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by jrowen 10mo ago
It was around the "10,000 unlabeled pieces of paper" part that my question became, "is it really important to save all this?" Especially in the context of a design museum that isn't particularly interested in unique
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Was ITER or nuclear energy in the prompt sample? ITER achieves net positive energy for 20 consecutive minutes That's just pure dark comedy, although maybe kinda accurate? What would humans predict for this?
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The author does note that the article "is, with the benefit of hindsight, the more polished version of what I was trying to say." But it does feel plucked out of a context/world/tradition that is not as common around the
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> If we assume that large language models are being used to generate these texts and if those models are able to faithfully and believably parody our long-standing assumptions of what those texts are expected to sound like then does it c
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Super heady. > Linguistic indirection is something of a hallmark of the cultural heritage sector and while it may sometimes be necessary for financial or budgetary reasons it is, in most cases, profoundly harmful or at least a counter-pr
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> Similar to how the most successful+profitable games nowadays are filled with loot boxes and dark patterns, and have nothing to do with the masterpieces from a few decades ago. That one actually hurts. I lost touch with games a while ag
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by jrowen 10mo ago
It just seemed like relevant background that the author might not have been aware of, adjacent and substantial enough to warrant a mention. I think there is some validity to the Cartesian theater, in that the whole of the experience that we
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by jrowen 10mo ago
I agree that Apple is in a position where they don't have to and shouldn't go all in on AI yet. They can wait and watch and figure out the right move (though they will need someone with Jobsian vision). But what's this about
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by jrowen 10mo ago
The bag of words reminds me of the Chinese room. "The machine accepts Chinese characters as input, carries out each instruction of the program step by step, and then produces Chinese characters as output. The machine does this so perfe
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If people are watching their content, they can rely less on licensed content and drive those costs down. It's a similar value prop to any vertical integration.
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Understood, thanks, and yeah it’s not totally a brand new idea (except the video thing which could be a separate oddball idea), but maybe just refining a concept with remote work as the baseline. I think the main thing is the modularity and
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by jrowen 10mo ago
No, the employees would not pay. Think of it like AWS. Each company rents only as many spaces as they need in that area. There would be employees of hundreds of companies working out of the same building. There might be a small Facebook tea
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Thanks for the comment. - This is why I suggested starting just outside of city centers. For example in a suburb with a decent population of existing commuters. Then gradually expand outward if it makes sense. - Same thing, don't go to
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What would a WeWork of the future look like?(james.js.org)
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by jrowen 10mo ago
Sorry, by reconfigure I meant something akin to artificially lowering prices, legislation to push more homes to be filled by people that need them, allowing remote work, anything leveraging existing infra as much as possible. My point is t
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by jrowen 10mo ago
This makes some sense to me. The solution to housing often put forth is to build more affordable housing. In the context of people wanting to move toward cities where jobs are this makes sense. But it seems like there is a larger problem of
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by jrowen 11mo ago
Exactly, it hearkens to the halcyon days when Microsoft was the biggest evil in tech.
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I addressed this though lol. Nobody says "my pie is on cooldown."
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by jrowen 11mo ago
A “cooldown” is exactly what it sounds like: a window of time between when a dependency is published and when it’s considered suitable for use. My understanding of a cooldown, from video games, is a period of time after using an ability w
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by jrowen 1y ago
The anti-abortion example was extreme and perhaps uncalled for but I just really think there are numerous social issues far more worthy of dumping ire into, and that point has not really been contested by anyone in this thread. Why is this
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by jrowen 1y ago
Yeah I mean it's a huge company that has many heads and I'm not trying to say that they've never done anything unethical or taken missteps to be corrected. But on the whole, the evilness or dangerousness to the health and wel
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by jrowen 1y ago
It's just that the price tag is so well hidden that ordinary users really believe this. And if they die believing that, what price did they really pay? I don't think the difference mostly comes down to a lack of knowledge or und
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by jrowen 1y ago
Those statistics are extremely broad, hard to draw much inference from...do they account for the cleaning/maid industry? How has that changed over the same period? It could be possible that the general accumulation of wealth/tech
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by jrowen 1y ago
practical experience and skill training, but most importantly a certain degree of influence and power: You can't go on strike if you don't have a job. People don't have to need these things though. For a lot of people it&#x
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This is due to the flawed cornerstone of our culture that a person's job is their worth and value and purpose in the world. This was necessary when the combined efforts of our labor were still not enough to provide basic needs for the
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Or like this: "I ____ ______ ______ ______ and _____ _____ ______ ____ the ____ _____ _____ _____." If the images in the article are to be considered an accurate representation, the model is putting meaningless bits of connective
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by jrowen 1y ago
They're speaking literally. When talking to someone (or writing), you ultimately say the words in order (edits or corrections notwithstanding). If you look at the gifs of how the text is generated - I don't know of anyone that has
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by jrowen 1y ago
In my experience I don't really see the word empathy being weaponized like you describe (in actual good-will conversation, as opposed to a generalized social media blast). My first instinct is to believe that you may very well lack emp
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That is interesting that it was actually composed recently, of course he was going for period-accurate and that seems to be his thing. But it's just fascinating to me, the sort of social norms around, and the mood or feelings that are
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by jrowen 1y ago
Definitely but would you disagree that there is homogeneity to it that would be out of place in say a NYC street scene today? Look up pictures of Straw Hat Day. Just interesting to me given the wide world of fashion choices and styles that

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