amenhotep

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by amenhotep 1y ago
This is what I noticed before deciding it seemed too much like AI to be worth reading more: "Well, here's the thing not enough people talk about: we're giving these tools god-mode permissions. Tools built by people we've
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What a lovely framing that is. Since time immemorial our right to vote without having to present papers was prized and protected and caused no appreciable problems whatsoever. Then, finally, in one of these inevitable spasms of authoritaria
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That's a cute story. I asked ChatGPT to suggest "a topic for a midterm essay that addresses our relationship to technology", since that was all the information he gave us. It came up with: The Double-Edged Sword: How Technolo
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There's the dampening effect of private equity and reputation arbitrage to consider. If you build a company around steadfast refusal to profitmaxx, potential acquirers who are willing to apply these techniques can financially engineer
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That's not a requirement. Pigpen is a substitution cipher.
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I don't think it even needs to be that organised; the extremely online right wing love that kind of thing and would probably do it entirely organically.
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> The sources it provides when it decides to use RAG are there more for instilling confidence in the answer instead of encouraging their users to check its work. This is an insightful point. I had an exchange with someone on the internet
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I'm sure that showing ourselves as happy to be bullied into paying to give up territory by legal action and negative news will in no way give anyone else ideas about what might be a good way to get stuff they want from us
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How? We don't know gods exist. We know beings with technology and agency living on planets in space exist. There seems nothing at all similar between the two explanations.
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I choose to believe that all of the movies and TV shows showing Americans pouring a handful of pills out of a bottle into their hands and throwing them in their mouths (then chewing them!!!) are 100% accurate to life rather than cinematic s
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He never actually mentions LLMs once. It is explicitly a post about a hypothetical implicitly artificial being with 300 IQ that can communicate at 10,000x speed. LLMs are an interesting background to this as an illustration of how people mi
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ffmpeg -i in -ss start -to end out is wrong and bad? You can -ss before -i? TIL!
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That's a comment by an LLM, I'm afraid :)
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JJ can be configured to use meld for what I think you mean, although I'm not quite au fait enough with version control to be sure. Not as frictionless as being able to do it in VSC but meld is nice and open source.
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Because, as someone living in the UK, the only way people here are going to realise what's going on and apply meaningful pressure to the government is if these organisations force us to. And because once they've given up on one co
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There's no usage of try and where try to wouldn't fit perfectly well and mean exactly the same thing. It's a weird construct with weird restrictions on how it can be applied grammatically, but it's not different in usage
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These are all just different constructions that are related to "try and" only by coincidence. The fact that a different construction looks similar to a grammatically incoherent one by coincidence doesn't make the incoherent o
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You'd spend years firing pellets in advance of the voyage, on the same trajectory but moving a little slower than the ship you plan to launch. Time it all so you catch up with the first of them just as you want to start decelerating.
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Recommendation: The Doomsday Book. Connie Willis. Heartbreaking.
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It's a slightly jargony way to say "it isn't worth it to me", which is totally fine. Come on.
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Ah, well, that's an important element of kayfabe. They've all agreed to keep up this charade that they're using harmful and dangerous as we actually mean them, so it looks better if you really commit to the bit!
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For "harmful" and "dangerous" in these types of papers, replace "embarrassing to the relevant corporation". Then they all make much more sense.
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The "you wouldn't download a car" argument made with a straight face. Remarkable.
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They said "theocracy with nukes screams nuke them first". If this is true - and it is their stated position - then, since Israel has nukes, either they are not a theocracy or they are begging to be nuked. The commenter has, I thin
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Seriously. I'm so jealous of people who only need to do things that are so tractable that splitting them creates a series of microtasks that are all easy, rather than a series of distracting trivialities that mean nothing without actu
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Supreme court judges are nominated by (theoretically) democratically elected presidents and (theoretically) confirmed by democratically elected senators. Their power is ultimately derived from a democratic mandate, even if it's insulat
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No.
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He looks awful in a suit!
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Regulatory burdens on fission account for negative externalities to an arguably overzealous degree, whereas fossil fuel energy has been until recently allowed to completely ignore them. Doesn't seem like a fair comparison.
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I tried this, the suggestion below, and some other questions (in a fresh chat each time) and it never once showed any sign of behaviour other than expected, a complete blank slate. The only thing it knew about me was what preferences I&#x27

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