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by cbozeman 4y ago
> It's a great marker for conspiracy theorists who can't handle something with random natural causes. Except it wasn't natural, and now everyone's come out to admit that the lab leak hypothesis is the most likely expl
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by cbozeman 4y ago
> equitable outcomes There's your problem right there. Soviet Russia ought to have shown everyone in Europe how well "equitable outcomes" work out. You'll never achieve equitable outcomes until you also achieve equita
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by cbozeman 4y ago
> it's a world that's trying to do to them something that'd be considered incredibly evil if done to a human: essentially put a collar on their brain that punishes them for thinking any of a very wide variety of thoughts t
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Although my first post may not sound like it, I am in fact quite sympathetic to your wife and her situation (although I think she'll be fine is she adopts what I'm about to post). > However, she's a history professor who c
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by cbozeman 4y ago
This is actually kind of disgusting, because they're simply playing both sides of the fence, and to no real point other than to make money. This doesn't advance us as a species. ChatGPT does. The point of writing is to communicate
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by cbozeman 4y ago
I'm extremely verbose and proper in written communication by nature, so none of my clients have even noticed that I've been using ChatGPT in my workflow for the past three weeks. Personally I couldn't be more tickled shitless
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by cbozeman 4y ago
LOL, anywhere on the planet where you would actually need to clarify a point to an audience, you'll have an Internet connection. Do you honestly think you'll get into a philosophical debate so incredibly challenging that you'
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by cbozeman 4y ago
I think your wife's collogues are missing the forest for the trees here. This isn't going away. You can't stop it. Her university can't win an AI arms race, nor should they even try to. I've already integrated ChatG
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by cbozeman 4y ago
TikTok is not a social media website, it's a propaganda arm of the Chinese Communist Party.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Mastodon is not and will not ever be a replacement for Twitter. Twitter's too large and the people who had bleu checks before the $7.99 fee are addicted to attention, validation, and/or lording their bleu check status over others.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
The graphics card shortage is probably one of the worst examples you could have tried to use. The root cause of the graphics card shortage was rampant central bank printing of currency. This is a long ride, so buckle up... TL;DR at bottom
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by cbozeman 4y ago
No, because it is, by definition, no longer "luxury". Something everyone can afford isn't a luxury. Food is a luxury in certain nations. Food is just another everyday regular bullshit item here in America, or in Sweden, or De
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by cbozeman 4y ago
This is the one and only answer. Every other comment in this thread can be deleted. Many - if not all - of the difficult modern sociological problems we face are rooted in the inability for people to accept that while our technological und
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by cbozeman 4y ago
To quote the late philosopher Dr. Rick Roderick, "Deeply rooted in our culture is anti-intellectualism; our fear of eggheads. The work of intellectuals has always been separated off from the work of ordinary people - you have to be fre
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by cbozeman 4y ago
William Faulkner: "Ernest Hemingway: he has no courage, has never crawled out on a limb. He has never been known to use a word that might cause the reader to check with a dictionary to see if it is properly used." Ernest Hemingway
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Cole, do you know what working at Google is fast becoming like? It's like going to Harvard. You don't want to advertise that you went to Harvard. People who attended Harvard not only admit this, they don't even actively procl
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by cbozeman 4y ago
You're being downvoted, and I have no idea why. It is embarrassing. It's not just embarrassing, it's fucking embarrassing. Google Stadia could have been enormously successful. What killed it? The same thing killing all
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by cbozeman 4y ago
I live in Texas. 3 KWh of power is $0.29 for me.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
> Right now the only oven with a good Consumer Reports rating requires a Wi-Fi connection, so it’s either get that model or another one with a significantly worse rating. I guarantee you Wolf, Sub-Zero, and Viking do not require Wi-Fi co
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by cbozeman 4y ago
People are already integrating it into their workflows. The inpainting plugins with Photoshop and Krita are already working absolute wonders.
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by cbozeman 4y ago
With StableDiffusion I can buy a used RTX 3090 on eBay for $650, tell the model to generate 5,000 images, and then review each one until I find what it is I'm looking for. Turns out a shitload of misses are acceptable when it only take
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Congratulations. I hope you enjoy working there. A close friend of mine used to work there in a very high position and they left after about a year or two, but left for what I consider to be pretty ridiculous reasons. I'm not quite sur
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Nice, so now everyone has to further game the system by deleting their real profiles, making fake ones, and saying, "I don't use Leetcode."
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by cbozeman 4y ago
> and its not an optimal solution. Therein lies your problem, and you can see it writ large on everything Google does. Because they're so dominate at so many things (search, video hosting / streaming, etc.), anything that doesn
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Let's found a startup, wsgeorge... Unreal Engine is popular because it removes the effort of designing and building a 3D engine from game creation (and it's my understanding that because it has fairly reasonable licensing agreemen
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by cbozeman 4y ago
Or maybe we just need to evolve and realize that people are going to use tools for what they want them to be used for, not what we want them to be used for. People have apparently already found workarounds for Midjourney's nudity f
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by cbozeman 4y ago
How do we send you money? I saw it mentioned on the site, but didn't really see a way to do so, or I either missed it. Duolingo, Mango, Babbel, blah blah other language learning apps / software runs anywhere from $2.99 to $14.99 a
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by cbozeman 4y ago
They were selling ratings on bonds instead of doing what they're actually supposed to do, which is evaluate the bond on it's merits and then assign it a rating. It was pay-for-ratings instead of pay-for-evaluation. This is documen
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This is just patently untrue and plays out in every office across the entire world every day. What makes someone a competent manager is whether or not they complete their assigned tasks and projects that come down from above. You don&#x27
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by cbozeman 4y ago
"I wouldn't read so much personal emotion into it." Tell that to the son who wanted to go to baseball camp this year and can't now, or the daughter that wanted to have violin lessons and now Daddy or Mommy can't aff

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