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by avazhi 11mo ago
Haven’t they done exactly this several times already? Edit: Yep. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-02463-w It’s happened at least 5 times.
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by avazhi 11mo ago
Man. I’d pay actual money to be able to just install security updates and nothing else indefinitely for this pile of shit. Really does suck that 90% of my workflow on my Windows PC remains Windows-only.
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by avazhi 11mo ago
TIL Apple has an AI Chief
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by avazhi 11mo ago
Nope.
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by avazhi 11mo ago
Good. I like Cook but he’s not what Apple needs, at least not now. Time to go back to somebody closer to Steve in terms of artistic vision and obsessive commitment to the customer experience.
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by avazhi 11mo ago
Anti-child porn activists really are a unique new breed of fascist authoritarians. This is only the latest in a long line of outrageous and comical threatening letters where the recipient’s apparent reticence to comply with a takedown reque
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by avazhi 1y ago
The em dash is just one of a group of traits that make something obviously written by a bot. If you use em dashes in conjunction with good writing then nobody will give a shit.
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by avazhi 1y ago
I think for me I’m just going to accept that I won’t be reading any modern fiction, likely ever. It isn’t like there isn’t more than I could read in multiple lifetimes already out there that is pre, say, 2010. But the other side is that fic
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by avazhi 1y ago
Writing is thinking, so they necessarily outsourced their thinking to an LLM. As far as the quality of the writing goes, that’s a separate question, but we are nowhere close to LLMs being better, more creative, and more interesting writers
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by avazhi 1y ago
If you can’t understand the irony inherent in getting an LLM to write about LLM brainrot, itself an analog for human brainrot that arises by the habitual non use of the human brain, then I’m not sure what to tell you. Whether it’s a tsunami
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by avazhi 1y ago
“Studying “Brain Rot” for LLMs isn’t just a catchy metaphor—it reframes data curation as cognitive hygiene for AI, guiding how we source, filter, and maintain training corpora so deployed systems stay sharp, reliable, and aligned over time.
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by avazhi 1y ago
That’s a pretty awful likeness of Jobs at any age.
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by avazhi 1y ago
Ok? That doesn’t diminish in any way his technological and industrial accomplishments.
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by avazhi 1y ago
Legit I have no clue why I’m seeing news of a run-of-the-mill celebrity’s death on HN.
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by avazhi 1y ago
Overwatch, Guild Wars 2, Valorant. ??? Oh right. ‘Except for games with anti cheats’ - so like, at least half the market lol, and more than 90% of games by game time.
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by avazhi 1y ago
Yeah, this is a press F to doubt kind of situation, for many reasons: frontal cortex not developed, Broca’s and Werneke’s areas not developed, sounds not transmitting through a belly and through amniotic fluid into an undeveloped auditory c
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by avazhi 1y ago
> and gaming on linux is rapidly becoming usable. I hate Microsoft and Windows just as much as the next self-respecting nerd, but this is no less a lol right now than it was 20 years ago. It’s like Linux users all play the same 15 titles
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by avazhi 1y ago
‘May have flaws’ would be the accurate title but that wouldn’t get CNBC the clicks. Crying about being unable to audit a propriety system isn’t the same thing as demonstrating that the system itself is flawed.
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by avazhi 1y ago
> New York Times story which cites anonymous officials, “speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation”. That’s not a thing, that’s not a valid reason to grant anonymity under normal journalistic principles S
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by avazhi 1y ago
Looking at this webpage I realise I am absolutely no longer part of Apple’s demographic for MacOS. I couldn’t care less about any of these new features. I was hoping the UI would be improved but it’s just a diabolical clusterfuck. Hard pass
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by avazhi 1y ago
Wasn’t this sequoia?
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by avazhi 1y ago
> the US Government is making the decisions they are in order to crush the population into submission. Now we have what you're really trying to get at here: some tinfoil hat conspiratorialising where the US government is out to mind
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by avazhi 1y ago
I mean, if we're talking about intention then yes there's a huge difference, that's the entire point. But more to the point, your example is (as I'm sure you know) laughably simplistic. Cigarettes and PFAS play a probabi
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by avazhi 1y ago
If I run a business that produces pollution through a pair of smokestacks, and I know that the pollution is harmful and will give a few of the surrounding residents lung cancer, is that the same thing as intending that they will get the can
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by avazhi 1y ago
What does their perspective have to do with whether the distinction is real or not? It's a matter of logic and also a matter of what is most likely to be true. The language used is obviously in relation to the rather important legal di
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by avazhi 1y ago
> or they want people to get sick and die. Actually this is what he said, and what I was referring to.
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by avazhi 1y ago
> or they want people to get sick and die. This is the part I've been referring to from the original comment. Also, once again, you should be careful how you use intention here. Even in the case where they knew about the harms or th
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by avazhi 1y ago
You told me to go read a satirical work of fiction to understand why real life executives might make certain decisions. This is like telling me to read Lord of the Rings to understand, by analogy, what insert politician you hate here is t
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by avazhi 1y ago
They did cover it up. But there was no evidence that they used PFAS in order to make people sick, which is what the original commenter said. There's a massive difference.
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by avazhi 1y ago
Ok? No shit? That's not the same thing as literally trying to make people sick, as the original commenter said and as I was replying to initially. Being negligent is not the same thing as being malicious; intent matters. Even if I try

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