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by phs318u 6mo ago
Is it? Why? I mean, you’ve got to use a pronoun and these days any pick you make is likely to trigger a response in someone. Use “he”? Paternalistic. Use “she”? “Interesting”. Use “they”? Woke. Also, what does the pride flag have anything t
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by phs318u 6mo ago
> Is it really psychosis for someone, who already thinks consciousness isn't supernatural, to think that consciousness isn't special enough to be out of reach of current primitive AI efforts? This is what I also thought. By def
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by phs318u 6mo ago
> The claim that literally blowing up vast quantities of money has been good for America is an extraordinary one that requires extraordinary evidence If you change “America” to “the American Military Industrial Complex”, then the claim i
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by phs318u 6mo ago
I don’t think I can overstate how incredibly damaging to the US’s ability to negotiate anything, this constant changing/altering/reneging/tearing-up of deals is. Any state or organisation that fails to treat the USA as anythi
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Similar arguments could be made about the US republic. The land of Washington, Jefferson, Franklin and Lincoln, now also speed running its way to failed state status and being run and supported by loons.
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Fast forward this decision and I can envisage a land of automotive strangeness much like the “other worldly” sense you get when landing in Cuba and seeing the preponderance of strange (to modern eyes) old cars.
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by phs318u 6mo ago
> With the help of AI, small players can do a better job at removing CSAM. Chicken/egg. How do you expect that AI to be able to detect CSAM without appropriate training, which requires appropriately classified training data?
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by phs318u 6mo ago
“See? We’re good guys. We help uncover [very low level] corruption!” (Looks backwards, “How’s our next project going? The mind-reading product of Panopticon X Torment Nexus?”)
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by phs318u 6mo ago
And... there’s no actual image of the generated portrait in the posted article. Here’s the source (Italian): https://pompeiisites.org/comunicati/archeologia-pompei-nuovi...
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Well, if “specially treated” also includes “especially poorly treated”, then sure, there’s plenty of non-rich being “specially treated”. Take your pick from the non-rich subsets of immigrants, trans, kinda-Mexican-looking, pregnant-and-cros
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Don’t like Anthropic? Use a competing service. At this point the sheer volume of your commentary is not particularly complimentary to your own critical thinking skills. It’s not your job to correct the internet or to convince randoms of the
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by phs318u 6mo ago
If you can point to a consumer targeted service that provides and keeps their SLAs, I’ll be impressed.
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Tell me you know nothing of the regional history without telling me you know nothing of the regional history. Search “eretz yisrael”
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by phs318u 6mo ago
> There's nothing Israelis want more than give up their military. Watch this and tell me that your statement still holds true. Israel has descended to the level of the worst of its enemies. There is no moral high ground left. https
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by phs318u 6mo ago
> If all parties decide to lay down their weapons there would be peace tomorrow. Which is why there will never be peace - tomorrow or any other day - because Israel wants everyone else to disarm, excluding themselves. How else are they g
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Fair enough. You’re human too. Thank you for the job you do. As quixotic as t sometimes appears I value the effort and it’s a big part of why this forum has stayed cleaner than others. Please don’t be disheartened. Discussions like these pr
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by phs318u 6mo ago
All communities eventually become a reflection of the society they are a part of. Even a willingly insular and sometimes wilfully ignorant one. Did you think this corner of the internet - your beautiful little garden - could survive unscath
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by phs318u 6mo ago
> Whoever is writing this seems to have absolutely no clue how AI works. The question isn’t really about how AI works. It’s about how Google (the company) works. Do their actions match their stated intentions? Which is really a question
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Not that it matters to this discussion anymore but you avoided answering the specific question. Would you also vote for defunding Israel?
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by phs318u 6mo ago
You have repeatedly stated you’d be happy for the US to shut its bases in Europe and pull their troops out, and stop funding NATO. Do you believe it should take the same stance with Israel? If not, why not?
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by phs318u 6mo ago
As any DBA worth their salt knows. Index the many valued column, not the column with few discrete values.
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Please don’t do this. At least donate to your local library or thrift store.
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Turning Iran into another Afghanistan would not have been a win for anyone with a memory longer than the last two election cycles.
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by phs318u 6mo ago
Seems fair to me too. I have done and continue to do this. I have no ethical qualms doing so. Should I?
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by phs318u 7mo ago
No offence, but you were banging on about the “Shia apartheid regime” and implied (EDIT: spelling) they are a minority when 95% of Iranians are Shia. There is more apartheid in Israel than Iran. As for theocratic governments, the region is
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Israel is an apartheid regime. Palestinian Israelis are constantly discriminated against and have laws apply differently to them. You could also argue that there’s a significant theocratic element in the Israeli government (resulting from t
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by phs318u 7mo ago
> Zuckerberg or Gates in a bar or a county fair? Probably beaten to death or shot. I think you’re probably right about these two. However if I try and imagine someone like, say, Warren Buffet or Jimmy Carter at a public place like that I
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by phs318u 7mo ago
Parent may or may not be AI generated or AI edited. As such it MAY breach one of the HN commenting guidelines Your comment however definitely breaches several of them.
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Problem is also that your “Secretary of War” has fired two dozen of your most experienced military leaders since coming into office. When the history of the American demise as a global superpower gets written, this war and the government be
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by phs318u 7mo ago
I completely agree... IF the implied caveat is “for ALL of us”. If, on the other hand, you are talking about an extremely small subset of the population (maybe the size or of the world’s billionaires, their families and key staff), it might

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