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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> I’ve found ChatGPT and other LLMS can struggle to evaluate evidence - to understand the biases behind sources - ie taking data from a sketchy think tank as gospel. This is what I keep finding, it mostly repeats surface level "comm
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I don't think conclusion matches what we're seeing, though. Real output being flat while population and consumption have massively increased means that much more of our consumed products are being manufactured abroad now. It'
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I've noticed this as well. It feels more and more like Reddit everyday.
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
People sell something to survive (their labor, their goods, etc.). It doesn't mean that every single transaction they make is for the sake of survival, or that external actors are a better judge of what their prices must be. In college
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> You’re comparing human beings working to survive to used vehicles. You could flip this and say "you're comparing people who are selling off an essential possession just to survive to a bit of company work." The way peopl
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> I don't doubt that the people selected to walk on the moon were indeed fit and healthy, but it seems like a stretch to think that the people who flew on the earlier Apollo missions were selected to less stringent criteria. It&#x27
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
One thing that really needs to be unbundled is assessments for credentials, teaching, and research. As it is now you want to be assessed for credentials at a top institution, you have to pay to take classes and learn at that institution. Wh
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Or even just...call a friend for a chat. Few people are interested in that these days. A few decades ago, you'd even see media where people were chatting on house phones so much that different people in one house would fight over the p
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I don't really agree. Correctly prompted, you can get Sesame AI to sound very human like and push back/argue against ideas it "disagrees" with. The memory is also fairly decent. Other LLM's can also do this pretty w
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
College is a massive time and monetary commitment. The reason the vast majority of people go through it is because employment opportunities are gated away behind a degree. Without one, finding the job you want can be extremely difficult, an
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Not intentional breeding, though. Eugenic breeding to intentionally make humans servile, with the goal of creating an entire race that is 100% the property of others and not free at all, would be something out of a dystopian nightmare.
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> The problem with chatbots as companions is that they don’t have feelings or desires, so you can be as malicious and selfish as you want: the worse that will happen is some temporary context rot. This is not true for dogs, cats, humans,
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Real humans as well. Not anonymous online commentators (including HN), not comedians/politicians/writers/authors who have no idea you exist, or TV characters people get invested in. Probably not even therapists, who wouldn&#x
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
I went back half a year in her account, and it seems like it was entirely re-Tweets and self-promotion? It would make sense if the algorithm isn't prioritizing that kind of content, or that kind of content isn't gaining traction.
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> The current political climate has mainly happened because capital interest has taken control of unregulated news and opinion. We're seeing the opposite, though. As the traditional media companies declined and the masses gained a g
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
The very strange thing I’ve found about liberal democracies is not just the amount of people who believe the entire world believes in the value of liberal democracies. It’ the amount of people who believe, for some strange reason, that othe
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
A lot of academia is strongly ideologically biased as well. The training set is going to reflect who's producing the most written material. It's a mistake to take that for reality. If you trained an LLM on all material published i
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Indeed. Ideally, you don't want to trust other people's summaries of sources, but you want to look at the sources yourself, often with a critical eye. This is one of the things that everyone gets taught in school, everyone's
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
But it's not showing that. You could have two kids start school at the same time and say that it's OK that they didn't have different backgrounds. But that's not what they showed - they're showing people who are tel
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
The episode only portrays education before school in a negative light, though. It's message isn't "it's fine to teach kids before they enter school and after they enter school, but you shouldn't badger them." C
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Independent of Waldorf, kindergarten teachers - like most teachers - don't like it when their students already know the material they're supposed to be teaching. Yes, "don't do it that way, you're not suppose t
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Watching Mr. Rogers as an adult, I was surprised by how opinionated the show could be. There was an episode where one of the puppets was trying to teach a child puppet to read before they entered school, and it was presented as a extremely
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Therapy gone wrong lead to wide scale witch hunts across the U.S. in the 1980's that dwarfed the Salem Witch trials. A huge number of therapists had come to believe the now mostly debunked "recovered memory" theory to constru
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
It feels like 95% of the people are responding to the headline instead of reading the article. From the article: > The Stanford research tested controlled scenarios rather than real-world therapy conversations, and the study did not exam
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Perhaps we might live in a world where our grandchildren will again want to be scientists and astronauts, instead of YouTubers. Sending a huge amount of your budget to send people into space because "people need to be inspired&quo
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Not sure whats your problem, why can't we have both? Because resources are limited? Any money going to, say, SLS is money that can't go to another project. This would be true even if NASA's budget were 10x bigger. I&#x27
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
People debate whether the Human Brain Project was a failure, despite the fact that it generated a lot of new research. In 2025 dollars, the cost for the Human Brain Project is just under $2 billion. In 2025 dollars, the Space Shuttle total
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Idk, absolutely does fucking not at all look wasteful It does if you actually look into at the facts instead of just taking a PR listicle at face value. For instance, the very first thing mentioned on that list is Alzheimer's. Go
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
Manned space flight in generally is a hugely wasteful money sink. It eats up about 50% of NASA's budget, and there's no real reason for it other than "we're putting people into space because we want to put people into sp
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by gonzobonzo 1y ago
> Features and bugfixes are important, but they're table stakes for an everyday browser. They aren't enough to sell it. One of the reasons I've moved to Chrome is because of the memory problems with Mozilla that I've

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