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by krapp 7mo ago
You can't make a "slur" against software. It isn't a person, it doesn't have feelings. "stochastic parrot" describes what an LLM does, that it (like a parrot) generates coherent human language without unde
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by krapp 7mo ago
I'm not, but other people seem to think it's a problem worth worrying about.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Radio signals do weaken and dissipate over time and space. Broadcast signals could fade into the cosmic microwave background in a few light years depending on their strength. The sci-fi trope of aliens picking up Earth tv and radio just isn
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by krapp 7mo ago
Which other species in what other star systems do you suggest we check with?
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by krapp 7mo ago
I don't think VR will ever reach mass adoption, I don't think there's any reason for it to. It isn't sufficiently superior to screens and keyboard/mouse or phones to warrant it. I liken the hype around VR to the hyp
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by krapp 7mo ago
I recently started enjoying virtual bike tours on my exercise bike, but vertigo when the camera turns is an issue. I absolutely wouldn't do it on a treadmill.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Are video game consoles "fundamentally asocial" because there are likely fewer controllers than people in a household? Are computers, because they only have one mouse and keyboard? The existence of VR chat suggests it handles soci
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by krapp 7mo ago
You could use it less. You could accept its limitations and adjust your expectations, and that you'll just have to do some of the work yourself.
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by krapp 7mo ago
>Less cynically now, the president has admired Xi many many times openly, and it’s clear he prefers an administrative style similar to China. China style authoritarianism can't work in the US because the CCP has to actually deliver
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by krapp 7mo ago
Because LLMs are stochastic text-generation machines. The are designed to generate plausible natural human language based on next token prediction, the result of which coincidentally may or may not be true based on the likely correctness an
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by krapp 7mo ago
> It understands and acknowledges every request, idea, vision, flaw, structure, requirement, needs and just ignores and fails to implement it and cannot consistently think through it. I just can’t believe that. Believe it. You're an
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by krapp 7mo ago
>Well, this is how it is with real humans as well. The moment the human gets tired, or the information they need to process is too much, they produce errors. LLMs don't hallucinate because they get overwhelmed and tired JFC.
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by krapp 7mo ago
The only thing karma reliably indicates is participation over time, the signal is too noisy for anything else. If anything high karma should be a red flag. The very best contributors here rarely comment because they have better things to do
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by krapp 7mo ago
America had the advantage of getting through WW2 relatively unscathed with lots of resources and intact infrastructure that it used to leverage against the reconstruction of Europe, Japan and the USSR and entrench its cultural and economic
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by krapp 7mo ago
How many sources for the man's death would there be? It seems his only notability is writing a piece of software that let's be frank not even most Linux users have heard of and fronting a band that from what I can tell primarily a
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by krapp 7mo ago
“There is no more powerful way to recognize the historic achievements of our great country and President Donald J. Trump than U.S. dollar bills bearing his name, and it is only appropriate that this historic currency be issued at the
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by krapp 7mo ago
This wouldn't limit the ability of governments to do harm, it would limit the ability of the people to mitigate that harm by giving them only one chance to ever do so. I don't think "democracy is flawed therefore we need less
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by krapp 7mo ago
That would be antithetical to democracy. The people must be allowed to introduce any legislation they want, as often as they want. Otherwise it would be trivial for a government to intentionally fail to pass anything they disagree with, and
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by krapp 7mo ago
These platforms aren't monopolies. Being popular isn't being a monopoly.
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by krapp 7mo ago
>and would instead favor people self-curating mechanisms like RSS readers etc. That isn't what would happen. What would happen is that only the platforms which can afford legal teams - in other words, the big platforms - would host
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by krapp 7mo ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ you can't kill an idea, because it was never alive. Humans are just primates hardwired for selection bias and paredolia. We rationalize but we aren't rational beings, we're primarily driven by emotion and ego.
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by krapp 7mo ago
The win condition is that the Republican Party maintains control of government after the midterms and suffers no consequences for raping children on Epstein's island.
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by krapp 7mo ago
>I keep hearing "AI will free us to do things we love," and all I can think is, in what world? You're likely to hear this sentiment from rich and privileged SV entrepreneurs and people who were handed six-figure salaries r
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by krapp 7mo ago
Fair enough, but at least the ice was clean.
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by krapp 7mo ago
Fight Club came out almost 30 years ago. Most young people have probably never heard of it. Also there's no such thing as "counterculture" in a world where culture isn't manufactured and controlled by some central author
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by krapp 7mo ago
We did it in a pristine world the first time. The next time we do it in a world stripped of natural resources and easy energy with a collapsing biosphere soaked in poison and radioactive waste. Not impossible but I doubt we get another Indu
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by krapp 7mo ago
>In order to an atheist you have to not believe to any God but also to any other universal power (eg physical laws, mathematics, human civilisation). To be an atheist you just have to not believe in any God, full stop. Of course atheists
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by krapp 7mo ago
It's fine. I think the last few years have made a lot of us trigger happy.
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by krapp 7mo ago
I was referring to Trump. They're going to need to line his grave with ammonia cakes to deal with all of the piss. Nice counter though, I walked right into it.
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by krapp 7mo ago
I don't think they're "very specifically designed" to do that, I think that's just how he is, raw and unfiltered. He was a shitposter on Twitter too, that's why he was banned.

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