kbelder

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by kbelder 2mo ago
At 5 AU, gravitational force would be 1/25 or 4% the strength of the sun at 1 AU. If the black hole was four solar masses, it would exert a pull about 16% as strong as the sun. Probably not enough to rip us out of orbit, but enough t
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by kbelder 2mo ago
Another article from that site: "Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own allies" I don't necessarily disbelieve it, but it made me laugh.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
"To evolve consciousness, an LLM would have to be programmed to evolve consciousness, and to do that, we would need to know what consciousness is and how to program it." I think this article is mostly nonsense. "... But I thi
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by kbelder 2mo ago
It's a subjective view that a huge number of UX designers absolutely believe is 100% factual, unfortunately.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
What if he wanted his great-grandkids to benefit from his work?
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by kbelder 2mo ago
I would argue that the initial development of windows 95 incorporated one of the most extensively researched and evidence-based UI designs ever, before or after. Far from perfect, but nearly everything about the UI was examined in context
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by kbelder 2mo ago
That's the same for the vast majority of the United States.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
>Isomorphic plagiarism by definition must steal from experts/creatives You seem to want to be precise, so you should probably use a different term than 'stealing'. It, by definition, is not the correct term.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
That they claim something so blatantly ridiculous is one of the reasons they have no credibility in my eyes.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
Yeah, this is my concern. We need to get to a point where everybody realizes that every image they see may be fake. Because that is and will continue to be the truth, regardless of legislation.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
Why would any of those follow EU regulation? The bots aren't in Europe, and the companies don't reliably know who's a bot.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
To be a little more productive, here's a different link without as much nonsense: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/microsoft-s-stock-has-b... On MSN, ironically.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
I would have been interested in the story, but Bloomberg presented me with this popup: "We've updated our terms. By accepting, you agree to our updated Terms of Service, including the arbitration provision and class action waiver
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by kbelder 2mo ago
And they should.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
There's a similar story about J. Edgar Hoover scribbling "watch the borders" on a memo, which was intended to be a formatting comment, but was interpreted as instructions.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
That's true, but in this case, I would have naively thought they would immediately start work on Battlefield 7.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
AI, I want you to serve man.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
There's people here saying they're obviously subsidized, there's people here saying they're obviously profitable. I think they're probably subsidized, but I would hold back on saying it's obvious.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
Hey, I still think dating apps are stupid. I still chuckle when I hear of people using them. But agree with you on all the other examples.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
I'd say BASIC might have been common among non-developers, if it hadn't been deliberately killed (or at least severely mis-handled).
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by kbelder 2mo ago
A billionaire makes more like a thousand times what a normal working stiff makes in a lifetime, not a million times.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
I vouched for this post, because it's the author's post and certainly contributes to the thread. I'm sure you're being flagged because you use LLMs to clean up your English grammar. Probably best not to do this here, be
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by kbelder 2mo ago
Right. Care for your children includes the responsibility to keep the society they're eventually going to participate in, free and open. Loving your children means fighting censorship, not promoting it.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
"I Remember Babylon" by Arthur C. Clarke. Written in 1960, but very prescient.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
The increase due to thinking hard is small, but still, the amount of energy burned by your brain is very significant. It consumes around 20% of the total calories your body burns. It just doesn't spike due to intense concentration
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by kbelder 2mo ago
>My partner and I usually just give a one star review each on Google when we pass by a place like this and then carry on. I find that behavior much more disgusting than the disgusting AI illustrations themselves.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
In thirty years, cool kids will be passing around memory crystals with a bootleg 2026 llm on it, so they can generate awesome retro AI images from back when AI still had soul.
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by kbelder 2mo ago
It's not difficult. It's undesired. It makes simple things slightly easier and makes difficult things impossible. Exactly the sort of behavior that will suck in the unsophisticated user, and then leave them with no options when
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by kbelder 2mo ago
>...they are the mark of the beast, intrinsically evil, and should be avoided at all costs That's basically my recommendations to people. 1. Avoid using them if possible. 2. If you have to use them, make sure you have a password l
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by kbelder 2mo ago
I don't think that's the unpopular opinion, I think that's the standard opinion, outside of the corporate security cloister.

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