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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
If that was your point, I don't think your previous comment did a very good job of making it at all. I do think parental controls can be and are abused for evil, but they're still better than the alternative. Zero-knowledge proof
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Disingenuous, but I'm sure you know that and were being intentionally so. The government is not using alcohol age laws as a justification to place a camera in your bedroom to make sure you aren't sneaking booze, but it is using
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
I didn't say it was "everything", whatever that even means, nor do I have any fucking clue what you're talking about with Russian gas, so I have literally no idea what argument you're even responding to. The article
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Looks LLM-generated. Was already disinclined to read it based on hatred for that style of writing alone, but it is also just extremely vapid as far as I got before giving up at this line: > Technology redistributes the existing pie. It d
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
...but is specifically reinforced into generating text that satisfies the humans training it, and therefore is innately predisposed towards approval-seeking generations.
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
They were calculated in, but the decision was made by someone who did not give a fuck about the math.
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
You are assuming that they are American and that the account is tied to their real identity and that they are not willing to take risks to state the truth. The Trump administration is already attempting to persecute critics[1], including so
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
> GenAI at fault, and nothing to do with amazon laying off 30k people GenAI is literally the direct reasoning they used for laying off 30k people. > “As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is d
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Yes, they will still support him. Republicans dying of COVID would still deny its existence on their deathbed, so you can be sure there is no consequence that is too far for them. Farmers bankrupted and people who lost jobs because of Trump
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Trump's approval rating among his base is still overwhelmingly high. They know what they were voting for, and they still support him. They know that Trump lies like he breathes, and they are perfectly fine with that . Trump supporters
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
> So do we now roll back all of the previous copyright cases where downloading music with bittorrent has been prosecuted No, because those cases were pirating-while-poor. This is pirating-while-trillion-dollar-corporation, which falls u
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
That has little to do with technological advances, just the fact that the US is at an imperial peace; ie. it is under zero threat of invasion and is currently only engaged in small-scale imperial adventurism across the globe which does not
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Certainly doesn't help that nobody made those predictions but denialists make up or intentionally misinterpret people making predictions so as to "prove" nothing is actually happening. https://www.snopes.com/f
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
You didn't make a point, and still haven't. You screeched a bunch of buzzphrases sarcastically as if that were equivalent to making a point, which is about par for the course for the level of reasoning (ie. none) shown by people w
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
I think this is a rather pertinent showcase of the danger of outsourcing your thinking to LLMs. This article strongly indicates to me that it is LLM-written, and it's likely the LLM diagnosed the issue as being a C# issue. When you don
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
What an irritating comment. Identifying bugs in code is, in fact, exactly something a stochastic parrot could do. Vulnerability research is already a massively automated industry, and there's even a very well-established term -- "
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Pakistan and North Korea have nuclear weapons. What makes you think that other countries won't develop them when push comes to shove? Right now the status quo is such that smaller countries find violating international sanctions on nuc
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
The problem is that we will not move on from WW3, and famine, water depletion, resource exhaustion etc. are all existential problems for individual countries that will cause conflicts between previously peaceful nations. At some point the n
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Knowing the quality of LLM translations between the two languages I speak, hearing it used like this by supposed academics invokes a deep despair in me. "Serviceable" is a flimsy excuse for mass-producing and publishing slop. Part
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
> they are typically dismissed because they look so weird to us. I dismiss them because Yegge's work (if it can even be called his work, given that he doesn't look at the code) is steaming garbage with zero real-world utility,
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
The real problem that OpenAI had was that their model naming was completely incomprehensible. 4.5, o3, 4o, 4.1 which is newer than 4.5. It was a complete clusterfuck. The blowback on that issue seems to have led them to misidentify the issu
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
> Imagine instead of > Now imagine > Imagine what that would do Imagine if your grandma had wheels! She'd be a bicycle. Now imagine she had an engine. She could be a motorcycle! Unfortunately for grandma, she lives in reality
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
"Awkward and bureacratic" is literally the point of naming conventions commonly adopted by democracies. Titles like "president" or "prime minister", departments like "Department of Defense", referring
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
I think a lot of HN users, living in our own PC-oriented bubble, may not have realised the world has completely passed PCs by and that smartphones are the personal computers of the current generation. While PS5 and Switch each have about
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
Or aren't trying to mod their Windows XP to look like OS X. I think your case represents an exceptional outlier among people interested in customising their OS to begin with.
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
The "general phone audience" is some 5 billion people. If even 10% of them want to play games, on what is in the current year likely to be their primary if not only computer, that's already a market segment of 500 million. It
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by applfanboysbgon 8mo ago
I got an excellent Windows gaming laptop for $900 USD. It has a beautiful 17" 144hz glare-resistant display, not an awful glossy screen that might as well be a mirror in lit environment. The workmanship is great and the keyboard has a