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by themafia 9mo ago
> It also recouped more than the trial's net cost of 72 million euros ($86 million) through [...] and reduced reliance on other social welfare payments, Which sounds quite a bit like "we spent more on one type of welfare so we
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by themafia 9mo ago
> If AI wants to own the internet As if. It's corporations that want to own _your eyeballs_. It also kills any incentive to publish anything. It completely removes the user from having any agency over the sources of information the
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by themafia 9mo ago
> In fact, the LLM makes no errors at all. hah. Sure. > Subjects were told that they were a judge who sat in a certain jurisdiction (either Wyoming or South Dakota), and asked to apply the forum state’s choice of law rule to determi
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by themafia 9mo ago
"Helping abusive husbands find their escaped wives."
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by themafia 9mo ago
You pay a third party to make something like this for you. They can best be described as nihilists.
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by themafia 9mo ago
"Cool. I quit."
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by themafia 9mo ago
>> for the purpose irrational political ranting > pursuing politics discussions Did you intentionally ignore this specific point?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Apologizing for taking time to reply to my email is awkward and makes me uncomfortable. Get over it. No one is doing it for your benefit. They're providing a secondary signal about their own workload. Just ignore it if you cann
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by themafia 9mo ago
Is there some reason to think that poorly designed software cannot be profitable? Perhaps we shouldn't use revenue as a proxy for quality? More to the point how much of that profit is generated from selling those customers data rather
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by themafia 9mo ago
I was specific to the age of the product not of the age of the developer on that project. The point is that "high quality design" is such a fleeting thing that perhaps "longevity of design" is more worth having. It&#x2
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by themafia 9mo ago
> with all the rules and regulations out there. And who wrote those? Aren't they just another part of the moat? > It's actually quite fascinating how it was started. Visa was founded in 1958 by Bank of America (BofA) as the
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by themafia 9mo ago
> Less dependency management, less glue, less accidental complexity from adapting your problem to someone else’s abstraction. Less maintenance and flexibility. You're not really "designing software" until you have a 20+ y
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by themafia 9mo ago
There's value to be had in ripping the copyright off your stuff so someone else can pass it off as their stuff. LLMs have no technical improvements so all they can do is throw more and more stolen data into it and hope it, somehow,
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by themafia 9mo ago
What's the alternative. In a terrorist camp somewhere: "Guys! We can't Toyota's anymore. I guess terrorism is over! Pack it up and go home!" Sheesh.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Why not deal with the cause of the terrorism? Are we really worried what vendor they get their trucks from?
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by themafia 9mo ago
Ctrl-F: "Customer" (2 results) [both describing customers as a fungible always present entity that must deal with you]. Yea.. maybe change your focus?
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by themafia 9mo ago
> I’ve had that experience. And losing it — even acknowledging that it was lost What are you talking about? You don't know how 99% of the systems in your own body work yet they don't confront you similarly. As if this "k
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by themafia 9mo ago
> as their opportunity to travel faster You're ascribing motive where you have no data to do so. > travel slower and slower Roads near capacity slow down. This capacity surge is typically highly predictable. > tragedy of the
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by themafia 9mo ago
> 40 years ago you'd have more ideals, riots, and young-minded ideas. The government generated most of those too. As technology became more capable they utilized it more but that doesn't mean they were standing around with the
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by themafia 9mo ago
> it could be that you end up compiling a function with, like 30 arguments, or 30 return values; I don’t trust a C compiler to reliably shuffle between different stack argument needs at tail calls to or from such a function. Yet you trus
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by themafia 9mo ago
> the purported golden age of impartial truth-seeking. It's constantly been with us since the beginning of the republic. Several of our founding fathers were actually publishers. > this consensus Consensus doesn't exist in
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by themafia 9mo ago
> But does anybody really understand all of the levels? Of the top of my head? Most of them. Did you need me to understand some level in particular? I can dedicate time to that if you like. My experience and education will make that
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by themafia 9mo ago
> it's that shopping malls are dying. They've been dying for decades. The owners have just decided to stop trying to save it and instead hollow it out and sell it all off.
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by themafia 9mo ago
Engineering, to me, is simply "the art of compromise." You can't do that from a high level abstract position. You actually need to stand at the coal face and think about it from time to time. This article encodes an entitl
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by themafia 9mo ago
> practical to adapt life to space This is not practical in terms of microgravity environments. You just have to read the space shuttle manual to learn how to correct a broken toilet before you understand how poorly equipped we are to h
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by themafia 9mo ago
If you're practicing casual misanthropy I'm sure it looks very "dire" that no one is exercising the authority to artificially limit population growth. To me it just looks like "we're screwing around and falling
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by themafia 9mo ago
I'm dumb. I look at a chart of "world population" and I see an exponential curve that starts in the 1950s. K? Or are we going to work from the modern perspective that these peoples are somehow outside of our sphere of influ
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by themafia 9mo ago
> will be obsolete. In what sense? Not competitive for chat bot providers to use? Is that a metric that matters? > when the more efficient 1.8nm or 1.5nm chips get released What if they don't get released? You don't have
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by themafia 9mo ago
The population grows exponentially. Why would you think the system would work against that?
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by themafia 9mo ago
Yea, you can create programs that create jobs, by spending taxes. So this should be zero surprise. The question you should /really/ be asking, since taxes are involved, is, was that hiring actually effective? Did we create

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