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by gilrain 2mo ago
You’re right. Billion dollar companies doubtless ruin many more lives, but systemically rather than directly.
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by gilrain 2mo ago
What is your contingency plan for if the groundwork that has been laid to falsify election results works? Wait harder? The ethical US has rolled over already.
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by gilrain 2mo ago
It really is. “This is bad. When will someone stop us?”
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by gilrain 2mo ago
What’s your point?
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by gilrain 2mo ago
> completely arbitrary You agree that it isn’t “physically accurate”, then… but seem to argue that you shouldn’t be called out for the false title? It’s fair enough to be called clickbait when you really did score extra clicks with a sli
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by gilrain 2mo ago
Keep your need for simplified representations of reality (which claim to be complete) out of our information-based community.
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by gilrain 2mo ago
The person you’re replying to did not hold it to that standard — they only pointed out that the standard it claimed to hold itself to was not actual. If correcting misinformation is “harsh”, reality is fucked.
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by gilrain 2mo ago
> I invite you to spend 10$ to try Kagi for 1 month. What a generous invitation!
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by gilrain 3mo ago
And that was true, within his context as senator. He was instrumental in passing the laws that fostered the Internet. It’s astonishing, I know, but the heavily-parroted meme was always reductive and is, at this point, misnformation.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
Because it’s BS. Firefox usage telemetry is public. There is no such increase.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
> … like those ICE guys terrorizing all the Latino guys. … and the white guys they don’t like, like nurses with empathy. Don’t you dare think you’re safe because of your color. Unless you’re a monster or willing to become one, they want
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by gilrain 3mo ago
> Seems like being directionally right early that AI would be a Big Deal and scary should count for something? Only if it was an uncommon prediction; otherwise, it’s just evidence of common sense.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
> The custom is dying with the veterans You might want to update your knowledge.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
…but is exhausting at volume from most small aircraft you see. I say sadly, as an aviation geek; we can do better!
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by gilrain 3mo ago
> Not believing that AGI is possible is irrational and unscientific imo This is an objectively wrong opinion.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
I grew up in southern CA, in a dry pine forest. I can assure you the children I knew traded and set off fireworks. We were all envious of the families who brought them back from Mexico — they had the best stuff. I guess rules-followers assu
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by gilrain 3mo ago
It’s a cultural difference you’re unaware of, not an error.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
I did retire somewhat early but also somewhat involuntarily and only after a somewhat fruitless search.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
Nobody said it was.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
Because honorary degrees are not credentials.
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by gilrain 3mo ago
We must find a way to return to SNOBOL/PITBOL. It’s so elegant and effective in Ada (where it’s in the standard library). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNOBOL > In the 1980s and 1990s, its use faded as newer la
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by gilrain 3mo ago
Oh, well better let them destroy everything with greed then. Wouldn’t want to break, like, five eggs to save every other egg in the world… The ethics become laughably simple, with as far as they’ve taken the resource imbalance. They should
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by gilrain 3mo ago
Thanks for recommending this! It’s looks exactly to my taste, but I hadn’t heard of it.
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by gilrain 4mo ago
> ...but what do you do with it? Play emulators? Yep! > The Playdate has bespoke games designed for it … Not quite as many as [every 2D home or portable console]. For instance, I enjoy [dozens and dozens of Nintendo games], but there
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by gilrain 4mo ago
> more open choice because it forces the project A true morality must be based on consent, not coercion. Humanity may not be there yet, and therein lies the argument for force (and thus copyleft); but the ultimate goal should always be t
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by gilrain 4mo ago
I just wanted to let you know my career ended in 2008, directly due to the global recession, and it never restarted despite intense effort. Your feeling that “everything will return to normal” is not actually rational.
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by gilrain 4mo ago
> the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful That was the point, but it never worked: in practice, at least for me, text was smeary and colorful in that era. I wouldn’t want to use Coral Pixel, but I can ima
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by gilrain 4mo ago
Your speculation is that their competitors would naturally not see a commensurate increase in instability while “only” handling 20% of the same crisis? I don’t buy the excuse. I want to hitch my wagon to those “mysteriously lucky” competito
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by gilrain 4mo ago
No, it doesn’t. Their competition is not similarly unstable, despite existing in the same world of LLMs. Think critically.
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by gilrain 4mo ago
Do you really believe their competition hasn’t seen the same increase? Because their competition certainly hasn’t seen the same instability issues.

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