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by vharuck 3y ago
What's wrong with paying copyright holders, then? If OpenAI's models are so much more valuable than the sum of the individual inputs' values, why can't the company profit off that margin? >That’s like a person having
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by vharuck 3y ago
For contracts and sales, I don't see much of a difference between a Chatbot and a simple HTML form. If a person who's able to form contacts on behalf of a company set it up, then it can offer valid contracts. If you don't wa
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by vharuck 3y ago
Beware. As somebody once said, "Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they're in good company."
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by vharuck 3y ago
IANAL, but Innocent = "We, the jury, are certain the defendant didn't do it." Not guilty = "The prosecution did not convince us, the jury, that the defendant did it." And because our criminal justice system is not s
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by vharuck 3y ago
It's unfair to compare the single event on January 6th with every BLM protest, or every state's implementation of lockdown and the resulting clashes, etc. I'm appalled by January 6th because the representative for my distric
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by vharuck 3y ago
>With caller id and modern cell phones, I imagine there are pretty big demographic bias in who will willingly participate in a survey, and I suspect their outlook will dominate and may not be representative of the populace? Do they have
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by vharuck 3y ago
>I think Japan has done a better job than most countries at preserving the economic viability of arts and crafts, deliberately via protectionism and accidentally via cultural elements. This is probably the secret sauce. I'm only a
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by vharuck 3y ago
Like all professional competitions: because there's an interested audience with money. And humans still have the money, so we demand to see human competitors we empathize with.
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by vharuck 3y ago
Yeah, it seems like if the model didn't balk at writing a "dangerously spicy" mayo recipe, it would return a "dangerous to the consumer's health" recipe.
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by vharuck 3y ago
I've learned to never create a situation where friends or family need to press one another for owed money. I've always just paid for reasonable things if friends were short on cash. Not because I'm a pillar of charity, but
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by vharuck 3y ago
The hypotheticals explored in the article linked by upwardbound don't deal with an AI acting independently. They detail what could be soon possible for small terrorist groups: flooding social and news media with false information, ima
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by vharuck 3y ago
Some people (especially older women) don't know their own SSN, just their husbands'. If they never had a job, there wasn't much use for an SSN. And if their spouse passed away, they always had to use the deceased's SSN
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by vharuck 3y ago
Some Amish/Mennonite sects have exceptions for business, so I'll sometimes see them with cell phones. Tax software would probably fall under that exception. Honestly, I'm more amazed any company spent time catering to such
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by vharuck 3y ago
For anyone looking for a Japanese candy and snack subscription service, I enjoyed bokksu: https://www.bokksu.com/
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by vharuck 3y ago
>There's limited interest in it though because most of those things simply have no profit potential. A cancer researcher could rely on charities, academic institutions, and government grants to fund experiments. There is a lot of
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by vharuck 3y ago
>I never quite got used to the added layer of polite verb conjugation in French, but I hear Japanese is far worse. I've only passed the N4 exam so far (about the skill of a Japanese elementary school student), but I fear the polite
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by vharuck 3y ago
It's the danger of using something as a universal password (terrible practice #1) that's often stored in plain text (terrible practice #2). I don't regularly deal much with federal government agencies beyond the IRS. Which o
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by vharuck 3y ago
This matches my brief experience. When I worked at a Lowe's store, which was a big target for serial shoplifters, the security staff said the process usually went like this: 1. Steal a small but expensive item, usually by hiding it in
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by vharuck 3y ago
>And what's the solution when the government gets too much power? Elections and courts. Compared to private entities, the government is very restricted in what it can do. When a company says, "We won't share your data wi
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by vharuck 3y ago
Do you have data to back your dismissal? Because when I looked, over 10,000 Pennsylvanian school employees reported suspected child abuse to the state in 2022 alone: https://www.dhs.pa.gov/docs/OCYF/Documents&#x2F
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by vharuck 3y ago
>As an anecdote I have close family member that teaches younger elementary school grades. They have told me about signs of possible abuse they've seen but no available recourse. It's natural to want to stay out of things, espec
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by vharuck 3y ago
>I didn't need your permission to give birth to my children, why do I need your permission when deciding how I educate them? One legal theory that may be relevant was brought up long ago for a case on banned books in school: you hav
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by vharuck 3y ago
If you can afford it and be happy, then it was a good deal.
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by vharuck 3y ago
The post's point is that an API change is a very big deal, to be used only when the older version just can't work anymore or the newer version offers something much better. But the Flask team seems to have a much lower bar on wha
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by vharuck 3y ago
>So out of a 10 minutes long video there is often ~6 minutes of just ads. I wish it were just this. In the past month, I'm seeing 30 minute "ads" on 10-minute videos for kids. These "ads" are stories with thin
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by vharuck 3y ago
For hardware, the government could subsidize manufacturers for units sold in the country that meet requirements. Or provide a tax rebates to citizens who purchase them. Nobody is saying "A car in every driveway, and a server farm in e
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by vharuck 3y ago
Considering ChatGPT was made to provide likely responses based on the training data, it makes sense to include social and contextual cues in the prompts. I associate "quietly think" with instructions from an authority figure. So
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by vharuck 3y ago
The lack of free will should mean punishment is more appropriate, because then a person's actions are a product of their nature and nurture. And punishment tips the scales of nurture toward "don't do that again."
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by vharuck 3y ago
I'd say the pre-vax differences likely came from how people treated public health advice and precautions. If somebody believed it was no worse than the flu or even didn't exist (like some of my in-laws in Summer 2020), they would
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by vharuck 3y ago
But then why didn't we see this when the USA passed the G.I. Bill? It paid for millions of Americans to attend college, and the government picked up a large portion of the tab. The original G.I. Bill, like its reincarnations over tim

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