antonvs

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by antonvs 5mo ago
> Your McDonald's fry cook has to come to work & clock in, so should you. Haha fuck you, no. That's your choice, don't put it on the rest of us.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
You haven't ever studied logic, I see. Look up "false dichotomy" to start with.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Given that the major COVID-19 vaccines had a significant protective effect against Long COVID, this is a particularly perverse variation on the conspiracy theory. Long COVID is much more prevalent among people who’ve experienced severe COVI
814.
by antonvs 5mo ago
Castor oil makes you poop, maybe there’s a data management metaphor in there somewhere.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> And making it hard to cancel is not just "marketing" Yes, we should be clear on this. It's fraud. What the NYT is engaging in is fraud.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
If requiring permission to generate slop like this will help reduce its prevalence, sign me up. Seriously, the article has a valid point but it's difficult to take seriously when it hasn't actually been written by a human.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> I think power producers will eventually have to combine power generation with activities that generate money separately from selling electricity. Like heavy industry, datacenters etc. This generally isn't how markets or economics
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> then you burn it and it's gone. It's not just gone. It becomes a debt that everyone has to pay.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> I know some people who are adamantly against solar and wind Compared to what? Are these people in the oil industry, by any chance?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> The purpose of LLM models is to give the illusion of answering questions while never answering why the answer was given. This is just your own idiosyncratic and biased belief. You're not describing anything objective about LLMs, y
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Quantum computers can't model reality in general. E.g. we're not going to be doing weather prediction or traffic modeling with quantum computers.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Smart TVs are the enshittification of regular TVs. An attempt to extract more money from the customer without providing a useful benefit.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
In this context it's being used in much the same way as in "growth hacking", which is an actual position people hire for.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
That description would make for a good definition of “anti-art”. Which also describes the output of LLMs.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
A big question is whose responsibility that is. The way it works in capitalist societies is that their employer fires them when it no longer needs them, and it's up to the individuals to find something else to work on. The doctrine cla
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Finally, a viable future career path for the poor TV license inspectors!
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> That's by definition not how interests work. It can be. For example, see "enlightened self interest" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightened_self-interest ), a concept that the companies in questi
828.
by antonvs 5mo ago
Perhaps, but there's only One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> The fight against AI should just be about taxing token usage. What about self-hosted models?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
I think you're in denial about the reality of the situation. The reality is that the US has been a story of increasing concentration of wealth and power. The people who "fought and died" bought some important (from a human ri
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Let me clear that up for you! First, regarding other languages, English gets this usage from its Germanic roots, and you still see that in languages like German, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian. E.g. in German, words and phrases like
832.
by antonvs 5mo ago
Your definition of "computer" is incorrect.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> kilobytes cute
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> There is nothing inevitable about tying up all of this productive capital in the pursuit of AI. In the US capitalist context, it's certainly inevitable, because AI is the biggest and most attractive source of profit and power out
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by antonvs 5mo ago
Did you just misdigit me
836.
by antonvs 5mo ago
Or just buy a mirror.
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by antonvs 5mo ago
> try to get this for free in EU And therein lies the problem. As long as people are unwilling to pay for services, the winning services will always be the most predatory ones that make their money by selling their users to other compani
838.
by antonvs 5mo ago
That's like saying "Cars are a marketing term for internal combustion engines." Clouds give you software-definable load balancers, networking, clustering, integrated systemwide security, and a boatload of managed services lik
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by antonvs 5mo ago
What were the "so many better options" during that period? Have we found the only remaining CP/M fan?
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by antonvs 5mo ago
If your quote were true, then by the Randian logic of the people who make such claims, they must deserve to do so and you shouldn't have any issue with it. But your quote certainly isn't true if you're actually talking about

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