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by avalys 8mo ago
Yeah, if you haven't used a social network for years, and nor do your friends, and you log in to the social network, you get pretty trash content. This shouldn't be surprising.
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by avalys 8mo ago
This looks like the controls for a very stylish Italian delivery van. Not an exotic sports car.
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by avalys 8mo ago
What is an example of such a condition?
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by avalys 8mo ago
Ridiculous nonsense. Boycott Fedex because of a $2.3M delivery contract with ICE? Cancel Spectrum internet because there is an ICE field office in Texas that uses them? Cancel Comcast because they provide cable TV? Unsubscribe from Netflix
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by avalys 8mo ago
Firing a bunch of ineffective managers because they can easily be replaced by AI seems like a net improvement to me.
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by avalys 9mo ago
You can measure my productivity by how slouched I am. Sitting up straight at my desk, chair locked, perfect posture? I’m doing nothing, maybe looking through System Preferences to change the system highlight color. Sliding down in my chair
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by avalys 9mo ago
This article is AI slop.
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by avalys 9mo ago
This is a great example of how patronizing policies developed by intellectual authorities backfire in the real world. The premise is, the general population is too stupid to do the right thing themselves and need to be reminded of the droug
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by avalys 9mo ago
No! What a disaster. Enforce the costs of externalities as close to the source as possible. If electricity costs more money charge more money for electricity. Don’t add some “regulation” to force end users to pay more based on your estimate
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by avalys 9mo ago
Not obvious to me that this is worse or as user-hostile as many seem to presume. Previously the blue background made the ad result look more highlighted and more prominent. Now it is just like the other results - not special or better. Yes,
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by avalys 9mo ago
This is much less interesting than the headline suggests. 1.5 times background levels, of a single very long-lived isotope, is not much of an increase. This doesn’t indicate that there has been a recent undisclosed accident or other newswor
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by avalys 9mo ago
I don’t see the supposed hypocrisy of mocking the absurd and incompetent ways in which downsizing is handled, yet acknowledging that it is sometimes a net benefit to carry out.
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by avalys 9mo ago
In one example, AWS has two options for automatic deletion of objects in S3 buckets that are versioned. "Expire current versions" means that the object will be automatically deleted after some period. "Permanently delete non-
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by avalys 9mo ago
That’s not how courts and laws work. If you cheat and use other illegal factors to compute a premium for each person, and then create an AI model that effectively looks up your illegally calculated premium of each person by their location,
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by avalys 9mo ago
All we can do is share anecdotes here, but I have found ChatGPT to be confidently incorrect about important details in nearly every question I ask about a complex topic. Legal questions, question about AWS services, products I want to buy,
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by avalys 9mo ago
Why not? If the only factors allowed to be used in settings premiums are age, location and smoking status, then those are the only parameters that could be input to an AI model, no?
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by avalys 9mo ago
Not really a catastrophe, more like “problem”.
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by avalys 9mo ago
Yeah, I’ve used a sheet of paper as a ruler too... As regards metric/A* paper sizes, it seems like just a coincidence that this scheme resulted in a standard size that is useful for everyday documents, since it only works for powers of
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by avalys 9mo ago
"The anti-sycophancy turn seems to mask a category error about what level of prophetic clarity an LLM can offer. No amount of persona tuning for skepticism will provide epistemic certainty about whether a business idea will work out,
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by avalys 9mo ago
If the “moat” is not AI technology itself but merely sufficient other lines of business to deploy it well, then that’s further evidence that venture investments in AI startups will yield very poor returns.
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by avalys 9mo ago
I’m not saying that no company will ever have an advantage. But with the pace of advances slowing, even if others are 6-12 months behind OpenAI, the conclusion is the same. Personally I find GPT 5.2 to be nearly useless for my use case (whi
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by avalys 9mo ago
AI is going to be a highly-competitive, extremely capital-intensive commodity market that ends up in a race to the bottom competing on cost and efficiency of delivering models that have all reached the same asymptotic performance in the sen
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by avalys 10mo ago
I worked with a guy that operated like this, a technical expert in a very specialized domain. You'd ask him a question - he'd just stare at you in silence for 60s or more, and then give a very well-considered answer that you could
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by avalys 10mo ago
Most of his reasons are related to “you have to deal with crazy people who focus their crazy on you”. Tim Ferris is known for somewhat hyperbolic self-help content. He talks about the millions of people who follow him or consume his content
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by avalys 10mo ago
In what sense is a sale to Amazon “worrying” compared to bankruptcy?
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by avalys 10mo ago
I’m not sure you’re drawing the right conclusion. It’s possible that Gruber’s regular sources know who Lemay is and just never talked about him much.
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by avalys 10mo ago
Volcanic ash is particularly bad because it is so abrasive, having been freshly formed without any opportunity for erosion to smooth it down like regular dust.
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by avalys 10mo ago
Personally I’m looking forward to a nearby supernova or giant meteor impact!
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by avalys 11mo ago
The most recent hilarious example of this was a British newspaper that contacted “Bill DeBlasio” by email for comment on the NYC mayor election (Bill de Blasio is a former mayor of NYC), without ever verifying (or apparently, even asking) t
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by avalys 11mo ago
Aren’t there some lightweight wrapper libraries now that make this a bit cleaner?

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