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by gowld 1y ago
And survivor bias. People who like the tool at first use it until they stop liking it -> "it got worse" People who dislike the tool at first do not use it -> "it was bad"
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by gowld 1y ago
When you stop walking, that's the beginning of the end.
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by gowld 1y ago
That's not true. Firing is an option, not an obligation. Forgiving a fireable offense in one case doesn't mean every case must be forgiven.
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by gowld 1y ago
"is" is an intransitive linking verb. Saying "You're a dickhead" is verbal abuse. Saying "Dickhead" alone is nounal abuse.
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by gowld 1y ago
> Further, whilst not determinative in itself of whether or not the dismissal was unfair, this one off comment did not amount to gross misconduct or misconduct so serious to justify summary dismissal for reasons that I have provided abov
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by gowld 1y ago
This one is especially worse because it's an incoherent mess that doesn't make any sense, not trying to show you anything relevant to the content.
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by gowld 1y ago
This research is based on people being given 20 minutes to research and write an "essay"? (Or, in the Brain only case, write an "essay" without doing any research.) How is that not utter garbage? You're comparing te
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by gowld 1y ago
Text content at the sub-page level is approximately 0% of web traffic. It's a non-issue.
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by gowld 1y ago
Who says they don't?
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by gowld 1y ago
You are conflating "social credit score", which hasn't been built out in China (although blacklisting, imprisonment, and torture for wrongthink has been built out), with "financial credit score" which exists in USA
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by gowld 1y ago
It's still wrong 7 times in the document... You could add [sic] after each incorrect version.
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by gowld 1y ago
Las Vegas Pi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLPL8pM8Xkw And the update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iW1MZWBZbQU
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by gowld 1y ago
Apple has been vertically integrate for 50 years. Microsoft has been horizontally integrated for 50 years. That's why Apple is good at making a whole single system that works by itself, and Microsoft is good at making a system that wor
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by gowld 1y ago
Your forget that a biological system has approximately 0 throughput in work done. Nearly everything a biological system accomplishes depends on massive external machinery. Humans are only intellectually interesting because of their use of
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by gowld 1y ago
So why put a datacenter in Louisiana, far from the vast majority of people in the Americas?
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by gowld 1y ago
tic-tac toe is merely a visualization of a small arithmetic game "sum 3 digits to 15" 618 753 294
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by gowld 1y ago
It's visibly cyan, isn't it? It's maybe not an intuitive "green" hue (depending on your linguistic culture), but it's clearly different from all the other colors on that chart.
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by gowld 1y ago
It's funny and a bit sad because we just went througha decades-long effort to migrate away from jet/rainbow gradients to vik/batlow/bi-hue gradients, and now rainbow is forcing its way back. https://theconvers
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by gowld 1y ago
"In the example above, you can see that the OKLCH colors maintain consistent blueness across all of the shades, while in the HSL example, the lighter shades drift to purple and the darker ones muddy out towards grayish." The OKLCH
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by gowld 1y ago
0.5x is 0.5x, not "what it actually looks like." The deceptive part is using AI to creatively fill in gaps in the picture, and saying "recover and refine intricate details" when the details are actually hallucinated, mak
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by gowld 1y ago
Logical analysis, like using folders and file APIs, is "left-brained".
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by gowld 1y ago
And the Matt Parker Stand-up Maths video: "Golf balls: How many holes in one?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNTnk1VFoJY
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by gowld 1y ago
Compatibilism is the belief we are only characters in a story, but at least we can enjoy the show. Put another way, we should pretend to have free will, because if we are pre-determined, we don't have a choice anyway.
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by gowld 1y ago
Nicene Christian faith is "You have, I need, You gave ". "he came down from heaven, and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and became man. For our sake he was crucified"
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by gowld 1y ago
Is Cosa Nostra a non-profit? The question doesn't make sense. It's a category error. A non-profit is a corporate legal structure. An unregistered organization could be a cabal, a gang, a syndicate, a fellowship, a religion, a move
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by gowld 1y ago
This effect has been visible on chat forums like Reddit, where incredibly stupid people somehow manage to write well enough to seem intelligent, until you read their full exposition of their disordered thinking.
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by gowld 1y ago
One key difference is that an LLM really is better than any human at almost everything, simply because the LLM is kind of OKish at millions of things that each single human is just terrible at or completely ignorant of. The common LLMs are
628.
by gowld 1y ago
Shades of Jonathan Lethem's classic "The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism" https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/the-ecstasy-of-influence...
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by gowld 1y ago
Specifically, Jenson's complaint is that the LLM knows what the word "summarize" means, instead of misunderstanding in the same way Jenson does.
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by gowld 1y ago
LLM's fail because their input data is limited in dimension compared to humans (text, pictures, audio, video) and because their capacity to rewire their own brains is limited to the transformer architecture.

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