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by birdsongs 6mo ago
For me, I find most things can be fascinating. There are so many domains I have zero personal, surface-level interest in, but have nuances that are super interesting. When someone else has that spark, and their eyes sparkle, and they beam a
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
I have no outrage, and for what it's worth, I upvoted you so your comment wasn't killed. I think you're being condescending though, and missing the point.
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
The point isn't us. You should know that. The point is the 99.8% that doesn't have our skills, and is forced into these dark patterns, by deception or psychological manipulation.
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
> From a family perspective it's bad enough if dads missing from the house for days at a time, much more catastrophic if mom's not around like that. Ah, what is so special that women bring that men can't? Neither women or
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
Can computers simulate all the laws, even theoretically? We don't have a final theory / unification of all the physics frameworks, so I'm not sure if that claim can be made. Ex: the standard model and gravity.
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
Please explain how I'm being hyperbolic?
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
Good thing I'm in Europe and not governed by those. And yes, they are- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_immigrant_detention_si...
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
> That doesn't mean it's positive in human rights Isn't the US building mass detention camps right now for all the brown people there? And arresting / detaining / demanding papers from any and everyone? With fede
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
I'm just 40, and while I won't go into it, I've lived a very long life so far. An incredible amount of joy, but also grief and pain. Memory for me, when I'm drinking my coffee in the morning, is warm and cozy in a numbin
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
Seriously. Why am I reading about this here and not via an email? I've been a paying customer for over a year now. My online news aggregator informs me before the actual company itself does?
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by birdsongs 6mo ago
> I do use it to handle task for me for a non profit I sit on the board like handle incoming emails Please don't take this the wrong way, I'm genuinely curious but also a bit in shock. Do you really let an AI agent autonomously
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Yeah, I got 2 minutes in before a "x isn't just y, it's Z " It just feels disingenuous. Put a disclaimer at the top, so at least I know. But there's not, it's the author's name. I can prompt chatgpt to wr
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Thanks for replying, I didn't want to engage in something that felt deliberately bad-faith, but you said everything I wanted to.
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
I'll give it time, perhaps the post was auto flagged from bots and mods can correct for it. Because political content is often here, and this is also a tech project as well. If it stays removed this is probably my last interaction on H
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
> but this website is just a lie What's the lie?
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Unsurprising, but we know why. :( HN is not unbiased, and not above censorship. Political things make it to the front page all the time , but this is the wrong kind of political thing. We're not supposed to talk about ----cides, a
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Yeah it was horrible. Why are we here, to watch a video feed of other people watching it live through their phones? We have 30 seconds maybe while this thing is in the local atmosphere, Jesus Christ just keep the camera on it and let us w
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted. The camera work was atrocious. It's not just frilly video, it's how the world sees it, emotionally connects to it, and grows up loving it, and wanting to support more. We had bl
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
I feel like they really fumbled the video feeds, it was a mess. Rapid shifting of camera angles as it left the pad, black video, switching to a grainy video of the crowd during booster separation, and a hasty switch back well after they sep
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
> I'm also surprised that the vast majority of the output carbon is in the form of CO2 rather than feces. Not sure if you know, but in the same vein, I was shocked when I learned ~50% of the biomass of trees is carbon (right, we kne
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Anecdotal, but me and most of my circle of women friends all love(d) BG3.
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
I really want to like the concept of Jolla / a European mobile alternative but I see no reason why they're closed source SW in 2026. Open source everything, let the community help develop, and sell your hardware (and support&#x2F
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Good of a reason as any to go google-less on my Graphene pixel, I guess. But man it sucks, mostly for all the people who can't. I can manage my financials and 2FA from my laptop, that was my last real reason to have google play install
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Agree, I also don't feel they're conscious, or close, but these arguments don't pass the smoke test for me either. We don't understand how our own consciousness exists, much less functions. You could argue we are a box o
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
> You will not wake up on any server ... I don't understand why people don't get this simple fact. Did you even read my comment? In the last paragraph I discuss this and the teletransportation paradox, and how it will not actua
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Not that I think this is anywhere close in actuality, but It's reminding me of MMAcevedo. ( https://qntm.org/mmacevedo ) What server will I wake up on? Who is running the infrastructure? What will be asked of me to be al
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Can I ask how you're so certain? The first two sentences reads human-typed to me.
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Ahhh okay, I see. Thanks!
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
> cyber security violation Would you mind expanding on this? Do you mean in the resulting code? Or a security problem on your local machine? I naively use models via our Copilot subscription for small coding tasks, but haven't gone
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by birdsongs 7mo ago
Have you tried free/automatic writing? I don't know what the term is actually, but just stream of consciousness, putting words to paper, zero filter or pause, straight from the brain. I usually start with "I don't know w

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