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by the_af 11mo ago
Curious here, what's the different salute?
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by the_af 11mo ago
That's the term in Russia. In the USA it's "War on Terror-drugism".
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by the_af 11mo ago
Agreed. I wasn't defending Altman!
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by the_af 11mo ago
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I think we're in agreement. I too think the situation is probably mirrored from China's side. I hope there are some people over there who can also understand there's some middle ground, that n
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by the_af 11mo ago
The citizens of the UK in general? No. Authorities and government? Yes. Even if the current ones weren't born when history was made, it's their duty to understand the history of the country they are governing, and of how past deci
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by the_af 11mo ago
> Why is every political discussion boiled down to a whataboutism? Unfortunately, just like whataboutism can be a disingenuous rhetorical device, so is anti-whataboutism. Sometimes the comparison is relevant, sometimes it's not. I
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by the_af 11mo ago
I think if it's coincidental, it cannot be fair right? Fair in the sense we're discussing here must mean a repeatable system. If a wrongful process arrives at the right conclusion, it's still not fair (e.g. let's say a b
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by the_af 11mo ago
Yes to both things. Since it fell from power, the UK does everything the US wants. However, historically it set up a lot of bad things that happened in the Middle East, China, Africa, etc. The UK cannot untangle itself from it, "it&#x2
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by the_af 11mo ago
Great Britain is very directly involved in a whole bunch of relatively recent messes in the Middle East, China, etc. It's not whataboutism to point up the current messed up situation is not unrelated to the behavior of the UK, and th
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by the_af 11mo ago
> Is it possible to get a fair trial if you're an enemy of the state? In which country is it possible to get a fair trial if you're an enemy of the state, especially in today's climate?
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by the_af 11mo ago
Is this true though? I haven't done the experiment, but I can envision the LLM critiquing its own output (if it was created in a different session) and iteratively correcting it and always finding flaws in it. Are LLMs even primed to s
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by the_af 11mo ago
Sam Altman decided to irresponsibly talk bullshit about parenting because yes, he needed that marketing sound bite. I cannot believe someone will wonder how people managed to decode "my baby dropped pizza and then giggled" before
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by the_af 11mo ago
I saw this described as LLMs writing "punched up" paragraphs, and every paragraph must be maximally impacting. Where a human would acknowledge some paragraphs are simply filler, a way to reach some point, to "default" LL
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by the_af 11mo ago
> I’ve always wondered what it would feel like to dream as a cat If you haven't already, read "A Dream of a Thousand Cats", one of the Sandman stories. It was also adapted by Netflix as the last episode of season 1 of Th
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by the_af 11mo ago
This is not true. There are plenty of people horrified with both Israel and Hamas, and that while sympathizing with the plight of the Palestinians, think Hamas is hurting their chances of a peaceful solution. Many people think Israel's
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by the_af 11mo ago
Vibe-coding as originally defined (by Karpathy?) implied not reading the code at all, just trying it and pasting back any error codes; repeat ad infinitum until it works or you give up. Now the term has evolved into "using AI in coding
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by the_af 11mo ago
It was a couple of years ago, it was virtual cards (I think one was a card given as reward by one of those legit review sites - edit: Gartner or one like those - which will reward you for providing reviews, and the other was money I had e
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by the_af 11mo ago
Ah! I can finally chat to my TV by writing text to it and have it hallucinate shows that don't exist, or tell me I'm right about everything. Possibly even create PR for work from my LG smart TV, my boss will be pleased. Just like
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by the_af 11mo ago
I had similar trouble redeeming a gift card on Amazon. Twice. (thankfully they got resolved upon appeal). Enough that I am very wary of buying or redeeming gift cards now, especially more than one in a row. Apparently there's some sort
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by the_af 11mo ago
Heuristics are nice but must be reviewed when confronted with actual counterexamples. If this is a published author known to write books before LLMs, why automatically decide "humans don't write like this". He's human an
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by the_af 11mo ago
"Jane is special": also rude, right?
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by the_af 11mo ago
That's great, I love it. Let me try it: I think LLMs are advancing my career into the realm of nonexistence.
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by the_af 11mo ago
> English would say: “He was right.” Or “He guessed correctly.” Direct. Affirmative. Landed. Right is right, wrong is wrong. You don’t say ‘not wrong.’ Is the article's assertion about English true, though? And specifically about
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by the_af 11mo ago
This is not a good invokation of Chesterton's Fence. The Fence is a parable about understanding something that already exists before asking to remove it. If you cannot explain why it exists, you shouldn't ask to remove it. In this
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by the_af 11mo ago
What does the age of the game in years have to do with anything? A fun game is a fun game.
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by the_af 11mo ago
You're right. I don't think it's a benefit to society that corporations behave like amoral sociopaths. It should be in their interest to correct that behavior. However, my point is this (slightly exaggerated) timeline: 1. &
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by the_af 11mo ago
The lesson, to me, is remembering company mottos like these are meaningless because corporations are fundamentally amoral. They are made of people, yes, and these people do have moral values, but the corporation as a whole doesn't. Wha
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by the_af 11mo ago
> Firstly, just about every paper ever written in the history of papers has errors in it LLMs make it easier and faster, much like guns make killing easier and faster.
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by the_af 11mo ago
I've zero interest in the AI tool, I'm discussing the broader problem. The references were made up, and this is easier and faster to do with LLMs than with humans. Easier to do inadvertently, too. As I said, LLMs are a force mul
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by the_af 11mo ago
LLM are a force multiplier of this kind of errors though. It's not easy to hallucinate papers out of whole cloth, but LLMs can easily and confidently do it, quote paragraphs that don't exist, and do it tirelessly and at a pace unm

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