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by mmooss 3mo ago
How would that regulation interfere with role play? Role play is 'play'; people know what it is. It shouldn't interfere with immersion: People suspend disbelief in movie theaters or reading books, despite knowing it's a
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Would you give examples of possible negative results, especially those that outweigh the benefits? Do you have ideas on how to do it better? > like the pop up every time I start my car that reminds me I should not play with the screen wh
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by mmooss 3mo ago
What things? Again, I don't see any but manipulation and fraud, but I certainly could be missing some.
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(2012) Also here: https://web.archive.org/web/20131230055512/http://squid314.l... Does anyone know the provenance of this story? One comment says, responding to someone who recommends publishing it, >
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Why allow anthropomorphism in LLM or any computer output, for any age group? A simple regulation would be that all LLM output must: * Explicitly identify itself as a computer * Identify the human or human org controlling it (e.g.
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by mmooss 3mo ago
> He wrote at length about how wikipedia is the antithesis of the entire conception of a wiki. Do you happen to know where?
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by mmooss 3mo ago
I'm curious about Mozilla's seeming shift in strategy (possibly it was awhile ago and I overlooked it): For a long time, with relatively limited (compared to Google and Apple) development resources, they focused on minimizing upke
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by mmooss 3mo ago
I'm not talking about now. You said "every few decades" - when has it happened before? I think "every few decades" normalizes what is a unique situation in US history. > I really don't care about other &quot
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> It's why we flirt with/fall face first into authoritarianism every few decades. Did the US or any advanced democracy "flirt with/fall face first into authoritarianism" a few decades ago?
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> The lesson of the last 50 years of the computer and software marketplace is that free and low-end eventually wins. The parent comment cherry-picks evidence. There are plenty of counter-examples: * Office productivity suites * Sea
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Dev tools are not for 99% of end users and not realistically available to them (even if they stumble across dev tools, they don't know what they've found or how to use them). PDF editing is for end users and is realistically avail
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> Containers let you keep separate parts of your online life (work, shopping, personal, banking) logged into different accounts in the same browser window, but keep your cookies and ad tracking isolated inside each container. What's
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Many URLs start with http(s): and end in .pdf . If we define web browser as http browser rather than html browser , then viewing PDFs fits the concept. My web browser also displays plain text, video, audio, etc., so http browser s
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Christopher Nolan on the Sheer Technial Feat of Filming 'The Odyssey'(nytimes.com)
2 points by mmooss 3mo ago|0 comments
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Think for yourself. I'm not making a pitch for funding. Instead of complaining and talking about tangential stuff, get to work.
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Wow, people are really advocates of helplessness. Warfare is a great example: It has gone on for all of history, yet people working together have mostly eliminated it - exactly what you say. It has gone on for all of history, and most of wh
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by mmooss 3mo ago
The event we need is for you and others to start working, instead of standing on the sidelines telling other people it's impossible. Humanity has overcome many things by working together. Much of humanity is already working together to
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I seriously expect that some will begin to say that LLM output is the word of God.
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> The marketing and ecosystem surrounding these tools feeds into the anthropomorphization to a huge extent And especially their design. The con artist politeness and confidence is not an accident of output, but a design choice by the dev
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Both claims seem to obviously contradict reality, imho: > Humans are wired to anthropomorphise; we do it with sticks and rocks. I do not see people anthropomorphize their TVs, books, paintings, cars, houses, rocks, sticks, ... I'm n
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by mmooss 3mo ago
It's an interesting question: Isn't Texas widely marketed as a 'low tax area'? It may be a 'low income tax area', with more regressive taxes used to fund the state and an equal or higher total? Texans need to
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by mmooss 3mo ago
Another story in the same publication is about one of their writers being arrested because of Flock cameras (falsely IDing their test-drive car).
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For recovering wet film (p. 69) (excerpts are not continuous in the original): > The key is to prevent the films from drying out before they can be rewashed and dried in a laboratory, and to keep them cool while waiting for this treatmen
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by mmooss 3mo ago
FIAF is the International Federation of Film Archives, which has a wealth of resources. Ch. 6 begins the technical specifics of film. The guide also covers paper and photos, as well as magnetic tape (p. 72).
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FIAF Disaster Handbook: Preparedness & Recovery for Audio-Visual Archives(fiafnet.org)
1 points by mmooss 3mo ago|2 comments
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Regarding the unintentional overdoses: "There are two distinct clinical syndromes described in literature. One is the 'garden variety', wherein the patients ingested large amounts of acetaminophen with a suicidal intent ....
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The Pubmed articles are from 20 years ago. The 2023 JAMA article has some qualified information: "In 2021, US poison centers received more than 80 000 cases involving an acetaminophen product.1 The National Electronic Injury Surveillan
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That's the semi-real shopping site's fake journalism site. Try to keep up!
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That would be a fantastic art installation. In some places, landlords allow empty storefronts to be used for art. You might get people to contribute satirical spins on different trends or designers. I hope you or someone does it.
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Seriously, the project's code name could be dopamine delivery. They could make it a demo of all the tricks.

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