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by _zagj 7mo ago
Even though I almost posted a comment like yours earlier ("I'm an African-American lesbian with a seizure disorder, and ChatGPT is finally enabling me to finish my novel!"), I'm not sure how many of these comments are bo
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> would you say that it "democratises" sports Given how I've seen a lot of AI "artists" describe themselves and "their" works, yeah, probably a lot of them would.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Yeah, if you studied and mastered all of the various disciplines required for fabricating a bicycle, and then fabricated your own by hand and offered to do likewise for others, sometimes in exchange for compensation, sometimes for free (pro
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Yeah, and one is at least plausibly justifiable (though still potentially unfounded), while the other is absurd on its face.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> why would anyone want to fire me? Because they can hire some "prompt engineer" to "steer the AI" for $30-50k instead of $150-$250k.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> elitist in a negative way. It's funny you say that, because I've seen plenty of the reverse elitism from "AI bros" on HN, saying things like: > Now that I no longer write code, I can focus on the engineering or &
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> Cuba hasn't recently openly discussed plans to annex Canada Neither has the US. Trump specifically disavowed that every time he was asked (by the CBC). Meanwhile Cuba sent thousands of mercenaries to kill Ukrainians on behalf of R
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> I see a lot of posts about this, and I see a lot studies, also on HN, that show that this isn't the case. Most of these studies were done one or more years ago, and predate the deployment and adoption of RLHF-based systems like Cl
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Any particular reason why the number of vulnerabilities fixed in Feb. was so high? Even subtracting the count of Anthropic's submissions, from the graph in their blog post, that month still looks like an outlier.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> People have judged me for driving through the states. Meanwhile it's perfectly acceptable, if not a point of pride, for Canadians to go to Cuba, which is not only run by an actual, kleptocratic dictatorship that imprisons dissiden
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> CENTCOM I haven't seen anything to that effect yet. They've just said they wouldn't deliberately target a school, which I believe, but that doesn't mean it wasn't an accident based on faulty, likely outdated
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> but I still reach for a calculator Does the calculator give you a slightly different answer each time, even with the same inputs?
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by _zagj 7mo ago
To be frank, this just sounds like self-serving BS, likely from someone who's only ever done front-end stuff and hasn't ever cracked open Godbolt (or doesn't even know what that is). Describing system constraints at a high-le
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Peak HN: two people arguing over who's gayer in a thread about AI hype.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Also in this genre: > The Eternal Promise: A History of Attempts at Manned Flight Anyone banking that this technology isn't going to decrease the demand for programmers, or that it's going to offset the lost jobs with new, rela
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> Openai employees already get crazy salaries. What motivates someone to do this? Given what OpenAI does, what kind of person, and with what moral character, do you think works there? EDIT: AI in general seems to attract bad actors, for
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> USA attacking Afghanistan unprovoked Unprovoked? This has to be one of the dumbest, most ahistorical bits of tankiespew I've ever read on this site.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Looks like Russia's Shahad drone supply chain just got disrupted.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
My condolences. Your cousin sounds very brave.
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Even people with the Internet growing up still learned largely through books, probably until StackOverflow really took off. One "hack" prior to SO that sometimes goes under-acknowledged was Google Groups. Around 2000, they bough
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> pg wrote a Lisp dialect, Arc Wasn't Arc just a collection of Scheme macros?
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Last I checked, no one dared to attack them before they had nukes because of China's promise (made good in 1950) to use their military to defend the regime in Pyongyang, and the massive array of conventional artillery pointing at Seo
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by _zagj 7mo ago
So we're supposed to >justtrustmebro That they'll never, in some capacity, attempt use them against the country they weekly collectively chant death to? EDIT: thanks, dang, for the > posting too fast cooldown, for all of my
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> The rational move for Iran to prevent itself from being bullied is to have nukes like North Korea North Korea invaded South Korea, stole a US Navy ship (the Pueblo, which they still proudly exhibit), dug large infiltration tunnels unde
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by _zagj 7mo ago
Can any Iran simps explain why the regime couldn't just agree to zero enrichment and cease its weekly ritual of organized mobs chanting: > DEATH TO AMERICA in the streets like blood-thirsty lunatics, something for which there was no
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> What would (Xi) Jinping do? Make himself dictator for life and purge his party of dissenters?
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> Think about it. If someone actually bombed or invaded the continental US you'd have woke libs cheering for Donald Trump. Judging by how they responded to the assassination attempt(s) on Trump and the assassination of Charlie Kirk,
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> Signed, The people who: > steal any bit of code you put on the internet regardless of the license you use or its terms, then use it to train their models, then turn around and try to sell it to you > made it so you can't aff
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Ask HN: Have LLMs sapped your motivation for open source?
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by _zagj 7mo ago
> I needed to invest a significant amount of my net worth in Google simply as hedge against AI destroying knowledge work jobs I felt similarly, and did similarly, with both GOOGL and MSFT. I'm not an AI "doomer" in the Yud

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