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by wcarss 3y ago
I saw this one too, and it's an interesting point to consider. I would imagine those people's phones would mostly already be usually concealed, because e.g. an amber or a weather alert with similar effects and consequences could c
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by wcarss 3y ago
I really hope to see someone trace and deconstruct the level of bizarre conspiracy theory generation around this event. For those not aware, I've seen (mostly through semi-related posts on e.g. Reddit) a lot of people forwarding and su
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by wcarss 3y ago
I wonder if we can see Mark Zuckerberg learning to fly here, or perhaps to skydive? A lot of recent flights that start in one city, fly to Tahoe, don't stop, but do a big turn around there, then go back home. Or which otherwise go way
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by wcarss 3y ago
If people think grocery stores existing within walking distance of their homes will lower their home values, due to some rise in shoplifting in the news implying crime in their area, then the war for any sensible policy decisions is lost.
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by wcarss 3y ago
that is not the logical conclusion; all it needs is people above some wealth line to be the ones who have the means and wherewithal to decide against, and it is their perceived cost of guaranteeing a good childhood home being input to the d
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by wcarss 3y ago
completely tangential comment: that opener ought to be a meme
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by wcarss 3y ago
That could be the case to a degree -- it's likely very hard to rule out simple miscommunication in general as a part of the equation here. But I have a friend who administered this test (to be spoken to its subject): Close your eyes. I
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by wcarss 3y ago
This reminds me of a backwoods hike I took with a friend some years back. We each brought a compass, "for redundancy", but it wasn't until we were well underway that we noticed our respective compasses frequently disagreed. W
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Fixing the power supply of an old Atari 2600(murrelljenna.github.io)
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by wcarss 3y ago
> Certainly not well enough to debate someone on the topic. This part in particular is tricky, because debate is a specialized skill of its own, and most people who you might see publicly debate others on a given topic aren't (neces
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by wcarss 3y ago
My guess was: drN is notes from "draft N", CHK is things to check, FRAG is a note about a fragment that may be useful but doesn't have a home -- then some compilation software/scripts would pull out various bits at a tim
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by wcarss 3y ago
YouTube could play ads and let me play videos while my phone screen is locked. They could play ads like they used to: a small popup. They could play ads like they did after that: one 5 second pre-roll. Or like after that, a pre-roll with a
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by wcarss 3y ago
As a person who wanted VR monitors, I backed the original Oculus Dev Kit 1 a decade ago, and it was terrible for that purpose. So I got the DK2, and the Vive, and the Index afterwards, trying each. The Index pretty much has it -- it's
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by wcarss 3y ago
Interesting, I'm used to using status.github.com, which got hit by whatever issue is hitting the main site.
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by wcarss 3y ago
I can't even load the status page.
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by wcarss 3y ago
I think that's the story here -- congress is trying to fix some serious corruption. Replace UFOs with magic beans and it sounds like some folks in government seem to have been swindled into diverting money through multiple paths into &
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by wcarss 3y ago
> people who feel they have "imposter syndrome", but are actually imposters (not just newbies who are still learning), and convince themselves that they aren't after finding out about imposter syndrome. I could be one of t
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by wcarss 3y ago
I'm sad that Carmack decided to (as I understand it) focus away from LLMs because they're "already getting enough eyes" -- it feels like he wants to make a novel paradigm shift kind of contribution, but his magic power h
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by wcarss 3y ago
Diatomaceous earth seems to bother/deter them, but it really doesn't kill them very quickly. During an infestation about five years ago, I was curious if what I'd bought and sprinkled everywhere was any use at all, so I captu
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by wcarss 3y ago
I had to live through a bedbug infestation about five years ago; the neighbours had a "sweep up and don't tell the management" approach, which I did not adopt. After two rounds of standard chemical treatments, my apartment wa
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by wcarss 3y ago
It could be related to tides?
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by wcarss 4y ago
From his fourth question, > If the problem, in your view, is that GPT-4 is too stupid, then shouldn’t GPT-5 be smarter and therefore safer? I'm not a signatory (still on a fence here), but this is a gobsmackingly huge assumption a
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by wcarss 4y ago
> What possible value is there for entrepreneurs of a secular reduction in valuations? If the valuations were just speculative, then it could represent a return to a world where cause and effect and value are more rational, which is theo
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by wcarss 4y ago
thanks for posting these! After checking to see if they might be sources referenced in this post, the first thing I did was look up _Juice it or lose it_ -- it's an excellent demonstration of these concepts. I had never really paid att
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by wcarss 4y ago
> People trick themselves into thinking they understand something, until they start writing. Deep writing makes it extremely clear when you have no idea what you’re talking about. This often actually stops me from writing. A short ways i
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by wcarss 4y ago
ChatGPT's stable diffusion moment?
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by wcarss 4y ago
You're almost there; documents like this work on a basis of continuing to provide information as they go along, right up until the end. Unless you feel the content at the end of documents doesn't count, because no one would ever
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by wcarss 4y ago
Google removed the "don't be evil"-preface, which I suppose technically isn't a "clause"... So really, you're implying the article claims something more extreme than it _actually_ claims... which is a litt
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by wcarss 4y ago
I mean, if you read that article, it makes it pretty clear that the phrase is retained in the final sentence, but was once much more prominently placed. It doesn't claim that the phrase is completely gone -- it has the same information
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by wcarss 4y ago
Just give us an AI multiplayer mode where the AIs don't always pick one human to rush, but also aren't pushovers, and which doesn't completely break 200 turns in. Or if it does break, make it correctable. My friends all care

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