coldtea

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by coldtea 4mo ago
"until"? They already do.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Because it's hate worthy. It removes jobs without, at least currently, substituting an equal amount of new jobs (and even if it did, they wouldn't apply to the same people who lost theirs. It serves for spam, public manipulation,
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> You can't fool an inanimate object You can't constrain foolability to just the animate objects. Foolability is based on intelligent processing. To what degree such an intelligence needs to be developed is not defined at all
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by coldtea 4mo ago
The burden on proof should be on "dumping hot water to a river doesn't damage its ecosystem" rather than the opposite...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> I would guess that even if datacenters dumping hot water on rivers it shouldn't have much of an impact unless the river is very small. That's the extraordinary claim. That is what should need citation, not the other way arou
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> AI and datacenters are here to stay, you can’t fight them Sounds more like a threat than something desired
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Why would a citation be needed?
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Part of the point of school however is to not let teenagers just learn only what they care about, because most of them don't care about anything except consuming and gaming and media slop.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
The best way to aura max a startup is to never use bullshit trending terms like "aura max" that will make its social media materials look as dated as bellbottoms in a year...
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> The comment you're responding to is talking about books that students will "barely understand". That's how you get to understand something you "barely understand". You dive into it, and gradually you unde
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> An average teenager, myself included, always has some better things to do than reading a huge novel, barely understanding characters' motivations, because neither of these books were ever intended for teens. Bookish teens have be
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by coldtea 4mo ago
For people who read literature, yes. But the average person in the US atm can't even read a children's book, and this includes recent college students: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024&#x
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Some technologies are more damaging than others — knives are less damaging than guns, Facebook for colleges was less damaging than Facebook for Myanmar — but we always discover risks before we know how to govern them.2 There is always
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by coldtea 4mo ago
land of the unfree
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Because they operate on untrusted input
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> A loop is when a system's output becomes its next input. That's it Not in programming speak. In it, a loop is just a repeated execution construct. No need for feedback, and no need for any accumulator either. What that descr
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> A flawed argument doesn’t mean the position is incorrect, only that the person making the argument failed. But let's skip the generic/philosophical pedantry and stick to the discussion at hand? I mean, I already argued again
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Can a 5 year old write a substantial program on spec, that passes the requirements and given tests, in a few minutes? If not, then perhaps this comparison is not the be all end all. "A ship is useless, it can't drive over land...&
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Once you buy into the AI hype, you babble like that. Yegge is an even worse example.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> the naive integration in which agents write code and humans remain the mandatory reviewers is a dead end because it neither provides meaningful assurance nor scales with AI-assisted throughput. Who said it has to "scale with AI-a
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> In the US, “unintentional poisoning deaths numbered 75,761 in 2023” So you agree that hard drugs are poison (or even worse than poison, about 75K vs about 100K deaths / year). > A single substance vs all drugs including prescr
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> no individual author really needs a language-agnostic way of accessing data beyond compile time. That's so untrue! People need language-agnostic ways to access data all the time, and people work with data accessing them from mult
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by coldtea 4mo ago
C bindings are not platform independent, nor do they come with a runtime and a sandbox, among other things. Apples to oranges.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
People rarely die from taking bleach (except when they want to). About 100,000 die annually from drugs in the US alone. And people "high" on bleach never killed or injured anybody.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> tbh that reads a bit like the war on drugs propaganda we got in school back then. Well, propaganda or not, hard drugs are bad for you.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Not that different. Still happens all the time all over the world (the west included).
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by coldtea 4mo ago
And it's trivial to learn "no u turn" and a few other basic signs as a graphic, even when you can't read them (or can't read in general). It's also trivial to do a u turn even when you can read, know what the s
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> Though it is true you don't need to be able to read to operate a vehicle, you /do/ need to be able to read to operate a vehicle safely. Not really. You just need to be able to decipher the sign, which is trivial, even i
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by coldtea 4mo ago
Not reversing on a highway doesn't require reading, just driving sense. And whole lot of people have done stupid shit like that while perfectly able to read, many even with masters and PhDs.
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by coldtea 4mo ago
> To drive a car requires being able to read Millions of people do drive who can't read. It's very common in parts of Asia, Africa, Latin America, etc, especially rural, but even in cities. There are places where oral exams an

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