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mrbombastic
8mo ago
Yes and thank you in advance
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8mo ago
I say this as someone who believes in a higher being, we have played this game before, the ethereal thing can just move to someplace science can’t get to, it is not really a valid argument for existence.
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9mo ago
? They certainly flatter you, openAI even felt compelled to give a statement on the sycophancy problem: https://openai.com/index/sycophancy-in-gpt-4o/ And South Park parodied the issue. I use chatGPT and claude ev
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9mo ago
this is still a thing?
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9mo ago
Sure but there have also been numerous studies that it does affect sexual behavior and expectations for those that do have sex
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9mo ago
I don't see a single comment in this thread praising Maduro, I have basically never heard anyone express this sentiment in these discussions: "Maduro: Democratic leader, universally loved by his ever grateful people for standing u
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9mo ago
Not OP, There is none as far as I can tell but still force unwrapping that way is something people try to avoid in Swift and often times have the linter warn about. Reason being people will copy the pattern elsewhere and make the assumption
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9mo ago
This just happened to me a couple days ago trying to get from Luxembourg to Heidelberg, got on what I thought was the right train at a transfer but was apparently the wrong half, announcement only in German, rushing to find a spot for lugga
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10mo ago
“ Once our work is done, we create a “pull request”. This is a way of emulating open-source development inside a single company, which as we know, is the only way to work. Typically, this means that the code is downloaded and built on anoth
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10mo ago
Yeah my father who codes occasionally asked me what the best AI for coding was and he had never even heard of claude so I would be very surprised if your average person knows it.
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11mo ago
Utopia is nigh.
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11mo ago
Have you tried asking an llm to use react to fix your Linux kernel?
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11mo ago
200k is a fairly high salaried software eng in expensive markets, a bounty program like this would be open worldwide and many people would be willing to work for a fraction of that, quality control is another concern but take a look at pric
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11mo ago
There is also teller.io i tried them for a side project and were pretty good, but I didn’t go to far
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11mo ago
That seems like more like openAI playing whackamole with behaviors they don’t like or see as beneficial, simplifying but adding things to system prompts like “don’t ever say racial slurs or use offensive rhetoric, cut off conversations abou
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11mo ago
I would expect the opposite. Seems unlikely to me an ai company would be spending much time engineering system prompts that way except in the case of maybe Grok where Elon has a bone to pick with perceived bias.
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11mo ago
True freedom is letting your beliefs float to support whatever the fuck you feel like doing that day
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11mo ago
“ You haven’t made a case for why free content should be more important than relevance.” I didn’t make that claim, i am contesting the claim “Only relevance should decide ranking”. I am arguing ease of accessibility should be a factor.
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11mo ago
Openness and accessibility should absolutely be factors in ranking, otherwise where does it end? I dk what twitter requires these days, maybe an email, password and a couple more fields, what if a site starts doing id verification? What if
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11mo ago
“Free content would win out over paid content regardless of quality” this doesn’t follow unless we assume the most extreme implementation, the openness of the content is just one factor of many that should count in the contents favor. Furth
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11mo ago
https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/2025-Intern... The state dept report from 2025 found that fentanyl basically only comes to the US through Mexico and Venezuela is not a major player. I fi
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11mo ago
Nope, that might be the policy in some sane world: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) does not let people decline to be scanned by its new facial recognition app, which the agency uses to verify a person’s identity and their immigra
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11mo ago
Define the “you” you are talking about please.
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1y ago
“How exactly can they do it if every Democratic-run state and city refuses to comply? How can the democratic will of citizens be carried out?” If a candidate makes campaign promises that do not work in the framework of our constitution or c
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1y ago
If you haven’t seen it this video is a dystopian display of this tech in action: https://www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/comments/1ogm1qk/ice_agen... I am struggling a bit personally with how to grapple with
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1y ago
The organization refused applications from anyone who wasn’t a black female, again different then an outreach group. I am sure if a male applied to “Girls who code” was denied and was able to establish this did harm to him he could have a c
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1y ago
In regards to race conscious bias in the admissions process this is very different then an outreach program
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1y ago
Outreach programs like “girls who code” and encouraging underrepresented groups to get involved are absolutely not against the law. Explicit discriminatory practices in hiring practices would be.
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1y ago
The default should be to treat people with respect and give benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise, treating people as guilty because of where they were born is always a crappy thing to do.
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1y ago
Yes because proper asbestos removal is very costly and people don't want to deal with it, your house is going to look like the government coming for ET. Very tempting for a singular homeowner to just read up and rent some ventilation e
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