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by watwut 4mo ago
US recession will spread to everything and everyone, including or especially EU.
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by watwut 4mo ago
> Can you point to any other important technology that historically made people in poor countries even poorer? Technological progress generally lifts people from poverty in the long run. It is very long run. Industrial revolution was dis
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by watwut 4mo ago
That it generates plausible texts? I would find it unlikely technological progress. That does not make this whole "AI safety" rhetoric any less bullshit distanced from reality. Especially from companies that are doom trolling all
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by watwut 4mo ago
Having to google obscure acronyms and having to guess which interpretation author meant makes for super boring reading. It is way better when you see a question and answer just below. And bonus point, question and answer teaches others to n
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by watwut 4mo ago
These people who read too many scifi books and confused them with reality are royally annoying. There is real and potential harm from AI, but the more someone talks/write abut AI safety, the less they care about actual harm to real peo
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by watwut 4mo ago
That historical guilt and awareness are noticeable in Germans and Germany. Their unconditional support of Israel is literally one of the consequences. So was their massive support for refugees. They are really way stronger in admitting thei
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by watwut 4mo ago
Imo, audio books are perfectly comparable to listening to podcasts. Calling it reading is absurd. It is not reading, it is listening. And reading on screen is reading.
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by watwut 4mo ago
The assumption being that all reading must be done on kindle?
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by watwut 4mo ago
One must be really deep in some fertility obsessed subculture to think that TFR acronym should be instantly recognized when placed in tech forum discussion about minority language. Otherwise said, using full expression is not "dilutin
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by watwut 4mo ago
Facebook was in financial loss until it got really serious about pushing ads and outrage. People who speculated that Facebook is not earning much on ads while Facebook was not earning much on ads were correct. Same with Googles business. An
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by watwut 4mo ago
We are talking about income from ads. It comes from people who see ads.
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by watwut 4mo ago
It was not sophistry, it was completely valid. > A law doesn’t just get a constitutional bypass because it’s addressing known harms or “anti-social” behavior or whatever. This is not the UK. First, the harm arguments are regularly made i
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by watwut 4mo ago
They gonna get more work due to results of self diagnosis from the internet.
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I am pretty sure of that. Mostly because they always do the same impractical thing at the same time. And they discover it is bad few years later, also all at exactly the same time.
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by watwut 4mo ago
US is coming war crimes on their own right. Hegseth is openly proud of them. There is this ever going fiction that American army are these pristine pro-democracy souls that only foreign influence can break. That is just wrong.
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Cause the author is in a group that commits war crimes and thinks it makes them manly?
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Cars and renting existed long before Uber.
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by watwut 4mo ago
> playing world police The most expensive are purely for oil, for hawks feeling manly bullshit wars.
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Frankly, yes.
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by watwut 4mo ago
Considering Clinton balanced budged and actually did worked on removing waste, yes he was as thorough as it gets. Those are juat facts. No one on the right wont admit it, but that does not make it not right.
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by watwut 4mo ago
He was pro-Russian, thus against help to Ukraine. That is literally the extend of his isolationism. The claim he is pro peace was always transparent lie and people literally recognized it at the time.
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by watwut 4mo ago
People wear stuff to impress others without wearing suits. Suits are not even impressive looking as everyone looks the same. People feel uncomfortable and out of place in them for a host of reasons, but "I don't want to be impress
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by watwut 4mo ago
Imo, this inherent issue with learning about history of non-whites gives the game away. It is as if the history of blacks or women or whoever else was some kind of threat.
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by watwut 4mo ago
This exchange sounds like "eff you". I would much rather hear "I don't have opinion" or "I don't know". A person asked you, because they are interested in your opinion. You dont have duty to provide i
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by watwut 4mo ago
> Unpopular answer that the author seems to be dismissing: Maybe the thing that 30 years has taught this guy is that the LLMs can answer the question better than he can. Or that he can't give a substantive answer without doing resea
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by watwut 4mo ago
It died when google made it impossible to find those blogs. At some point, it stopped returning blogs that did not SEO hard and normal writing people just were not doing SEO.
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by watwut 4mo ago
Mine stopped working that way some time after Musk tool over - I started to get complete crap from people I did not followed.
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They dont drag me. They add positive stuff to my life, once in a while, and that is super cool. And they dont ask much in exchange, just for me to not be a jerk in that situation. And all of them are relationships with someone I already kno
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Bsky actually uave linear followed accounts only feed.
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If it is the future, people will actually have plenty of time to wait and start using it only later. There is no hurry and no reason to be early adopter crash test dummy. They can wait and stary using it at own pace The "or die" p

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