jrflowers

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by jrflowers 5d ago
Hmm yes. Two deaths, over a thousand hospitalizations, and not a single state in the US with zero cases, but those are just things that are real and happened which means they do not take into account things that didn’t happen or things you
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by jrflowers 8d ago
Can’t wait to see Anthropic’s post about how this is an example of why only American made AI should be allowed to hallucinate us into nuclear hellfire
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by jrflowers 8d ago
Hurt the business in what way specifically? All we’ve got to go off is a screenshot of a vaguely weird DM. Seeing as the article didn’t mention any type of harm at all, what is the evident harm here? This is an article on a news website abo
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by jrflowers 9d ago
Can you quote the words in the article where somebody said that the business was or would be hurt Because if not that would mean that this is an article about a threat that somebody imagined in their head
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by jrflowers 9d ago
It is worth pointing out that the article doesn’t even imply that the business suffered any negative outcome here (ie damage or loss of sales etc.) It also doesn’t implied that the person threatened that the business might suffer any nega
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by jrflowers 10d ago
It literally is not. You can maybe phrase it to sort of sound like a threat but “I’m going to share your public ad” is never a threat. It’s like if you angrily yell “I’m going to come to a complete stop at this upcoming stop sign!” in a thr
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by jrflowers 10d ago
How would a coffee shop spend an hour making their coffee better Like you own a coffee shop and you’ve freed up one hour in the 12 weeks before you have to make a new sign, what do you do in that hour that makes the coffee better?
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by jrflowers 10d ago
Nobody threatened the business owner. Somebody offered the business a chance to change up the ad (and help doing so) before it got shared, and the owner figured it would be better to go viral with the slop ad. Now there’s an article in Bus
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by jrflowers 10d ago
We have a system that does that. That’s how we do jury duty. We use sortition to decide important things every day
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by jrflowers 11d ago
Hell yeah I will ship you a box of ‘food’ for two hundred dollars. You know it’s going to be great because I don’t spend my time on stuff like describing or photographing it
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by jrflowers 11d ago
Can confirm that you can’t swipe type “white women” on iOS 27 lmao
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by jrflowers 11d ago
I like this reasoning. Network effect means if a website gets very big it will be very big forever. This is why I get my news from the o rly owl on the world’s most popular website, the OffTopic Forums
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by jrflowers 12d ago
Same with Taco Bell
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by jrflowers 12d ago
He didn’t have wings or a pilot’s license so he had to have somebody else fly him in the plane to where he wouldn’t be in trouble for his CSAM
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by jrflowers 12d ago
> Or you think some human or team of humans could have manually parsed some logs to provide an unsloppy analysis? Do you think the only thing a person can do on the computer is use a chat bot?
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by jrflowers 13d ago
>was reviewed by independent researchers That called it a slopvestigation due to how much they had to rely on LLMs for the whole thing https://andrewwu.substack.com/p/the-slop-vestigation-and-eth... Edit: Does every
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by jrflowers 13d ago
> when I die, the best-preserved memory of me that my grandchildren and grand-grandchildren will be able to pull up will be snarky posts from a 15-year-old Just make a bunch of really good posts and put your name on them
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by jrflowers 13d ago
>The game is also not out yet, even though rewards were promised in June 2024. Yeah that’s crazy I wonder why
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by jrflowers 14d ago
> Negligence can be "unintentional" but still land you in the realm of having a guilty criminal mind. That’s just another way of saying “not all crimes require a guilty mind” with extra steps
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by jrflowers 14d ago
> Crimes always require intent, the mens rea element. LMAO “there’s no such thing as negligence” I type on my phone as my car plows through the doors of a Black Angus
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by jrflowers 15d ago
Feeding documents into a copy machine and getting progressively angrier and more confused as it prints out copies of them. Incandescent with rage I scribble “WHY IS IT DOING THIS?” on a scrap of paper and put it in the scanning bed
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by jrflowers 16d ago
You wouldn’t be able to see shit OP
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by jrflowers 16d ago
> One person speculated that the timing may have something to do with Mullenweg’s annual trip to the Burning Man festival, after which he tends to return “with ideas.” This year’s festival ended on September 7. HN needs to allow some htm
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by jrflowers 17d ago
That depends on why, in this scenario, have I not walked out of my house in thirty five years
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by jrflowers 17d ago
Trying to imagine seeing years of transparently obvious marketing stunts and retconning my own memory because I read a tweet Or seeing a tweet saying that a thing doesn’t count as a publicity stunt if some unknown number of employees mumble
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by jrflowers 17d ago
“I’m resigning because the company is doing the exact thing that I’ve spent three years helping them do” lmao
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by jrflowers 19d ago
https://support.google.com/paymentscenter/answer/9003237?hl=...
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by jrflowers 20d ago
Looks like a lot of the other folks here read the post
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by jrflowers 22d ago
I liked the video of it googling a pediatrician. Being able to type a word into a search bar and finding a website relevant to that word? Truly the stuff of the future
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by jrflowers 24d ago
This is an article that only cites Zitron’s opinions about subjective model quality. You’re tisk-tisking people to be objective about a bunch of words saying that the author’s opinions are better opinions than the guy he’s talking about OP

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