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by dbrueck 2y ago
Because the definition of 'art' is somewhat philosophical, the more salient question is "will AI make something indistinguishable from art?" and the answer is easy: yes.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
I believe that this is one of the key takeaways for reasoning about LLMs and other seemingly-magical recent developments in AI: "tasks—like writing essays—that we humans could do, but we didn’t think computers could do, are actually in
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by dbrueck 2y ago
For me, the most amazing thing about LLMs is translation between written languages (human, not programming). I can only speak to the translation between English and Spanish on everyday topics, but ChatGPT often produces translations that ar
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by dbrueck 2y ago
What this does != what PHP does.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Hey now, you're moving the goal posts quite a bit there! :) I was just pointing out that you said several things as if they were proven facts, and they are not. That's all.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Nah, if someone puts forth an argument that is fundamentally flawed, it's neither wrong to point it out nor on me to do their thinking for them. That said, if we want to talk taxes, I think a progressive tax system is nearly always wro
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by dbrueck 2y ago
This is stating as fact several things that have not and cannot be proven by tools such as the scientific method. Seems ironic, given the subject matter. :)
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by dbrueck 2y ago
I don't think that's the case. Instead, it's just that the "let's tax the rich people more!!" idea is ill-founded to begin with, and the easiest way to show that is to point out that if instead of just taking s
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Do what you want of course, but that better version of you already exists without the booze, and you don't need to give alcohol credit for it. And because it already exists, it is very much possible to learn to let out that seemingly b
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by dbrueck 2y ago
The best value at Costco is the slice of pizza + fountain drink combo while my wife wanders around shopping. Everybody wins!
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Exactly this. Typing in the final version is great. Typing up front is almost always getting in the way. Most interesting programs involve a lot of figuring things out as you go, and so any "tax" on that process is one you hope to
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by dbrueck 2y ago
>> "Most companies simply are not very good vehicles for bringing about social change." > That's just not true. Corporations have been maybe the single biggest driver of social change in the last couple of centuries
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by dbrueck 2y ago
A guide who loves the subject matter can make an incredible difference - I had a physics teacher who had a contagious love for it, and those who were naturally curious about the subject learned a lot while even the reluctant students couldn
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Of course. But there's a huge difference between labor disputes - renegotiating your relationship with the company - and folks in the trenches trying to steer top level decisions according to their personal world views. Most companies
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by dbrueck 2y ago
No, no fallacy - in interviews with activist employees who got fired, it's not uncommon to see both surprise as well as outrage. Regardless, I was commenting on the ones who seem genuinely surprised that being fired was a possible outc
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Exactly, and that's how it should be. But all too often (both with this protest and earlier ones at Google), the people who receive consequences seem shocked about being fired.
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Personally, I like Google's response to this, and the whole idea of publicly campaigning against your employer (especially during normal business hours) is completely foreign to me. Maybe I'm just an old fogey, but "back in m
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by dbrueck 2y ago
Part of me feels like the untapped potential is just one of many symptoms of all of the dysfunction going on, and if you can fix some of the dysfunction, then you'd not only unleash some of that potential but fix a bunch of other probl
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by dbrueck 3y ago
The books are pretty good IMO.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
I wash my car annually, whether it needs it or not!
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Your comment was a fun trip down memory lane. I'd read Nibble cover to cover, and especially scrutinize Beagle Bros advertisements because of the little one liner programs they'd often include. Good times!
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Why the 'western' qualifier?
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by dbrueck 3y ago
It would be so great if Nintendo were just a software company. Over the years they have put out some really terrific games, many of which I'd still buy today if they sold them as software. But after the Wii I stopped being a Nintendo c
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by dbrueck 3y ago
What on earth are you talking about? We give cost of living increases to every employee every single year.
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by dbrueck 3y ago
For many of us small business owners, that 1987 opinion is on the money. The direct and immediate consequence of raising the minimum wage by a bunch is that I'd have to lay a couple of people off, which would be heartbreaking (for them
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by dbrueck 3y ago
There are plenty of great free resources, and the official one should always be something you're at least somewhat familiar with: https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html... But if yo
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> Seems to me that he did, in fact, call LGBTQ+ people filth. I see that you are choosing to read it that way, but that is quite literally not what he said, and I don't agree with the assumptive leap that you took to get there. Is i
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by dbrueck 3y ago
Actually, I think this is a fantastic example of my point. He did not, in fact, call LGBTQ+ people filth, at least according to the quote in the article - the headline and the article clearly misconstrue what he said. But let's pretend
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by dbrueck 3y ago
> Even today there is so much homophobia, transphobia, misoginy and racism being touted by people in our most powerful sitting positions t Is that really the case though? It seems like in many (most? nearly all?) cases we've gone fr
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by dbrueck 3y ago
It's almost as bad as when they put the Castile flag on the Santa Maria!

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