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by hooverd 1y ago
LLM providers want to a) make you dependent on their services as you outsource your skills and cognition and b) use that dependency to skim the cream off every economic activity.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Replace "no longer want" with "unable to". The ability will have completely atrophied.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Damn, those kids are gonna be lobotomized.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Wikipedia isn't going to write your paper for you. I don't see the difference between an LLM and one of those paper writing services in this context.
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by hooverd 1y ago
It'll be interesting to see a society where there's a big negative incentive to actually sitting down and understanding how things work, in the name of efficiency.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Maybe, but will anyone understand what they are creating?
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by hooverd 1y ago
I think it'll be great if you're working in software not for a software company.
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by hooverd 1y ago
No thank you.
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by hooverd 1y ago
which bigger problems are being solved though?
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by hooverd 1y ago
I feel bad for those kids. Imagine having an issue that wasn't caught and your parents now see you as defective goods.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Well, with AI agents, there's no incentive to make good faceted search anymore either.
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by hooverd 1y ago
I wonder if some of that perfect accent might be ML.
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by hooverd 1y ago
I wonder how the other -overflows are doing?
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by hooverd 1y ago
Oh definitely. Maybe I'm overly optimistic, but I think you can be in like the top 20% of physical fitness by just consistently moving and lifting weights.
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by hooverd 1y ago
If you maintain the same baseline level of activity, not in my experience.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Password managers could warn about this, like "WEBSITES WILL NEVER ASK YOU FOR THIS DATA". I don't think we should cripple Passkeys and limit syncing to third-party walled gardens because users are stupid.
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by hooverd 1y ago
They're a great technology that the FIDO Alliance is trying their best to cripple.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Passkeys aren't vulnerable to phishing or breaches (if they are you have bigger problems).
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by hooverd 1y ago
Cutting government waste sometimes requires hiring more "inefficient bureaucrats". Oftentimes the existing structure is that they're capital allocators for armies of consultants. Nobody wants to go after that waste. Hell, the
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by hooverd 1y ago
People don't read. They do respond to nudges though.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Yes, the government funding basic research is a good thing.
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by hooverd 1y ago
It's hard to find before, but most irezumi style tattoos!
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by hooverd 1y ago
Mike Tyson's is very clean, but personally I just don't like "tribal" tattoos unless you're Maori or part of a cultural that does them. They seem more cohesive somehow. Ok, I do like her head tattoos.
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by hooverd 1y ago
I haven't seen a good-looking face tattoo yet.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Could be that they're understanding your preference as a normative statement. You're probably not the first person to mention how they would look better without tattoos, even if that's not exactly what you meant.
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by hooverd 1y ago
I think tattoos can quite often look nice, so no, not everyone "knew this to be true." Just say what you believe instead of trying to launder your opinion as generally accepted truth.
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by hooverd 1y ago
There's a lot of bad tattoos out there. It's something people should give more thought to, but tattoos can look really good if they're done well.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Sure, but I don't yap about being a yeoman software developer and how independent I am from it despite being totally dependent on a long petrochemical supply chain.
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by hooverd 1y ago
It's a category error to think racists are ignorant people who don't know better and not people who actively enjoy their place in a racial hierarchy.
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by hooverd 1y ago
Growing up poor and white in Mississippi probably puts you on better footing than growing rich and white in Mississippi. The most vile racism I've seen from is from genteel folks who should "know better." They're not rac

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