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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Not everyone is going to be able to use AI as just a tool. The reality I have seen is that AI has sped the time-to-pr up for those who don't care what they ship, so that gets baked into estimates and expectations. > Eventually
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by palmotea 3mo ago
I think you're both talking about personality problems: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/22/opinion/office-work-wfh-b... : > The Secret Reason Bosses Want Everyone Back in the Office, Every Day of
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> I do mean losing that specific sale. I’m also referring to the economists who saw an increase in sales. The sales of most of the books talked about in the article are minuscule, and the best selling one sucked so bad Amazon pulled it.
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> It's really ridiculous how little discussion there was about places like Gibraltar and Northern Ireland before the Brexit vote. > Looks like NI voted ~55% remain and Gibraltar ~95% remain, but too bad, England voted ~53% leave,
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Whatever you think of AI for your own work, the fact that the entire economy is betting everything on it is really concerning. It’s not just the fact that it may not work well economically speaking and would end up with a market crash,
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> At the other end they recently doubled the cost of the Starlink Mini standby plan, from $60 to $120 per year. I kinda wanted to get one of those for standby, but the price seemed too good to be true, so I figured they'd either eli
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> And it goes on, and on, and on. Modern “tech companies” haven’t come up with any aspect of life they haven’t tried to “disrupt,” for the purposes of addicting you and then enshitifying the service by shoving ads in front of your eyes.
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Yes, I had a related experience of reading a book and observing what I thought were claude-isms, only to realize it was written in 2019. Some of the common tells are actually good writing practices, but I guess they are best in smaller
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> You are not arguing in good faith mate. Look in the mirror. > Are you for real, do you want to go back to the Stone Age? Go ahead!!! That, my "friend," is called a strawman. > You are absolutely delusional. That's
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Wouldn't a counter this argument be biological systems? These are reasonable points as long as we are talking about current methods, but I assume if we were to get to the point of self replicating probes it would be done by someth
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> More technology does bring more progress in the long-run. That's an article of faith, and I don't think it's true, or will stop being true at some point. > Control of technology is a key issue. Social media wouldn’t b
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by palmotea 3mo ago
>> "It's inherently worth more because it's hard-earned and anchored to experiences we share." > At some point, it will be impossible to tell the difference. Many people already can't tell if something was
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> LLMs are categorically a different thing. Instead of soundly translating between formal languages, they adjust how you interact with the formal language. Yeah, equating LLMs with compilers is sloppy thinking (though, I'm sure some
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> I think the animosity to AI is more complex. There's combinations of anger about wealth disparity, a loss of trust, another of Sagan's great demotions, and this weird anticapitalist embracing of a hypercapitalist notion of In
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> No written rules for this game survived antiquity. To reconstruct how the game may have been played, researchers turned to the Ludii General Game System — a comprehensive digital platform developed at Maastricht University that can mod
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by palmotea 3mo ago
>> And look how poorly they did it until they invented writing. > How can you know how poorly they did it? You could probably get some sense by comparing illiterate people to literate people.
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Thinking happens at least for me before I write. I know what I want to do before I write, and writing is just one medium to get it out there. If there was a faster way, to get my thoughts there I would use that. A lot of people obser
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Plenty of preppers who diligently prepared bunkers for the end of the world emerged from those bunkers, not because they ran out of food or ammo, but because their hair got too annoying to deal with and cosplaying survival Sure, but wh
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> One thing we learned during COVID was a significant limitation in people's willingness to stay isolated was their hair was getting out of control. It's the exact, boring, unsexy topic that you omit if you're selling the
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Throw the whole thing on auto, check out, and go do something else during the day. If that's what you're doing, you're fucked (in today's society, at least). What happens to your job when they figure out that's
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> I don't know if it's a bad idea or not, but I'm struggling to understand how the idea as presented in the post would be a violation of fundamental human rights. Do you care to elaborate? Nowadays calling something "
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by palmotea 3mo ago
> Cannot pursue your vocation in certain jurisdictions. And there are plenty of adjacent fields I suspect wouldn't be covered by the NC - like education. I doubt the PE firm informed him of that, and I'd bet they made their NC
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> An acquaintance of mine was accidentally wired about $100k when it was supposed to be $5k. Before it could be reversed, they moved accounts and immediately bought a one way flight out of country. They then changed all socials and handl
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> Why should these developers rebuild a core piece of their stack every few months. Switching out a model requires a new round of testing and validation when we should be able to rely on a piece of software the behave the same way since
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> But there are a few places that will need Starlink, like planes, cruise ships, and islands. I'm just not sure if that will justify that $1T valuation. There's also drones and front-line trenches, but your point still stands.
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> this was full blown state religion, held in the same esteem as Yahweh, and co-existing with worship of him. IIRC, I'm pretty sure there's also a lot about that in the Bible too (e.g Israelites worshiping other gods like Baal
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> We also know for example that the types of beliefs detailed in Exodus, especially the idea that the Israelites worshiped Yahweh alone as the only God, are not historical. Belief and worship of other gods were common in both the ancient
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> There's a lot of claims in the exodus story which would have left behind corroborative histories. There's a lot of distance between having claims in the account not supported by evidence and it being an "entirely fiction
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> If they do, then AI writing will incorporate them. Eventually, but at least for something like "ain't" the hill to climb to get there will probably be a lot higher, because you've got decades if not centuries of exp
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by palmotea 4mo ago
> Beyond the OP's AI-written or AI assisted distinction, I'm also noticing people mimicking LLM's speech patterns. I wonder if long disfavored words like "ain't" might make a comeback as proofs of humanity.

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