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I wanted to like Claude but for all my trying I could not get even Opus to understand brevity. I found myself repeating variations of "do not over-explain. just give brief answers until I ask for more" over and over until I cancel
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Sure but that's different from total abstinence.
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> Search a little harder before you victoriously declare "citation needed!" FWIW, that's the opposite of how citation requests work. Support your claims
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You're imagining a fictional, united evil government acting as a single entity. In real life right now , any given government has numerous bad actors at various levels who can and do use data to persecute people and groups they dislik
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Caffeine isn't an invention of modern industrial society, we've been boiling every caffeinated plant we could find for thousands of years. I would still drink it if I didn't have to work for a corporate employer. In fact I en
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He wouldn't necessarily have to (but I also don't know whether he did or didn't). I already explained, assholes have a competitive advantage because they don't worry about consequences and externalities. It's the sa
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> silence all dissent Who are you talking about? I'm talking about the guy who declared "cis" is a slur and promised to ban people for saying it on his private free speech platform.
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I find that weird, so maybe we're in different spaces. SO often comes up with relevant answers to my queries, and I'll click them if they seem helpful. They aren't always available and when they are they aren't always us
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I feel like Mint + Cinnamon is such an easy switch from Windows, comparatively, and that Linux users should be more comfortable recommending it to newbies. For people who don't know what they're doing with Linux/unix at all,
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> such as games This is kind of an outdated argument and nearly a solved problem - the majority of Steam's library can be run near-effortlessly on Linux today. I'd expect a large portion of Windows PC gamers to be aware of that
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> unless you believe in ghosts it's hard to make a case that human-like AGI shouldn't ultimately be possible. Thanks for chiming in as I'm completely unfamiliar with Searle. I don't believe in immaterial human souls,
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I'm getting very weary of reading this analogy, especially when it's given no thought whatsoever. Did you know? Every gold rush in history has ended. If you have a shovel factory that burns millions of dollars a day to sell as man
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> as a trained philosopher, I don't buy into the whole AGI nonsense Can you elaborate on why you believe AGI is nonsense? > ignoring the way more value-generating aspects (synthesis, categorization, summarization, etc.) Summariza
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> Politics has always been full of deception, people doing politics professionally for decades should know a bit or two about it. I think it's worth pushing back on this. Deception works when it's unexpected, and if the medium
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Sure, as long as we fully subsidize relocation the millions of vulnerable people who would like to leave, and who will otherwise be forced into slave labor for the likes of Paxton and the other criminals running the show.
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Same reason I don't give out my real phone number unless I know how someone handles their phone. Doesn't take any malicious intent to grant Contacts access to all kinds of malicious apps. Other peoples' computers have to be a
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> Or, people will just keep using Windows 10, which is what >70% of the market is already doing. Support ends in late 2025 though. They've been trying to push the upgrade aggressively lately which is what got me to switch over my
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Really great controls. All the mouse interactions are very intuitive. Keyboard slightly less so, but they work well once they're understood.
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I'll grant that I'm having a Foggy Head Day, but I don't feel like I gained much information from this reply, either. I am sure you are doing and seeing things I'm completely unaware of but its applicability to me is unc
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I think the core idea makes sense, but this article is quite difficult for me to parse and is extremely short on details or evidence. Would love to read a more thoroughly thought out piece on the topic. What I am curious about is how we man
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Those are objectively bad reasons for abdicating accessibility though. Subjectively, I also don't agree that it's ugly. There are also other options like border-bottom or dashed underline or pseudo-elements with additional symbols
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> The Month-Item: May: 1 (from the text). This was the part I as hoping you'd write out :) I can't make heads or tails of the explanation.
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Sure, but how many teams are you observing? My company is split between Vue and React for different projects, and while greenfield new ones are getting React, Vue is not being deprecated here.
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> You never know what unintended consequences you have with subsidies We already have subsidies and catastrophic climate change.
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That sounds false to me. When was this era and what exactly did it look like? React has been dominant for around a decade, but Angular and Vue still see wide usage and Svelte is somewhat on the rise. (Although retention/interest in Ang
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But someone had to create the underlying technology for you to be able to focus on more high-level tasks. Seems it's easier for you to share these new tasks than your old tasks, but not that one is intrinsically more valuable than the
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> I knew they were the future I think you made a good bet, but it's important to recognize it was a bet . Believing something is true, and then turning out to be correct, isn't the same as knowing something. The future is not
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> No different from a Walmart cashier observing everyone is checking out Playstation 5 at an alarming rate. Arguably insider trader then > No different from using satellite images of Costco parking lot. Not even similar...
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We could also just be less dependent on cars, but that's more difficult than mass surveillance. Also has the side effect of enabling dissidence rather than chilling it.
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> But the same powers that let government do that are also used to horribly oppress minority groups like the Uyghurs (bad!). And this kind of thing doesn't happen outside of Chinese pseudo-Communism? That would be an unreasonable as

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