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by calibas 2y ago
I'm saying I personally want uncensored versions of LLMs, I'm not suggesting the government pass laws that force companies to do this. Your claim that I'm asking for more restrictions on speech is false.
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by calibas 2y ago
> the belief in the magical power of the free market always to serve the public good has no theoretical basis This needs to be repeated more often. Early on, there was this idea that free market capitalism was inherently amoral, and we h
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by calibas 2y ago
The data used to train LLMs is almost always sexist and racist, so they put special guidelines on what it's allowed to say to correct for the sexism and racism inherent in the model. Whether this counts as "suppression" is be
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by calibas 2y ago
If you want an easy solution that makes good financial sense for the companies training AIs, then it's censorship. Not training the AIs to be racist in the first place would be the optimal solution, though I think the companies would g
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by calibas 2y ago
censor (verb): to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable This is exactly what's happening, information considered objectionable is being suppressed. The correct word for that is "censorship".
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by calibas 2y ago
> It's more like they refuse to provide comfort to racists. That's still censorship though. Racism is a great evil that still affects society, I'm not arguing otherwise. It just makes me nervous when people start promotin
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by calibas 2y ago
Short answer: it's not happening yet. > A general conclusion was drawn that antimatter technology and its development for propulsion is still in its theoretical stages.
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by calibas 2y ago
That actually lends credibility as it probably wasn't written by an AI.
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by calibas 2y ago
Or call their mom...
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by calibas 2y ago
Try using chatgpt.com
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Try asking ChatGPT about "David Mayer"
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by calibas 2y ago
Buffers are there for good reason, it's extremely slow (relatively speaking) to print output on a screen compared to just writing it to a buffer. Printing something character-by-character is incredibly inefficient. This is an old probl
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by calibas 2y ago
> a tetrahedral version of the Menger sponge Better known as a Sierpiński tetrahedron, AKA the 3d version of a Sierpiński triangle.
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by calibas 2y ago
At the current rate, we'll have full module support for all of the most popular C++ libraries sometime around Apr 7th, 2618. https://arewemodulesyet.org/
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by calibas 2y ago
It could power 70k homes at full capacity. Important note, it wasn't at full capacity, and the entire county of Siskiyou is only about 40k people (not homes). Our power company, Pacific Power, said they didn't need the dam at all,
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by calibas 2y ago
A lot of the local opposition to dam removal is because of this guy specifically. Here's his article on why the toxic cyanobacteria that was in the former reservoirs is actually good for the river: https://www.siskiyou.news&
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by calibas 2y ago
I think I can explain it: Other side: 1/2 flip, 1 1/2 flips, 2 1/2 flips... Same side: 1 flip, 2 flips, 3 flips... It seems like there's equal chances, but my theory is that the 1/2 flip is the least likely thing to
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by calibas 2y ago
It's an HTML canvas, but you can give it input similar to a shading language?
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by calibas 2y ago
> General Mills has toured the country touting anti-diet research it claims proves the harms of “food shaming.” It has showered giveaways on registered dietitians who promote its cereals online with the hashtag #DerailTheShame, and spons
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by calibas 2y ago
The company that dominates the browser market also makes billions off of tracking people. That might be part of the problem.
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by calibas 2y ago
To me at least, a cop arguing that it's not safe to walk around town, is a cop saying they have failed to do their job. If our towns have actually become so dangerous recently, and that's not what the statistics say, then it seems
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by calibas 2y ago
Yes, while childhood suicide, depression and obesity rates have all been increasing. If you look at all the factors, I'm not sure there's a net benefit. Edit: I decided to look up the CDC statistics to see if there is any net bene
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by calibas 2y ago
I think this would catch on much more quickly if text editors treated the Record Separator character as a new line, and there was a special character for the Unit Separator.
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by calibas 2y ago
Why use Chromium at all? Isn't it just decoding video and sending it over a websocket?
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by calibas 2y ago
Yep, they've always happened. The Summers are very dry and hot, then the thunderstorms come... There's a number of plants that have actually evolved to take advantage of the fires.
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by calibas 2y ago
Why would anybody trust a NYT article about internal drama at the NYT? Does HN not understand bias? Compare the NYT article to other reporting, and you can see the difference. There's a few things the NYT forgot to mention, like the fa
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by calibas 2y ago
Actually, the study doesn't say that it wont happen, but that there's a 6.4 * 10^-7228454 chance of it happening before the Universe ends. That's an infinitely larger chance than 0!
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by calibas 2y ago
Here's a simple example that doesn't use React: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLObjectE...
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by calibas 2y ago
> Does not the article say that these are "declared allocated" but not yet dispersed? Not sure where you're seeing that in the article, it doesn't use that language at all. It actually directly contradicts what you&#x
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by calibas 2y ago
"The study also showed that C. elegans metabolizes BBP in the same way as mammals, and is impacted at similar BBP levels that occur in humans, suggesting that C. elegans is an effective model for studying the impacts on people."

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