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by pegasus 5mo ago
For one, based on continuously frustrated hopes (and promises!) that hallucinations will go away.
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by pegasus 5mo ago
...or "Neanderthal males were huge, thus charismatic" :)
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by pegasus 5mo ago
Yeah, I felt the same. Especially since 1300 uses the same numbers of characters as 1.3k
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by pegasus 6mo ago
Intriguing concept, but I feel it needlessly breaks language. A more narrow (and to me, less pompous) formulation would be that social groups have their own purpose, different from (though not unrelated to) the purposes of the individual m
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by pegasus 6mo ago
Look for a quicklook markdown plugin. Google found this: https://github.com/sbarex/QLMarkdown
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Jazz v2: A local-first relational database(jazz.tools)
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by pegasus 6mo ago
Since you mention the TV, it seems there's a big factor missing in both the article and the discussion here. Namely, that sauna time is for many people the only time they ever take to be in silence, without the countless distractions
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by pegasus 6mo ago
Interesting, thanks for putting in the worthwhile effort to debunk that assertion. Clearly some hyperbolical claims have made their way into common wisdom and from there into model training data, which is unfortunate and feeds the conspirac
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by pegasus 6mo ago
AI is great at these kind of searches. Here's what Claude found: https://claude.ai/share/bea11195-731b-4301-a2f5-fb669961a60e And Gemini: https://gemini.google.com/share/bfe9c3d5a2de TLDR: i
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by pegasus 6mo ago
1. They might not, but that's not decisive for reproductive isolation. Basically, those two populations have diverged enough that we know, from studying speciation in general, that they are on separate evolutionary trajectories never t
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by pegasus 6mo ago
> The definition of what constitutes a species is a human construct That makes it sound like the boundaries between species are arbitrary, but they are not. Sure, there are corner cases where things become debatable, but those are the ra
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by pegasus 6mo ago
> Seems to me, that we divide other animals based on some of the most minor of phenotypic expressions It might seem like that to you, but you'd be wrong. Taxonomy prioritizes genetic distance and reproductive isolation over superfic
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by pegasus 6mo ago
Good points. On the bottleneck hypothesis, a new study came out in 2024 arguing that the 900kya population loss was, if not a statistical artifact, more likely a genetic sweep or genome takeover via adaptive advantage. Whatever might be th
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by pegasus 6mo ago
So, the most successful at arrogance? In other words, the least successful at humility? Ironically, since humble and human share a common root. Just playing devil's advocate here, but what you propose is not a good metric to maximize.
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by pegasus 6mo ago
Evolution is survival of the fittest. That's not a tautology, it actually says something, namely that the traits which survive and thus propagate tend to be the ones that enable some form of adaptation to its living conditions to the i
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by pegasus 6mo ago
> do humans _need_ most software? Yes, if it's not redundant software. The ultimate utility is to a human. Sure, at some point humans stopped writing assembly language and employed a compiler instead, so the abstraction level and in
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by pegasus 6mo ago
> but that gap gets smaller every year (and will ostensibly be closed) As long as you build software for humans (and all software we build is for humans, ultimately), you'll need humans at the helm to steer the ship towards a huma
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by pegasus 6mo ago
> graded live coding examples for interviews Yeah, for those you can just relax and trust the vibes. It's for complex software projects you need those software engineering chops, otherwise you end up with a intractable mess.
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by pegasus 7mo ago
One thing I've learned by following a link from elsewhere in this thread is that while the total count of neurons in an animal's nervous system is not a good proxy for intelligence, the count of neurons in the forebrain is. By tha
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by pegasus 7mo ago
But LLMs can also explain code, in fact they're fantastic at that. They can also be used to build anti-censorship, surveillance-avoidance and fact-checking tools. We are all empowered by them, it's just up to us to employ th
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by pegasus 7mo ago
There are no cartoon villains in general, that's the point GP is making by using the word "cartoon". Let's use some common sense, it's not like Trump and Hegseth got together and sneaked in the school on the list of
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by pegasus 7mo ago
This is very different from targeting civilians as a goal in itself, which is what it would have had to be if this was not just negligence, but intentional, as GP suggested. Parent correctly points out that there's both no political in
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by pegasus 7mo ago
There's a paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.19461 Abstract: Self-improving AI systems aim to reduce reliance on human engineering by learning to improve their own learning and problem-solving processes. Existing
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by pegasus 7mo ago
> For Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, each person having their own website where they post and that post being pushed to these platforms is also another way to force interoperability on them or be left behind. There's an acronym for t
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by pegasus 7mo ago
Probably some AI assistance was involved. Though you'd expect em dashes above, for example. A better example would be "No regression. No noise. Just compounding." It's not so much as to bother me, and I'm often anno
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by pegasus 7mo ago
A hiker on a mountain might as well imagine that at the end of their journey they will step off onto the moon. But it's just a mirage. As us humans have externalized more and more of our understanding of the world into books, movies, w
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by pegasus 7mo ago
Sure, but it's entirely possible this point lies way past the expiry date of the universe itself (if there is such a thing). Plus, I do believe in magic - the magic of Life, the Universe, and Everything. And "42" doesn't
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by pegasus 7mo ago
So they're only interested in taking on customers who are OK with being treated poorly?
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by pegasus 7mo ago
> you're going to see a different process for the first time in your life That sounds very neutral, but wouldn't this, by removing the human element and flexibility from business transactions, be a further step along a general
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by pegasus 7mo ago
I have a feeling our collective leg is being pulled: "The behavioural components of happiness are less easily characterised but particular facial expressions such as 'smiling' have been noted" "Certainly, if televis

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