency and throughput... Or something
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Barry: Yes, I'm still on hold. Operator Carter: And what was this? Barry: I'm looking at your advertisement for the airline promotion and giveaway. Operator Carter: Ah, the 10 for 1 mile plan... Barry: Yeah, it's hard to unde
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by _wire_ 1y ago
DRIVES GONE WILD! "Hey SSD, we'll be back to pick you up later!"
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by _wire_ 1y ago
Without a definition of thought as work, the entire argument of AI productivity is noise. The value of AI to work is utterly unquantifiable. But command of human attention is another matter: it can be quantified and it is command of attenti
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by _wire_ 1y ago
//A well-built deck is an investment that can last 20–30 years.// Anything with a 20 year lifespan can not be an investment in any clear sense of the term. Nevertheless, a million deck builders and realtors would like yo

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