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by themafia 4mo ago
> and was borne out of consumer demand and misinformation. So there was absolutely no reliable data they used? It was _entirely_ misinformation? That seems dubious. > Most people have been misled to believe that organic is superior
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> AI models have gone from barely being able to write a coherent line of code to writing most of the code at major AI companies. Gasoline has gone from barely being able to power stationary farm machines to now being the fuel that underp
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What a "frontier."
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> The government will then just enforce the laws on the people they don't like. Which is explicitly against the 14th amendment.
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If you give a language model, empowered through an agent, the ability to publish information on your behalf, and it publishes false information which causes either direct or even indirect harm, and you fail to correct it, then yes.. b
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by themafia 4mo ago
If they do so knowingly, and harm is caused, then yes. Are you suggesting we should give them a pass from years of acquired jurisprudence simply because they hold a particular title? And what institution gives out the licenses for journa
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by themafia 4mo ago
> But watch as Germany soon loses AI Google results. Time to set my VPN location to Germany. I'm tired of the "udm" trick.
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The "aw geez, enough is enough" release. Finally.
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> the definition by analogy to what aircaft autopilot does It's a bad analogy. Autopilot just maintains the aircraft in some state, then there's the flight director which maintains the flight path, and you can connect or di
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by themafia 4mo ago
more of "we whined and cried and screamed that we needed new budget in order to buy these tools or we would literally die. now we have them, they don't work as well as we hoped, they aren't leading to productivity gains,
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> is be willing to do it cheap for awhile Then you might as well work for yourself. > getting into this industry for the money I can make more money doing HVAC but I'm tired of being on hot roofs. > the path forward is a lot m
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by themafia 4mo ago
> actual tech companies Are you talking the big 10? Or "tech companies" in general? > AI really just can't replace productive work Okay. Show me the productivity gains. Those are measurable. Why is the "AI is
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AI can't flip burgers?
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by themafia 4mo ago
The odd thing is in Humans is that if we loose our teeth the jawbone itself also starts to recede. Part of the process of installing an implant is doing either a matrix or a cadaver bone graft in order to overcome this. We are, in some se
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> they can also infect the package source code itself Which is where the concept of "safe levels" come in. I should be able to install this module in such a way where file operations and process operations are not available to
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I'm not a fan of C++ precisely because of template noise but what you gain with span, in that the pointer and the length are joined together, seem to outweigh the complaints on style. Isn't there a way to make this an alias anyw
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> Death is fundamentally a way to optimize reproduction You could equally argue that it's a way to optimize lifetime energy efficiency. > The cells humans are made of are immortal, Yes but DNA transcription is not error free and
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Download source. Extract. Move files to correct node_modules folder. If your distribution requires more than this, then it's not really a module, or combines too many non-modular components, and should be distributed differently.
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1 -- Signal jamming exists. 2 -- Space also belongs to the citizens and not the corporations. 3 -- The defense industry is the single worst most corrupt and idiotic industry we still shackle ourselves to.
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> It’s much more convincing Shouldn't your concern be whether it's true? Who asks to be "convinced?"
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Does this not follow from the basic 401k structure in this country? Most people will be defaulted into a fund like Vanguard and from what I can gather from my co-workers, none of them are particularly wild about taking their retirement mo
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> the California High-speed Rail project The state government of California was doing a bang up job of destroying this project on their own. He didn't really need to help them. Moreover given the rise of remote work I'm not s
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A moment of high drama in the courtroom: "Did you notice anything odd about the defendants vehicle?" "Yes." "What was that?" "He had disabled his GPS and telemetry systems."
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Watching "The Price is Right" made California a mythical place for me as a child in the Midwest. All the cars being given away, they were sure to mention, followed "California emissions standards!" No surprise. I end
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> FTX would have been one of the best performing funds of all time Ponzi schemes often have that feature. Right up until the bottom completely falls out.
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> Ross Ulbricht became a cause celebre among libertarians And was a campaign promise Trump issued in order to secure votes from that base.
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> It is literally judging the book by it's author How is that better? > which is an extremely rationale judgement to make. So it's "rational" to take bias into reading? Why even read? If you know what you think a
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> Before you spend 20 minutes reading this article, it's worth understanding that the writer has been posting popular but consistently wrong So, judge the book by it's cover? > arguing that AI is failing, is a waste of mone
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> through undeniable, massive productivity gains. And where are those? They seem particularly hard to actually observe and only appear in anecdotes. > I'm trying to believe For every exponential increase in compute capacity you
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Were you alive during the Iraq War, Operation Fast and Furious and/or COVID? What basis do you use to measure "extremity?" I think you're operating from a very cherry picked and limited set of facts about political oper

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