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by krapp 5d ago
The entire draw of coding with LLMs is that you can generate programs without knowing how to code. That's literally what "vibe coding" is. Why would it surprise you that people who do know how to code, and don't hate t
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by krapp 5d ago
>How is it possible that out of the millions of Americans, a guy who cant even read or send his own emails managed to work his way to the top of political system. Because Americans don't vote for competence, they vote for entertainm
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by krapp 6d ago
We do know that whales have distinct regional dialects. I would assume that any animal complex enough to have aspects of their behavior not entirely determined by genetics (in other words, taught by parents or peers) exhibits regionally di
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by krapp 6d ago
Companies will do whatever creates the most lock-in for the user and generates the most profit for themselves. Ask yourself what's in their best interest as a business? That's probably what they'll do.
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by krapp 6d ago
There are many religions in which "the gods" are neither omnipotent nor omniscient, but rather just more powerful beings than humans and still subject to the metaphysical laws of the universe, if not entirely to its physical laws.
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by krapp 6d ago
Yet people do treat AI as a religion, both in terms of believing in a higher power and as a culture. They have a deep faith in using AI as a moral virtue and they view people who don't use it or who oppose it as heretical, foolish or e
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by krapp 6d ago
Aliens and advanced technology aren't going to be involved.
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by krapp 6d ago
And they made them into paint called "mummy brown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
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by krapp 6d ago
Back-and-forth conversation isn't high quality by definition, it's just the baseline for not being bad enough to downvote. I think Hacker News wants the baseline to be some degree of exceptional.
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by krapp 7d ago
So the typical American, when selecting for a political job, holds a man with no political experience but who was so corrupt and inept as a businessman he managed to bankrupt a casino in higher esteem than candidates with actual success
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by krapp 7d ago
How we got here is Obama got elected and white people lost their goddamn minds about it.
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by krapp 7d ago
No. The actions of ICE are a reaction to how much Trump and his base hate brown people. This administration doesn't even believe climate change is real, Trump infamously called it a "Chinese hoax."
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by krapp 7d ago
>Fielding left-wing candidates with no accomplishments makes Trump happen. It's not that complicated. Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State and a Senator from New York, while Kamala Harris was a District Attorney and Attorney Gener
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by krapp 7d ago
Every time SCOTUS makes a decision they invent new laws or nullify existing laws. Every case they take is a question about whether certain laws "make sense," and that determination is based entirely on learned, but subjective, per
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by krapp 7d ago
People will just roll their eyes at you and say "the human mind is nothing but a dice roll too" and call you a slope-headed neanderthal before continuing apace.
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by krapp 8d ago
Humans are perfectly capable of writing code for old systems. Not all of the documentation that exists, exists on the web. If it doesn't, operations can be discovered by reverse-engineering the hardware, mapping the memory, etc. People
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by krapp 8d ago
I think you may need to update your priors a bit. AI is already replacing professionals. Developers are already losing jobs. LLMs and agents are already running in the hot loops of our technological civilization, unsupervised, with root. In
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by krapp 8d ago
>Feel free to extrapolate a reading like "I think LLM tech and a century of tinkering could achieve computer performance similar to what it appears the entirely fictional, voiced by Majel Barrett, Star Trek computers has". But
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by krapp 8d ago
Fair enough. Your logic is unassailable. There is literally no difference between fiction and reality and no need to understand anything beyond "LLM talk therefore Star Trek real."
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by krapp 8d ago
Plausibly based on what? The computer from Star Trek wasn't real. It was Majel Barrett talking into a microphone. You can no more extrapolate any real world computer architecture from that than you can determine amphibian evolution fro
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by krapp 8d ago
"Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth has literally stated that war crimes are now American military policy. Not that they were really off the table for the US to begin with, but we're no longer even pretending to care about the ru
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by krapp 8d ago
I think LLM researchers understand how LLMs work and what the limits of using natural language as an interface are. The problem is everyone else thinks they're basically magic, expecting them to be infinitely intuitive but also strictl
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by krapp 8d ago
Only realistic capitalist nightmares.
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by krapp 9d ago
Americans were literally more up in arms over social distancing and masks than any thing Trump has ever done.
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by krapp 9d ago
Christians aren't bad people, but it's undeniable that the one demographic that supports Trump more than any other are Christians. Trump is the face, heart and soul of American Christianity. Where else are Christians arguing that
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by krapp 9d ago
Unfortunately, the Constitution (Article 1 Section 10) forbids states from entering into alliances and treaties with other countries, or with one another, without the explicit permission of Congress.
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by krapp 9d ago
If you want to blame someone for Trump, blame the people who kept voting for him instead of the people who didn't.
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by krapp 9d ago
>The american left likes to pretend trump is the problem, and if he goes then everything is fine. That is wishful thinking; he is just the symptom. The American left has been screaming from the rooftops about systemic racism, misogyny an
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by krapp 9d ago
You're pretending not to comprehend the simple concept of a barista. I can see you're not interested in a good faith conversation here. I'm not going to waste any more of my time. Feel free to keep on berating me if it makes
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by krapp 9d ago
It was probably the one where Picard refused to play god for an alien race because religion was a primitive superstition. Or the one where they recover cryogenically frozen people from the 20th century and Picard shits on a venture capitali

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