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by alganet 1y ago
EU two or three steps ahead. AI companies are moving to user interface innovations to try to grab more unwilling training individuals. These new UI innovations will feel like shit if they try to force adoption, full of warnings and disclaim
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by alganet 1y ago
> The Cost to Write Software is Fraction of the Previous Cost McDonalds is peak hamburguer, it's an accurate phrase. Look at the graph, peak.
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by alganet 1y ago
That's exausting. "It's not X, it's Y". Dictionary definition claims. Can't you grasp meaning? Even LLMs can.
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by alganet 1y ago
What are you talking about? Get your arguments together, c'mon. I expect more.
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by alganet 1y ago
I see, the problem was in assuming that I want to present myself as an original thinker. I'll keep my longstanding tradition of explaining exactly how I work: I have no interest in competing for an audience of hot takes on things. _Ske
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by alganet 1y ago
I have a question: how did you guys expected me to react?
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by alganet 1y ago
Fine, old man. Do your art of the deal thing. I won't play victim, I won't support tariff retaliation. We're a peaceful nation, interested in diplomacy, with a long history of healthy commerce with the US and close ties to th
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by alganet 1y ago
Ground News makes all news be about left versus right. It teaches its users to approach everything as a political battle. We have enough "left-leaning skeptics" and "right-leaning skeptics", even some "neutral skept
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by alganet 1y ago
> "Essentially, we show the model a full transcript of a psychological experiment from a participant — everything they were told, have seen and have done" Sounds inefficient and primitive. Tarot readers can do it with just a fe
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by alganet 1y ago
I mean more generally, in the sense that all public executive firings done to increase stock value (or prevent it from falling) are not that different from sacrificial cults.
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by alganet 1y ago
In theory, HN should be easily manipulatable. Why should I automatically trust it as a representative of what the crowd thinks? You should open (at least) two threads in your mind. In one of them, it is a representative of what some crowd
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by alganet 1y ago
Is this another case of "may this sacrifice appease the rain gods and bring forth a good harvest"?
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by alganet 1y ago
Having used it in the past, I can firmly say it performs better than regex.
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by alganet 1y ago
I could be mistaken, but this is the industry currently dominated by vacuum cleaners that mostly serve as cat beds, isn't it? So, disrupting it, is making whatever gizmo sells more than a vacuum cleaner. Sounds very important and high
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by alganet 1y ago
You're clearly confused. Doing these rethoric stunts is not something to be proud of.
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by alganet 1y ago
Why should I be disappointed? I just made a charlatan do a bozo stunt to try to get out of a corner.
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by alganet 1y ago
Coprolalia (either voluntarily, by satire, or as a suggested mechanism) is an appropriate response to both my exxagerated analysis (I did provide a quick summary in the beginning though) and _also_ in tone with the idea of charlatanism (in
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by alganet 1y ago
You missed the point. I made an analogy, you missed the point about the analogy. -- It seems that you're interpreting the oil analogy as a reference to belief, or culture more generally. But I said right there at the top, it's not
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by alganet 1y ago
Nice, then I don't need the mysterious aesthetics of some old thinker to project wisdom. I can live by what relates to me in a more experience-oriented sense.
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by alganet 1y ago
What are you talking about, bro? What I said has nothing to do with old rituals, culture cross-polination or nothing of that.
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by alganet 1y ago
I'm like "don't buy snake oil" and people answer like "did you know oil does not mix with water? There is canola oil, and linseed oil, soy oil..." Sounds like you're actually trying to help the snake oil s
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by alganet 1y ago
You're putting up a show for others to read. So am I. Mine is designed to discourage people from trusting charlatans. I said it from the very beginning, quite honestly. I don't need to be right, and people don't need to follo
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by alganet 1y ago
Thanks for the interesting historical additions. I am not, however, approaching this from a political perspective. What I said applies to Indian, Japanese, Native American, even Abrahamic and possibly many others. All of these have been use
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by alganet 1y ago
Looks like you got offended then. Calling skeptics bullies is very common, I am used to it. I stated my intentions from the very beginning, I'm not challenging the wisdom, I'm challenging potentially charlatan ways of applying it.
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by alganet 1y ago
I'm not offended at all. Perhaps you have good intentions, but some people don't. Overselling material is typical of charlatans ("you should read more, and go through me to interpret it"). I'm just providing a gener
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by alganet 1y ago
What are you even talking about? A nasty SEO company with vast resources could create thousands of accounts, even if they have an entry fee, if it determines that the entry fee is cheaper than the value they would get by spamming.
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by alganet 1y ago
Knowledge can be a trap. Do I need this knowledge? I have a limited life. There's only so many books I can read. Why should I guide my attention using a random substack post?
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by alganet 1y ago
We brazillians have a popular saying: "muito cacique pra pouco índio" (a rough translation would be "too many shamans for too few tribesmen"). It's used as a criticism when too many people want to be at the helm. I
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by alganet 1y ago
That's not the point. Why should I take citations from an old text in a blog post on how to apply it to the 21st century at face value? The answer is: I shouldn't.
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by alganet 1y ago
Why is it false? Please focus on the context. We're discussing an ideological text for supposed aspiring leaders (the text self-describes as it, which I highlighted). What compelled you to criticize the ruling class in this discussion?

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