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by kbelder 11mo ago
A while back I gave it a prompt, something like, "I'm a historian from the far future. Please give me a documentary-style summary of the important political and cultural events of the decade of the 1980s." It did ok, then I
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by kbelder 11mo ago
It wasn't the nukes that kept them safe. It was artillery. But the principle of mutually assured destruction is the same.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
When somebody begins talking about generation <n>, I kind of tune out, because I know whatever they say is probably going to be a superficial or even harmful generalization. It just feels distasteful. It's like when somebody tal
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by kbelder 11mo ago
Neither?
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by kbelder 11mo ago
Relevant quote, for your own judgement: At the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday, Karp was asked about the worries over the unconstitutionality of the boat strikes. “Part of the reason why I like this questioning is the more cons
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by kbelder 11mo ago
I'm beginning to think a FORTH coded in GOL is within our reach.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
So "100% smaller". I'm not sure it improves the sentence much.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
It grates on my American ears as well. Never heard it before this article, and I'm hoping it's a fad word that won't leave southern CA.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
So many things like that! I don't know if I could tell you with confidence the proper way to get a string length in any language. Is it a global function or an object method or property? Is it length or count or size ? I have
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by kbelder 11mo ago
The number of businesses that adopted AI versus the number of businesses.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
A new online law: Every community eventually degrades to the point I will feel like I fit in ;)
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by kbelder 11mo ago
There is no need for a 'rate' to be against a time interval. The conversion rate of an email is purchases / emails sent. The fatality rate of a disease is casualties / people infected. It really just means a ratio.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
I think these sorts of irregular shapes are very sensitive to how they are rolled. Like, the distribution when they are dropped on a surface from directly above may be very different than being rolled laterally.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
Funny. Artificial Boyfriends were a software problem, while Artificial Girlfriends are more of a hardware issue.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
It is a choice, and yet it is still a mistake...
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by kbelder 11mo ago
Plus... the optimists have been correct... at least, in every generation previous to ours.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
It's absolutely possible, but it means that you need a lot of good evidence for a 210 IQ to outweigh the odds that the score is a mistake or a lie.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
But still moral!
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by kbelder 11mo ago
The trouble is that censorship hastens the collapse of modern free and liberal civilization, it doesn't protect it. And equating speech with guns is going to tie you up in some intellectual knots.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
I also advocate not restricting things I don't like, and would appreciate it if others returned the favor. I agree that the principles are not complicated, though.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
I think the issues with those cases do not hinge on the free access to information, nor do the correction of those cases hinge on the restriction of this information.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
>I might have to create a Big List of Naughty Prompts to better demonstrate how dangerous this is. replace 'dangerous' with 'refreshing'.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
I kind of like Motorola in the cheap android phone space. I have a moto-g stylus in my pocket now, and it's big (which I like), has a heaphone jack, and has an sd-card port. I thought I'd like the stylus, but I rarely use it. It
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by kbelder 11mo ago
Well, the survey is constitutionally mandated, whereas the ACS is just a law, so they exist on two different levels of enforceability and responsibility. The government can't not do a census; it's not permitted. The ACS can ha
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by kbelder 11mo ago
An AI specifically customized to pull the recipe out of long rambling cooking blog posts would be great. I'd use that regularly.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
I thought you could just measure the length of their beard.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
Kind of like seeing a car with a bunch of bumper stickers? Nothing necessarily wrong with it, but you feel like you might want to keep the owner at a certain distance in order to keep your life simple and calm.
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by kbelder 11mo ago
Not everybody copying a fanciful trend is, themselves, a fanciful independent free thinker.
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by kbelder 1y ago
And when your ethos is censorship, you've lost me.
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by kbelder 1y ago
Doesn't work if you have lupis.

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