someothherguyy

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by someothherguyy 8d ago
too powerful to give up, sweet imagick love
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Epistemology(trends.google.com)
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by someothherguyy 8d ago
you can't in imagine the same way you couldn't imagine generating the text from your initial prompt. when will the hubris end? some variant of "oh i am capable of generating text i know nothing about, but it helps to have a h
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by someothherguyy 9d ago
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-11032-2 Developmental xenocortication using human-derived organoids in mice
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by someothherguyy 11d ago
many do. for example: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/code-folding-settings.ht... there are also extensions for vscode that do this, vim plugins, etc
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by someothherguyy 11d ago
What? You don't like horizontally scrolling 6000 columns to read something? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_folding
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by someothherguyy 11d ago
then install the other tool. no one is holding a gun to your head. it isn't windows.
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by someothherguyy 11d ago
> All the hacking legislation (and criminal law in general) require proving intent No, they don't, see laws that make negligent behavior illegal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea
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by someothherguyy 12d ago
The article I linked outlines it pretty clearly. "Cambridge Analytica then arranged an informed consent process for research in which several hundred thousand Facebook users would agree to complete a survey for payment that was only fo
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by someothherguyy 12d ago
FA and CA lied to users, and sent data from all the friends of users who filled out a form to CA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Ana... If that was the advice, it seems pretty terrible.
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by someothherguyy 15d ago
feels and hype
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by someothherguyy 17d ago
its what all LLM users have all been doing, profiting off others' IP through a number cruncher, while relinquishing their own
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by someothherguyy 17d ago
so? people still need to use and visualize a map that isn't some strange abstraction. how useful is a population map when attempting to locate a small country to understand geography?
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by someothherguyy 17d ago
> it is shocking to see that you have not even read the paper and you are just presenting it directly what the fuck do you know about what i have read? i was responding to a statement from the article. the link i shared is to an article
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by someothherguyy 18d ago
> Putting one of those participant’s phone numbers into WhatsApp reveals a profile picture of a law enforcement patch. A pawn with wings sits in the center, surrounded by lightning bolts. The patch reads, “Laredo Sector Tech Ops PITT,” i
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by someothherguyy 18d ago
https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2120481119 there is some very depressing research on this topic
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by someothherguyy 18d ago
> Much like freedom of speech means someone can speak abhorrently, freedom of enterprise means someone can do bad or dumb business things. No?
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by someothherguyy 19d ago
> Would've been a lot more interesting of they promoted a population map why?
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by someothherguyy 19d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_(biology)
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by someothherguyy 21d ago
yeah, sometimes cheaters winning is a net benefit or at least acceptable. although, i don't think those cases above are, heh.
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by someothherguyy 21d ago
cheater detection and self-correction is important in systems. i am not sure "fucked-up" is a meaningful way to look at species-level things.
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
yeah, i mean, that might be meaningful, or not. i have thousands of pictures of my grandparents, great grandparents, etc that none of their kids (or many grandkids, great grandkids, etc) wanted. seems like, eventually (mostly) no one cares
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
there is deeper thought on this topic beyond douglas hofstadter (~20 years ago for strange loop and prior for GEB) and scott aaronson any cognitive science textbook will bring some thoughts, or a cursory google scholar search
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
i am more of the position of most human generated information should be ephemeral. for instance, i wish this site would let individuals have that need met, alas. no information is so important to violate others' right to their own prop
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
everyone should do this, but it is difficult. imo, it is better to talk with your parents beforehand (if possible) to understand what they want to share with you and what they do not.
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
not sure if i got this right, but it sounds like you experienced some things and you want to share something, but you are telling others how to live instead.
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
a lot of these studies with technology, etc, are concerned with outcomes in primary/secondary(high) school, which, tbf, no one gives a fuck about, as life outcomes are what matters a great harm in human society is overconfident extrapo
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
based on the dates, links, publishing status, and content, these seem somewhat contrived, but i will read them, when i have the chance. that first paper is on academic outcomes in uraguay, with a particular set of testing that i am not fami
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
> It is absolutely not Luddite to note that pretty much no technological revolution privileged elementary-school aged kids who had exposure over those who did not. That divergence starts manifesting in the teenage years, after basic cogn
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by someothherguyy 23d ago
i live in ny. there are still "devices" in schools in rich and poor communities. many have "banned" personal devices, but that isn't really meaningful for this discussion. this is about banning existing technology f

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