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by polotics 2mo ago
Advice that works: - Watch the Robert Sapolsky human behavior lectures. - Learn about basic neuropsychology, to at least have a working understand of the triad Default-Mode-Network, Salience-Network, Executive-Network. - Watch your ambient
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by polotics 3mo ago
The readme is so thick with breathless LLMisms that it makes one wonder what is the point. That's a bit sad because the book's website and blog appear interesting, the author can write. Still: shall I spend 10 bucks by buying and
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by polotics 3mo ago
I strongly suspect that, like the Southampton Six, what we're looking at here is a faster unmasking of underlying neurodevelopmental issues, and not causation.
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by polotics 3mo ago
really!? nobody paid me anything for my comments on HN.
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by polotics 3mo ago
Best alternatives to negotiated agreement have been notoriously atrocious with that country/society/culture. Sadly, I expect scorched earth will be the Nash equilibrium.
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by polotics 3mo ago
Ok! why should I switch away from running Firejail on Fedora? Ok SUID security thanks
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by polotics 3mo ago
this doesn't actually teach anything about how to draw. there is one thing about using a layer for drafting, but apart from that it is how to use this very specific piece of software if you already have some skills and techniques
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by polotics 3mo ago
"they won't get fired if it keels over" ? In a company that badly managed, AI or not AI the ship's going down.
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by polotics 3mo ago
There are sclerotic forces at work in Germany. I sometimes wonder if the digestion of East-Germany hasn't somehow hurt a post-war rejuvenated Western&Southern German spirit. Maybe it's just post-traumatic-stress from the Russi
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by polotics 3mo ago
The question was whether Aristotle's model, as valid as it may or not be, is faithfully represented here.
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by polotics 3mo ago
What a Streisand effect here. I was totally uninterested in that tournament, but the picture of one American player's foot firmly twisting down another country's player's ankle is hard to unsee, and kind of a defining moment
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by polotics 3mo ago
Well yes and I don't see how this can be avoided.
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by polotics 3mo ago
quote: priest recovering from a hip fracture was offered MAID twice. Was the fracture biased? maybe twice?
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by polotics 3mo ago
Looks good. I wonder what kind of improvement can be expected at the other end of the spectrum, ie with a few local models.
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by polotics 4mo ago
That is so not true. The golden rule of "say what you mean" is about the writer. It gets broken constantly by LLMs: they always add words that do not reinforce the meaning, but dilute it.
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by polotics 4mo ago
So I've made this [me+vibe+tests]-coded Android alarm app called Promptly, and as Gemini-CLI on the Google Pro subscription is getting google-killed on June 18th, I set up two branches, one for Antigravity+Gemini3.5 and one for Pi-codi
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by polotics 4mo ago
it sometimes goes like this: vibecoding viberequirements, vibeleadership vibemanagement, vibecustomers as a matter of taste, you can substitute "slop" as a prefix
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by polotics 4mo ago
the choice of which city makes it into a dot seems very arbitrary, just for my corner of the woods, I see Genova and Lyons are omitted even they they are larger than their dot-neighbours on this map...
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by polotics 4mo ago
Jeff Bezos covered these grounds well here already, with his mandate on how meetings must run, and about "day one". Check him out. So sad that with the right incentive structure his work would be of immense value to society, inste
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by polotics 4mo ago
Do you mean the responsible people who will ensure their algorithms can be trusted with the important task of acting in the best interest of said people? Try and get a defamatory statement about google from the AI search box.
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by polotics 4mo ago
"motificational"? Excellent! "motifictional" also "motivafictional" would work , definitely reusing that!
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by polotics 4mo ago
IMHO that is the most likely of the many dystopian robots-replace-humans scenario: The AI-enhanced become more and more AI-integrated and internally AI-fused and they don't even realize they eventually are not humans at all. The non-AI
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by polotics 4mo ago
Same here, I vibe coded my perfect alarm & reminders & productivity app for Android, (Promptly AI link below) that does TTS and Gemini calls and other things that rapacious alarm-clock marketing masters charge dozens of bucks per mo
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by polotics 4mo ago
More explicitly, it puts them at the same level as Kellog's, with one difference: breakfast cereals is profitable... This is as per Patrick Boyle's https://youtu.be/IHD8BDFYyGI?si=FZ52TSEYnpJwZ1FT
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by polotics 4mo ago
Sure, untreated mental illness is a tragedy, and humanity sucks balls at biology, so hard it's as if we wished to be made of silicon. How does this make for a trend or justify the idea that the WEIRD's least-harm decisions explain
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by polotics 4mo ago
reference needed
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by polotics 4mo ago
No connection at all between this and the lie-flat and extremely low birth rate?
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by polotics 4mo ago
Be careful what you wish for Larry. If I may point to the examples of Fritz Thyssen, Hugo Junkers, Alfried Krupp... There are many examples of succesful clever mega-wealthy industrialists who really thought they were above the fray, had it
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by polotics 4mo ago
What could possibly go wrong? Let's flex some dystopian imagination for a bit shall we? ...What about some billionaire with any-promise-is-good-as-gold brain-implant tech convinces some powerful billionaire with immortal-power dreams t
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by polotics 4mo ago
Free tip: take not too little, not too much... of (1) Vitamin-D (drops) (2) Magnesium (as Magnesium aspartate hydrochloride trihydrate) (3) Psyllium shells (you won't take too much) (4) Move your body!

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