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briangriffinfan
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1y ago
I'm willing to believe those two dishes represent a wide set of skills and knowledge that would generalize to being a generally skillful cook.
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1y ago
50% is my personal threshold for a discount going from not worth it to worth it.
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1y ago
I get more and more exhausted every time I see the, to give a hyperbolic comparison, "The momentum generated by our economy of scale means we really have no choice but to keep the orphan-crushing machine going." I may be an old ma
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1y ago
An acute memory will remember this happening with basically every chatbot trained on text scraped from the internet, before they had to explicitly program them to avoid doing that.
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1y ago
How do you point out to someone that they're doing this in a way they won't just like... knee-jerk deny and reverse? Is there no solution and this is ultimately a sign of bad-faith discussion? It feels more and more likely...
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1y ago
That reminds me of when I worked at Kroger.
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1y ago
Promise?
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1y ago
After mulling this issue over in my head for a significant amount of time, I've determined that I don't care and he sounds more natural.
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1y ago
Well... define "thought."
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1y ago
It's one thing to just say something nice ought to be a right, and it's another to put it into a rigorous law that will last us indefinitely and have sprawling effects on a lot of different areas while we make sure it doesn't
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1y ago
There's something that feels tremendously off to me about these defenses which are to the effect of "What's so wrong with this? In principle, there's nothing saying a human couldn't also make one of these errors.&qu
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1y ago
It's annoying in the same way gish gallopping is annoying: you're giving me nothing except resistance in a way you've formulated to appear as though it's in good faith, even though it's not.
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1y ago
> Just as it does when humans write drivel by hand. I see this a lot in AI discussions - it can, at best, do what we do at a level we'd consider "good enough." It can write mediocre slop just as well as the most mediocre o
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It seems there's always a line able to be drawn from a view one disagrees with to the harm that is caused by not contradicting them, and in my experience this does not correlate with how harmful contradiction of the initial view actual
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I notice this idea repeatedly popping up, that "content made by humans" is more-or-less equivalent to content generated by genAI inasmuch as genAI can "in theory" (in some sense) create the same thing a human could and s
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1y ago
One requires a better reason than simply because they were told that their skepticism is unsubstantiated.
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1y ago
This is already brilliant! I feel like giving myself a discrete math refresher.
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1y ago
You're so sarcastic I have no choice but to believe you.