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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
Sounds like someone in the German government has a lot of money invested in the EV industry then, eh? I constantly hear about Germany forcing private industry to change. It sounds like absolute hell to live there. If there's a demand f
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Someone who was not physically capable of joining the military before they relaxed the physical requirements may be able to handle the mental load, but not necessarily the physical load. That presents just as many problems and dangers to fe
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Ask HN: What do you carry in your backpack?
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
For me personally, I think the discussion about taxes in this context is a distraction at best. How long before cash is banned altogether, in the name of "making sure everyone pays their taxes"? That doesn't seem like a solut
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
It isn't a matter of forcing people to pay taxes, and the fact that so many people in this thread keep going back to the same point is a frightening prospect to me. The US has plenty of our own issues with addressing social issues, but
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
That’s flat out unacceptable. It’s your money. If you walk into a bank and ask for all of it, they should have enough on hand to give it all to you for a normal individuals account. It’s not the bank’s money or the governments money to deci
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
It’s absolutely wild to see people making comments like the one you replied to. Are people so eager to have Daddy Government monitoring their every move, deciding how they’re allowed to spend their money? Europeans seem to have Stockholm Sy
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
This comment comes off as claiming that being neurodivergent and being well-adjusted are incompatible ideas.
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
I'm more worried what a foreign government would do with the private information of every US citizen, as opposed to what a domestic company would do. I'm still worried in both cases, but one of these situations seems much worse to
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Assuming that our lived reality truly is just a simulation, I think it's important to also wonder why we would be being simulated. Not that we could ever hope to know or even comprehend our creator's intentions, but perhaps it&#x2
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
I would consider myself pretty centrist, but I thought HN was a good place to get away from the thoughtless political vitriol that exists everywhere else. For a forum that's usually very well spoken, it's wild to see how quick peo
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
The funny thing is, I’m not even sure if you mean that this is ridiculous because it’s so simple or because it’s so complicated. I say this, because, when I was at the worst of my depressive state, and still occasionally every now and then,
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
While I’m usually all for technological advances, if a woman wanted to pursue this route, that would be a dealbreaker for me. This feels like some awful dystopian nightmare tech. This technology feels rife for abuse in building armies or co
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
That's my point exactly. The USA is a melting pot of all other nations. We have some of the most genius minds from around the globe, and it's exactly the fact that it's the richest nation in the world that makes it the best a
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
I don’t think the USA is at the forefront of science, and I’m really disappointed to see discoveries like this originating from South Korea, China, and Russia before we saw results here. But even in light of that, I don’t think it’s very co
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
“Some people are rude to me for reasons entirely unrelated to the issue at hand” isn’t a valid reason to lack any level of humility, or to withhold evidence of your extraordinary claims.
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
Your solution, in the case of trusted sources altering content to fit a particular worldview, is to look at other "trusted" sources. I think that therein lies the problem. I believe the real danger isn't people being convince
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
As someone who never really used Twitter before the LLM stuff started happening, and still I only pick it up once or twice per week, I've personally felt that I've had a better experience on there recently than I did a while ago.
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
I use ChatGPT as a word calculator for literally everything all of the time. It’s super great for achieving proper formatting easily!
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Adhering to that list seems exhausting…
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
Music is self-expression. I don’t always identify entirely with others. I always identify with my self. Having music generated for you on such a personalized level is an attractive prospect. I don’t think this replaces “100% organic, human-
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
Ultimately I'm glad that the research has seen the light, since I'm of the personal persuasion that there is no single scrap of science that should ever be done in the dark. All research, in a perfect world, would be entirely publ
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
I can relate to both comments. Covid really sapped the life out of me. Some relationships broke down during isolation, I lost friends, my fiancée left, I felt stuck in a job that I hated... The research into LLMs and diffusion models starte
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
Having played through Portal 2 again recently, it's like the equivalent of GlaDOS scheming to take back over the Aperture Science Facility while she's only getting 1.1 Volts from the potato.
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by cooper_ganglia 3y ago
In the Vsauce video "Do Chairs Exist?" (I highly recommend it!), Michael talks about the concept of vagueness and how defining boundaries can lead to paradoxes. While it was primarily dealing with an ontological perspective, the l