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by soiltype 5mo ago
What do you mean by notable?
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by soiltype 5mo ago
The problems do diminish significantly if you need fewer lanes by half or more, and have fewer vehicles per person. Low-density sprawl in the American style is impossible without cars. Streetcar suburbs could exist but those are necessarily
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by soiltype 5mo ago
Guessing you're American is ad hominem?
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by soiltype 5mo ago
Cars are not the solution to that. Hooligans and irritating people are just a possibility in literally every social environment, they always have been, and they always will be. Answers to that problem are social - it's a bigger problem
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by soiltype 5mo ago
Look I don't fault you - Americans drive cars because every alternative is absolute dogshit, I don't disagree. But I can't e realistic about that and not this: > As for the environmental impact, I agree that trains or bus
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by soiltype 5mo ago
None. Why would you think that? My guess is you're an American living nowhere near an urban rail system but I thought most people here would at least be passing familiar with modern trains. Even some American cities have them.
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by soiltype 6mo ago
I don't think there's anything difficult or unpleasant about the process of letting the LLM run free, that's the whole point, it's nearly frictionless. Which includes not reviewing the code carefully. You say "need&
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by soiltype 6mo ago
Personally I've found "carefully review every move it makes" to be an extremely unpleasant and difficult workflow. The effort needed to parse every action is immense, but there's a complete absence of creative engagement
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by soiltype 6mo ago
This comment is completely out of touch with how typical office workers use their computers. "Package manager" is your feldspars. But it's even worse than that, because you don't train for the typical employee, you train
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by soiltype 6mo ago
It seems strange to you? It's natural to how I write - intentionally avoiding politeness would be weirder to me. But aside from that, an LLM is only a roleplayer. Treat it like an idiot that makes mistakes and it will act like one. Tre
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by soiltype 7mo ago
Yes
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by soiltype 7mo ago
Yeah that's increasingly been my feeling as well. I have to keep prefacing my Kagi recommendations with, "web search is less and less useful every year, but..." I still appreciate being able to customize rankings, bangs, and
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by soiltype 8mo ago
As a rule, "pop history" is full of shit and is probably better considered misinformation than anything else. I probably don't I know of a single general-audience history/anthropology book that doesn't horrify schol
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by soiltype 8mo ago
Oh, I admit that I didn't finish the Rockefeller article, since it looked like more of the same. I can see now how it's satire. Honestly though, I'm still not sure what the point of the vampires one is. Satire relies on the r
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by soiltype 8mo ago
Interesting... I first went to the linked recent post What the Longevity Experts Don't Tell You. Sorry to be harsh: it was nonsense. It just lists a few weird, unscientific behaviours of John D Rockefeller and tries to draw lessons (to
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by soiltype 8mo ago
A bit of a meta lesson for me here: Writing a short, pointed, opinionated blog post is blogging. If I care about blogging my thoughts, I need to just do it, not worry about rigor or depth ahead of time
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by soiltype 8mo ago
Hmm I see. So the grant makers are more of a problem here. And what are their incentives to fund ~bad research?
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by soiltype 8mo ago
Actually yes you're 100% right, I phrased that badly
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by soiltype 8mo ago
Thank you in advance for that! I barely use AI to generate code so I feel pretty lost looking at projects like this.
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by soiltype 9mo ago
That feels arbitrary as a measure of quality. Why isn't new research simply devalued and replication valued higher? "Dr Alice failed to reproduce 20 would-be headline-grabbing papers, preventing them from sucking all the air out o
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by soiltype 9mo ago
But that seems almost trivially solved. In software it's common to value independent verification - e.g. code review. Someone who is only focused on writing new code instead of careful testing, refactoring, or peer review is widely vie
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by soiltype 9mo ago
...No. Not at all. Not in the case of Google and generally that's not "how life works". If it was true, why would Google spend so much money to be the default search engine in so many devices/browsers?
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by soiltype 9mo ago
The skills of writing and coding atrophy when replaced by generative AI. The more we use AI to do thinking in some domain, the less we will be able to do that thinking ourselves. It's not a perfect analogy for car infrastructure. Yeah
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by soiltype 9mo ago
No, people hate being trapped without a car in an environment built exclusively to serve cars. Our love of cars is largely just downstream of negative emotions like FOMO or indignation caused by the inability to imagine traveling by any o
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by soiltype 9mo ago
Considering the ubiquity and necessity of driving cars is overwhelmingly a result of intentional policy choices irrespective of what people wanted or was good for the public interest... actually that's quite a decent analogy for inte
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by soiltype 9mo ago
You think I was lying? About a good metal album existing? It's "The Splintered Oar", and I learned about it through Bandcamp's human curation. I hope this helps you get off Mr GPT's Wild Ride and engage with the art
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by soiltype 9mo ago
Oh. Why? I didn't see anybody arguing that DJing was random or unskilled.
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by soiltype 9mo ago
> knowing about my music taste As with almost all arguments against exercising privacy, this is merely a failure of imagination on your part. Spotify doesn't give a shit about your taste. Next time you listen to music, think about a
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by soiltype 9mo ago
Tidal and Qobuz are good, if you need a streaming service, although Qobuz is much less oriented around "pick a vibe and press play". They might not have exactly the things you like about Spotify, but as far as sacrifice goes, if y
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by soiltype 9mo ago
It's very hard for me to see how someone could believe this unless they never even tried to actually find new music. I just bought a great new metal album (human made) yesterday.

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