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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
Callie is a very over dramatic writer. I can’t take much that it writes seriously. And the “it’s not just X - it’s even worse Y” trope is very annoying.
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
Presumably carrying fuel on the device was a consideration so greater fuel efficiency helps reduce the amount of petrol you’re lugging around.
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
That’s very interesting, thank you! Do you have any info on how it compares to Suno/Udio etc? I don’t know if you saw the news about Anna’s Archive having effectively scraped the majority of the Spotify library. It will be very interes
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
(a) you can’t directly upload to Spotify. You need an intermediary in the shape of a distributor. Whether that’s a label or a DIY platform like DistroKid. (b) Spotify introduced a threshold of 1000 streams before they pay anything. This dis
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
“Time-locked models don't roleplay; they embody their training data. Ranke-4B-1913 doesn't know about WWI because WWI hasn't happened in its textual universe. It can be surprised by your questions in ways modern LLMs cannot.”
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
There’s a piece here, written by Paul Graham, which talks about why he started hacker news, written two years after it was launched. If we take what he wrote at face value, I don’t think the purpose was primarily its promotional value. htt
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
Not everything has to have an explicit purpose beyond “this is a good and valuable thing”. Why do I take in parcels for my neighbour if a courier knocks on my door? She doesn’t pay me. It wouldn’t cause me any harm if I didn’t. But it makes
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
Esquire writing is so weird. It’s genuinely like a relic from another age. “ They drank tumblers of Irish whiskey filled to the brim, illicit pours they secured with ten-dollar tips to a curvy Dominican bartender.” “ For the price of three
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by saaaaaam 10mo ago
It’s funny because as a European when you wrote “Anyone that thinks it is reasonable for a geopolitical rival to control this company, especially a country known to reach its hand deep into company policy, is incredibly naive and self-sabot
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I guess it is in a way. They are going to pop out lots of tiny robots.
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
That photo of Ive and Altman is weird as hell. It looks like a promo shot for a bad early 90s made for TV movie.
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
The log of events in that document is absolutely hilarious/pitiful. It’s like something lifted directly from an episode of In The Thick Of It. A honest-to-goodness proper fucking omnishambles. 11:52 - senior OBR and Treasury officials
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
This seems a frivolous attitude to something so serious. Have you considered how using a proxy could make you align your attitude better?
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
Take my money!
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
Anecdotally, I’ve been using opus 4.5 today via the chat interface to review several large and complex interdependent documents, fillet bits out of them and build a report. It’s very very good at this, and much better than opus 4.1. I actua
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
For this one the owner had actually added it to google maps as “Garden View Hotel” or whatever it was called. It was very confusing because I got dropped by a cab and then spent around 20 minutes trying to find the “hotel”. It was only when
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I once booked what I thought was a hotel room via Booking.com but when I arrived it was a “serviced apartment” in a residential complex - so an Airbnb basically. But the way it was presented on the platform made it really difficult to tell
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
(a) The Canary is not a reliable journalistic news source (b) The article says “Twitter is incredibly buggy, so sometimes different people have different user experiences” but then presents the “evidence” of location as incontrovertible pro
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
The Wikipedia link reference relates to a dead comment, made by someone who has that link in their HN profile.
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I think you’ve put your finger on it. This isn’t about AI, it’s about the threat to people’s identity presented by AI. For a while now “writing code” has been a high status profession, with a certain amount of impenetrable mystique that “no
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I suspect Tolkien’s primary motivation in Sam marrying Rosie was a literary device to evoke a return to normality and the settled constancy of the shire, rather than explicit signalling that Sam was heterosexual. I can see what you mean tho
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
As I understand it the root was people using the iPhone with autocorrect turned off. That’s how someone from the tumblr emo crowd (where it was definitely prevalent!) explained it to me, and the reason was because there was a lot of culture
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
This looks fake - an AI generated mockup to harvest email addresses. Even if it’s not though, I doubt it’s going to get off the ground. “CUBIE slips into characters from your favourite films, speaks with matching tone and dialogue” It will
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
It’s more insidious, and “always on”. The bullied have no respite from the bullies. As someone who was horribly bullied at school I can only imagine the horror kids face now. It’s not the technology per se, it’s the fact that society seems
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
That's complete garbage.
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I think this is why I find it so uncomfortable: you’re just getting weird hyped up responses mirroring your own inputs. I’ve not used ChatGPT for a while because I found its insidious desperation to please really creepy. I use Claude when I
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
No, wait, this is completely different! It’s almost obligatory to do that surely?
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I think chatting discursively is fine! For some people that’s a good way to learn (so long as you fact check). I’m talking about just mindless chatter “how’s your day?” and asking what can best be described as “meme questions”.
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I just cannot imagine myself sitting just “chatting away” with an AI. It makes me feel quite sick to even contemplate it. Another person I was talking to recently kept referring to ChatGPT as “she”. “She told me X”, “and I said to her…” Ver
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by saaaaaam 11mo ago
I’ve seen various older people that I’m connected with on Facebook posting screenshots of chats they’ve had with ChatGPT. It’s quite bizarre from that small sample how many of them take pride in “baiting” or “bantering” with ChatGPT and the

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