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721.
by robocat 11mo ago
Rubbish. Population density varies, and your cutoff between "dense" and "not dense" must be tautological.
722.
by robocat 11mo ago
Are the police betting? Do they collaborate? How much does a cop earn on a normal night?
723.
by robocat 11mo ago
> clever parrot Is it irony that you duckspeak this term? Are you a stochastically clever monkey to avoid using the standard cliche? The thing I find most educating about AI is that it unfortunately mimics the standard of thinking of man
724.
by robocat 11mo ago
> don't even get me started on people naming their projects random Japanese words But words help us learn. How many times do you notice a connection between some word from your childhood and an adult concept or place? And they'
725.
by robocat 11mo ago
Debt markets are indicating that the OpenAI contracts are high risk. Debt markets analyse the risks carefully and mostly ignore fake news. Oracle is borrowing and betting billions, and the markets are saying that their bets are risky. htt
726.
by robocat 11mo ago
I thought the implication is that people should feed themselves to cats? Consent removes a bunch of ethical issues. What's eating you, Earthman: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLy27bK-wU
727.
by robocat 11mo ago
> it's registering a U, highlighting U, and inputting J The voiceover is deceptive (unintentionally?)... They touch the [u] which shows the popover U but you can see them slide their thumb down off the [u] key onto the [j] key. I gu
728.
by robocat 11mo ago
> wrong or misleading explanations Exactly the same issue occurs with search. Unfortunately not everybody knows to mistrust AI responses, or have the skills to double-check information.
729.
by robocat 11mo ago
> If your car isn't packed to capacity on every single trip, it is less efficient and worse than public transit. Cost is a great proxy for costs versus benefits. People choose cars because they are efficient for them. In theory pu
730.
by robocat 11mo ago
I hadn't heard this story: [Kurt Vonnegut is] working at home with his wife and he tells her he’s going to buy an envelope. A sensible woman, she suggests hey, why not buy a bunch, bring them home, then we’ll have envelopes. But he
731.
by robocat 11mo ago
Great summary article from Assange's POV about meeting Schmidt et al : https://www.newsweek.com/assange-google-not-what-it-seems-27...
732.
by robocat 11mo ago
Pedantically there is nothing worse than cliches that are literally nonsense. Fortunately communication is usually conceptual like a metaphor.
733.
by robocat 11mo ago
The childless should pay enough to ensure there are younger people to do the work of supporting the childless when retired. Using foreigners to fill a demographic shortfall is unsustainable/shortsighted. That said, I'm in New Zeal
734.
by robocat 11mo ago
Almost by definition it isn't the rich competing to live where work opportunities are. Monaco isn't renowned for its businesses. But yes, there is an issue with the rich investing in residential property (which good regulations co
735.
by robocat 11mo ago
An acre is a lot of work. Many grandparents are too frail to dig enough spuds or work the garden - anecdotally 70s is when limitations often start to really kick in. Grandparents are now trending older?
736.
by robocat 11mo ago
> last reliable source of privatized growth But is it productive growth? Perhaps we should increase GDP by employing people to smash windows and burn down houses?
737.
by robocat 11mo ago
> waitlists beyond something like a week mean the capacity of the medical system is insufficient It means that the medical system doesn't have unlimited money/resources. Voters hate reality: medical systems grow to take as much
738.
by robocat 11mo ago
The US taxes worldwide income therefore anybody with significant worldwide income would not want to become a US citizen (unless they also have other motivations apart from money). A country offering a passport is hoping the applicant will
739.
by robocat 11mo ago
What about patents - if you didn't use cleanroom then you have no defence? Patent trolls will extort you: the trolls will be using AI models to find "infringing" software, and then they'll strike. ¡There's no way AI
740.
by robocat 11mo ago
> their engines are designed around frequent maintenance events. Powerplants, especially those for datacenters, need consistent uptime Presumably they deploy multiple engines so they can stagger maintenance and not have a single point of
741.
by robocat 11mo ago
A site already needed backup generators. Presumably there's some benefit there too.
742.
by robocat 11mo ago
How widely do you read the training material?
743.
by robocat 11mo ago
In 2032 new HN usernames must use underscores. It was part of the grandfathering process to help with moderating accounts generated after the AI singlarity spammed too many new accounts.
744.
by robocat 11mo ago
> LLMs activate human social wiring and have a powerful effect Is this generally true, or is there a subset of people that are particularly susceptible? It does make me want to dive into the rabbit hole and be convinced by an LLM convers
745.
by robocat 11mo ago
> Antibiotics and Insulin - those two things have saves untold lives. Type 1 is about 0.5% prevalence. Type 1 diabetes was a rapid death sentence before insulin discovery in the 1920s. Type 2 is more common (maybe 10% but highly dependen
746.
by robocat 11mo ago
> exercise can now be prescribed by doctors in the UK https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/aug/22/gps-to-presc...
747.
by robocat 11mo ago
I think lots of kids in the USA got the MMRV vaccination when very young. MMRV stands for: • Measles • Mumps • Rubella • Varicella (Chickenpox). Apparently some places do the Varicella vaccine separately (VARIVAX?). Over the last few years
748.
by robocat 11mo ago
When will the mimes strike...
749.
by robocat 11mo ago
I tried to get a sound effects generator to find out what "stochastic parrots" might sound like...
750.
by robocat 11mo ago
I suspect em-dashes are particularly American. I tend to insert space before and after on the very rare occasion I might use one . . . However I'm from the colonies and I've just learnt my preference is likely due to British infl

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