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by gonzobonzo 5mo ago
HN kills lots of posts. I try to be careful about my online footprint (since HN posts are forever), and try to switch to new accounts every so often. It's no use anymore, HN just kills any post I make from a new account, even when I sp
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by gonzobonzo 6mo ago
Which post are you looking at? I just posted the numbers for the first post I could find that was the same across X, Bluesky, and Facebook (a little hard since the feeds for all three are different). The X post had 16 times the number of li
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by gonzobonzo 6mo ago
I just checked their Facebook and X page. The X page is getting much more eyes. For instance, they posted their article "The FAA’s “Temporary” Flight Restriction for Drones is a Blatant Attempt to Criminalize Filming ICE" to both
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by gonzobonzo 6mo ago
> Now, turn on showdead. Those same comments, that users were expected to interact with as if they were made in good faith by real people, litter every submission's comment section. One big issue I've found is that HN seems to
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by gonzobonzo 7mo ago
True, after you visit a country where the cities are entirely safe and there aren't really any bad parts, it's disheartening to return to American cities where people say: "It's really safe! Just ignore these areas, don&
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by gonzobonzo 8mo ago
The problems I've run into is both people giving fake citations (the citations don't actually justify the claim that's being made in the article), and people giving real citations, but if you dig into the source you realize i
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
> If you cheat, you should get a zero. How is this controversial. Because the teacher was knowingly giving zeroes to students who didn't cheat, and expecting them to take it upon themselves to reverse this injustice.
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
It's an incredible abuse of power to intentionally mark innocent students' answers wrong when they're correct. Just to solve your own problem, that you may very well be responsible for. Knowing the way a lot of professors act
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
> And a video game is exactly that: a video game. You can play it or leave it. No one is claiming you can't walk away from LLM's, or re-prompt them. The discussion was whether they're inherently unchallenging, or if it&#x
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
> I didn't use that word, and that's not what I'm concerned about. That was what the "meaningless" comment you took issue with was about. > My point is that an LLM is not inherently opinionated and challengin
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
> Of course, you can simply replace employees or employers. You can also avoid other people you don't like. But if you want to maintain an ongoing relationship with someone, for example, a partnership, then you can't just re-pr
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
> But it's still an LLM. It's still being sycophantic: it's only "challenging" because that's what you want. This seems tautological to the point where it's meaningless. It's like saying that if y
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
That's the default chatbot behavior. Many of these people appear to be creating their own personalities for the chatbots, and it's not too difficult to make an opinionated and challenging chatbot, or one that mimics someone who ha
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
If there's a widespread and growing heroin epidemic that's already left 1/3 of society addicted, and a small group of people are able to get off of it by switching to cigarettes, I'm not going to start lecturing them abo
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
I've watched people using dating apps, and I've heard stories from friends. Frankly, AI boyfriends/girlfriends look a lot healthier to me than a lot of the stuff currently happening with dating at the moment. Treating objects
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
It very well might be genuine surprise. Most people from other countries have an extremely hard time understanding why most U.S. cities allow people to openly break the law in front of authorities with zero consequences. The U.S. is a prett
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by gonzobonzo 10mo ago
All social media (including HN) is horrible in some ways. And they all suffer from too many people being overly credulous to random comments. But the problem with over credulity goes far beyond social media. I've gotten strong push bac
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by gonzobonzo 11mo ago
> For those who don't attend the prestigious universities with large endowments, average in-state state-run University tuition is under $10K, though again a large percentage of students receive some form of aids or grants to bring t
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
People tend to do this justification behavior where they claim their dopamine hits are good for them/their health/society, when in actuality it's detrimental. Almost no political junkie I know has changed their view on Trump
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
And Reddit's far more tightly censored than Tik Tok. Most subs won't even allow open discussion of certain hotly debated topics because the Reddit admins have threatened to shut them down (and shut down subs that didn't tight
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
True, though very few (this says "over 1,500"[1]). And from everything I've seen, Spot appears to be a very expensive solution in search of a problem. They also have Handle, a slow moving robot on wheels with an arm for movin
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
The robot (BigDog) in that video shows numerous capabilities that Spot still can't do (climbing over terrain like that, being able to respond to a kick like that, the part on the ice, etc.). Even 16 years later. This only highlights th
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Not just counterfeit good, but numerous stolen goods as well[1]. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/17/the-fight-against-stolen-pro...
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
It's the old Blockbuster problem. You can screw over the customer for years in order to squeeze out a few more bucks. And it can work, because many times the customer has few alternatives. But you're eroding support the entire tim
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
This always confused me. You have a bottle of glue sold by company X. Then you have 87 different people "buying" the glue in bulk, having it sent to Amazon, and selling it on Amazon as if it comes from their store: Buying option 1
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
This isn't true at all? Robots can be controlled externally, either fully or partially. ASIMO didn't stop being a robot because it was under external control for demonstrations (from what I can tell, much more external control tha
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I remember IBM making huge claims about using the blockchain for supply chain management. For instance[1]: > A recent pilot by KPMG, Merck, Walmart and IBM using blockchain injects new trust into the system by reducing the time it takes
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
This is a non-sequitur. The Optimus demonstrations so far have been partially controlled (though the degree to which they were appears to be overstated). This doesn't change the fact that they've done public demonstrations with th
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Google, Amazon Robotics/Kiva, Hyundai/Boston Dynamics, even Nvidia are ahead of Tesla in AI+robotics. Optimus seems to be much closer to actually being released as a product than Atlas. After over a decade, Boston Dynamics s
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I'm not sure teaching it in school is actually going to help. Most people will tell you that of course you need to look at primary sources to verify claims - and then turn around and believe the first thing they here from LLM, Redditor

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