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by tivert 2y ago
> I think Dan performs a mild sleight-of-hand trick here: he asks why we don't consider this a bug when any other software would consider it a bug. But in fairness, the question was not, "Did this prompt have a bugged output,&q
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by tivert 2y ago
>> Over a decade later, the fob got destroyed in an unfortunate boating incident. > Need to hear this story as well. I bet it's "dropped her keys into the lake." Perhaps after awkwardly balancing them a place that,
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by tivert 2y ago
> Sounds a bit pessimistic. And legitimately so. > It has never been that easy to create music, videogames, produce videos, comics, and distribute them. Nowadays basically anyone can do it, so the amount of content available is gigant
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> It's unfortunate that the word monopoly is losing it's meaning. Formerly, it meant a business that had an overwhelming or total share of the entire market, You're just describing the most extreme and dysfunctional aspect
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by tivert 2y ago
> Most people don't buy homes, cars, mattresses, with any regularity so whatever badwill you generate will be irrelevant 10-20 years down the line and likely born by a different seller. One scummy trick in that area is owning multip
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by tivert 2y ago
> The obvious thing people seem to be missing is that the process of creating something is fun to creative people, that's why we do what we do. It isn't a chore to enjoy yourself. Yeah, the AI sales pitch usually doesn't h
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by tivert 2y ago
Mad libs is not an argument. > One thing about AI stories is the ease of change. Imagine not just reading a bed time story but composing one together and changing it to explore new possibilities. Imagine changing major elements such as p
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by tivert 2y ago
> crew resource management That doesn't mean what I'd assumed it would by mean just looking at the term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crew_resource_management
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by tivert 2y ago
> May I ask what you did to improve your deep sleep? I think Steve Gibson (of the Security Now podcast, and absolutely not a doctor), had a "healthy sleep formula" of taking a time release melatonin and a time-release niacinami
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by tivert 2y ago
> You can use your human creativity to come up with an outline of a story, then have AI do first drafts of chapters according to your outline. It's tremendously faster to go back and rewrite the AI draft than it is to generate a fir
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by tivert 2y ago
>> These applications would be novel, at least on a widespread basis in Western liberal democracies. > How? We already know... I think you're making the mistake of interpreting this as a binary thing, which obscures the differ
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by tivert 2y ago
> Every major power broker wants something like Recall to become the norm - bosses to spy on their employees... Isn't that already the norm, or at least very very common? It's just a 3rd party package totally focused on surveil
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by tivert 2y ago
Except that there's no real path for non-technical people to learn and do that, but there is on for them to become Excel power users and solve their problems with that tool.
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by tivert 2y ago
I think both. It's likely only very impressive high school students got that much access to a computer in 1967. It reminds me of an article I read about Jai alai years ago: the sport is long, long past its peak, and one of the people
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by tivert 2y ago
> How do we make crayons? If you're being retro, old Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers episodes covered that regularly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_MEFVx5jM https://www.pbs.org/video/mister-ro
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by tivert 2y ago
> Without AI you'd still be looking at dozens of artists' mockups of wooden satellites No, that's a false equivalence. The artists' mockups wouldn't be this bad . They'd either have gotten a real photo or b
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by tivert 2y ago
> Dissolve the entity if they cannot survive damages, and require data destruction as part of the wind down. The problem with that, from the perspective of the lawyers, is there's no way for them to get paid, as it stands now: >
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by tivert 2y ago
I'm not sure how they could do any better. AI is enabling the degradation of the public web, and that's what they search. Pretty soon the web's going to be one big Mikkelsen Twins ebook.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Their solution has been to develop satellites made mostly of wood, which will burn completely upon reentry. I like how the Google image search for "japan wooden satellite" ( https://www.google.com/search?q=japa
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by tivert 2y ago
> Why would a Chinese vendor not be able to offer AI in Western makrkets. Qwen is pretty good in English too. Who says they couldn't? I was talking about the reverse not being allowed.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Why even list Chinese vendors? Those would never happen in a western market. Because the Western vendors are banned in China, and Apple sells a lot of iPhones in China. And even in a Western market, you might have Chinese immigrants ch
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by tivert 2y ago
Yeah, they're literally using that term to describe "cars parked in a parking lot." And those parking aren't unusually large: one is literally an old mall parking lot.
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by tivert 2y ago
I went looking, but it looks like he deleted that video. Others re-uploaded it to shame him, though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkC6ug8p3Qs .
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by tivert 2y ago
> All you’re saying is that in the contemporary context it’s exceedingly foolish to be an employee at an early startup. The VCs and founders have optimized away all the incentive. Eventually the message will reach even naive 22 year olds
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by tivert 2y ago
> when I think about "the dead internet theory", this is what I imagine. all of this happening over top of our heads as we chat on a forum, out of the way. It won't necessarily be "over top of our heads as we chat on
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by tivert 2y ago
> This is the dawn of a "post non-narrative prose" era. Why bother with an article describing some event or really anything that is traditionally written about in any form of article at all? In time, just the data will be relea
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by tivert 2y ago
> It is a completely crazy system. If you're not doing a better job than the best machine, you're stealing your wages from the capitalists.
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by tivert 2y ago
> Not the original poster, but It’s probably more important because you can’t force people to wear masks. Why can't "you" force people to wear masks? Depending on exactly who you mean by "you" (the particular po
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by tivert 2y ago
> We can always rely on pre-2022 data. No we can't. How many websites from 1998 survive today, in a form you can actually find (e.g. not the Wayback Machine)? In ten or twenty years, most pre-2022 data will be inaccessible.
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by tivert 2y ago
> We had all that before AI. What AI gives us is vastly cheaper slop, so now it can be produced at a scale unimaginable to prior generations. No more paying some schmuck a penny a word to bang out "private label articles," s

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