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by the_af 2mo ago
A few years ago it might have been. You have to judge assertions in the context of when they were made. Obviously some things have changed.
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by the_af 2mo ago
Maybe , but not necessarily. I think different cultures can share the same reality, though filtered through different lenses. If two people from different cultures watch the same movie, one finds it ok and the other offensive and disrespec
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by the_af 2mo ago
I totally missed that this was the same person who had submitted the link to begin with. My bad!
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by the_af 2mo ago
Wow! I totally missed that the person I was replying to was the one who had submitted the link. What you describe is surely what happened. I feel bad now :(
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by the_af 2mo ago
Why do you restate the abstract? Anyone can read it from the link.
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by the_af 2mo ago
Not necessarily. A shared reality is one where people are discussing the same thing (within a reasonable margin) even if filtered by their individual perceptions, and drawing different conclusions. I don't know the word for the opposit
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by the_af 2mo ago
If I understand the story correctly, it's even worse than "pivoted to astronomy". He used Claude to "accidentally" (doubtful) copy an existing astronomy app, bugs and all. It's like a pile of dishonesty upon di
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by the_af 2mo ago
I've been thinking about this. Almost every way we have to tell human from AI apart can be adopted and automated by AI. It's sort of a corollary of "every metric can be gamed". It's disheartening for those of us who
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by the_af 2mo ago
> Who the FUCK speaks like that? Do you mean starting sentences with "But"? I do, but then again I'm not a native speaker and my writing may be nonstandard. Or do you mean short and direct sentences? In which case, Hemin
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by the_af 2mo ago
Ok, I'll bite! I agree the theatrical cut is inferior, the voice over wasn't done willingly by Harrison Ford, the "happy ending" is forced and hideous, etc... but I kind like the hardboiled vibes of the narration. It was
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by the_af 2mo ago
Many Pratchett books aren't riffs on Tolkien at all. Someone recommended Small Gods (excellent choice, and not a whiff of Elves or Dwarves there) but many other Pratchett books are genuinely good and not cheap shots at Tolkien. I say g
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by the_af 2mo ago
Very likely. However, I see two problems with this: one, I think people are going to make comparisons to Matrix rather than Blade Runner, and judging from the trailer it looks a lot like a modern Matrix (understandably!). Second, Neuromance
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by the_af 2mo ago
Donnie Darko is (to me) one of those movies ruined by the director's cut. Not only due to the music changes, but also because the "message" of the movie is made more explicit and on the nose. And reading Kelly's intervie
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by the_af 2mo ago
Rachael smoking in that scene is almost like a painting, a masterpiece. I love the whole movie and soundtrack with the same enthusiasm as you, it's one of my favorites, but that scene with Rachael is something else.
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by the_af 2mo ago
If T-1000 was an LLM: "What's wrong with Wolfie?" "Wolfie's fine." "Actually his name's Max." "You're absolutely right. It's not Wolfie -- it's Max." "Actually we do
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by the_af 2mo ago
Interesting. I wasn't aware of that, I stand corrected. I think it's a bit silly to consider it theft, but I have to eat my words in this case :)
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by the_af 2mo ago
I'd say this can be generalized: threads on HN are goofy about all the kinds of things HN readers and hackers are unfamiliar with but think they have the common sense to reason about. This week I witnessed a similarly illogical argumen
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by the_af 2mo ago
Nope. Chessboxing was the invention of comics book artist Enki Bilal (and he's credited with this in Wikipedia). I first saw it in his Nikopol trilogy. Because life is weird, it then became a real thing. It's unrelated to computer
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by the_af 2mo ago
> Saying "lines of code are a bad measurement" is too easy! It's about time someone presented an opposing argument. I don't know about easy. It's a hard earned lesson of software engineering, backed by research
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by the_af 2mo ago
Isn't this falling into the "lines of code" trap TFA mentions? More code written is not a good measure of productivity. It could be garbage, or redundant code, or simply not addressing the real or more pressing needs, it coul
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by the_af 2mo ago
By the strangest of coincidences, I was just re-reading The Martian Chronicles (randomly picking stories) this week, after re-buying it because I lost my copy. So this story and the poem were on my mind. Awesome that your copy was signed by
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by the_af 2mo ago
Thanks for the reply. I agree with you that humans are animals and also part of nature. I don't think there's an implied put down of animals or nature in the poem. I think the author was talking about how meaningless and tragic hu
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by the_af 2mo ago
Oh! I didn't even think it could be a spambot. You may be right :(
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by the_af 2mo ago
It is really an anti-war poem rather than anti-humanity or about nature in general. Sara Teasdale was forced to write her sentiments obliquely. From Wikipedia: > "The Sedition Act of 1918 enacted two months before the original publ
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by the_af 2mo ago
The comment was paraphrasing the message of the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which Bradbury used for the title of his story), which is exactly about this: that Nature won't know or care when we're gone.
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by the_af 2mo ago
> Nature won't know or care if humanity erases itself. You got downvoted for paraphrasing the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains", from which Bradbury took the title of his story. I supposed that's to be expected online
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by the_af 2mo ago
The first case is theft as legally and traditionally defined. It has low impact, since the item would have likely ended up in the garbage, but it's still theft as we understand it and as law defines it. The barber example is not theft.
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by the_af 2mo ago
How do you know Nolan is irrelevant to future trends? What's your expertise? Your point most definitely does not remain. You're arguing with someone who knows his/her stuff. Your claim, which comes from no experience, directl
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by the_af 2mo ago
I think you're wrong. A lot of people who dislike AI in art are putting their money (and their actions) where their mouth is. They don't buy stuff done with AI, ask authors whether they use it, and ban it/kick it from their c
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by the_af 2mo ago
> Nolan is irrelevant Irrelevant to whom? He's not irrelevant to me and many movie fans. Also, you are lecturing someone who seems to actually work or has worked on the movie industry.

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