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by tombert 8mo ago
> Is it ok for adults because they are accustomed to it already? I think it’s ok for adults because they aren’t nearly as confused and developing sexually. I think an adult viewing porn is more likely to be able to contextualize it as f
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by tombert 8mo ago
I was making a joke about the old porn trope of "delivering a pizza with no way to pay for it", but honestly I think you could make a pretty solid argument that we shouldn't be feeding that to children either, and maybe we sh
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by tombert 8mo ago
> If we agree that nobody should be viewing porn because it makes us worse human beings, I'm not necessarily saying that it's bad for adults to be viewing porn. I think there's an argument to be made that it's bad fo
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by tombert 8mo ago
In 2013 I bought a laptop that I kept five years that had an Nvidia Optimus. I never really figured out how to get the discrete card working consistently, and since then I haven't bought a laptop with an Nvidia card. I've had iss
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by tombert 8mo ago
My toilet seems to work fine, and I think it's 35 years old. But in general I agree, just with different variables. I'm ok with 60hz but I won't use a screen less than 4K. Part of the reason I bought the ThinkPad is because
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by tombert 8mo ago
Are people just using one big prompt to do things? Usually I will send like one or two sentences at a time, evaluate the output, potentially edit the code, repeat.
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by tombert 8mo ago
The world isn't going to end if a teenage boy sees a booby, but I think that it can distort a teenager's view on sex and sexuality. I think that part of the disturbing woman-hating incel "movement" might be, at least in
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by tombert 8mo ago
There's actually a compatibility listing and the hacks required to make them work! https://github.com/NixOS/nixos-hardware In the case of my ThinkPad, you can see there is literally no extra work required: https:
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by tombert 8mo ago
I dunno. I mostly agree with you, mostly because I don't like being tracked, and I don't like the surveillance state. But, I mean, kids probably shouldn't be looking at porn. Arguably no one should be viewing porn but it&#
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by tombert 8mo ago
I've never had an issue with 60hz. 30hz is unusable but 60hz has always been good enough for me; the Sega Genesis and SNES had 60hz and that's always been good enough for me.
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by tombert 8mo ago
Not with Linux, typically. If you don't have drivers included in the kernel, it requires a lot of effort to get things working. I've done it many times, so now I will generally only buy laptops that have decent Linux support. [1]
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by tombert 8mo ago
I have the ThinkPad p16s AMD gen 2. What it lacks in name it makes up for with being the most headache-free computer I have ever had (including a Macbook). Everything works pretty well out of the box, it never really overheats, Linux suppo
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by tombert 8mo ago
I guess what frustrates me is how much people seem to have amnesia with anything involving tech. In a week or two this will fade from the collective consciousness, and OpenAI will be unaffected and they'll release new features and peop
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by tombert 8mo ago
Maybe they could try and rebrand as a "lifestyle brand" like Palantir has been. https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-wants-to-be-a-lifestyle...
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by tombert 8mo ago
I'd argue that the way that socialist Russia turned out was very specifically because of very greedy people, so not negating my point. Stalin basically appointed himself kings while using anti-king rhetoric to take down the Romanovs.
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by tombert 8mo ago
I'm one of the people that canceled my OpenAI Plus subscription after Sam Altman demonstrated his lack of integrity last week. I like to think I'm doing something, but honestly I am not sure that it would make a difference if lite
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by tombert 8mo ago
I find it amusing that people will quote the "Greed is Good" speech by Gordon Gecko, and they will do it unironically, I guess forgetting that he's the villain in that movie. You're not supposed to agree with him.
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by tombert 8mo ago
In my experience, I kind of think that The Dilbert Principle [1] holds more than the Peter Principle. With the Peter Principle, it's implied that they were good at their previous job and are bad at their current one, but having had to
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by tombert 8mo ago
Yeah, I've also see a lot of "Not X, not Y, just Z" style posts on LinkedIn. LinkedIn has always been a place full of low-effort posts for people trying to self-promote, so I guess it makes sense to have a robot actually do t
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by tombert 8mo ago
I mean, I guess. It's not like they're profitable yet are they? At least not at the consumer level as far as I am aware. Me canceling my subscription might have saved them money. Honestly I think these tech billionaires are very
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by tombert 8mo ago
Entirely possible, though I think it might have been that Anthropic wanted extra guarantees outside of what was "lawful". The stuff that Altman mentioned seemed to indicate that they'll support the US government as long as th
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by tombert 8mo ago
I guess I just feel like when you're worth that much, you can be unprofitable for a very long time before it catches up with you. That's my perspective anyway, I could be wrong. I agree that if anyone is going to kill OpenAI it&#x
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by tombert 8mo ago
Maybe, though maybe we're only noticing it when it's obvious? Sort of a survivorship bias thing? Who knows how much of the comments on any website are written by humans now; yeah there are plenty of tells so it can be obvious, but
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by tombert 8mo ago
I dunno. They were valued last week at $700+ billion weren't they? When you have that kind of capital available I'm not entirely sure how possible it even is to go bankrupt. Regardless, my point is that one dude canceling his $20
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by tombert 8mo ago
The backlash is "painful"? Maybe don't make a moralizing tweet about your principles only to change them three hours later. It comes off as opportunistic grifting. I don't blame the OpenAI staff (and as far as I am aware
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by tombert 8mo ago
I guess part of the advantage of being an extremely long-winded writer who makes lots of typos is that people know that what I'm writing is probably written by a human. Though maybe people will start supplying context like "no em
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by tombert 8mo ago
I mostly just don’t like arthouse cinema in general and was using the previous commenter’s example.
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by tombert 8mo ago
Yeah, in high school I had a pothead acquaintance who got mad at me when I said that I knew more about physics then he did, because I had actually taken physics classes, and I too had seen the same Carl Sagan videos he had. He didn't k
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by tombert 8mo ago
I mean, sure, but I still think it's kind of hypocritical for me to act like weed should be legal and no one should be arrested for it and all that stuff, only to get mad at them for doing the things that I said they should be allowed
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by tombert 8mo ago
I'm the same way. I kind of hate going outside, but I have this kind of fetishized perspective of the "primal man, livnig off the land". I have friends who like to hike, so occasionally when they'd invite me to come al

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