tarkin2

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by tarkin2 1y ago
> We all know that we're teetering on the brink of a populist wave, but no-one in a position of power seems willing or able to do anything about it. This, I believe, is because the problem is psychological more than political: socia
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by tarkin2 1y ago
It helps the American people because they will need to rely on foreign countries for their cyber security? Heck, those nuclear subs and aircraft carriers are only making the American people less likely the collaborate with the rest of the w
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by tarkin2 1y ago
If they inherit the house they would be out of the mortgage casino and lower housing prices won't affect them so much. Of course it won't be as valuable as an asset, but assuming they are primarily using it as a house rather then
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by tarkin2 1y ago
I would assume home owners are more likely to vote. But even with a lower voter turn out, there could still be more voting renters. A sibling post has stats from 15 years ago but a lot has changed since then. My gut feeling is that more peo
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by tarkin2 1y ago
Well, the renters will reward any government that pushes down house prices i.e. builds more houses. And I assume there are more renters than home owners.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
People would be friendly and polite on the whole, a few standoffish and curious about your political leanings. Most places would just want the tourist cash in all honesty
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Huge economic issues threaten national security. Economic and infrastructural sabotage isn't an unprecedented act in the last few years anyhow.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Isn't Arm now venturing into the product, rather than just specification, market and so this acquisition could help Arm?
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Great, thanks. I would have valued your post more if you'd stated this. Unfortunately it just looked like you said "All these people are idiots and I'm right".
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I think the question is that were Plato's fears unfounded. I don't think the question is "is writing bad", although it is framed as that to justify a carefree adoption of LLMs in daily life.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
With a diminished ability to store, recall and thus manipulate information, our learning is arguably more shallow. With AI trained on increasingly generic input used by the casual, then the quality of our production will increase in quantit
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Do human servants make you lazier or more productive? (A sincere thought experiment)
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by tarkin2 2y ago
And our memory has declined. He was right
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by tarkin2 2y ago
What about when they say 'when I "stare at a mess of unfamiliar code" I will ask ChatGPT to explain it and it will fix the problem for me'?
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by tarkin2 2y ago
So isn't this a good thing? The comments on here are more overwrought than rational and disinterested...
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I often wondered if the fact your number system forces you to multiply somehow affects your mathematical competence. France has won a lot of Fields medals.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Most new programmers forget the specification and execution plan part of programming. I ended up finishing my side projects when I kept these in mind, rather than focusing on elegant code for elegant code's sake. It seems the key to us
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Don't exercise your body, become fat. Don't exercise your brain, become stupid. LLMs give us another excuse not to exercise our brains.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I was a bit fan of phind.com for a while and I loved it. But I've been using duckduckgo's AI offering since its UI is a little smoother/faster/easier to use. Has anyone found any good reason to use phind over ddg?
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Sorry for inadvertently advising but I met a guy who used v0.dev to make impressive websites (although admittedly he did use react before so he was experienced) with professional success. It's more than arguable that his company will f
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Make the US too busy fighting itself to focus on external threats. Divide and conquer has always been the most effective strategy. Dividing is much easier with portable propaganda devices, selling citizens' psychological profiles to an
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by tarkin2 2y ago
So the US government is cancelling federal research that uses terminology it doesn't like? Isn't this sending an Unamerican view of freedom of thought and expression? And a very dictatorial view of the American government and inst
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Of course. China wants to beat the US in innovation, and gain the economic and militaristic advantages which that brings. And they're going about it the right way if there's any substance behind that press statement.
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Impressive, honestly. They're trying to become a mecca for innovation and research, trying to lead rather than follow, build a culture where innovation can spark future economic advantages, whereas OpenAI seem to more about monetisatio
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I would rather see the errors a non naive speaker would make rather than wading though grammatically correct but generic, meaningless generated business speak in an attempt to extract meaning. When you sound like everyone else you sound lik
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Everything starts with someone pointing at something. Everything ends with dollars. That's how I remembered them anyhow
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Writing has ruined our memories. It would be far better if we were forced to recite things (incidentally, in some educational system they're made to recite poetry to remedy this somewhat); not that I'm arguing against letters and
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by tarkin2 2y ago
It's very common, and increasingly common because of AI, since it was trained on a lot of meaningless business speak, but that doesn't mean it's not lazy and thoughtless, or particularly lazy and thoughtless now it's min
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by tarkin2 2y ago
I saw it in Manchester city centre too
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by tarkin2 2y ago
Intimidation of future whistleblowers

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