ravelfan

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by ravelfan 2y ago
While this is true of course, it is easy for knowledge workers to say this when we aren't the ones pounding in nails all day. We speak as if the houses just build themselves and we just have to press these buttons in the right combinat
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by ravelfan 2y ago
What can one really comment about art though? "That is beautiful" or "That is shit". I love art but could care less about the field of art criticism. I use to have a geocities personal site on the old internet and it is
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by ravelfan 2y ago
I can't believe people think this guy is anything other than utterly full of shit and a fraud. That quote is totally moronic as usual. I would even say I don't want to read anything by anyone who thinks Zizek has anything interest
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by ravelfan 2y ago
Obviously, more people are going to read it. It is like putting a stupid face on your youtube video to show how shocked and amazed you are at the content.
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by ravelfan 3y ago
Journalist are ultimately extremely overrated in 2024. I go out of my way to not consume news outside what happens to cross my way because of financial markets. What exactly do you think I am missing that is so important? Journalist by larg
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by ravelfan 3y ago
IMO there is no hope. We have a culture that values college degrees, no matter how useless, as some kind of high moral good. To take away student loans then is a form of evil. First, you would have to ban discrimination against people witho
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by ravelfan 3y ago
I think Chomsky's idea that LLM's are a form of automated plagiarism is the best description if we think of plagiarism in a neutral sense and not a highly negative sense. If we think in terms of automated plagiarism, no one can co
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by ravelfan 3y ago
We need a word/concept for technology that has just slightly more utility than a Minsky/Shannon's useless machine but that small amount of utility obfuscates the actual uselessness of the technology.
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by ravelfan 3y ago
I hate Microsoft products in general but Excel is just good. It is not one feature but the whole package as a system. It is basically the opposite of most MS products. There is not one feature that stands out as to why I hate Word, it is th