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by avoutos 1y ago
As someone who does not buy into the ai doom, I'd like to understand your position better. Do you believe doom will come about from a malevolant asi or an asi that cannot understand human thinking and thus unintentionally causes disast
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by avoutos 1y ago
There's a plugin that can do this. It is a little rough around the edges but can extract references from the pdf and search semantic scholar / crossref with decent reliability. https://github.com/MuiseDestiny/
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by avoutos 1y ago
This tool might be useful for quick one-off referencing, but I feel that most will probably be better off using a proper citation manager like the open-source Zotero.
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by avoutos 1y ago
> Those $10-15 mil are given to politicians and the billions are spent from US tax payers money. regardless of where the money comes from, my point was that money is not enough compared to the rest to claim that Israel has "bought&q
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by avoutos 1y ago
Das Boot's soundtrack also takes the cake for me. Just compare the main title themes for Das Boot and Red October; both are good, but Das Boot's make you feel like you are in a submarine. The combination of synths, mechanical soun
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by avoutos 1y ago
My experience has been similar. I can't escape the feeling that these LLMs are weighted down by their training data. Everything seems to me generically intelligent at best.
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by avoutos 1y ago
idk to what extent the claim is true, but off the top of my head Britain's GCHQ discovered public key cryptography but for some reason kept it under wraps and made no use of it after WWII. It was only found out years after it was redi
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by avoutos 1y ago
The Iran deal was far from perfect, especially taking into account the ancillary payments to Iran. I find it hard to believe that the oil-rich country of Iran is interested in nuclear energy for purely altruistic means. https://a
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by avoutos 1y ago
Preventing Iran from having a nuke is IMO a good way of preserving peace. The allies tried appeasment and most historians agree that approach was one of the main causes of WWII.
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by avoutos 1y ago
Netanyahu may exaggerate the imminence of an Iranian nuke, but the reason Iran hasn't built a nuke is because Israel has been repeatedly setting Iran back in its progress over the years. https://apnews.com/article/
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by avoutos 1y ago
To say that Israel has fully captured the American government is ridiculous. Pro-Israel spending is a fraction of all political spending. take aipac, which barely scratches the top 10 of single-issue focused organizations. Aipac donated 43
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by avoutos 1y ago
aipac is a middle-of-the-pack spender at best.
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by avoutos 1y ago
The data doesn't seem to support this claim. Israel has not "bought" any Presidents. Even assuming all pro-israel spending comes from the government of Israel and not from say U.S. groups that support Israel, it is a fraction
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by avoutos 1y ago
> Someone in the republican party decided "guys, advocating for slavery openly doesn't go over well It was the Democratic party that historically supported slavery and opposed the civil rights movement. The "states rights&