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by phs318u 1y ago
Make a big deal about the shill/fake accounts. Educate people as to the benefits of your offering vs theirs and explain how even with their "free credits" offer, it's a poor alternative. I presume these offers are made i
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by phs318u 1y ago
- Inflate expectations of AGI - Attract ridiculous levels of investment - Profit! - Extend corporate entanglements to ensure that if OpenAI fails, many others will fail, thereby attracting yet more funding to keep the balloon in the air. -
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by phs318u 1y ago
Ban them? You haven't said but I assume the vendor's presence in the Slack is not disguised. Either way, it's your Slack and you're entitled to determine who is welcome and who isn't. You are under no obligation to
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by phs318u 1y ago
"Millions of people" should either be putting their money (and their objections) where their mouth is or stop relying on someone else's resource. The reality is, that like Wikipedia, few people have donated to IA as a proport
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> instead it’ll normalize a new era of political extremism That ship sailed in the Clinton era when Republicans turned a breach of workplace ethics into a coup. Every time the Republicans held any sort of power in Washington, they would
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I agree with your first two sentences. Sadly, what follows is a hot mess of misunderstanding both the purpose and functional mechanism of money.
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A seriously good idea which I can find no prior art for! Also, worth checking out this pro-privacy/anti-surveillance artist/activist - Adam Harvey. His site and his work is a fantastic intro into the anti-surveillance scene. (Chec
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Anti-surveillance makeup anyone? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision_dazzle
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Even if true, you’ve not countered a single point. Are there un-truths among those points? If so, let’s hear them.
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I thought this was a serious take for a second (until I looked at microsoft_recall_linux.exe - lol). Having said that, I would actually be keen for something similar that is both open-source and totally local so that I could use the output
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.. . in the la-and of the freeee, and the ho-ome of the brave!
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Calling other people making comments in good faith “imbecile” or stupid is not awesome dude. It’s against HN rules and the spirit of this site.
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For the Outlook haters out there here's my 2c of anecdata. At home I use BetterBird, at work Outlook, and I used to use Apple Mail/Calendar on my phone. I access multiple mailboxes: Microsoft 365, Google Workplace and Apple iCloud
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by phs318u 1y ago
What? Are there UX "standards", the lack of which might impede an end-users experience of the product? Or are you referring to protocol and/or interoperability standards, which make it difficult for 3rd parties to integrate (
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Wake me up (from my cryo-sleep) when even a single one of the longevity tech-bros gets to 150.
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Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. The marketing that LLM=AI seems to have been interpreted as “_only_ LLM=AI”
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> Reporting n more people died from heart disease every day isn't news. True. But reporting that there’s been a 50% increasing in heart disease in the 30-50yo cohort in the last 20 years probably is (or should be) notable.
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I agree that FSF and similar groups should be focusing efforts on influencing government policy at least as much as on software. The problem is that in practice, you’ll get a bunch of people who are erstwhile free software supporters, shout
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by phs318u 1y ago
Are you able to source all (or even the majority) of goods and services that YOU use, within the crypto ecosystem? Are you getting paid directly in crypto (or if you offer goods/services, do you only accept crypto)? i.e. direct exchang
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by phs318u 1y ago
I'm old enough to remember the internet before the WWW and yes, anonymity enabled the troll culture (among other things). Honesty and free expression didn't require anonymity because people weren't being constantly monitored
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If only those so offended by this and other (comparatively isolated) incidents, don't apply the same level of distrust of those that behave unethically and corruptly on an almost daily basis i.e. oligarchs and politicians. It's li
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by phs318u 1y ago
> even the pre-LLM models You're implicitly disparaging non-LLM models at the same time as implying that LLMs are an evolution of the state of the art (in machine learning). Assuming AGI is the target (and it's not clear if we
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With humans, we call that subscription a salary.
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Multi-master can be useful in cases where writes to the data are usually logically grouped by an attribute that correlates to the distribution of masters e.g. sales info by geography. The chances of write conflicts become much smaller (thou
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We can't help humans figure out who/what to trust. Are chances with machines are slim.
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s/digitally illiterate/illiterate/
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https://archive.is/OZJJa
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CAISE? Computer Aided Intelligent Software Engineering
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"Uh. F*k no." - Kelvin Meeks https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7379198... For those not willing to read Kelvin's comments in full (on LinkedIn), here are the links he uses to come
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Unfortunate timing.

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