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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The post hadn't been ratioed by the time the throttle happened, so it wasn't that mate. It's since been ratioed by people coming back to reply to comments. Edit: Including this troll that only emerged well after the post w
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Nope. It's not the first time I've seen this happen. And I think it might even be against the guidelines to imply it ever does. If it was flagged the normal way, there would at least have been a 'flagged' designatio
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
More the SV tech-bro cabal. As I predicted this submission (1 hour old and ~70 upvotes, reached #1 10 minutes ago) has been removed from the front page. In fact I can't find how far it's been throttled. Even if it used to be, S
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Basically Poe’s law but not in the usual attribution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Please submit a blog post to HN when you're done. I'd be curious to know the most minimal LLM setup needed get consistently sane output for FFMPEG parameters.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
And Trump so far is only offering a 90 day extension to find a new US buyer. The ban was signed into law late April last year, but they've spent much of that time trying to fight it legally than actually find a buyer. https:/&#x
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Votes from the little people don't have an impact I agree to disagree here. The election of, say, Trump vs not-Trump, will have a huge impact not just domestically, but on geopolitics writ-large. > much larger reason Harris wa
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> The average person has effectively zero input into what happens at the Federal level. A lot of people cared about the Mexican border the last election, and it made a real impact on votes. For better or worse, Trump now has a mandate o
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> rather than taking their Internet-hard-man bloviation at face value? I’ve been living in the world for long enough to see it change. It doesn’t matter what you or I (or an impartial jury) think if law enforcement can just ignore due pr
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I'm not sure that the presumption of innocence has eroded away in the popular consciousness I'm certain the social media and sensationalist broadcast media have over time nudged people closer to mob justice. Further to that,
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
It's amazing how the presumption of innocence – one of the pillars of a fair justice system – has eroded away in the popular consciousness in the last few decades. I'm not sure what inspires takes like this beyond sheer callousne
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Priggishness means self-righteous, performative morality. Can you give an example of this that is normal for US right-wingers? The first that sprung to mind: > An update by the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom recently rel
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
While I personally think the sale of raw milk is fine as long as adequate monitoring, audits and warning labels are in place, this was very much a serious political phenomenon and I’m not sure how you missed it > (The Iowa vote broke al
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Because if the Left rediscovered economic justice as a cause it would cross political boundaries and become a raging wildfire. (See also - Luigi.) There is a definitely a new discourse gaining traction post-Luigi that the polarization
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
FTA: > There will always be prigs. And in particular there will always be the enforcers among them, the aggressively conventional-minded. These people are born that way. Every society has them. So the best we can do is to keep them bottl
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The tone of the ghost stories would change to how 'it would have been better if only _ happened instead' instead of 'it would have been worse if _ happened' absent of any reasoning, evidence, precedents, etc.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The interesting implication of the Flynn Effect is that there’s an element of nurture to executing IQ tests. It’s possible that brains have improved in some physiological way due to changes in nutrition and medicine, but it’s also very lik
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Because it’s mostly brand recognition that lends security products an aura of trustworthiness, and that involved a high ad spend with an advantage towards established brands.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
It's a similar story around extant ancient/indigenous cultures. And similarly we've seen apathy from elites, especially when indigenous rights get in the way of resource extraction or generating wealth in any way, and also w
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I think the key is ensuring that “we” get to choose what society looks like in the AGI era. In the world today, even marginalized people have power. That's a bold assumption. Much of that assumption is predicated on the ability f
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
The problem is that the people in power will want to maintain the status quo. So the end of human labor won't naturally result in UBI – or any kind of welfare – to compensate for the loss of income, let alone afford any social mobilit
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
There's no doubt been progress on the way to AGI, but ultimately it's still a search problem, and one that will rely on human ingenuity at least until we solve it. LLMs are such a vast improvement in showing intelligent-like beha
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Worth it
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> I love me some nom… … said the squirrel
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Did an AI write this? You have a fundamental misunderstanding of how LLMs work, which is why you think they are magical. Of course if you play the LLM Pachinko machine you can get all sorts of novel output from it, but it’s only useful for
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
> Imagine what such a tool could do in the hands of a subject matter expert Nothing. Because LLMs can’t spit out anything more than the corpus of information they’ve consumed. LLMs aren’t AGI.
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Go ask ChatGPT how to make a room temperature superconductor
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
I did say exo suits are already a thing, not sure how that negates the argument
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
What if LLMs are a dead end?
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by h0l0cube 2y ago
Yeah, but it’s not an even sharing of resources. LLMs are consuming a vast amount of human attention (no pun intended) at the expense of technological pursuits that will more certainly generate value. As far as can be told LLMs are reaching

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