saltwatercowboy

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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
I apologise. I write too and I've been bothered by LLM-generated content masquerading as the work it takes to tell an effective narrative. It was the combination of generated responses in the comments alongside what I thought was a gen
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
He sells a storytelling course... perhaps this is meant to be a 'gotcha' where he reveals the con after the fact? My guess is there are people reading this who know something isn't quite right.
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
Something about this feels off. Anyone else?
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
I just think it's kind of hilarious.
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
You showed this... to an 8 year old?
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
Technically the lords don't have the same power as an elected second house in other bicameral legislatures, that's correct. They can propose bills and delay bills proposed by the House of Commons, though, and the latter can be eno
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
That's such a fun project. Some really excellent Show HN items this week, but this is my favourite.
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
Let it go, man. I think that you are wilfully misinterpreting what both he and I are saying and being obtuse to boot. Whatever the case, we're clearly not going to convince one another.
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
Materialists...
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
Oh. Gross
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
Stallman is stalwart. The dogma is the point and his obstinate, steady nature is what I love best about him. Free software continues to be incredibly important. For me, he is fresh air in the breathlessly optimistic, grasping, and negligent
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
While I grasp your point, I find the idea that human consciousness is in any way comparable to generated content incredibly demeaning.
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
> (((leadership))) Sorry, what do these triple parentheses mean?
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
> You seem very confused about what I'm saying so I will try again, despite your insult. I'd call it an observation, but I'm willing to add that you are exhausting. Confusion (or, more likely a vested interest) certainly r
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
> Not lazily, clearly. You can argue he's not lazy, but this is a very lazy take about LLMs. Feel free to check out a longer analysis [1] (which he also linked in the source). > You are making that point for him. He is not. He is
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by saltwatercowboy 10mo ago
> Extremely lazy take. He's famously a curmudgeon, not lazy. How would you expect him to respond? > Totally ignoring the history of the field. This criticism is so vague it becomes meaningless. No-one can respond to it because we
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by saltwatercowboy 11mo ago
Not everyone is Rupi Kaur. Speaking for the erstwhile English majors, 'formal' prose isn't exactly foreign to anyone seriously engaging with pre-20th century literature or language.
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by saltwatercowboy 11mo ago
...Why?
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
Presumably - in a rational interview process - base compensation would be disclosed prior to the technical.
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
I was just trying to be nice as my first comment might have read as rude. I didn't want to contribute to someone feeling lonely. For your last question... you could look at my profile?
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
I'm somehow more inclined to condemn Raytheon over Dick's Sporting Goods.
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
If said knife were used to murder a child then, yes, I would consider the knife to be an evil object.
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
Well, you seem nice enough to me.
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
Your attitude is sadly widespread in tech. I don't know if it's because of rejection, or fear, or something else, but we really are nothing more than the social world we live in. Substituting that for a theoretically perfect AI &#
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
This reads like a threat penned by a supervillain's incompetent son-in-law.
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
Lovely work! Good to hear that someone took the time to digitize it. The cathedral is simply astounding.
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
Well that's the word, isn't it: 'typically'. That hasn't happened. The activities that make life worthwhile have largely been priced out for the average person. I think that we can tarry about historical causes (and
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
UK real wages stagnated directly in line with the 2008 financial crisis [1]. Enough has been written about 'too big to fail' that I don't need to rehash it, but ascribing guilt to the workers of a chronically underpaid and hi
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
Perhaps one sniff test for bad writing is presence of a link to the Wikipedia page for rhetoric.
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by saltwatercowboy 1y ago
Very cool. Have you tried applying it to a cube sphere/are the results are contiguous? I'd be interested in incorporating it into a hybrid planetary science/storymapping project I'm working on.

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