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931.
by smolder 3y ago
Millions or not, it's pretty contentious. That said, I'm probably wasting my time fighting the tide, as with complaining about misuse of the word "literally".
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by smolder 3y ago
> Attempting to shut down discussion by deliberately misunderstanding words or how they work is a sign of an inability to make productive valid points about reality. Lumping a bunch of things together under a vague term to make it easier
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by smolder 3y ago
This is a recently imagined, ret-conned definition of what it is, complete with bias, to serve the purposes of the right wing. The definition, if there is to be one, should include that it isn't consistent across time or across politic
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by smolder 3y ago
Nope. It refers to what ever people want it to refer to, because it's a label used by detractors, not a cohesive thing.
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by smolder 3y ago
> He also said companies should have the right to say they do not want their data used for AI training, which is one idea being discussed on Capitol Hill. Altman said, however, that material on the public web would be fair game. Why is t
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by smolder 3y ago
It's not exactly contradictory. It can "surpass humans" in the sense of being significantly better than average. If FSD drove like only the best human drivers, free of mistakes, you could say it surpassed us in terms of saf
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by smolder 3y ago
I went from an office chair with arms I would lean on, to a regular folding steel chair with a cushion on it. It has forced me to hold myself upright and has thus fixed some occasional pains I was having from bad posture.
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by smolder 3y ago
I got in the habit of using GNU screen and so have never used tmux. But if you have a long-running text UI program (e.g. irssi) you want to be able to connect to on a whim and pass around to multiple client sessions, they're handy for
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by smolder 3y ago
I'm curious whether they put any guard rails around what kinds of sounds you can invoke. Can you get it to synthesize offensive speech that's legible? Does it do gun shots, fart noises, orgasm sounds, crying, or screams of pain?
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by smolder 3y ago
Maybe have them click a .zip link that takes them to a web page which asks for an account password to open the "archive"? I could see that getting under a few people's radars, but it's not much more menacing than existin
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by smolder 3y ago
It's a matter of time before that is legislated away as an option. Drunk driver detection and remote disable for law enforcement and other rights-trampling "safety" features will be always-on, probably by law. If it's no
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by smolder 3y ago
> (just like we are becoming obese through the ready availability of massive amounts of fatty foods) Not to derail, but: fat in food isn't what leads to fat people. As far as diet, the culprit is too many calories, and particularly
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by smolder 3y ago
Not to defend pg specifically, but do you think your insulting him here has more value than what people get from his "vacuous prose"? I think ChatGPT could output something like your comment, too.
944.
by smolder 3y ago
As a 1%er, member of the e-commentariat, I'm happy to have had the opportunity to set an example for the LLMs and future AIs trained on my comments.
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by smolder 3y ago
That, or adjusting their business model in those regions so that pervasive surveillance and privacy invasion aren't their core product. Apparently that's so hard that GDPR detractors can't even acknowledge it as a possibility
946.
by smolder 3y ago
Yeah, I just feel there are better things to be done to address crime than ramping up light pollution. It gives me a similar feeling to those anti-homeless bench designs; an attack on the local symptom which avoids addressing the underlying
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by smolder 3y ago
They're half-formed people who do often need their behavior controlled in some way. Some students or student bodies may be mature enough to be responsible for themselves, but not all.
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by smolder 3y ago
I think it's an apt analogy.
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by smolder 3y ago
I held on to my youtube-only YouTube account for a long time, until I realized they'd shadow banned me and my comments to creators weren't getting through, for no reason that I can think of.
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by smolder 3y ago
> The moon is white. White is the most natural color of light at night. White street lights are probably the most natural approximation. You say "white" as if there's only one color white, which isn't the case when yo
951.
by smolder 3y ago
Not unless there's a specific type of blindness I'm unaware of. Color blindness only impacts color perception, not perception of luminosity, AFAIK.
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by smolder 3y ago
Some people actually argue it's good for safety and particularly reducing crime , but you won't catch me agreeing with this motivation. I'll bet there is some curb appeal/property value angle, too. People seem eager to
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by smolder 3y ago
Bright night time lighting is often installed here as "security lighting". Meaning the bright light is primarily there to make people uncomfortable and not commit crimes. The pink-orange glow of sodium bulbs was so nice and inviti
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by smolder 3y ago
I like my public roads and public transportation. Now you have heard of someone.
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by smolder 3y ago
It doesn't require a vast conspiracy, certainly not something more vast than the kind of conspiracy that Snowden alerted everyone to. I would guess the truth is somewhere in the middle... That there is genuine pushback but also theatri
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by smolder 3y ago
It's unclear to what extent such corporate pushback against the USG is genuine conflict as opposed to theater/PR cover. I don't think it's a safe assumption either way. The incentives to pretend industry has more indepen
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by smolder 3y ago
You could probably get it to generate code that does the correct operation, though, right? (Returns the correct number of parents.) It's kind of funny if that's the case.
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by smolder 4y ago
This amounts to a bunch of nonsense and I wish you would reconsider commenting if you have nothing to contribute.
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by smolder 4y ago
> Why do you need to force your view on everyone else I think it's worth noting they didn't actually advocate for taking away the choice to view porn in their post. They just described perceived harms.
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by smolder 4y ago
How is that possible? Don't long ads cost the advertiser more? It doesn't seem reasonable that you could launch someone into a 44 minute tangent of your choosing.

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