revolvingocelot

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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Elsagate is only going to get worse with the advent of AI-powered content. We're already at the point where passable robo-Seinfeld is possible...
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
The "reasoning" on display in TFA, and the citation of a dubious study suggesting a minute-but-measurable increase in Something, makes me think of the "Tory power stance" [0][1]. If it doesn't work or look good but
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree with this analysis, and submit that those users condescendingly suggesting that it's we who've changed and not 4chan may never have actually experienced the kind of 4chan to which the parent refers. Things w
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Your twit-xamples compare two different things. ChatGPT can pass exams [0] and IQ tests [1], but that doesn't mean it's a "strong AI", just that it's good at talking -- or, rather, creating text output that humans c
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
For whatever reason, you're not responding in this way to the root comment -- perhaps HN's rules of civility are only for some topics. If I'm the only one who can't read journalists' minds, this is an embarrassing w
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
>That's a teenager's point of view But haven't you read these well-upvoted opinions? It's the right of the adult to do whatever they want; the student-lifestyle of public transit is the position of the grubby, naive
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
While I don't necessarily agree with the somewhat-uncharitable root level comments currently around here, I think it's probably worth replacing those screenshots with more complex examples. If one advertises the bot as being able
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Keep in mind that this is the same game whose client-update-handshake-dance largely consisted of an enormous JSON of all the updates that had ever been done to the gamestate, which then got parsed naively. This situation was recognized and
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Don't fret, surveillance is still baked right in. The video player is bad so that one installs the app, whose video player, and ability to spy on the user, is much superior to that of the browser. The various ol., old., and i. subdomai
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Well, no. Controlled burns were suppressed for decades on end [0]. It's one of the reasons for the absolutely unforgettable fires (cf. "gigafire"[1]) various places on Earth have been experiencing for the past few years strai
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
>You're mistaking redistribution for destruction... No, you are. With respect, you should consider reading some history. Try reading about the conditions of the peasantry after the black plague, or postwar Europe, or even the vari
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Hey, it could just be a troll! Or someone with nonhuman morality! Consider the dubious truthiness of "every house that comes up on the market is immediately snatched up by some 30/40 year old who is buying a home for his growing f
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
This response is probably more abstruse and rhetorical than logical, but here goes. Consider that, if the AI "actually" has experienced all the digested human experiences, the vast majority of them -- even those, in the phase spac
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Either that, or they're history buffs. What precipitates the redistribution of wealth, historically? Some kind of gigantic disaster -- war, famine, plague, social collapse. There's never been a time when the oligarchs/monarch
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
That's what every labour shortage I've ever heard of actually seems to mean. The strangest part is that this seems like basic capitalist dogma -- "businesses compete via wages to attract skilled workers", and if they don
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
cf. Shit Life Syndrome, "a phrase used by physicians in the United Kingdom and the United States for the effect that a variety of poverty or abuse-induced disorders can have on patients." [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
I think the "wherever possible" is implied. Where does this kind of cheap-shot snark end? Shall we next post the We Should Improve Society Somewhat comic? ...besides, maybe they're posting from one of those Raspberry Pi Model
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
>data breaches/leaks identification Maybe "Leaksider" or "LeakSider" or something -- a portmanteau of "leaks" and "insider"? The graphic design of the logo can emphasize the ID.
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
...that's a really good point, actually. I am in fact so cynical that in light of this point, I think I'm going to go around loudly praising this bold new law from the wise Liberals.
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Don't forget muskeg! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muskeg
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
"Unenforced"? No, no -- the $10,000 fine will be collected. It's just the forced sale that might not occur if the superior courts are busy (and they are!), and if it does occur, the foreign nearly-buyer will be out $10,000.
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Nobody suggested that the Minister had to be personally involved. The point remains that the only certain effect of the law is that every foreign purchase will incur a $10,000 fine. If the overworked courts deign to get involved, the pr
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Mine was a short comment, and I actually address the point you raise, but I'll recapitulate it. Namely, if one is a foreigner caught buying a Canadian residential property, one is certain to pay $10,000, but may be forced to sell it,
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Well-designed?! For who? From the actual law, at https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-25.2/page-1.html : >Offence >6 (1) Every non-Canadian that contravenes section 4 and every person or entity tha
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
>But I'm not convinced that "drinking water" is a significant contributor of minerals to the human diet. I don't think I'm claiming that. I'm sure kidney functions work so long as some salts get in 'em,
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Sure, but nobody and nothing is standing out in the rain to "drink" the majority of their water intake. It's hard to think of any civilizations that relied on mostly rainwater, but maybe I haven't heard of any. What litt
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
I'm no expert either, but I consider the likelihood of distilled water being neutral-to-good to be pretty poor. I can't really imagine naturally-occurring freshwater sources without minerality of some kind, and so I thus expect ev
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
Did you read your zeroth link? It's not the proof you think it is. In fact, I don't think that it's unreasonable to consider it obvious lying... >In a tweet on Sunday, Chilliwack-Hope MP Mark Strahl said a woman called Bri
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
I think it all depends. I note the massive amounts he donates, as reported by the press, but I also note scattered anecdata like a sibling of the parent comment suggesting it's mostly ineffective. But what if the money does accomplish
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by revolvingocelot 4y ago
"If you're a single-digit millionaire like Hulk Hogan, you have no effective access to our legal system." -- Peter Thiel [0] [0] https://theintercept.com/2016/10/31/trump-fan-peter-thiel-sa...

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