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by bbor 2y ago
Disney 'hides' unsightly objects in its parks using specially developed paint I mean... yeah. All paint is specially developed to be a specific color. That's kinda the whole point of paint! I love me some applied psyc
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by bbor 2y ago
What does “no bot” mean? I don’t see any elaboration, tho maybe I’m just blind!
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by bbor 2y ago
All these comments, and not a single person wondering what exactly a "shampooer" is... IMO that's an easter egg to see if we're paying attention!
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by bbor 2y ago
Yup. If you disagree that's fine, I'm 99% sure you just disagree about the words -- it's time to take up whatever "real" democracy means to you! A democracy where increased productivity doesn't make people worr
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by bbor 2y ago
Hey, I'm definitely on your side of the Great AI Wars--and definitely share your thoughts on the overall framing--but I think you're missing the serious nature of this contribution: 1. Small correction, it's actually a whole
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by bbor 2y ago
That's an interesting juxtaposition. I was going to comment on another (insightful!) comment here about how "the only indigenous-majority country is Greenland" brings up just how Americas-centric (plus the commonwealth...) th
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by bbor 2y ago
Interesting metaphor, but I’m not sure you’re fully appreciating the hypothetical. The agent didn’t seem like it was going to solve a math problem, it did . Before intuitive computing, the best we could do with word problems was Wolfram-es
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by bbor 2y ago
Absolutely -- there is a whole cottage industry of people who know that LLMs are big news and decide to chime in, without ever considering that maybe this is a scientific discussion, not a cultural/"take-driven" one. Bluesky
519.
by bbor 2y ago
In what way is your mathematical talent truly you, but a python tool called by an LLM-centric agent not truly that agent?
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by bbor 2y ago
You've hit the nail on the head -- the problem is systemic, not the implied sudden lack of virtue. People job hob in our industry b/c even the giants with hundreds of billions in the bank are caught up in absurd quarter-by-quart
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by bbor 2y ago
IMO this is some quintessential false nostalgia mixed with uncritical, confirmation-bias driven cynicism. When exactly are we pointing to when we express these complaints? I get the sense that the answer is invariably either "my first
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The Guerilla Open Access Manifesto [Aaron Swartz, 2008](archive.org)
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by bbor 2y ago
Found this yesterday while reading about the Meta-LibGen debacle, and immediately thought of HackerNews. It's been a few years since it was posted (6?), so I figured it was time to re-up for my fellow Gen-Z'ers!
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by bbor 2y ago
there is no reason to read any book or research publication because you can just ask an AI to describe and quote at length from the contents of anything you might want to read I think this is the fundamental misunderstanding at the
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by bbor 2y ago
I know that this seems likely from a theoretical perspective (in other words, I would way underestimate it at the sprint planning meeting!), but A) checking each output against a regex representing a hundred years of literature would be exp
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by bbor 2y ago
…why? Will people buy less books because we have intuitive algorithms trained on old books? Personally, I strongly believe that the aesthetic skills of humanity are one of our most advanced faculties — we are nowhere close to replacing them
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by bbor 2y ago
Even without copyright there are trade secrets, not to mention trademarks and patents. Maybe we could get rid of the latter, but I think we’d need to be pretty heavily into socialist utopia before considering nixing the former two!
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by bbor 2y ago
I’m a huge IP hater and am sure that happens, but to be fair, letting copyright extend past death also increases the amount the author can sell it for in the first place.
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by bbor 2y ago
Soooo nonconsensual. Maybe bluesky is right… are we the baddies?
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by bbor 2y ago
Ok that’s actually kinda hilarious — hopefully some blogger picks up that tidbit. I bet there aren’t many people using “ai” for “automotive industry” anymore!
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by bbor 2y ago
A) Thanks for sharing your OSS with the world!! B) I'm also a little confused. Surely that domain cost(s) $$$ -- why not go with a cute "us" branding rather than "U.S."? Unless you're looking to sell in other c
532.
by bbor 2y ago
Do these services respect norobot manifests? Isn't this all kinda... illegal...? Or at least non-consensual?
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by bbor 2y ago
Eh -- IMO "empire" is used to highlight an expansionary, hierarchical regime, not just the literal old-school meaning of a single sovereign. Thus "anti-imperial" as it's used today, frequently targeting both post-mo
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by bbor 2y ago
Where were you when the empire fell? I was at my computer, trying not to cry...
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by bbor 2y ago
TBF OpenAI in particular bought access to Reddit. Otherwise yeah this is my main confusion with all of these products, Perplexity being the biggest -- how do you get around the status-quo of refusing access to bots? Just to start off with,
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by bbor 2y ago
I have never believed a conspiracy theory more instantly. Deep Search vs. DeepSeek is way more than enough to confuse the average layman! Especially when you're googling something you heard about at work a few hours ago, or on Bloomber
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by bbor 2y ago
Interesting, thanks for highlighting! Did not pick up on that. Re:"leading", tho: Effectiveness in this task environment is well beyond the specific model involved, no? Plus they'd be fools (IMHO) to only use one size of mode
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by bbor 2y ago
I’m a huge fan of this person if they’re behind the ocarina app (God, what nostalgia!) but I found this piece somewhat philosophically empty. They acknowledge that they don’t have any answers on broader philosophy of aesthetics questions (w
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by bbor 2y ago
Well solid works does things the command line can’t. After all these amazing answers, my main takeaways for “what can an IDE do better than terminal+text editor” are: 1. Debugging right in the code, rather than in an ugly terminal copy of t
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by bbor 2y ago
lol, this is a good one, made me smile! I’ve definitely met coworkers like that — you nailed the parody 100%. So ridiculously condescending, and yet so common!

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