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by sparky_z 8mo ago
It literally wrote a blog post [supposedly on its own initiative] trying to gin up outrage at open source maintainer after he denied the LLM's pull request. Here's the original write-up of the incident: https://theshamb
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by sparky_z 8mo ago
He was only slandered once, by the LLM Agent. The Ars Technica article had presented paraphrases that it falsely attributed as direct quotes, and was therefore factually incorrect reporting. But it was not defamatory by any reasonable stan
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by sparky_z 8mo ago
But why would they reason through it in that way? You haven't asked them to listen carefully and find the secret reason you're a dumb-ass in order to prove how smart they are. If they default to that mode on every query, that woul
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by sparky_z 8mo ago
By the same reasoning, why on earth would a person sincerely ask you that question unless the car that they want to wash is either already at the car wash, or that someone is bringing it to them there for some reason? If it's as unambi
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by sparky_z 8mo ago
> It all just went away, starting with the husbands. I honestly can't tell whether I'm supposed to interpret this as "The dads lost interest in Facebook before anyone else", or "Everybody got divorced."
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by sparky_z 8mo ago
Correct. Of course, that wasn't the case in 1750 or 1900. It wouldn't have been possible then. Hence why prior technological changes that increased productivity didn't result in living lives of extended leisure, despite some
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by sparky_z 8mo ago
Close, but it's "Butlerian". Easy to remember if you know it's named after Samuel Butler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erewhon
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
Possibly dumb question from someone who's not Tesla-savvy: why would you want the door handle to retract the window slightly while opening the door?
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
That paper is about mandatory masking and social distancing at the population level. It does not speak to the question of whether it's "worth it" to wear a mask on the train if you're the only one who is doing it.
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
I've tried to research this, because I am honestly trying to understand it. It has been surprisingly difficult to verify what the current parental rights are for Canada Post. The most recent info on the union website is dated 2004, but
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
A 3-year maternity/paternity leave guaranteed by law sounds so completely crazy and unworkable to me that I think I must be misunderstanding what you mean. Before I start pelting you with objections that might be based on a misundersta
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
OK, I see now that you're specifically referring to the case where someone places a bet and then actively goes out and causes the event to happen themselves. I was specifically replying to the people who were saying it was unfair for
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
Would love to know your proposed mechanism here.
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
I mean, yes, unironically. If the goal of a prediction market is to find out the truth about the world, that's what will get you there faster. Google might feel differently about whether it's OK in that case, but that's their
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
Which makes their information much more valuable than most people's.
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
Or maybe this wasn't a surprise to anyone and was already priced in, and then the final numbers were slightly better than the general consensus expectation? Could be that too. But you're right, everyone who owns stock in Tesla is
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by sparky_z 9mo ago
The result was not, and could never have been, known a priori. All sorts of random things could have gone wrong with the operation causing the raid to fail and Maduro to remain in power. Trump could have just randomly changed his mind, or
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by sparky_z 10mo ago
It's interesting how the article is written in the past tense, and the Society (presumably) no longer exists, but there's nothing in the article about the decline and fall. The history just basically ends in the 1950s, at the heig
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by sparky_z 10mo ago
In that theory, where does the "tucky" come from?
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by sparky_z 10mo ago
When it's built into the game engine and is used as part of the game loop, responding to user input in some way, and evolving as the game unfolds. (As opposed to just using AI as a tool in the game creation process.)
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by sparky_z 11mo ago
...thus creating a thriving black market for old accounts.
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by sparky_z 11mo ago
Honest question: Are there alternative ways people can get AIDS? If so, it's news to me.
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by sparky_z 11mo ago
The current top comment by u/steppi is a stellar example of how to offer an additional resource on the topic in a way that adds value to the discussion. This was not that. I (correctly) interpreted the terse, dismissive tone of their c
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by sparky_z 11mo ago
This is one of those situations where the video is just an insane value-add above and beyond the Wikipedia article that this sort of response is baffling to me. The well thought out presentation and progression of the concepts. Just enough
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by sparky_z 11mo ago
But not necessarily into the _atmosphere_.
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by sparky_z 11mo ago
You're still assuming that all of a person's music metadata _belongs_ in a global database. Some of my collection includes: -"frankenstein" musical soundtracks where I've assembled my favorite version of each song f
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by sparky_z 1y ago
The text of the article directly contradicts the headline. If we take the text at face value, then the act of closing the TM does not "open more copies". It just fails to close cleanly, leaving behind a zombie process. Every time
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by sparky_z 1y ago
You are just wildly, hilariously off the mark. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
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by sparky_z 1y ago
People who live in farming communities tend to own machinery. They don't need advance notice any more than a typical suburbanite needs advance planning to drive a car somewhere.
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by sparky_z 1y ago
Yeah, no shit. But, come on, don't play dumb. By measurable, I obviously meant "above normal background". Something that shouldn't have been possible if, as described in the xkcd post, the water should have had less radi

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