sillyfluke

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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
>so they made up a reason (hallucinate). deterministically formulating a lie for public consumption is a lie, not a hallucination. Let's stop changing the meanings of words please.
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
Google didn't immediately create $20 and $200 per month paid tiers. The free thing lasted a long time (and you didn't need to sign in), and the initial monetization with ads, when it eventually came, was not immediately shoved in
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
My usual Chinese spots have pretty terrible food pictures, seemingly taken as an afterthought with no effort given to make the food look more appetizing at all. So kind of the opposite of false advertising.
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
I shouldn't be surprised, but it's still wild to me that people would trust robber barons rather than their elected officials to run their country. And this continues until you end up electing robber barrons as your elected offici
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
It's also a way to literally advertise to AI companies that you have some data worth plundering in an increasingly dead and sloppy internet that has diminishing returns for training.
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
>It’s just like the Hopper quote. Not sure about Hopper, as I recall biographers of Lawrence of Arabia certainly made it seem like he was using the fog of war to do things he knew his superiors may object to. Regardless, even if its misi
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
>No, it’s most certainly patently ridiculous Is your argument supposed to be more convincing because you added the word "patently"? >What does that mean though? It means that when you find a way to bypass purely online ident
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
Yeah, when someone writes a vague prompt that simply says "Do what it takes to finish X" and the unleashed agents end up doing something lethal and illegal you would think its on the AI company to prevent any illegality and not th
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
>The implication that the solution to this is to somehow convince your direct competitors to do inferior in-person KYC for you is the most ridiculous thing. People work with their competitors all the time (see Netfix vs Amazon). Whats ri
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
> There is no irony because I have seen humans do the same thing. Your original comment started with the sentence: > I am currently writing a lot of code that I am not reviewing anymore. Then you give an example of catching a bad patt
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
>Claude was consistently doing database operations in a for loop, where it could use batch operations. >The code in the end is better than a lot of the code I've seen humans write. It's a little amusing to see those two sent
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
>There's been plenty of evidence that nothing is recorded or sent back, hardly "absence of complete proof". You may have a different understanding of the word "complete" than the standard definition. Unless you a
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
> clearly Debatable, and clearly not clear. It's weird to say this when there are obvious counter examples staring us in the face, not least of all the founder of the company he just left, of who (Dario) people could have said the
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
Meta: > True which is why I said anecdata Forgive me for being cheeky, but presumably this is not why you said anecdata. You presumably said anecdata because you were describing your own personal sessions with Claude. Your original comme
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
Since the discussion was related to the job security of a programmer with good taste, I'm trying to read your comment from that perspective. If I am understanding you correctly, you are claiming that an AI will not design a table to be
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
1. is a bit contradictory or at the least a "devils in the details" wishful fantasy which hasn't been showcased convincingly in the wild yet (by "the wild", I mean software eng shops and corps). It's assumed
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
It's a story as old as time so I'm frankly less amused by it. The old school censors always saw every "data" that was taboo under the sun prior to censoring it for public consumption.
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
> Lost track of how many juniors I've seen throw their hands up and say they can't progress because they don't have logs/clean repro Not the parent, but I think their approach is the correct one even though their line
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
>the UI is the real and only reason to use Nitter. Why is not wanting to share my reading habits with Elon not a real reason?
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by sillyfluke 2mo ago
This seems to misunderstand the parent comment. The sibling comment plays along with the analogy and mentions having to fix the mistakes of an automatic chisel, but the original comment is alluding to the fact that it is definitely not an a
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
just a warning - The Expanse is not competency porn like the Martian, more like political/military action in space.
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
...and a mandatory website for every app they tell you to download.
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
"imaginitive" is a more contentious adjective but The Martian, Project Hail Mary, and the Expanse seem on the optimistic side of the spectrum to me.
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
>It's so interesting to me that the whole "futurism" concept got co-opted into some sort of political propaganda machine. This was a very predictable outcome given the curcumstances. You forget to mention the guy who was t
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
I think they're cutting strategic investments that they don't have personal investments in, as suggested in their banana republic handbook. They seem to be fine with fossil fuel investments for example. I wouldn't be surprise
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
alternative for those that can't read the link: https://consequence.net/2026/08/eminem-dolly-parton-tribute-... https://archive.is/t7GHA
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
"Slow is smooth, smooth is fast." ...as Mickey Mouse was fond of telling me as I waiting for the ride at Disney World. Or it was my drill instructor. can't remember which.
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
Subsequently named Head of Post-Ethics at Palantir.
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
The second paragraph by itself is enough, the first is a tad hubristic and vague. The good things that got us here are not necessarily the things that will get us there , there being wherever we ideally want to end up... >The main part
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by sillyfluke 3mo ago
He was method acting, so I'll allow it.

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