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by lern_too_spel 1mo ago
The first article uses research from Ariely, who is famously not believable. Three years ago: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/10/09/they-studied-d... Today: https://datacolada.org&#x2F
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
The fenders are a nice touch, but putting the fenders through the tires seems like a design flaw.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Firefox with uBlock Origin has blocked YouTube ads just fine on Android for years, and Google kept paying. uBlock Origin doesn't actually get installed by default on Firefox Mobile, but I'd wager that it effectively does.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
If you're going to use a Chromium based browser, why pick one that's filled with crypto ads? I use Firefox on mobile because it supports extensions. One of the main benefits of the web is that, unlike proprietary native apps, I ge
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
App verification means she can safely install apps from the Internet. The app developers can simply serve the apks from their own websites.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> Yesterday Claude Code made 5 large edits to my codebase in planning mode (claims it used a bash script instead of standard read/write tools so the guardrails didn't trigger) it's why I put agents in containers. She asked
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> The nondeterminism and chaotic nature of LLM output is enough to rule them out as a reasonable foundation for any fully automated system that would be controlling anything potentially dangerous or damaging. You could say the same for h
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
It's not so bad. Schoolchildren merely have to change the acronym they use to memorize the Great Lakes from HOMES to SHAME. Edit: It seems others have figured this out before I did.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
California is a common law jurisdiction. Judges evaluate cases and make rulings based on the intent of the law instead of the literal text as written in order to avoid absurdities, setting precedent for future similar cases. If the lawmaker
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
This law does not require non Linux users to give up their ID to use the Internet, so why would they make Linux users do so?
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Why should it be comparable to tobacco? It should be derived from first principles. Figure out the external cost to society and tax it enough to pay for those costs after money distribution overheads. If there is no tax structure where the
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Objectively, the courts ruled for Obama and against Trump. You can read the rulings to understand why.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
If you replace the OS, you don't have remote root open, and you can back up whatever you want.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
What freedom do you need beyond replacing the OS, which is possible on all phones Google sells? If you want to replace the radio firmware, that isn't something that would be possible without that duopoly either.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
For this particular case of 3 dimensions, I found Newson, H. B. “On the Volume of a Polyhedron.” Annals of Mathematics, vol. 1, no. 1/4, 1899, pp. 108–10. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/1967277
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Put it in your own system prompt. They all provide tools for doing this. OpenaAI Custom GPTs, Gemini Gems, Claude Projects, etc. Or you can easily roll your own using their APIs.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
You might be interested in the shoelace formula and its generalization to n dimensions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoelace_formula
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> You’ve shifted your goal posts. Remember the problem we're discussing is whether these LLM systems can think. Your deliberate misinterpretation of a question does not make you win that argument. An LLM can solve problems for itsel
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> Not comparable. Simple and biological are not remotely similar modifiers. PNAS disagrees with you. Biological is a perfectly cromulent modifier of machine. https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.140157
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> Theres an itch deep in my butt, The LLM will tell you how to solve it. If you mean the LLM should modify your thoughts, no human could do that for you either, but an LLM agent can just as easily as a human figure out how to build the b
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> And biological clearly exceeds the definition of “machine”. No, it's a modifier. Just as the word "simple" has a meaning separate from "machine," and "simple machine" has another meaning. > That’s
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Let's get your theory straight. You posit a conspiracy where some cabal kept mRNA vaccines on the market despite harms while removing the AZ vaccine. This theory requires a conspiracy. Hence, conspiracy theory.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> You haven’t proven an LLM has thought Give me any problem that previously required human thinking. Any. That can be solved by LLMs. All you have to do is provide a single counterexample. > not least that you can literally turn off a
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> If you have to say "don't make up something" for every possible question you ask You don't. It goes in the system prompt.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
I prefer not to share links that require the people receiving the link to create an account to read the content and it's replies or post to such websites for that matter. That's basic netiquette.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
> You’re the one making the logical leap claiming there’s thinking. How? What problem that previously required human thinking is not solvable by these systems? You're applying some magical definition to thinking that you have not ma
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
The point is that it's trivial to fix the problem of cooking the waterfowl or writing your code with existing tools. Just ask them to verify.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
His point was that, just like humans, if you ask the LLM to look it up, it will give you the correct answer. Just like humans, if you don't ask them to look it up, you don't know what you're going to get.
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Wind produced 10% of China's electricity last year, and its share is growing at 1% per year while coal's share shrinks. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/business/china-wind-turbi...
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by lern_too_spel 2mo ago
Yann has been consistently wrong about the limits of LLMs.

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