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by rurp 2y ago
Survivorship bias is the norm in any system with high variance and a low success rate. I would say that arguing against the phenomenon is by far the more out there position. A analgous statement like, "There are actors with world class
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by rurp 2y ago
I think this will describe a category of games, assuming the tech eventually gets good enough, but I can't imagine this replacing all games. Most people won't want to craft a 10,000 word prompt to layout the kind of game they want
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by rurp 2y ago
> could it perhaps be time to retire? Yes, but it's not going to happen. One of the (many) problems with a dictatorship is the lack of rule of law and what that means for giving up power. There is no such thing as a safe retirement
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by rurp 2y ago
This phrasing is pretty biased and something I most often see from product managers who are pushing changes that aren't in most user's interests. Many product changes that Google makes these days are driven by promotions and/
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by rurp 2y ago
Is there any way to do a Web search with DDG bangs? I checked their list but didn't see an option. I occasionally use !g as a fallback search but recently started seeing this AI slop taking over the top of the results page, making it e
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OpenAI: Exodus(thezvi.substack.com)
2 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
You could make the same argument about any government spending program, no matter how wasteful it is. The money always goes into the economy. The question is how to get the most useful output from that spending.
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by rurp 2y ago
Those are some awfully expensive purchases for a small low-margin business.
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by rurp 2y ago
No, random people should not try to get into gun battles to protect their phone. If you're that worried about the rare chance of being forced to unlock your phone by criminals you can limit which financial apps you have on the phone. D
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by rurp 2y ago
Big tech companies locking you out of your own stuff is an underrated threat vector. I recently had a similar debacle with my Google account when I was travelling out of state and lost my phone. I needed to access my account quickly and for
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by rurp 2y ago
At least in my area, Lens has been uselessly bad for plants. Actually it's bad for anything non-commercial IME. Seek on the other hand, which a sibling comment recommended, has been amazing.
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by rurp 2y ago
Two examples: 1. Google intentionally makes search results worse so that users will do more searches and see/click more ads. There was a big thread about this somewhat recently. 2. Ads have steadly taken up more of the results page and
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by rurp 2y ago
Is that a problem that needs solving? Most interfaces for entering a user-generated PIN, like an ATM, are heavily monitored and rate limited. It's not like backend databases are routinely encrypted with these. As others have said, incr
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by rurp 2y ago
Ugh yeah, I hadn't even realized what a serious vulnerability it will be when large corporations and foreign governments start to flood the web with their preferred "facts". Google and Microsoft will gladly slurp up all of th
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by rurp 2y ago
That's a really interesting experiment. I've been pretty down on Google for a while now but that result is even worse than I would have expected. It's shocking how little Google cares about their core product. Same for Micros
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by rurp 2y ago
I think we know exactly how Google will monetize this, assuming they keep their search monopoly. Over time the answers will get increasingly skewed towards their paying customers. Eventually Google's endless need to increase revenue at
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by rurp 2y ago
Oh good, now I can get AI generated spam results directly rather than having to click through to the SEO spam pages that Google loves to serve. More broadly though, it feels like this is going to accelerate the decline of the open web. Fewe
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by rurp 2y ago
Ok, but what will the net effects be? Technology can be extremely impressive on a technical level, but harmful in practical terms. So far the biggest usecase for LLMs is mass propaganda and scams. The fact that we might also get AI girlfrie
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The death (again) of the internet as we know it(noahpinion.blog)
1 points by rurp 2y ago|0 comments
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by rurp 2y ago
The title here matches the article headline but is pretty misleading since all sides agree that no protesters actually set foot in the factory.
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by rurp 2y ago
The problem with pushing opinionated changes on users that some people like is that many people will hate it. It sucks to wake up to a worse product that you use regularly. I personally dislike all of the fancy crap that Google regularly
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by rurp 2y ago
Humans didn't care either until very recently, when it became apparant just how much capacity we have to drive other animals to extinction. Our ability to destroy is many orders of magnitude beyond any other animal, so having at least
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by rurp 2y ago
Command and Control by Schlosser is a great book about nuclear weapon strategy and policy during the cold war. Much of the book is about a disaster at a large ICBM silo. It's both fascinating and terrifying.
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by rurp 2y ago
No, GP said that hospitals should not be run as a busniess. Non-profit status is just another way to structure a business and, in practice, those hospitals extract a similar amount of money from patients as similar for-profit hospitals.
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by rurp 3y ago
Enron developed quite a few actual energy projects in the real world. They were as much of a legit company as a car manufacturer, but the scam part of Enron eventually got so big that it blew everything up.
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by rurp 3y ago
I'm really surprised that this concern doesn't get more attention. Tesla owners are more dependent on the parent company for parts and maintenance than probably any other manufacturer. As someone who keeps cars for a long time, th
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"Everyone is in complete shock": Tesla cuts Supercharger employees(axios.com)
2 points by rurp 3y ago|1 comments
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by rurp 3y ago
This makes sense to me. When updating anything beyond a small project, keeping things reliable and mantainable for the future is 10x more important than just solving the immediate bug or feature. Short term hacks add up and become overwhelm
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by rurp 3y ago
The party lending the money is knowingly taking the risk, and they get compensated for that risk by charging an interest rate that both sides agree to. There is nothing inherently nefarious about business loans. Some loans work out, others
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by rurp 3y ago
This is about the dozenth Tesla software update I have heard this about, and so far none of them have lived up to the hype. Youtube videos are way too easy to cherry pick and/or fake for this kind of analysis.

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