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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
The uncomfortable truth is that monkey see monkey do is a real phenomenon. The majority of people who play violent video games and watch violent movies and watch real snuff vids online won't commit these acts. That said, to say they do
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
Is observing that a certain car lacks wheels a value judgement? Something being alive has no more to do with it being sentient than it does with it having the capacity of sight. You need an organism to actually develop all the components ne
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
An insensate plant is morally equivalent to a rock. Neither is conscious, neither has anybody home. It’s not a value judgement, it’s establishing the basis for what constitutes an “other”. There is no “other” within unconscious entities. Re
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
That’s already addressed here - > That said, even if you granted that every blade of grass and kernel of corn was fully as sentient as a human being, that would only strengthen the argument for veganism many times over as animals act as
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
There is already massive industry lobbying against lab grown meat, resulting in bans in states like Florida[0] accompanied with propaganda about "processed" vs "natural" food. Were lab grown meat to be available today at
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
I'm totally fine with consensual human experimentation that somehow threads the needle around exploitation of the poor - just not sure how we do the latter part short of requiring experimentees to pass a minimum net-worth threshold?
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
This is not a good argument. Vegans base their line on a very easily defensible ability on behalf of the victim - sentience. If there’s no sentience, there’s nobody within to experience the pain and fear, and there is no victim. That said,
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by virgildotcodes 5mo ago
This sounds nightmarish. Maybe we build a human centipede if we can get the VC funding next?
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
What a coincidence, I went to their website maybe 3 days ago, for the first time in maybe 15-20 years, after watching this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWTfHNPn6k I actually felt bad for them and wondered if thi
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Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them with AI(caixinglobal.com)
6 points by virgildotcodes 6mo ago|1 comments
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
I think it's been said that nobody has yet cracked Apple's Lockdown Mode, but that's likely not truly comparable?
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An Actually Intuitive Explanation of the Oberth Effect(outsidetheasylum.blog)
2 points by virgildotcodes 6mo ago|0 comments
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
I would google or use ChatGPT to a learn more about this, free version should be totally sufficient.
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
So the only intelligent people in history are those who invent new fields of mathematics, got it. You can just about make out those goalposts on the surface of the moon with a good telescope at this point.
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
Paid plans give you access to much larger, more intelligent models which have thinking enabled (inference time compute). In the example here you can see GPT Pro taking 20-80 minutes to respond with the proof. All this is far more expensive
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
I think the collapse of public trust was very intentional, and the result of a much longer term effort than social media. The most famous examples are likely the tobacco industry spreading misinformation through self-funded studies and expe
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
Wouldn't your room get equally/more toasty with liquid cooling? That heat has to get dumped somewhere, and liquid would theoretically be more effective at dumping it into your room.
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
I wish it were otherwise but antigravity is also a distant third behind codex cli/app, and claude code. 3.1 pro is just fundamentally not on the same level. In any context I've tried it in, for code review it acts like a model fro
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
> It's one thing to write drunk, it's another thing to get drunk to write about being drunk I would again see Bukowski.
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
Do you think your conclusions might be ideologically driven rather than driven by evidence in this case? Do you think the financial incentives for broke ass scientists trying to secure rapidly dwindling scientific grants are greater than th
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
Yeah the easy button, if translated to a more capable model that requires less hand holding, manual correction and consistently produces better quality code, is of course the point. You wouldn't want to go from Qwen3.5 122b back to GPT
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
I really wish local models could compete with Codex, but they are miles apart for now. I'm not sure how they would ever not be, unless local models at some point in the future catch up to the current state of 5.4 high. Even then, the f
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
May the same be true of my vibe coded b2b SaaSes.
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
Promotion has been extended til May 31st for the $100 and $200 subs. At the same time, they’ve been giving out a ton of additional quota resets seemingly every other week (and committed to an additional reset for every million additional us
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When Virality Is the Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda(time.com)
63 points by virgildotcodes 6mo ago|92 comments
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
It was quite obvious, but this is a noteworthy example of just how much more effective propaganda will become with AI. These videos are blowing up on Twitter. I personally found the one about Pete Hegseth quite well made and the song actual
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
Past 200Mbps down I typically see very little real benefit. That said, I do find myself downloading packages and watching 4K video all day long. 25Mbps is noticeably slower the majority of the time. You can get by, of course, the same way y
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by virgildotcodes 6mo ago
Here you go - hundreds of thousands as of Nov 2025 - https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...
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by virgildotcodes 7mo ago
Downloaded through LM Studio on an M1 Max 32GB, 26B A4B Q4_K_M First message: https://i.postimg.cc/yNZzmGMM/Screenshot-2026-04-03-at-12-44... Not sure if I'm doing something wrong? This more or less reflects my ex
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by virgildotcodes 7mo ago
Downloaded through LM Studio on an M1 Max 32GB, 26B A4B Q4_K_M First message: https://i.postimg.cc/yNZzmGMM/Screenshot-2026-04-03-at-12-44... Not sure if I'm doing something wrong? This more or less reflects my ex

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