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by blast 2y ago
It's fascinating how perfectly this little episode fits into the fractal of Googleness: the corporate borg with no human quality at all. At least Gates and Ballmer would kick you in the balls. There was also that dystopian Apple ad abo
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by blast 2y ago
I prefer Beefheart to Zappa. Beefheart was a genius with a vision from another planet. Zappa was talented but his smugness and middle-school humor ruin it for me. His freakiness feels showy, like he's trying to prove how different and
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by blast 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdIDwYW_JZg
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by blast 2y ago
From the article: “We estimate that without wind, the butterflies could have flown a maximum of 780 km [485 miles] before consuming all their fat and, therefore, their energy.” So they can fly 485 miles without wind? that is still an unbeli
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by blast 2y ago
That (alleged) quote is disputed and unproven, and came from writers openly hostile to Assange.
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by blast 2y ago
If "he didn't take it to court" is the strongest argument that the claim is true, that seems weak to me. I'd invoke "absence of evidence is evidence of absence" in that case.
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by blast 2y ago
"he didn't sue me for libel" is not much of an argument. Most false reports don't end up in a libel suit even in the UK. I'm not saying it's false, I don't know, but the reporting on this has been hotly co
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by blast 2y ago
Assange denies having said that, according to the article linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40786073 . Is there proof that he did, such as a recording? "Willing to hand death lists to psychopaths" is
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by blast 2y ago
Daniel Ellsberg is widely considered a hero for doing that. Before he died he was arguing strongly that Assange did the same thing he did.
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by blast 2y ago
Wow. Which book?
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by blast 2y ago
Oh dear. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13058804
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by blast 2y ago
He absolutely was punching down. He used his high status to mock a low-status (in the West) ethnicity, and shamelessly used selective editing to make everyone other than himself look like a bigot and an asshole. When rightly criticized for
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by blast 2y ago
yeah I should try it, I'm just a laggard. Still though, the way that LLMs can give customized answers to complex specific questions, questions that probably don't have any specific page on the web, feels like a leveling up beyond
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by blast 2y ago
I was trying to be nice but yeah, "i'm smarter" and "i crush your skull" are not witty. There are nice twists of phrase in there though. The kid has potential!
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by blast 2y ago
I'm really wondering about this. Is it just "recycling things people have said before", or is it genuinely generative? "Recycling things people have said before" is basically search, and that is hugely valuable and
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by blast 2y ago
Oh I probably did because none of that is interesting to me. Every 5 years another crop of omg corporate drones are so awful consciousness appears, but once you've been through 3 or 4 cycles, everything new is old again. The rants aren
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by blast 2y ago
Who was that?
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by blast 2y ago
> you do not need AI for anything I'd so have preferred this to be true, and to ignore the AI thing (mainly to avoid any effort to change any of my habits in any way). But as an end user I can say that this is wrong. I definitely ne
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by blast 2y ago
> and have rage titles, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34968457 Uh yeah that's a bit like telling the same joke over and over. In fact it is the same joke.
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by blast 2y ago
I swear this particular rant style is derived from earlier writers who I've read, probably many times, but don't remember. It feels completely familiar, way more so than someone who started working in 2019 could possibly have inve
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by blast 2y ago
I was annoyed at first but I think JonChesterfield was joking
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by blast 2y ago
You don't think people make clerical errors in SEC filings? What was Sam supposed to have gained by this? The document was signed by Michael Klein and Jay Taragin (whoever they are), not Sam. But that wouldn't make much of a story
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by blast 2y ago
There are clues in the article.
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by blast 2y ago
Here was volume 1 https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/top-10-rare-an...
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by blast 2y ago
Last time we got punk rock, maybe something like that will come of it.
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by blast 2y ago
> Can you elaborate on what 'twitfuckers' means It means "twitter.com" plus "my frustration with twitter.com". > If you're signed in you'd see threads, right? I shouldn't have to sign in to
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by blast 2y ago
Oh right, the twitfuckers don't display threads anymore. Thanks.
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by blast 2y ago
I didn't see that in the OP, are you referencing some other information?
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by blast 2y ago
I'd pay to get me one of them particular IOUs.
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by blast 2y ago
What I don't understand is why they can't use AI to improve search quality. I'm sure there are tons of reasons, like institutional paralysis, but from an outside perspective it's frustrating because I'd be happy wit

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