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by johnea 1y ago
My lay interpretation of this theory is that it says there was no beginning. But a cycling of a previous universe. I was a little unclear on the ending, where he says this theory would place our entire universe "inside" a black ho
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> everywhere in older texts A) This is just not the case, they've only become popular _because_ of the prevalence in LLM generated slop B) Even if it were, it doesn't stop them from sucking Semicolons have a space after them. P
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I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords...
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So, it now apparently requires the US Marines to deport some Mexican dishwashers 8-/ At $134M, maybe they could just offer each one $100K to leave?
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Every dog was a kidnapped puppy at some point. The problem isn't so much having to deal with the dogs that have already been manufactuered, they should be supported as well as possible, the problem is stopping the ongoing manufacture o
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Total meme punctuation, never saw one prior to recently. I've been reading US english for about 60 years. This punctuation is not common outside of modern meme space. A big part of what makes it suck, is it's lack of distinction f
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What's a "lobbyist–and"? This latest meme punctuation trend sucks...
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I would only agree to this to the extent that humans have engineered this "evolution". That's why they're called "breeds", because humans bred them. They're bred for cuteness, violence, but mostly they&#x2
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I agree. I think we need an "unflag" link, to allow "do not flag" opinions to also be expressed.
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The most amazing thing to me, is how human pet "parents" ignore the fact that the dog has an actual parent, and the puppy is stolen off of it's actual mother's suckling tit, and handed to a human while it's still an
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I already don't go to gas stations. I have a really hard time understanding the pushback to elctrification. Very fewe people (like almost none) drive more than 300 miles in a day 8-/ Most people in the plains states where the resi
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I read that article this morning, that was also my reaction. Do they not remember Snowden? Although the level of accessing "social media" posts, and internal government docs, for use in persecution of an individual is rising to ne
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A bus only lane is also a vehicle lane that is sitting empty a good part of the time. Not really that efficient... And, as has been rediscovered about 200 times in Southern California (by the drivers, not by the sstate government), you can
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Trains have their own right of way, buses sit in traffic. Modern urban light rail is also typically electric, using overhead power. Although buses can also use this. This is one of the main reasons the super dense Japanese cities aren'
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It is really efficient, at sitting in traffic with all the other cars 8-/
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Just for reference, take a look at this email system using FreeBSD: https://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=1450 p.s. That was another place the article could mention a broader scope, there is always the BSDs, not just linux...
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Nice article! It's heartening in the new millennium to see some younger people show awareness of the crippling dependency on big tech. Way back in the stone ages, before instagram and tic toc, when the internet was new, anyone having a
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by johnea 1y ago
How cute! A university sophomore getting his first taste of feeling "grown-up". Obviously, this is just a very first hint, because being "grown-up" is not something that ever actually happens. But it is cute, and sentime
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by johnea 1y ago
Another example today: https://www.chron.com/news/article/hurricane-season-fema-chi... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44165573 The FEMA chief not knowing there's a hurricane season... T
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The LLM doesn't have a brain, it doesn't have consciousness, therefore it doesn't "hallucinate"; it just produces factually incorrect results. It's just wrong, and then gives misleading explanations of how it g
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I'm commenting on the discrepancy between what dies of flagging, and what doesn't. I don't think it's as much "I don't find it interesting", as it is "I don't politically agree with this". S
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Please see the reply to the comment above...
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Could you get the CEO of Goggle or OpenAI to state that clearly in a press announcement? 8-) Although "isn't helpful" is rather dodgy wording. "Helpful" for who? "Helpful" in what way? I think most users
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One could always argue that the lie is in the ear of the receiver 8-/ I would argue, that if the output of the LLM is to be interpreted as natural speech, and the output makes an authoritative statement, which is factually incorrect, b
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> Internally, it uses a sophisticated, multi-path strategy, approximating the sum with one heuristic while precisely determining the final digit with another. Yet, if asked to explain its calculation, the LLM describes the standard &#x27
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So, shouldn't this be flagged? Any article that offends the sensitivities of the wing-nut mode of the highly bi-modal community is immediately flagged. Such as the recent article by the resident of Sri Lanka during it's civil war.
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I'm often guilty of that myself...
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> nanochemicals that alter weather patterns Those wily legislators in the sportsman's paradise, what will they take on next? I hope they can prevent the lizard people, from inside the hollow earth, from grooming those children at Hi
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I could understand that position, except that I don't think most LLM generated text are for the purpose of producing thought provoking conversation. My expectation would be that anyone going through the effort to put a LLM generated co
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> You can moderate comments on your own blog however you'd like. Thank you so much for that permission. (this is an example of sarcasm, it's used as a form of criticism to express disagreement by saying the exact opposite of wh

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