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by the_af 8mo ago
This is an extremely cute, cool and fun experiment. Kudos. That said, I wonder: does the dog input matter? It seems this is simply surfacing Claude's own encoded assumptions of what a game is (yes, the feedback loop, controls, etc, are
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by the_af 8mo ago
I think the point is that, since polygraph readings are pseudoscience, it's always the interrogator who picks what they "mean". If this is true, a smart test subject cannot mislead them, since there's nothing to mislead,
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by the_af 8mo ago
It's very hard to understand what you're arguing though. You agree the CIA is not "broadly a force for good" (which I consider a big understatement). You also don't seem to disagree it's an organization whose a
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by the_af 8mo ago
Your experience of "lizard people" vs "bureaucracy of normal people doing the legwork" seems to match Arendt's banality of evil, right? Though Arendt seemed to imply those normal people were not very smart or imagin
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by the_af 8mo ago
Interesting. I have a very different experience with YouTube, to the point I consider it my favorite social network thingy. My search history and subscriptions are carefully curated, and I mostly get "more of the same", with prett
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by the_af 8mo ago
This is very likely. It reminds me of people who browse YouTube logged off: they see garbage, spam, rage bait, and sexy girls doing sexy stuff. But I browse logged in and my carefully curated subscriptions mean I mostly get good quality, re
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by the_af 8mo ago
> No, it's not. Once Meta identifies you as male, you will get almost exclusively thirst trap posts no matter what you do. It started about two years ago. This isn't my experience at all. I get "sexy girls" reels, b
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by the_af 9mo ago
> For what it's worth, whatever LLMs do extensively, they do because it's a convention in well-established writing styles. I think that's only part of the story. I think that while it's true what LLMs do is somehow
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by the_af 9mo ago
Yes, but it's kinda sad, isn't it, that this robotic way of writing in turn teaches a new generation of people how to write? Also, you forgot the extremely enervating: "It's not X. It's Y. <Clincher>."
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by the_af 9mo ago
Why laugh? Why can't a tool have good and bad uses, and why can't one be disappointed about the bad uses but embrace the good ones?
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by the_af 9mo ago
Ah, yes, the LLM Exchange Protocol. I believe it's already in place, making the internet a bit more wasteful.
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by the_af 9mo ago
It is what's happening in some cases, not all. Also, language shapes thought, so we encourage this to happen if we frame it as "content creation". It's something to push against. Note it's not even relevant whet
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by the_af 9mo ago
I agree with you and I find the term "creating content" awful, even though I'm forced to use it because it's something people immediately understand. "Content creator"... what happened to artist, playwright, pa
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by the_af 9mo ago
> I hated this movie the first time I watched it. And the second. The third time I let go of the need for things to be realistic and took it all in as an artistic representation and snap... I loved it. I never managed to reach your thi
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by the_af 9mo ago
Yeah, even when humans write in this artificial, punched-to-the-max, mic-drop style (as I've seen it described), there's a time and a place. LLMs default to this style whether it makes sense or not. I don't write like this wh
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by the_af 9mo ago
Agreed. Also, a realistic assessment should not downplay the very real overhead and headache of managing your on-premise data center. It comes at a cost in engineering/firefighting hours, it's not painless. There's a reason t
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by the_af 9mo ago
So they indeed meant "bullish"? That's what "bullish" means.
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by the_af 9mo ago
Text is meant primarily to be read rather than written .
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by the_af 9mo ago
It's already a trend. It's been for at least a decade. I'm surprised people here never noticed it...
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by the_af 9mo ago
> First time I've seen it. It will be interesting to see if that trends. It's not a new trend, I'm surprised you never noticed it. It dates back to at least a decade. It's mostly used to signal informal/hipst
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by the_af 9mo ago
The article is interesting. I don't know how I feel about it, though I'm both a user of AI (no choice anymore in the current job environment) and vaguely alarmed by it; I'm in the camp of those who fear for the future of our
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by the_af 9mo ago
This was true before. The famous essay "Don't Call Yourself A Programmer" dates from 2011! I thought it was required reading here on HN. https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/10/28/dont-call-yourself-a
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by the_af 9mo ago
Wow! 1999? I know I'm old when it feels almost like yesterday... (I knew it wasn't a recent development, but I still remember when I first heard of AGS as if it was yesterday!).
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by the_af 9mo ago
Is it too hard to port?
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by the_af 9mo ago
Interesting. I remember the original author of AGS was strongly against open source back in the day. Nice to see he either recanted, or handed the reigns to someone who wasn't opposed.
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by the_af 9mo ago
Portuguese Man o' Wars look distinct enough from jellyfish. Their sails make parts of their bodies float above water, something no jellyfish can do to my knowledge. I can confuse species of jellyfish but there's no confusing the m
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by the_af 9mo ago
I mean grill a steak, cook a chicken in the oven, chop some vegetables and prepare a salad, cook some pasta with a simple tomato sauce, etc. Do people really don't know how to do this? It's not rocket science. It seems wild to me
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by the_af 9mo ago
> How many of you know how to [...] cook your own food? That's a very low bar. I expect most people know how to cook, at least simple dishes.
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by the_af 9mo ago
This is my take as well. Steve Yegge has always read a bit "eccentric" to me, to say the least. But I still quote some of his older blog posts because he often had a point. Now... his blog posts seem to show, to quote another comm
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by the_af 9mo ago
GOG supported Linux from before Galaxy. I don't use Galaxy at all. My GOG games work on Linux. It's a good company.

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