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Probably the only way to generate a response which AI doesn't flag is to use AI to generate it in. Soon we'll be at the point where most information in the government is both generated and consumed by machine. I guess this is gov
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So you think you can tell....heaven from hell.... We are the way we are because of billions of years of evolution. Over the last 400,000 years or so, evolution has experimented with many different kinds of humans. Most of them were way st
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by rhelz 2y ago
Reminds me of when newspapers started moving to the web. Nobody had any idea how to make money off this news technology. Eventually they figured it out and way more money is made off of the internet than any other medium. Same thing for A
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It does seem like unnecessary cruelty, to somebody who is going through one of the lowest points in their life. Those who know, however, know the truth. Facebook isn't laying off people because the company is in trouble or its people
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Thanks for the response. But: // Yes, teaching is a skill - but one that no longer has to do with reciting over the course material. // ..it never had anything whatsoever to do with just reciting over the course materi
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chuckle I'm teaching high school math, and I have students who are jedi knights of making ambiguous mathematical signs. They make their "1"'s with a long top serif, which make it look like it could be either a "
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chuckle one of those articles I would have whole-heartedly agreed with before I became a teacher :-) Have you ever been, say, on a date, or visiting a relative, and they ask you what your job as a computer programmer is like? How could y
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by rhelz 2y ago
That was my comment on the article: it is just bozo the clown blowing a big horn to distract us from the conversations we should be having. FFS, we are building concentration camps. And yet what one hack writer in a pop-sci magazine wrote
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Getting close to 1,000 resumes sent. 1 recruiter call, who immediately ghosted me, in 4 years. Perhaps I'll get another job programming, perhaps not. But I can't just wait around; I am finishing up a transition-to-teaching progr
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Better than the market for programmers with 20+ years of experience, that's for sure.
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If you really want a giggle, look up some of the early issues of the Scientific American. It always has been and always will be a pop-sci magazine. There's only so much you can expect. But of course, this is what we are talking about.
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by rhelz 2y ago
Remember, all political careers end in failure.
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Alternate proposal: For every meme, we are by law able to see who created that meme. If all the knuckle-heads who fall for every meme could see, e.g., that it was created by a Russian or Chinese propaganda organization, I think they woul
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Protip: It works better if you say "Bibbdi Bopiddi Bo" while waving the sticks.
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Musk cuts the power to one of his data centers. The story isn't "Twitter engineers built infrastructure so resilient that even cutting the power to an entire data center did not cause any degradation to user experience." No
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I agree that the loss of control we are threatened with is qualitatively different and far more absolute than the disenfranchisement we feel today, for sure. Still, I wonder if any humans have been in control, really, since the agricultur
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99.99% of humanity has been disempowered since the agricultural revolution.
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Yup. In a free market, there are no shortages. We just have a glut of employers who do not want to pay market wages.
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One of the things I hate worst about teaching is the Prometheus boards (big flat-panel touch screens) have been mounted in every classroom right over the chalkboard. The central problem with them is that teachers do not use them in any way
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Get ready for the next replication crisis.
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These are great points, but...wouldn't they pretty much apply to any proposed use of LLMs for disseminating any kind of information? I suppose I would expect (or at least hope) that a Christian apologist would be more sensitive to
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In the 80's I was an exchange student to Germany. Any time I talked with somebody's grandparents about WWII, they all said the same thing: we had no idea what Hitler was planning and we had no idea what was happening. Chyeah. Af
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// I can't...continue...I don't believe you're a serious or intellectually honest person // Exactly the right move. Don't waste any time with somebody who doesn't argue in good faith. Heck, t
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// It is backed by only thing rfst backs any form of money: the credibility of it’s monetary properties // Of course. That doesn't mean that all currencies are equally soundly backed, now, does it? Bitcoin doesn’t
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People buy gold because, over the long run, gold has traditionally had a stable value. But that is just another way of saying that in the long run, gold does not appreciate or depreciate. "Stable" means "it doesn't ch
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Because it doesn't just increase the supply of money--it increases the supply of burgers as well :-) Sure, the money is created out of thin air. But that money gets invested in things which actually increase productivity and increase
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chuckle that's true :) But it only happens when somebody borrows money, and somebody only borrows money if they think they can use that money to make even more money---i.e. improve their productivity. E.g. somebody might borrow mone
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// Aren't all democratic elections about electing the person who will transfer wealth into the voters' hands? // Interesting question. Consider, for example, Eisenhower's building the interstate highway s
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A proposed "Bitcoin Reserve" would just be the U.S. government taking money from taxpayers and giving it to owners of bitcoin. Why? Well, right now, every dollar that somebody makes selling bitcoin is a dollar which somebody el
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Reminds me of the rover on that TV show "The Prisoner".

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