idle_zealot

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by idle_zealot 9d ago
Defaults matter a lot. Before you had to intentionally be lazy to put together garbage and call it a day. Now your boss is telling you to use AI to "speed up." The tool you're pointed to presents like it can make the slide
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by idle_zealot 10d ago
This is a nightmare scenario to me. "Claude, prepare me a presentation on XYZ." I get to work, go straight to the meeting room, and pull up what it made to present. It's barely coherent nonsense. Lots of irrelevant details, b
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by idle_zealot 11d ago
> If I'm busy, I can hire a person to go stand in line and buy the device (me asking Comet to shop on my behalf) I feel like this is already ceding too much ground. A better analogy is "can I hire someone to read this product c
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by idle_zealot 12d ago
> For sure not couple of hours in 1 go Worry not! That's how long the battery lasts!
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by idle_zealot 12d ago
I would expect it to be covered under any existing laws about circumventing security systems or impeding law enforcement. A more specific law would probably pass in this environment though.
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by idle_zealot 17d ago
Another year of disappointment for me. Airpods gen 1 and 2 were the only buds I could find that fit in my funky ears perfectly. The new shapes just fall right out unless I'm constantly adjusting them. Apple may have found a more univer
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by idle_zealot 17d ago
It's not a "personal annoyance" that twelve people control half of the wealth in the world. Our current society did a better job concentrating power than any previous one, and concentrated power is extremely dangerous.
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by idle_zealot 18d ago
Completely utilitarian message. "Your flight #FLIGHTID (src -> dst @ time) is cancelled on account of REASON. For available flights click LINK. For reimbursement click LINK."
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by idle_zealot 19d ago
https://gitlab.futo.org/keyboard/latinime/-/blob/master/LICE... It is not open source. They use a custom source available license. There's no way any Android distribution would include it. A la
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by idle_zealot 20d ago
We would run out of room in jails, hastily contract out construction for rapid expansion, and then people would die en masse in the shoddy camps the contractors deliver.
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by idle_zealot 23d ago
I'll admit I'm assuming that you are writing with the intent for your words to be read, understood, and integrated in some capacity into other minds. That is, you are engaging in communication. The contents of your communication a
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by idle_zealot 23d ago
The people reading this thread are not in your orbit. Yet you seem invested in convincing them of something. To care about the world and the people in it is human. To numb yourself to that is self-deception, and to advocate for that is harm
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by idle_zealot 23d ago
Pretending that you don't have a part to play in the fate of society is escapism at best, and learned helplessness at worst. Democracy is explicitly a system that functions off of the sum of individual participation, and if the quality
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by idle_zealot 24d ago
If you would like to contribute to the discussion then you can find one of the people called a fascist or white supremacist and contest the claim. Then someone can counter that claim, and dialogue can happen.
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
It's not that "AI" is too powerful because bad prosecutors use fucking ChatGPT to write their briefs. It's that there's too much investment wrapped up in the technology for it to be challenged. Same reason Flock won
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
Such is life
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
> You're free to throw the baby out with the bath water if you'd like, but it's increasingly unrealistic to stop reading the second you encounter a suspected AI footprint unless you're willing to just stop reading. St
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
That explains why they have such contempt for their readers.
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
> You can use AI to create slop using very simple, uninformed prompts, but you can also "collaborate" with it to write thoughtful pieces with good points. If you're working that closely with the piece you plan on publishin
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
Look into what "defund" means in this context. It's a slogan that leaked from more formal and academic discussion into general usage and is misinterpreted as "let's not do law enforcement." That's not what
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
I would rather it feel dev-cheap than corpo-cheap. Throw your MD doc into a basic CSS reset/theme, with a github and download link.
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by idle_zealot 1mo ago
If you're the type to get absorbed by these consider staying away. I've been playing this one for years and am not at the end of its content.
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by idle_zealot 2mo ago
It could be read that way except for the "for your continued operation during the job hunt" bit. That's the line that's supposed to tip you off, I think.
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by idle_zealot 2mo ago
I think the joke is they all are. It's an autonomous company replicating what it was trained on.
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by idle_zealot 2mo ago
I got an Xteink X 4 a few weeks ago and it's a very cute device. While I'm a fan of the hardware what's been really fun is noodling around with building some custom firmware and sync architecture to optimize content for the d
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by idle_zealot 2mo ago
What about a student attending lectures of other professors and generalizing what he learns from them, then going on to become a professor?
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by idle_zealot 2mo ago
Except in those stories the machine is actually a synthetic person with an internal world, a character unto themselves. There's plenty to explore in a setting where humans can make machine people to be their partners, but what we hav
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by idle_zealot 3mo ago
Agreed: sure, call your representative. If they're cagey or noncommittal, do what you can to get their ass primaried. Every "moderate" will absolutely sell you into a Panopticon.
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by idle_zealot 3mo ago
Maybe true, but consider the incentives for a moment. Anthropic makes money when it increases token usage. This feature removes a roadblock to burning more tokens. Can you claim with certainty that there is no way that might have influenced
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by idle_zealot 3mo ago
What tools? The ones that will be outmoded in 6 months, or the ones that will be banned in 6 months?

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