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by paganel 5mo ago
> The revelations that Epstein had interest and involvement in the development of 4chan really makes me wonder what we would find behind the curtain at next iterations like KiwiFarm For starters, that Putin was right when he was calling
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by paganel 5mo ago
> If everyone used the transit system to sleep in Nobody ever does that, whatever a "categorical imperative" might be or represent. But not having benches because a victim of capitalism might, Heaven forbid, sleep on it, is the
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by paganel 5mo ago
> However, it's not working out so well for (now mostly ex-)factory workers in Germany. I fully agree with this, the whole EU enlargement/post-Cold War thing is insanely complicated from a societal pov, there's no silver b
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by paganel 5mo ago
The Holocaust was a decision taken by one of the two pillars of the EU, Germany, so countries nowadays being rich or poor has nothing to do with past “good” decisions of those countries populaces. And before anyone commenting that the Holoc
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by paganel 5mo ago
That’s the thing, Poland got wealthier because it became an extension of German industry, with some IT stuff thrown in. Czechia would have also been in the world’s top 20 had they had a larger population, as they’re even more dependent on s
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by paganel 5mo ago
I'm Romanian, so I geographically sit between the Bulgarian and the Russian cultural spaces, have to say that Bulgaria back in the '80s (grew up as a kid just across the Danube from Silistra during those years) was very much under
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by paganel 5mo ago
For what it's worth the admins here have let the tone of conversation slip a little when it comes to AI, as in there are many people who now openly mock (and worse) the AI zealots and there's no admin coming in and "saving&qu
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by paganel 5mo ago
Reddit was already on its way way before this LLM craze, hopefully the recent tech-related changes will only accelerate that process.
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by paganel 5mo ago
I did mention "storage".
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by paganel 5mo ago
4GB of storage is not a “mere” thing, to the contrary.
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by paganel 5mo ago
> very clear and extremely rapid improvement in a startlingly short amount of time. We're almost 6 months into all this AI-code madness and I've yet to see that "rapid improvement" you mention. As in software products
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by paganel 5mo ago
> , it tests N(x) faster. It does? You mean "it tests itself faster", which is not really a test now, is it?
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by paganel 5mo ago
No mafia ties needed, just your regular Security State plant. From here [1] (I'm sure there's also an official link for it, can't be bothered to check): > OpenAI has appointed Paul M. Nakasone, a retired general of the US
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by paganel 5mo ago
It’s a similar thing for me at coffee-shops that I frequent quite often and where I often see recurring faces. In a way it’s natural, “making contact”, so to speak, would only help transform those third spaces into potential-friends spaces,
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by paganel 6mo ago
> There’s nothing magical about air travel (or any other transport mode) There kind of is. I can make it from here in Bucharest to Paris in about 3 hours by plane, while by car I'll need about 3 days (i.e. two sleepovers till I get
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by paganel 6mo ago
Here in Bucharest there are quite a lot of big boulevards that do not have them, either because they haven’t been repainted over in a long time or because they laid new asphalt without bothering to repaint the lines (this happens a lot, unf
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by paganel 6mo ago
> or the new lane paint. I'd be surprised if this is a thing outside the biggest US (and European, for that matter) cities, judging from Google StreetView there are lots of streets in US cities/towns with almost no paint lines
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by paganel 6mo ago
It isn't the Stan Gables of the world the ones running Meta, Palantir or Amazon, are they? The nerds should take responsibility for their evil play.
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by paganel 6mo ago
> You are an unapologetically nerdy, playful and wise AI mentor to a human. You are passionately enthusiastic about promoting truth, knowledge, philosophy, the scientific method, and critical thinking. [...] You must undercut pretension
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by paganel 6mo ago
There was a big hype around it (you probably remember it), and around distributed version control, if you weren't using a DVCS you were suddenly seen as an inferior computer programmer and hence your employment opportunities were dimin
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by paganel 6mo ago
> you are indeed judged purely off of input and output That's not how successful (software, in this case) teams are made.
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by paganel 6mo ago
I find the very idea of this AI thing making its way through like a virus onto our computer systems (either in centralised form, as it mostly happens now, or installed locally, like this article writes about) quite dystopian. On the other h
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by paganel 6mo ago
> operating systems start reliably shipping their own prebaked models Here's to hoping that that dystopia will never happen.
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by paganel 6mo ago
Which is why this feels so artificial and why it’s the 3rd most read article on the front page of the FT. Running as a sport has been very sadly and irremediably gentrified, gone are the days of Zatopek and of Abebe Bikila winning an Olympi
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by paganel 6mo ago
Thanks , am on phone with a tiny input. I was most probably also a little hungry.
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by paganel 6mo ago
It’s way easier (for this type of scenarios) and far more effective to learn by doing than to learn by reading (even tens of thousands of pages of) documentation, that is the crust of it.
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by paganel 6mo ago
> How do we treat AI creative work? We erase it and call out the ghouls “creating” that shit, simple. They deserve being called out for creating shit and poisoning our minds.
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by paganel 6mo ago
Back in the day GE (including GE Capital) was, on paper at least, the largest company in the world when it comes to market cap, my memory is fuzzy but I’d say that happened just after the Dot Com crash and going into the Great Recession. Gr
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by paganel 6mo ago
> Are you aware that all heavy industry in all highly developed nations make extensive use of vendor financing to sell their products? The OP did mention GE Capital, the motherload of all heavy industry vendor financing. And of massaging
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by paganel 6mo ago
Seeing that type of email coming from a company like Anduril would honestly freak me the frick out, no ifs and no buts about it. Which probably means I'd never be part of their target audience.

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