suddenlybananas

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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
This entire article is based on the false premise that the American empire was given up. If anything, it became more powerful and pernicious across the world following WWII, though its power is obviously waning right now.
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Well, when heads of state, important ministers, politicians etc post things there, it's an unfortunate reality that you sometimes have to read it to stay in the loop. (I think Nazi app is a bit of an overstatement myself)
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You can want to read something someone else has posted without giving your data to the owner of Twitter.
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It's hardly unique to Twitter but it's so frustrating how much "content" online requires an account. Whenever my friends send me something on Instagram or TikTok or a restaurant puts their menu on Instagram, I'm bar
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Seems like it would be a massive market to make such a harness, and yet you're making it sound very easy to do. It would be surprising no one has done it if it were.
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>murderous ways What?
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European countries generally have a fairly generous social safety net.
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I also can't tell when it was written exactly, given the reference to typists and file clerks being replaced "during the past twenty years".
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"To keep Reddit safe", god why do they have to lie in such an obnoxious and patronising way?
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They can heavily influence later Greek culture without being Greeks themselves. It's not unlike the Etruscans and Rome.
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Mycenaeans are not remotely like the Hittites. The Mycenaean language is what turned into Greek, while Hittite died out and was forgotten. Myceneans were remembered and celebrated until the present day with the Odyssey and the Illiad (while
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
I agree with you but perhaps I'm misread you, how else would you do autoresearch and loop engineering without LLMs?
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What do you mean by 2?
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While I understand why they would want to avoid that scandal happening, it's really ludicrous that it was ever a scandal. Murdering tons of innocent people and committing all sorts of crimes is totally fine to depict, but god forbid yo
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
Chromebooks, smartboards, tablets are all horrible for teaching.
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>Nobody called anyone schizophrenic. They noted that the irrelevant link spam in a reply was reminiscent of schizophrenic posting. Come on, that's being incredibly pedantic. If I say, your comment reminds me of someone being an assh
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
Why are you so upset that someone is criticising LLMs that you call them schizophrenic? (I'd recommend refreshing your memory with this https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )
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That's essentially impossible, unless you mean they didn't measure a false positive rate.
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Claude repeats man twice like Fagles, despite that not being in the Greek. Using driven and wandering is a weird repetition rather than just using "made to wander" which is a more natural way of directly translating the passive.
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>driven far journeys" which to me seems barely grammatical "Tell me the man" and "of many turnings" sound far, far worse, not to mention the egregious em-dash. Obviously there's no way to really _prove_ what
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Yes and if a human translator produced this work, it would be viewed as near plagiarism of Lattimore and Fagles. Compare this to Wilson. Wilson had surely read Lattimore and Fagles and yet produced something genuinely different (as much as
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
They didn't say they wanted a timeless translation.
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You think Anthropic didn't train on some of the most famous translations of the Odyssey? Really?
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https://theclaudyssey.com/read/book-01.html#n1 The first line is a crappy mishmash of Lattimore and Fagles. Lattimore: >Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways, who was driven far journeys, after he had sacked Troy&#
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
Like what? Can you give me an example?
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They also had slaves.
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But you're making out that indigenous people are part of this "first nature" rather than the "second nature", while industrial civilisation is strictly "second nature" which is frankly racist.
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The personal accounts which are the data for this article are in fact lived experiences. You can read them in their own words.
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Did those people have the right to leave or do what they wanted? https://www.jstor.org/stable/482790?seq=1 Read this paper and the contemporary accounts and tell me that's not slavery. >To modern Westerners, th
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by suddenlybananas 2mo ago
Of course, but that's no different than the changes brought on by urbanization or climate change due to carbon emissions.

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