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by bccdee 1y ago
No, that's not true. Quick, what's 51 plus 92? Now: Did you think back to a time someone else added these numbers together, or are you doing it yourself, right now, in your head? I'm sure it's not the first time these nu
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by bccdee 1y ago
Why would that be the case? If anything, each successive generation of AI tools gets easier to use and requires less prompt fiddling. I picked up Cursor and was comfortable with it in 20 minutes. I'm not sure there's much of a ski
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by bccdee 1y ago
A model that provably engages in systematic, difficult-to-detect plagiarism must itself be considered plagiaristic.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Getting stuck in traffic is a terrible experience because you're almost entirely helpless. The only choice you have is whether or not to complain. Complaining can be very cathartic, but it can also get you down. If you can't help
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by bccdee 1y ago
Why would they spend money on a frivolous case they have no chance of winning? Lawyers, dragon or no, are expensive, and people in prison don't exactly make money. Conversely, abuse of prisoners is endemic in America. I find this all e
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by bccdee 1y ago
Because, unlike humans, LLMs reliably reproduce exact excerpts from their training data. It's very easy to get image generation models to spit out screenshots from movies.
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by bccdee 1y ago
> harbor as many people as possible who have no agency' > Art, science, exploration. I don't know, take your pick What's the point of art, then? Consuming art isn't "agentic," and the point of producing i
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by bccdee 1y ago
This is just slavery fanfiction. Mentally ill, uncooperative slaves would more likely have been killed to "send a message" to the others, and I expect functional addiction would be encouraged for manual labourers so long as it did
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Will you steal from me to help them? Oh, like Robin Hood? I assume you're talking about taxes, but even literal theft in this context is the stuff of heroic folktales.
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by bccdee 1y ago
> Considering how every attempt of communism has turned out People make too much of ideology. "Communism" was the table stakes for getting the USSR to support your government during the 20th century, in the same way that "
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by bccdee 1y ago
Yes, at least proximately. If you walked up to anyone on the street and asked them, "should we help desperate people," they'd say yes. This isn't even controversial.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Perhaps… but for a couple decades after the Berlin wall fell, it had sorta seemed like we (collectively) were figuring it out. Granted, 9/11 damaged that narrative, but that was "barbarians" attacking "civilization.&qu
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by bccdee 1y ago
I say I "just find it strange" because I was hesitant to tar Norman Yarvin with the same brush I'd use for his brother. Curtis Yarvin is a freak, but I figured it would be entirely possible that his brother was just a normal
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by bccdee 1y ago
> AI is scaling the creation side of knowledge work at an exponential rate Why do people keep saying things like this? "Exponential rate"? That's just not true. So far the benefits are marginal at best and limited to relat
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by bccdee 1y ago
Good article, but very weird to scroll to the bottom and see "(c) Norman Yarvin" at the bottom. Curtis Yarvin's brother wrote this. I don't have an opinion about that, I just find it strange.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Reducing car use is the best way to avoid crashes. Practically any other means of transportation is safer. You can save lives simply by making it harder for the average person to get a car.
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by bccdee 1y ago
Generally, yes. Is this just an argument against safety precautions? "Who needs seat belts and airbags? A well-disciplined defensive driver simply won't crash."
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by bccdee 1y ago
They cite Gleam explicitly, which has a thrush operator in place of method chaining. I get the impression (though I haven't checked) that the thrush operator is a backport of OOP-style method chaining to functional languages that don&#
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by bccdee 1y ago
...an AI agent can independently patch your debugger to modify the semantics? Wow that's crazy. Incidentally, have you ever considered investing in real estate? I happen to own an interest in a lovely bridge which, for personal reasons
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by bccdee 2y ago
Realism doesn't mean doing nothing. It means taking a critical attitude toward your own strategies for effecting change. > but doing nothing and expecting things to get better on their own isn't going to work either Isn't
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by bccdee 2y ago
False dichotomy. "Either the system is perfect or it is useless." No: systems can have mixed results, and they can be improved. Even when they can't be improved, they can be replaced by better (but still imperfect) systems. Y
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by bccdee 2y ago
> If it bothers you enough, you’re supposed to create your own party. Yeah, and that party wouldn't get any seats. I'm sorry, how did we go from "the state IS the population" to "well if your policy preferences f
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by bccdee 2y ago
> A state is its population. Oh that's not true at all. A state is an institution which is influenced by its population, but if anything, the attitudes of the population are more a product of the state, its constituent political par
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by bccdee 2y ago
You can map the availability of pornography to a rise in risky sex practices like choking. This isn't a problem inherent to pornography itself—rather, it's a factor of inadequate sex ed combined with the commonplace irresponsible
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by bccdee 2y ago
> Early porn exposure goes hand in hand with the problems we see typified in the recent Netflix movie Adolescence There's really no evidence of this. I find it much more plausible that the boom in misogynistic radicalism is caused b
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by bccdee 2y ago
The point of a protest march is that it takes place in infrastructure that people need to use for other stuff & that it's hard to ignore. It's not just the expression of a political opinion, it's a form of activism—a wa
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by bccdee 2y ago
This whole article has a really weird tone. > She handed me her MacBook silently and the look on her face said it all. Fix my computer, geek, and hurry up about it. > [...] > Normally when someone spouts this rubbish I just nod a
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by bccdee 2y ago
> No, murder is not comparable to advertising. Sure it is. You made a sweeping statement about services in a market; those are both services subject to market forces. You say (supposing for the sake of argument that advertising is as har
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by bccdee 2y ago
> What is the alternative to advertising, for capturing human attention? Unsponsored product reviews, I suppose. I'm not a proponent of a complete ban on advertising—I just find the argument being made in favour of deregulation to b
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by bccdee 2y ago
> natural market by default, meaning you must use brutal authoritarianism to disrupt it entirely Ok? If that's how we define "brutal authoritarianism," I guess I'm a brutal authoritarian. There's a natural market

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