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by krapp 10d ago
The article literally mentions that they have baristas, one of whom was making the old menu because they were "aesthetically inclined." This can also be confirmed by looking at the employment section of their website. The owner wa
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by krapp 10d ago
No. Honestly AI drives me to nerd out and tinker even more just to spite the homogenization and dehumanization of it all. If we're entering a world in which doing anything but blindly consuming whatever pablum the machine feeds us is s
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by krapp 10d ago
They own the business, they don't make the coffee, nor did they make the sign they had earlier.
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by krapp 10d ago
It was literally just talking, though.
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by krapp 10d ago
I didn't claim they did.
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by krapp 10d ago
I love Star Trek, I love Star Wars, and I love Doctor Who. I have very fond memories of watching Tom Baker's episodes on PBS back in the day. But once you have nothing to draw on but nostalgia I think it's time to move on. I liked
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by krapp 10d ago
Main line Star Wars is a train wreck, unfortunately. I was one of the apparently few people who was looking forward to something new, even deconstructive, in the sequel trilogy. I'm so sick of Palpatine vs. Skywalker chosen bloodline n
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by krapp 10d ago
Ok. That would be weird. Presumably if you have power, you have the power to just quit or resign. Given how much effort people put into getting out of jury duty I can only imagine how something like sortition (which I think is what you&#x27
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by krapp 10d ago
"strawman"
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by krapp 10d ago
Why is this only ever demanded of people who criticize the premise that LLMs are conscious beings, whereas the people who believe it simply have to gesture vaguely in the direction of some correlation in language between LLMs and humans, an
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by krapp 10d ago
Education makes you more efficient at exploiting people, but it also makes you more efficient at detecting and resisting the exploits. While no one is immune to it because the most effective kinds of exploitation are emotional rather than r
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by krapp 10d ago
They're called helicopters.
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by krapp 10d ago
>How do you call a system of government when power is literally forced on unwilling people ? A government. All governments are coercive and premised on a few powerful elites maintaining and exercising their power with a monopoly on viole
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by krapp 10d ago
>If AI were unleashed, in raw form today, it could cause havoc. What is "raw form?"
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by krapp 10d ago
Yes, it was set up that way to keep slave-owning states in the union, which one assumes should no longer be an issue. I don't think you should be able to win the presidency by doing really well in the five largest states necessarily, b
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by krapp 10d ago
The character of the message is that "every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord." Missionaries bring aid because they bring the Gospel. They wouldn't bring aid without bringing the Gospel. But li
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by krapp 10d ago
When the same guy wins when he gets the popular vote, and wins when he doesn't, that may technically be "democracy" in the sense that a vote occurred and votes were counted, but it clearly isn't fair (and it isn't
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by krapp 10d ago
Russia mounted a gun on one of its space stations[0] but it didn't work out, and they were going to launch an orbital nuclear platform[1] but then everything went to shit. Less flippantly, I seriously doubt the US is the first country
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by krapp 10d ago
If only the AI renaissance didn't mean a dark age for everything else...
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by krapp 10d ago
Because they never "just say that." Christians aren't raised to believe that "no" is a valid answer - that means eternal damnation after all. Everyone must accept Christ, that's the message, and Christians must
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by krapp 10d ago
Sounds like iOS is problematic.
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by krapp 10d ago
It's depressing that everyone decided Electron was the final form of all applications and that native apps were dead until AI came along, and if native apps come back it will only be as vibe-coded slop. It's like we've just m
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by krapp 11d ago
That will probably change sooner than you think. Now that it's commonly accepted* that AI has reached AGI status there are already movements to grant legal personhood and rights to it, which would mean legal liability for its actions.
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by krapp 14d ago
I see little real difference between using proprietary software and using AI to generate software in terms of the freedoms allowed to the end user. The entire point of the free software ethos is that the end user should be in control to the
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by krapp 14d ago
There is a restriction - the useful models are closed source proprietary services that cost money to be used effectively, and those models require vast and expensive infrastructure for training that isn't available to the public. I can
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by krapp 15d ago
Y2K was potentially a real problem. It didn't materialize as such because we actually fixed it.
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by krapp 15d ago
The mods have said that they consider the cynicism and "curmudgeonliness" in the community to be a problem and they want newer people coming in. The most direct way to accomplish that would be to drive the old grumps out and repla
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by krapp 15d ago
Second on the list of things HN needs a solution to is fucking troll green accounts because it's getting ridiculous.
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by krapp 15d ago
Unless you're one of those people who only ever use HN and make it a part of your identity, sure. You can just leave for greener pastures. Or learn to care less.
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by krapp 15d ago
The whole purpose of this site is to "satisfy intellectual curiosity," not to post LLM generated content.

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