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by peacebeard 1y ago
Maybe if you include "terminally watching the news on TV". But either way, it's a lot of people.
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by peacebeard 1y ago
Some better versions of this take might be “In the culture war many people are only willing to consume media that perfectly signals their virtues, so even innocuous content can seem antagonistic.” or “Our culture changed and I don’t like it
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by peacebeard 1y ago
I am not saying that people were not specific in their instructions to the LLM, but rather that in the discussion they are not sharing specific details of their success stories or failures. We are left seeing lots of people saying "it
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by peacebeard 1y ago
Very common to see in comments some people saying “it can’t do that” and others saying “here is how I make it work.” Maybe there is a knack to it, sure, but I’m inclined to say the difference between the problems people are trying to use it
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by peacebeard 1y ago
I don’t fit in either category. My experience is that LLMs are good at writing code that is easy to write. This is not game-changing, but it is useful.
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by peacebeard 1y ago
“Barely maintained” is a rude way to say mature, stable, and functionally complete.
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by peacebeard 1y ago
Interestingly, one of the suggestions for people who want to have lucid dreams (and I have tested it) is to look at a clock. In a dream it will either be nonsense or unverifiable.
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by peacebeard 1y ago
We teach old books because no one would ever agree on what new books to teach.
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by peacebeard 1y ago
The web tried to be a competitor for native apps by offering technical parity but it wasn’t enough. Web versions of serious apps tend to be broken and have a banner asking you to download the native app. You can argue about why it happened,
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by peacebeard 1y ago
Casinos say gambling is what people want. Tobacco companies say cigarettes is what people want. Drug dealers say fent is what people want.
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by peacebeard 2y ago
I googled this and got a few different answers, but not this one. Is there a particular implementation you’re referring to?
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by peacebeard 3y ago
Years ago I made a simple one that I still host at https://letterbrush.com
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by peacebeard 3y ago
I am leaving Reddit because I use Apollo and I don't think their mobile site or app are acceptable. I would like to try Tildes but I cannot because it's invite only and I don't have the time to figure out where to get an invi