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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I'm an Android user but iPhones are good value. Most people use their phone a lot so it's worth paying extra for something capable, reliable, easy to use.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I have used both screens recently and I only notice the difference when I'm thinking about it. (Or when there's not enough space to fit everything I want to see.)
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I was also thinking this, but I think shaming people for spending money the way they want is counterproductive. Same as with veganism, claiming the moral high ground (even implicitly) can be very galling, even to people who would otherwise
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Reading this webpage, and then the other comments here, taught me something important about myself: I am a Philistine. I don't think I would notice any difference between this and a glossy plastic calculator costing $5. I actually assu
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
The Bill of Rights was published over 200 years ago. It can't possibly anticipate the modern privacy landscape. We need to (and do) extrapolate from the intent of the Bill of Rights to cover modern technology. Protecting phone and inte
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Cool article. I think there's something naturally very appealing about making things with your hands. As a kid I found it really empowering because I thought of wood products as something which came from mystical factories, and now I c
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Everyone is talking about how only licensed installers can work on this, but the battery is also ~1.5m square. How many cars have room for that? You'd basically have to rebuild the chassis from scratch, right? I guess you could put it
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Or did they just get there first, and stayed first due to network effects? Initially, nobody wanted steam. People definitely don't want a second steam - which in practice means sticking to the first one.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Valve engaged in price fixing by preventing publishers from selling games at a lower price than other platforms. They're committed to openness to the extent that it helps them undercut consoles, but not to the extent of allowing others
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
What wage would they have to pay you to pick berries? I suspect it's cheaper to automate these jobs (developing the tech to do so as necessary) rather than raising wages so US citizens take the job. These really aren't desirable j
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Anthropic/OpenAI aren't planning to have their superintelligence take over the world, but they're still afraid that someone else will do it.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
AI psychosis is literal psychosis in humans associated with AI use. I don't think the author is psychotic? We have all these useful new terms for AI phenomena, if we can keep them straight...
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
"AI style" is an artifact of certain writing styles being overrepresented in training data. I expect in the long run it will be impossible to distinguish AI writing reliably. https://marcusolang.substack.com/p&#x2F
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I think LLM companies should standardize censorship of some totally innocuous obscure topic, like Furbies. That way, we can attempt to jailbreak AIs by asking about Furbies without any risk of getting banned.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
You don't need to have a right answer to question someone else's answer. "You are too certain" is a valid point in itself.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I think this is meant to detect insider knowledge of imminent risk of a nuclear attack. It's not meant to detect if nukes are already inbound.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Cool. How do they stop?
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I think there might have been some other reasons Trump got elected. Which do you think works better--protesting/suing the people making the decision? Or being the person making the decision? It's much harder to change the course o
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
What about you, do you work for the EFF? If not, I'll give you an out - donate just $100. (I just did.) As a bonus you can even get the book this article is from.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
How do you know how many people would quit? Even if 99% of the US would refuse to work for the NSA, the last 1% would be plenty for the job.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Seems unlikely. I had a hell of a time finding someone to sell me this one.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
I read it as an attempt to reach the sort of people who think anonymity is bad because it stops them from cancelling Nazis.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
It's the opposite. Parent comment was saying they must be unethical due to their duty to investors. As a public benefit corporation, they can take ethics into account even if it harms shareholders. The extent to which they do so is s
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
This is such a stupid way to charge customers more. How many Claude code users use OpenClaw? Cheating customers is like burning down your house to keep warm. Anthropic aren't that stupid. I guarantee that this was some half-baked vibe-
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Account is from 2016 with 6k karma? : doubt:
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
"LLMS are fundamentally incapable of controlling autonomous weapons" -- This was Anthropic's stance too, right? "Quietly remained an active part of the war effort" - anthropic was totally transparent about it, but y
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Anthropic is a public benefit corporation which limits liability to shareholders. Just because they screwed up their billing doesn't mean every ethical commitment they've ever made is bunk.
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
Anthropic isn't backed into a corner. They have plenty of enterprise subscriptions. Individual user experience (especially billing) is suffering because it's not a priority in comparison. If they were as desperate as you described
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
My first thought was a conversation with a med student friend about the tension between medical research transparency and public policy. For example, it's good to get vaccinated, but some small fraction of people do have lasting side e
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by fwipsy 6mo ago
+1, I'm pretty happy with my used Pixel, but I feel that buying used is still supporting the manufacturer somewhat. People are more likely to buy another if they got a good price for their old one. And you're driving up used price

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