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by lp4v4n 4mo ago
He is just being solipsistic and talking to a small circle of wealthy and well-connected Gen Zs that he probably knows in real life or who are part of his acquaintances. Or do you really think that people with his level of wealth remotely c
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by lp4v4n 4mo ago
>The popular image of a denial is an insurer overruling a doctor on whether a treatment is needed. That is the exception. Only about 5% of denied in-network claims were turned down because the care was deemed not medically necessary. The
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by lp4v4n 4mo ago
At this point I honestly think this is a bit by design. There is a crazy amount of land in the world, but either it's too expensive or you're not allowed to build over it, or a combination of both. Houses have been built for mille
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by lp4v4n 4mo ago
As someone who lives in Europe, my impression is that the continent's first priority is how to keep paying the fat pensions it pays to its retired class, the second priority is how to keep paying the pensions followed by a distant thir
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by lp4v4n 4mo ago
Honestly it's not surprising that AI provided answers that were flagged less often as "pedagogically harmful" if we take in account that somehow LLMs create an "average" of all knowledge they ingested.
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by lp4v4n 5mo ago
I think the battle linux vs windows showcases how, in the long run, free software tends to win. In 50+ years, windows will be a footnote in the history of technology, in 100+ years, linux will still be going strong as a multi-generational h
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by lp4v4n 5mo ago
I don't agree with this. Addictive, unless we're talking about a chemical substance or something like that, is a subjective thing. At some point, books, movies, comics, etc, etc might have been considered addictive. Social network
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by lp4v4n 5mo ago
What kind of speculation exists over energy, water and space? I'm really curious to know.
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by lp4v4n 5mo ago
I'm curious to check how faster AAA games will hit the market in the next years compared to the pre-LLM era. Or how much of the aging COBOL code base out there will disappear in the next decade. When concrete things like that start to
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by lp4v4n 6mo ago
As true as "It's free and always will be".
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by lp4v4n 6mo ago
When a company hires for an entry level public facing position, they always mean a young individual with a welcoming smile instead of a bald middle aged man who has been unemployed for two years. That's something that everybody knows a
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by lp4v4n 6mo ago
Global warming doesn't exist. If it does, it's not that bad. If it gets bad, it's not a big deal in reality. If it becomes a big deal, it was not humanity's fault. And if it was humanity's fault, at least the planet
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by lp4v4n 6mo ago
>I am not trying to be snarky; I used to think that intelligence was intrinsically tied to or perhaps identical with language I learned a long time ago that this wasn’t the case. I can speak several languages, and many times when I remem
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
It's very hard to think they wouldn't do something harmful to children again if the economic incentives aligned. For corporations it's just so easy to say sorry, and in the worst case they know an irrelevant fine will be plac
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
Society is getting materialistic and cynical to toxic levels as the standards of living and the perspective of future further deteriorate. People feel overworked, tired and out of money. This general malaise spills on almost every type of s
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
A few years ago, the "tinfoil hat crowd" had this absurd claim that Ghislaine Maxwell was a reddit powermod: https://www.vice.com/en/article/incoherent-conspiracy-sugges... The article above is from 2020
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
But my point is: have we really reached a technological level where we can use neurons like replaceable car parts? That video seems to suggest yes, but I’m still skeptical. My impression is that this company is offering a product that’s sti
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
Maybe I wasn’t explicit about this point, but I’m not only talking about understanding the biological processes behind a neuron. I’m also talking about our ability to manipulate them in something like an industrial process, combining them w
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
It’s the first time I’ve heard about this company, and of course I haven’t taken the time to check how real their product is, but honestly, for me it’s very difficult to believe we currently have the technology to correctly integrate a livi
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
>The median salary for a urologist in the United States is approximately $590,000 per year as of March 2026. Most urologists earn between $550,000 and $630,000 annually. This guy really thinks doctors make 120k/year.
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by lp4v4n 7mo ago
>1. As President Eisenhower said in his farewell address in 1961 [1], every dollar spent on the military-industrial complex is a dollar not spent on schools or houses or hospitals or bridges; This humanist view unfortunately doesn’t hold
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
>Block said Thursday it’s laying off more than 4,000 employees, or about half of its headcount. The stock skyrocketed more than 24% in extended trading. Society provides support to this kind of decision, it's obvious why it happens.
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
What about "It's free and always will be"?
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
As you said, it's impossible to determine how many of the current layoffs are caused by AI, they probably also have a lot to do with the broader economic downturn. But you’re still missing the point, if companies truly have a black box
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
So code was apparently cheap, but in fact it was expensive because it was low quality. Now with LLMs, code is cheap and it also has quality, therefore "quality code can be had in the cheap". Do you really believe this is the case?
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
>The EU has had 20 years to create an equally successful and popular product, which it failed to do. American companies don’t owe your European nationalist ambitions a dime. Use their products at your own discretion. I can see not everyb
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
>In the end it will be the users sculpting formal systems like playdoh. Yet another person who thinks that there is a silver bullet for complexity. The mythical intelligent machines that from poorly described natural language can erect f
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
There is an old word for it: saturation. And let's be honest that's not a new thing. It's been already a long time since you had a revolutionary idea in the shower only to google it(or use an LLM nowadays) and discover that t
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
I believe that most of what you said is true, but I don't think the tracking of people around the world is as efficient as your post suggests. If a single face scan were enough to track people anywhere like that, American government ag
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by lp4v4n 8mo ago
>Here, we don't have winter, fall or anything anymore. It's like this in a lot of places now. We're seeing climate change in the interval of a generation. It's absolutely scary. > The acid rain from the 90s destroy

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