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by tootie 9mo ago
I am kinda the same only I'm not clear how the author describes useful. Being useful to my team, my employer my clients is ok but a lot of my career has been building software for businesses I did not understand and sometimes actively
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by tootie 9mo ago
It's observable facts. They are rolling out the features now. So what changed in 2025? Is the present government more liberal than the past? Clearly not. More like this kind of feature will be ignored and irrelevant for 99% of users.
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by tootie 9mo ago
There's no indication government is behind this and given that Google is rolling out tools now to protect against it this was probably always doable and just never prioritized.
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by tootie 9mo ago
They're not arguing that AI sucks. Only that OpenAI has no hope of meeting it's financial obligations which seems pretty reasonable. And very on brand for Sam Altman. It seems pretty obvious at this point that model training is ex
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by tootie 10mo ago
I worked in a research lab like 30 years ago and it was all on computers. We had loads of generic data collected by someone somewhere and we just looked for patterns to infer sequences. I wrote Java and C++ and got my name on a paper. There
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by tootie 10mo ago
The promise of small nuclear reactors, modular reactors, thorium or whatever else has really failed to materialize at the same time that solar and battery has just leapfrogged the entire field. Nuclear has some big advantages, but it's
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by tootie 10mo ago
What about spam? Spam is absolutely protected free speech. Nobody bats an eye at aggressive censorship of spam. We've had the US Congress pass bills restricting spam. Should we overturn all of that and let the spammers have absolute fr
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by tootie 10mo ago
Free speech absolutism is not necessary at all. We can be thoughtful about it. Think about the American criminal justice system and the criminal culpability standard of "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt". We have the concept of be
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by tootie 10mo ago
It wasn't even an EO. It was a tweet.
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by tootie 10mo ago
There were hundreds of prosecutions. Then SCOTUS declared the president immune. Then the bad guy got reelected and pardoned everyone. Then started launched truly malicious prosecutions of political enemies. Cases which thankfully are dying
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by tootie 10mo ago
I can give you the exact opposite anecdote for myself. Spent weeks with Dr Google and one or another LLMs (few years ago so not current SOTA) describing myself and getting like 10 wrong possibilities. Took my best guess with me to a doctor
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by tootie 10mo ago
It's certainly valuable but you can ask Digg and MySpace how secure being the first mover is. I can already hear my dad telling me he is using Google's ChatGPT...
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by tootie 10mo ago
I babbled some symptoms I did not understand to a doctor who correctly diagnosed me with a very rare condition in 30 seconds. And that's after spending weeks prodding LLMs (~2 years ago) and getting nowhere.
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by tootie 10mo ago
There is no key word here. It's an aspirational assertion on social media. Everyone asking about how it will be implemented is asking questions Trump has spent zero seconds considering. He will maybe sign some EO that will have very li
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by tootie 10mo ago
Republicans were actively angry at past attempts to fight obesity or limit sugar. There is another side to the nutrition recommendations beyond pure nutrition and that's economics. Pro business Republicans were loathe to anger big food
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by tootie 10mo ago
Headline is very misleading. Reuters prefaces this with "Trump says" which is weaselly enough. Quote from the article: "In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he was immediately taking steps to implement the ban which he would
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by tootie 10mo ago
Well, there's no explanation for how this will affect any currently owned properties. So maybe it won't do much of anything. And something important to understand about private equity owning homes, is that they tend to descend on
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by tootie 10mo ago
Yeah, this move is maybe a net positive, but will have a tiny impact on actual home prices. It is absolute red meat for the internet conspiracy machine though. Especially on the left. I also have no idea what statutory authority he has to e
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by tootie 10mo ago
Yup. Building wealth through home ownership directly implies homes becoming unaffordable for new buyers.
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by tootie 10mo ago
It's interesting to think that as we approach a post-hydrocarbon world, not only will we extract less fossil fuels, we'll ship less too. Ironic to think about how much fuel is used to ship fuel. I know there's been speculatio
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by tootie 10mo ago
The official doctrine yesterday was they were killing Americans with drug trafficking. That didn't even get mentioned today.
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by tootie 10mo ago
Trump said Machado doesn't have support to be leader and endorsed Maduro's VP as willing to work with the US. It seems unlikely the Venezuelan people are going to see any benefits here. They will get more of the same.
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by tootie 10mo ago
He also indicated they will work directly with Maduro's second in command, not the putative winning candidate from the last election. This is purely about theft.
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by tootie 10mo ago
Given the US position in favor of Bolsanaro against Lula indicates that Trump is not interested in Democracy if it produces the wrong result. If Venezuelans elect a Socialist, they will immediately be out of our good graces.
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by tootie 10mo ago
Surely Maduro is bad, but that doesn't mean the next phase won't be worse. Trump has never shown any interest in spreading democracy or human rights. I would not be surprised if the mission involved a side deal with someone in Mad
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by tootie 10mo ago
Trump also did not even inform the armed services or foreign affairs committees. He spoke to FOX before he spoke to Congress. It is not clear if he's done or if we just declared war. His public statement that the US will now be majorly
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by tootie 10mo ago
These kind of findings are probably accurate on average, but not to a person. Some people are wired differently. Some (presumably most) require community and extensive social connection. I really think that some of us just need much, much l
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by tootie 10mo ago
Isn't it really the other way around? Not to say OpenAI and Anthropic haven't done important work, but the genesis of this entire market was paper on attention that came out of Google. We have the private messages inside OpenAI sa
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by tootie 10mo ago
The Secretary of State recently decreed that sans serif fonts were woke and mandated all communications use Times New Roman.
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by tootie 10mo ago
It says right in the first para, "could be" $9B. They obviously have no real idea. It sounds like the audit turned up a large amount of spending that can't be positively accounted for. Similar to the multiple trillions missin

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