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by strangattractor 7mo ago
This reads as an AI comment to me. Anybody else?
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
You can always tell when there is a problem. When things are fine the companies keep the profits to themselves. When things start to get dicey - foist it off onto retail investers. Private equity (PE) is increasingly being introduced into 4
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
I appreciate the answer and the open minded thoughtful answer.
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Maybe you can get the Bot to submit it. This video of Steve Mould yanking a Bot's chain while the Bot tries to get him to refinance his car. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GJVSDjRXVoo
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
According to Citizens United corporations have free speech. LLMs are made by corporations. Are LLMs entitled to free speech?
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Grok stuck in DOGE mode.
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
VCs have mined all the low hanging fruit of the internet. Exactly how many attention grabbing advertising companies, crypto scammers and gambling sites can the world stand. Enshittification is forcing them to seek new horizons.
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Cigarette vending machines had little stickers that said it was illegal for those under 18 to purchase cigarettes. Sure stopped all my friends from buying them. Seems exactly like the useless process fixation that Abundance advocates abhor.
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Las Vegas tourism is experiencing a significant downturn in early 2026, with 2025 finishing with a 7.5% decline in visitors—the sharpest drop outside the pandemic since 1970. - Google AI
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Nice
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Did they have the cards?
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Trickles often turn into streams and streams into rivers.
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
The "Backlash" he is referring to is people canceling their OpenAI accounts and going to Claude. And by "Painful" he means less money. - Professional CEO Sam Speak Interpreter
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
Everything you need to know about the Tech industry (or any industry for that matter) can be learned from watching the Simpsons - Season 4 Marge vs. the Monorail I am still waiting for a donut to save us.
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
In the US elections cannot be canceled even when Martial Law is declared. That does not mean a certain someone will not try to simply ignore the Constitution given his track record of simply ignoring the Constitution
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by strangattractor 7mo ago
"Since the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, unexploded ordnance (UXO)—including landmines, cluster bombs, and artillery shells—has killed over 40,000 people and injured or maimed more than 60,000 others." - Google AI Overview &quot
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
Guess Flock cameras don't solve quite as many crimes as they claim. Surveillance heal they self.
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
Getting your foot in the door: I think that having a supposed non-profit foundation make a contribution to a local government that then purchases a product that directly benefits an investor in that company which also happens to run that sa
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
Yup
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
Coining HNs Law Any mode of communication that depends on advertising for funding will over time t monotonically approach total BullShit Grifting as t increases.
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
Similarly Tesla using Teleoperators for their Optimus robots is a safety fake for robots that are not autonomous either. They are constantly trying to cover there inability to make autonomous anything. Cheap lidars or radar would have likel
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
I thought the Singularity had already happened when the Monkeys used tools to kill the other Monkeys and threw the bone into the sky to become a Space Station.
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
Having been in this game about 10 years longer I can understand how he feels. I distinctly remember when I realized that C compilers for the ARM produced better assembly than I could code by hand. Bitter sweet but the code being written bec
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
I wish I knew:). I kind of think Palantir is particularly at risk here. Image a company with siloed data behind APIs and access to other external data APIs. Using something like Claude I could tie all the separate sources into an easily dig
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
It was a great resource for basic facts about countries. Providing it to the public was genius in addition to being useful.
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
All of the hype surrounding AI will subside when a SaaS company eventually deploys a moltbot version of their software and the company is driven out of existence due to the chaos that ensues.
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by strangattractor 8mo ago
Citations being the only metric is one problem. Maybe an improved rating/ranking system would be helpful. Ranking 1 to 3 - 1 being the best - 3 the bare minimum for publication. 3. Citations only 2. Citations + full disclosure of data
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by strangattractor 9mo ago
It was somewhat of a joke;) He completed Kennedy's term and and was only only elected once. He refused to run for a 3rd. Given the immense ego's of these guys one might assume it was because he was unlikely to win. Peeing on peopl
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by strangattractor 9mo ago
We now know why he served only one term:)

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