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by tivert 2y ago
> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Ban fish and the man gets into farming and animal husbandry and doesn't need you anymore. Eh, you're misusing the saying in an i
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> Im just offering you an explanation about evolution of powers in the world, and human resources is a huge factor. Sorry, that wasn't an explanation that was needed nor asked for. And its sounds like weird sort of demographic deter
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> So do you really think there are no people who have ever voted against their own interests because they were misled, or even lied to? No, but I also don't trust anyone complaining about people "voting against their own intere
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> People do vote against their interests. Full stop. If you're not talking about the normal compromises every voter needs to make between competing priorities, then I think you should own your position and advocate that you yourself
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> Sure, but feeding impressionable people garbage which then gets them to vote squarely against their own interests is worse than creators making a bit less. If you think people are voting "squarely against their own interests,&quot
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> I wish they'd stop serving scams too. I keep seeing shit like "make 75,000 using Ethereum and ChatGPT" I love those scam ads. They're so entertaining. I actually try to download my favorites sometimes.
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What's your point? Your comment doesn't really address anything relevant regarding the US's goals and positioning to achieve them. For instance, if the US wants to to secure its networks and be able to respond effectively to
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> It's not about meritocracy at all, the talent flocks to what makes most money because that's the whole incentive of the system. The incentives of the meritocratic system. For instance, in the pre-meritocratic WASP-y system
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> Generations of young geniuses were given the most lavish education in the history of the world, and then decided to take their talents to finance and consulting. It has always struck me as an issue that the meritocracy poorly distribut
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> Ive also heard that China has many more people living in it than the US. Ive also heard that Chinese higher education system is state funded So? It kinds sounds like you're making an excuse, but excuses don't do anything to a
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> To be fair, the parent's claim that China is "ahead" in infosec also feels like fearmongering. The one thing that's true for China is that their government has far fewer qualms about hacking Western infrastructure t
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You're forgetting all the corruption and hypocrisy in China. Do you think the individuals that make up the authorities act in a "reasonable and friendly" towards regular people who interact with them? The contradictions seen
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I use that, but it doesn't work in apps. I see these ads in the New York Times app.
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> I don't think he's plain wrong. Almost any non-living product is born out of software. If Japanese products are good, the software taking care of developing, manufacturing, marketing, selling, transporting, maintaining, rma&#
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> I don’t know why you are being so hostile about my knowledge levels about $5 versus $30 pieces of junk. I'm not being hostile, but I think you're being very non-responsive. At various points I've been trying to figure o
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> I'm just trying to be thought provoking. Being obviously wrong is probably not the way to do that. > Down this thread people are talking about stuff like, I don't know, home goods, or you're talking about cosmetics. I
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>> From what you wrote none of the factors seem to be specific to software/CS. But then Japan is quite well known when it comes to physical products. So I wonder what’s it about software the Japanese culture inhibits. > Physic
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> I never personally expected anything close to neologism out of LLMs, not sure whether that was a common expectation. You just described how LLMs have not "nailed it" at being an "analog for the language center of a brain
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> So let's freeze frame right here. What is this thing actually good for? Give me even one killer app worth one hundred billion dollars. Propaganda bots to flood social media.
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I'm reminded of this cringe shirt that shows up in the ads I see quite a bit: https://www.geeksoutfit.com/products/the-great-fibonacci-wav... . The ads usually feature several shirts. The above one, and 5 others th
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>> After seeing what a mess it makes to allow patents on software, I feel skeptical that patents on things are a good idea, either. > I was just thinking the same thing. I used to just sort of accept that patents were a reasonable
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> edit: my mistake, this is not the senate > Perhaps this one: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/9474 The OP/EFF says it's a Senate committee that's about to vote on
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>> need to be studied for at least ten years, then rolled out slowly with much more skeptical study. > If you have ever been involved with education students doing studies you know that methodology here is the pretty lacking, and i
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> Everyone should be terrified. The "promise" of AI is the following: remove any kind of remaining communication between humans, because that is "inefficient", and replace it with an AI that will mediate all human int
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I think people, and society in general, need to be a lot more careful about buying into hype, and prematurely adopting hyped tech. Would you buy (or fly in) a "revolutionary" new jet, that (by the way) hasn't been tested, b
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> That's part of the problem though: It's not an intelligence, artificial or otherwise, yet we still call it "AI", giving people the impression that LLMs are almost AGI or a step on the way while a true artificial int
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> Hopefully someone from Google reads HN and can do something or talk to someone. IIRC, that's pretty much the only way you can get real help from them: have your problem goes viral on social media, and hope one of the elect sees it
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> ITU regulations or more precisely spectrum they regulate is one of the most valuable and scarce resources today . Nations would will go to war if they are threatened. They'd go to war if they're threatened, but a violation is
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> This editorial choice suggests Wikipedia editors have exceeded their proper role as documentarians and entered into political judgment Wikipedia has mainly been edited as propaganda a tool for a long time . Though it's not so

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