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by taylodl 2y ago
We've transitioned from the Information Age to the Disinformation Age.
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by taylodl 2y ago
How is departing his platform a "threat"? Do people no longer have the freedom to leave Xitter?
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by taylodl 2y ago
I've been using LLMs the same way this past year. As a challenge to myself, I've implemented full-stack interview evaluations using languages and tools I've never worked with before and see what I can do. Using LLMs, it has
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by taylodl 2y ago
The only new era Trump is capable of leading us into is an era of idiocracy. Mark my words, that era will turn out poorly for the majority of Americans who don't earn their living by cons and grift.
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by taylodl 2y ago
A smartass could say that national, state, and local legislatures could eliminate crime with a stroke of the pen - no money required. Just eliminate laws. Meanwhile, people aren't necessarily concerned with the crime rate, per se. Ther
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by taylodl 2y ago
I really don't care what they think. I have seen Americans lose their jobs to these H-1B visa holders. That's systemic abuse, full-stop. It's not about a labor shortage; it's about corporate America manipulating the labo
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by taylodl 2y ago
Wait a second - you're suggesting to cut LAPD funding because "crime is still rampant in Los Angeles"? Wouldn't that be the same as advocating for cuts in the LAFD funding because they weren't able to do much about
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by taylodl 2y ago
On the Ways Forward, I think we need to think through what we want from an AI. What's the point of replicating a human? We already have 8 billion of those. What's the point of an AGI? What problem are we trying to solve? To me,
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by taylodl 2y ago
We've known for at least 30 years that there's money to be made in the long tail. Once you've cornered a niche market you're pretty well set. Most of the market participants are already using your product, people are res
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by taylodl 2y ago
Sounds like throwing rocks out of glass houses. I was always advised, since childhood, not to do that.
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by taylodl 2y ago
And? Probably even more companies are going to reduce workforces due to continuing automation. There was an article just today in the new section of HN talking about how the labor market is contracting and the fact there are fewer and fewer
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Which is a trait that makes Trump a particularly bad leader
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by taylodl 2y ago
Those "few token efforts" as you call them led to some serious ramifications from which Trump, ever the idiot, learned nothing.
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by taylodl 2y ago
Remember, MAGAts are a sign of rot and decay
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by taylodl 2y ago
The new Enron and the Enron Egg is all parody. I really wish it weren't! https://www.ibtimes.com/enrons-satirical-comeback-meet-enron...
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by taylodl 2y ago
Things were going pretty well until I got to this statement: If your child is born this year, they are likely going to live through +1.5°C of warming by the time they are 25. A fact that is likely going to cause a 40% to 50% drop in the gl
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by taylodl 2y ago
Turns out this is all part of an elaborate parody. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/we-have-harnessed-... Once again, if it sounds too good to be true...
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The Enron Egg, the first at-home nuclear reactor [video](youtube.com)
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by taylodl 2y ago
Early word-processing software changed very little of that - the problem was cultural, not technological. Big offices had a typing pool where professional typists would type up memos and documents. It took a while for that culture to chan
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by taylodl 2y ago
Such typewriters were used by business, not students or individuals at home. Those machines cost several thousand dollars in today's dollars, just to put a perspective on things. Whereas a "normal", manual typewriter cost sev
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by taylodl 2y ago
AI is "faking" it when you think about it. If a machine can "fake" skills and expertise, and we can measure its ability to fake it using the Turing Test, then why can't people fake it, too?
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by taylodl 2y ago
How long have we been saying that rote memorization is not learning? ChatGPT makes it clearer than ever that we need to focus on teaching children to be able to analyze and solve problems, not memorize a bunch of facts. What we need to star
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by taylodl 2y ago
I recommend reading Built to Last https://www.amazon.com/Built-to-Last-Jim-Collins-audiobook/d... It'll do a much better job than I can in showing why your thinking is so wrong-headed
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by taylodl 2y ago
Reinforcing your point, Mars is the distraction. Your launch window is every two years, and the participants have signed-on to a suicide mission. There's no chance to change your mind should you realize you've made a mistake. With
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by taylodl 2y ago
Not being sarcastic, this is why I prefer living in what I call a "dumb" home. Too many of my friends have run into these kinds of issues over the years and it becomes a right royal mess to get everything figured out and working a
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by taylodl 2y ago
I don't see where this explanation is strange, it's straightforward GR (General Relativity), as much as one can call GR "straightforward." It's a simpler explanation than inventing Dark Energy, for which we have no
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by taylodl 2y ago
Not surprising. Apple sometimes forgets that they're not just a computer company, but they're also a fashion company. They make products that strive to perform well and look good. The fact is there's no way to make this thing
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by taylodl 2y ago
The most significant impact this USB-C requirement has had so far is on Apple Balderdash! That's old man speak for "load of BS." Apple was a significant participant and driver in the development of USB-C. What? You think th
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by taylodl 2y ago
It'll be interesting to see if cases of sexual assault increase. One of the benefits touted for allowing porn is it purportedly decreases sexual assault. We now have an opportunity to see how true that is. Mind you, I'm not advoca
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by taylodl 2y ago
I expect Tesla sales to continue to fall: - The CyberTruck hasn't been well-received. It's the butt of many jokes and there's numerous YouTube videos detailing the abysmal build quality. As per usual, most of the trucks are j

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