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by delichon 8mo ago
Russian is highly constrained by the cost of munitions. Ukraine would not exist otherwise. If Russia or China is targeting the SpaceX supply chain then we're in WWIII, and nobody is building space ships for a long time.
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by delichon 8mo ago
When they can match SpaceX's cost/kg to orbit, then it costs about as much to launch a server as to kill it, and it becomes a game of economic attrition. SpaceX can't win that game alone, but its best customer can.
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by delichon 8mo ago
Orbit is one hell of a moat.
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Claude helped select targets for Iran strikes, possibly including school(twitter.com)
72 points by delichon 8mo ago|62 comments
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by delichon 8mo ago
“The underlying model that brings Grok to life is a voice-to-voice model which understands the expressive range of human speech... The model is able to do this because of how it internally, within a single model, processes speech (incl
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by delichon 8mo ago
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/queensland/teens-stil... > Also, why are social media accounts for pets still allowed? Did someone tell you that I'm a dog? I will not confirm or deny.
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by delichon 8mo ago
Creative destruction requires both booms and busts together. Capital must flow between sectors for economic adaptation. We're seeing a massive capital shift to AI solutions, recalibrating the whole economy. I have insufficient data to
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70% of Australian teens are getting around the social media ban(twitter.com)
15 points by delichon 8mo ago|8 comments
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by delichon 8mo ago
> Disclaimer: I am a new account. Welcome. Illegitimi non carborundum.
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by delichon 8mo ago
You mean that you don't believe that we are in co-evolution with AI? Because otherwise it is a Red Queen's race, and it is a useful frame for understanding. For example we can make it a race between symbiotes. If you are Sisyphus,
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by delichon 8mo ago
Don't tell anyone, but I am secretly in charge and open to suggestions. Spill.
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by delichon 8mo ago
That just means that you can only evaluate a smaller fraction of the data. If your goal is to do more than sample it, you've already lost.
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by delichon 8mo ago
There is an epistemic silver lining. This is in fact a Red Queen's race that cannot be won. So in the end the only solution is to evaluate the text on its own merits without reference to the writer's status, because that status ca
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by delichon 8mo ago
The moderators are supposed to just know it when they see it? It's that black and white to you? Or are lots of false positives a price we have to pay?
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by delichon 8mo ago
More than an order of magnitude smaller than Tesla's deal with their CEO.
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by delichon 8mo ago
I hope that you live a long healthy, happy life without ever learning the answers to these questions.
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by delichon 8mo ago
> It's legitimately horrifying to me. Would you feel any differently if a product from this tech used the user's own neurons grown from their stem cells?
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by delichon 8mo ago
Because if I had not I would have instead done the hard emotional labor of pursuing love, instead of becoming an isolated old man waiting to die. Being alone all the time is a kind of poverty, don't kid yourself. A lone billionaire is
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by delichon 8mo ago
Whatever you do, don't learn to cope with being alone. I did, and it was my biggest mistake.
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by delichon 8mo ago
I was exploring ai porn, for science, and noticed another perverse incentive. I tried to prompt for a naked man and woman standing next to a pool, but could not get it to generate that image. Instead it insisted that the two characters must
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by delichon 8mo ago
I was using Grok with speech and discovered their "paralinguistic" information storage. At first it claimed that the storage was temporary, but then admitted that long term data was stored for training. Some of the dimensions they
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United Airlines says it will boot passengers who refuse to use headphones(nbcnews.com)
18 points by delichon 8mo ago|15 comments
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by delichon 8mo ago
It looks like they maintain gatekeeping via the Registered App Store program, where you get to be a kind of trustee while on good behavior. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/a-new-era-...
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by delichon 8mo ago
I have had conversations where the bot started with a firm opinion but reversed in a prompt or two, always toward my point of view. So I asked it if the sycophancy is inherent in the design, or if it just comes from the RLHF. It claimed tha
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by delichon 8mo ago
Yet again the study of eructation gets neglected. This may be downstream of Big Lentil.
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by delichon 8mo ago
> The outputs of generative AI can be protected by copyright only where a human author has determined sufficient expressive elements. This can include situations where a human-authored work is perceptible in an AI output, or a human make
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by delichon 8mo ago
Could someone please explain the hostility toward discussing the decentralization strategy in business and politics?
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by delichon 8mo ago
In the social justice context, "cell" is a better fit than "company". Some are Antifa Ost, Informal Anarchist Federation/International Revolutionary Front, Armed Proletarian Justice, Revolutionary Class Self-Defense
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by delichon 8mo ago
I'm a fan of Tolkien's art and have a couple of prints on my wall, The Hill and The Tree of Amalion. They have been up for years now and I haven't gotten a bit tired of them. They convey Tolkien's voice to me almost as e
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by delichon 8mo ago
The word incel smears all involuntary celibates, not just the whiney over entitled types. The bigotry is in that conflation.

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