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by balamatom 6mo ago
And Skinner's pigeons probably even believed their minds have power over random outside events!
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by balamatom 6mo ago
It's hard. Just a thought - maybe he will open up more if he feels more safe.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
To answer literally - and cryptically - how did Skinner get the rats to enter the boxes in the first place?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Thank you.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
To be clear , you say? Anyway, nice job holding someone accountable for perceiving !
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>his mom and I do. And all of our friends. And coworkers. And my boss. And his boss. And our CEO. And the fucking president. >I'm expected So, who's doing the expecting? Only half joking: do him a favor and teach him to avoi
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>You can’t hand wave away the work of interpreting (aka listening) to someone. And yet, that's what their manager did. Not only that, they precluded interpretation for the other people, by running the documentation through the langu
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Let us know how that goes, telling someone who is defending themself from you how they should "Be More Vulnerable!"
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>Perhaps you should ask the manager why he passed it through AI. Note that the manager may or may not have incentive at all to provide useful or even meaningful feedback. I mean, he did pass on an incorrect version of the documentation
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Yes exactly, why are those things the case?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
In fact, you could do this for a homeless person today , in any city on the globe! And never even ask them to do anything for you!
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>what is demand elasticity for software? NP-hard
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>I fully expect to get a call about her having ODed Guess she's still your problem then. Poor people.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Nice try. In a society where there are not enough private acts to constitute a private self, who's even caring for whom? Oh, "tending to". (As in actually failing but successfully pretending. Neato!)
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Someone just handed me a smartphone today; the second thing I saw it say was something to the effect of "Gemini can look at your screen now (CoPilot outrage style)" and then I politely noped the fuck out of the building. I expect
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by balamatom 6mo ago
RIP American democracy, we hardly knew ye.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
One word: Omelas.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Or maybe the majority of those people have crappy WordPress websites because they got some social proof that having a website equals making more money, so they scammed some freelancer out of some hours and hey presto. Then the social proof
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Nah, the majority of y'all are jocks or worse.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>only time in your life when you are surrounded by experts who will spend an hour a week answering any questions you can think of. Why is that a resource of "once-in-a-lifetime" scarcity in the first place?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
150 years later normies still risk being put in the grapecage for ingesting substances into their own bodies which serve to alter their own minds. Whose mind is it anyway, Dudley?
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>What really is a dork? Someone who might not be very smart per se, but whose mind has not yet been murdered and replaced by a sort of mandatory prosthesis made out of complex conditioned responses (after the operation, they'd be
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Maybe more like translated by slopmachine. The argument TFA makes is rather facile nonetheless. Like this stuff is intuitively known to any Ukrainian 3rd grader but not to Western business leaders? No wonder yall got an AI problem...
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Idk if written by slop or just machine-translated into slop from a language that is not as sloppy as English, but enabler mentality nonetheless: >The danger here is not the scapegoating itself; humans will scapegoat at all times. Your hu
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>Thunderbird has its own merits and they work without Firefox. Fair enough, I guess. I stand corrected.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
And where I live you can sometimes still see a horse-drawn cart on the roads. Albeit rarely - they are forbidden. 10 or 20 years ago it was more common. I rode one once a bunch of years ago, went with its owner to harvest construction mater
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by balamatom 6mo ago
>Who would you trust more? Nobody I'd mention on Hacker News!
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Correct. And yet, people are not doing it.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
Because Firefox is the only thing that lends Mozilla any credibility.
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by balamatom 6mo ago
So what if it hasn't?

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