smt88

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by smt88 2y ago
> I believe companies should use every inch of leeway in existing laws to do business. So dark patterns are good? It was good for cigarette companies to discover tobacco is addictive and take advantage of that by selling cigarettes to
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by smt88 2y ago
Microsoft isn't even loyal to OpenAI! You can use multiple models in Azure and CoPilot
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by smt88 2y ago
Altman doesn't think like a typical large org manager because he's never successfully built or run one. He failed upward into this role. OpenAI doesn't have enough money to even run ChatGPT in perpetuity, so building internal
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by smt88 2y ago
- Product is not kickass. Hallucinations and cost limit its usefulness, and it's incinerating money. Prices are too high and need to go much higher to turn a profit. - Their brand value is terrible. Many people loathe AI for what it&#x
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by smt88 2y ago
Which drugs are you referring to?
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by smt88 2y ago
The US is about 0.05% Israeli, so it's not a conspiracy, but Israelis are certainty a much higher proportion of Meta than most other companies and countries outside of Israel.
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by smt88 2y ago
If a human rights org were highly critical of Russia but not Ukraine, is that a bias as well? Reality isn't politically neutral.
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by smt88 2y ago
"Former heavy drinkers" is going to include more people who already started having health issues than the group of current heavy drinkers
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by smt88 2y ago
Investors hate uncertainty and these tariffs will raise costs for a lot of startups to the point they can't be profitable. Investors will likely increase investment in other countries or keep their money liquid for a while to see what
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by smt88 2y ago
Salt is painful and I believe the risk with sugar is that it can be metabolized by bacteria or fungi, so the remnants of it can make conditions better for microbes (although I haven't googled to confirm this)
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by smt88 2y ago
You can't put the other things you've listed on a wound in a hospital without some, uh... unpleasantness.
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by smt88 2y ago
They are correct in terms of nutrition and sugar, but most kids can process a lot of sugar fine. Fruit has also been bred to be much sweeter and less nutritious than it was 50 years ago, so there's that too. Moderation is the key to ev
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by smt88 2y ago
Moderna, like all modern hard-science companies, is a tiny house built on the top of hundreds of billions of dollars of government-funded research.
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by smt88 2y ago
> In general it is a good practice to assume other parties are making a good faith effort This has never been true for this administration, which A) already had a previous term to show us how incompetent its leaders are, and B) is work
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by smt88 2y ago
> We’re literally torching two billion dollars a day on the military when we’re not at war and not under threat. We were in a (physical) proxy war with Russia via Ukraine until very recently, and we are currently in a digital war again
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by smt88 2y ago
> People - like the author of this article - claim they want stability. But, I’m here to tell you that what they buy is change. You work in enterprise software sales and you think people buy change ? That is bizarre and shocking. En
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by smt88 2y ago
This is absolutely new, happening to law-abiding residents, and seemingly immune from judicial review. The only comparable situation is the Japanese internment camps from WWII.
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by smt88 2y ago
It's ironic that Silicon Valley's CEOs are now getting exactly what their candidate promised them. Where is the pushback against this from Musk and Ellison?
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by smt88 2y ago
> No checks and balances have been cancelled. "President Donald Trump's administration made a calculated decision to ignore a judge's directive to turn around two flights containing hundreds of alleged Venezuelan gang me
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by smt88 2y ago
It should be acceptable to criticize rich, powerful people in unemotional terms, but I wasn't even doing that. I was summarizing the other comments on this thread. Here are examples of comments (that remain visible) that I was summariz
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by smt88 2y ago
I don't understand the point of your comment. Are you saying we shouldn't take his seriously? We shouldn't take him literally? We should give him a pass for writing axiomatic drivel with nothing concrete or thoughtful in it?
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by smt88 2y ago
Zillow has spent years building relationships with thousands of litigious MLS's. It's impossible to build a lawsuit-proof real-estate app in the US without doing that.
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by smt88 2y ago
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by smt88 2y ago
You need a big "/s" after this. Or maybe just not post it at all, because it's just value-less snark and not a substantial comment on how hypocritical and harmful OpenAI is (which they certainly are).
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by smt88 2y ago
"They didn't immediately abuse their market power!" Great. Very few companies do. What difference does it make? We don't give bankrobbers credit for all the days they could've robbed a bank but didn't.
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by smt88 2y ago
It doesn't matter how the reserve is funded. They got what they wanted: an announcement that legitimizes crypto in an unprecedented way, which also resulted in a massive pump of the value of the named coins. And if you're wonderin
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by smt88 2y ago
No. If you're doing it right, it shouldn't take much extra time, and it will make your code much more readable and maintainable. A lot of the "work" is automated these days anyway. Mainstream languages have hinters/
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by smt88 2y ago
It's incredibly expensive to do that with flagship models, and many countries have laws that require human intervention for CSAM reports anyway
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by smt88 2y ago
> I want to see a social network that solves the bot problem by requiring a fee to post. I think this is doable without losing massive numbers of users. You could do it by requiring a small fee to post publicly , but you could post fo
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by smt88 2y ago
You can't. Your best bet is to joint the fediverse so you can interoperate with existing networks, like Mastodon. > too much moderation > rampant bot abuse You can't solve the bot problem without thorough, labor-intensiv

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