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by krapp 5mo ago
If they're on Hacker News, there's a good chance they've never made less than a six figure salary in their entire life, which would certainly place them in the upper 5% of wealth globally. So while it isn't a certain bet
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by krapp 5mo ago
Gatekeeping doesn't work if institutional knowledge is freely given to all, the entire point is that knowledge is only available to a select few and acts as a shibboleth to keep the tourists out.
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by krapp 5mo ago
That's exactly why mathematicians should name things.
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by krapp 5mo ago
400 billion dollars and a portal to hell later scientists discover evidence of the elusive spearmint.
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by krapp 5mo ago
Lol. "xenophobes not racists" gives the same energy as "it isn't pedophilia, it's ephebophilia." Go jerk off to a Roman statue or something.
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by krapp 5mo ago
Man this thread is like catnip for racists.
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by krapp 5mo ago
What really happens is the spells only have other spells to draw from and they begin to degenerate over time, eventually turning into chaotic eldritch horrors that randomly add limbs to people or adamantly refuse to discuss goblins or just
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by krapp 5mo ago
>Or wouldn't entropy start kicking in and the quality of the system begin to degrade over time? (philosophically I don't believe AGI is an achievable thing) It already has. Models being trained on AI generated data lead to degr
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by krapp 5mo ago
Frankly that's an insult to gamedev. Literally every game engine I can think of could do better. Probably even Unreal Engine could do better.
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by krapp 5mo ago
They aren't expressing a point of view, they're engaging in lazy performative cynicism. It's incredibly depressing so few people here can tell the difference.
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by krapp 5mo ago
So to be clear, you believe that Timnit Gebru doesn't actually believe anything she claims, that she just wants power? Just for herself? For women? For black people? Are all black people and women involved in this conspiracy of lies? A
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by krapp 5mo ago
You can try, but the only thing "pushback" will likely achieve is getting your account filtered for posting "unsubstantive content."
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by krapp 5mo ago
People have. The mods have made it clear they consider it necessary to maintain the quality of conversation and they have no intention of changing it.
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by krapp 5mo ago
It's incredibly depressing that you believe arguing about semicolons is more important than argument about human beings, power hierarchies, prejudice and the way these are encoded and expressed by the systems we create and use to influ
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by krapp 5mo ago
The Amazing Digital Circus finale got completely shat on by fans after they leaked the ending and harassed Gooseworx because they didn't like it. Is it worth being involved in indie production when success just guarantees a hate campai
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by krapp 5mo ago
>The Israeli perspective assumes the muslims are mindless orcs that can't be reasoned with as humans. It seems that the American perspective after 9/11 has become more or less the same.
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by krapp 5mo ago
"Political" content is the only kind of content for which civility and quality standards aren't applied - such posts are often flagged as a matter of course, simply due to the title alone.
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by krapp 5mo ago
My personal headcanon is that every Star Trek series takes place in its own universe, parallel to the others. That's the only way it makes sense that Data as an android is viewed as a unique being when in TOS Harry Mudd was grifting an
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by krapp 5mo ago
Given the fact that large language models are trained on human language, it shouldn't be surprising that the text they output resembles human language. That is what they're designed to do after all. But similarity in output does
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by krapp 5mo ago
>The fact that they sent Data to starfleet academy, gave him a commission in the starfleet, let him attain the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and then decide that actually he's a machine that can be dismantled seems like quite a turn
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by krapp 5mo ago
>The widespread mistake people keep making is assuming the development of intelligence in LLMs should follow the same trajectory that human intelligence takes as it develops into adult levels of intelligence. To be fair, almost everyone
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by krapp 5mo ago
>Virtue ethics: even if LLMs are not conscious, we should not abuse or mistreat them them because cruelty practised on anything trains one's disposition toward cruelty. This is the same argument used by people who claim violent vide
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by krapp 5mo ago
An LLM is designed to replicate human language, which is designed to express human emotional states, so your thesis that LLMs don't mimic human emotional states and are thus too alien for us to recognize consciousness within them seems
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by krapp 5mo ago
Yes. Don't regulate the platforms, the platforms aren't the problem. Go after the actual sources spreading misinformation - many of which will likely be connected to the very same government you want to act as cop and censor - and
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by krapp 5mo ago
This seems to be a submarine advertisement for a telephony API startup. It seems like it's been around for a few years so it probably isn't vibe-coded, but I do wonder if even small services like this will inevitably be gobbled up
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by krapp 5mo ago
Why? The WWW was at least created with egalitarian ideals, even if it failed to meet those ideals (despite succeeding far more than people want to credit.) It was available to everyone, it ostensibly allowed anyone to publish and communicat
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by krapp 5mo ago
Show me the AI generated code that puts the work of these people to shame. There probably won't be any more "legendary" programmers in the future. Not because AI is qualitatively superior but because the incentives of capital
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by krapp 5mo ago
The American government would if it could.
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by krapp 5mo ago
Yes, now that we have "magic boxes" replacing all of our knowledge workers and experts with inaccurate and half-hallucinated babble, deskilling an entire generation and gaslighting them into parasociality and schizophrenia it&#x27
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by krapp 5mo ago
I don't know. Trump's popularity was definitely fueled by the social media. QAnon started as a meme on 4chan. I think it's a mistake to overstate the effect but it's definitely there and it seems different than even Obam

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