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by worrycue 3y ago
If all that ends up being blocked are consoles and games, there are plenty of substitutes - in some cases near perfect substitutes.
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> Sounds great, but with all the morons reacting prolifically to every piece of trash, will my one carefully allotted upvote be valued? At least you aren't adding to the problem.
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I think the author is just asking us to vote more thoughtfully. Currently, especially on sites like Reddit, the upvote/downvote buttons are abused as agree/disagree buttons and are clicked with little thought. The recent troubles
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I just had the Edge Desktop Search Bar show up on my desktop. It just appeared from nowhere. Didn't even know when it was "installed". MS is getting really pushy. They probably see the GPT stuff as their ticket to beating Goo
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I remember it being a thing before Digg too. I visited it less after Digg got popular.
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Slashdot is really more like HN's predecessor. Mostly tech news focused. It faded in popularity after Digg became a thing and allowed all sorts of topics.
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People use Reddit in different ways. I suspect for many, those examples are perfectly good substitutes.
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by worrycue 3y ago
> Now it's Reddit vs what? For tech news, you are looking at it. For everything else there is YouTube + comment section, stack exchange, Discord channels, … People don’t necessarily need a “clone” replacement. Edit: OK. What exactly
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by worrycue 3y ago
> if you do chain of thought prompting The fact that you have to prompt it along the way means you are doing some of the reasoning for it. BTW have you tried giving it bad prompts along the way to try to confuse it instead of helping it?
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I don’t know if they have been resting on their laurels. Alder Lake which was a huge departure from their previous architectures came out at a very good time - just as their previous design was running out of steam. It takes years to get a
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> The LLMs we have now are extremely effective though. There’s real use case here for automating writing, and some menial tasks that human beings were unfairly burdened with, but were impossible to automate till now. Some people take iss
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> What's curious about this to me is why Apple is single-handedly saving JPEG-XL from obscurity when AV1 is also a fine substitute for mainstream image compression use cases. Apple does whatever they want. If they think something is
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They made fun of the failed companies but don't think anyone made fun of the Internet as a whole. Today, Amazon pretty much "took over" Pets.com's business.
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> I am talking about people who say LLM can't reason in the near future and AI is a hype. Some people like me are just pessimist. Lived long enough to see one snake oiled hype train after another go by. To quote Morpheus from the Ma
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Have people ever laughed at the "dot com boom" of the late 90s? Not much to laugh at since it actually delivered on most* of its promises. It promised information at your finger tips. The ability to communicate with people across
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by worrycue 3y ago
> without defining what they mean by reasoning and example of reasoning that could prove that someone is reasoning People gave quite a lot of example of ChatGPT failing to answer questions properly - i.e. fail at reasoning. I think the b
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I wonder if online discussions will shift to Discord channels. Sure it’s another centralised “forum” but it does seem like a credible alternative - a lot of discussion already seem to happens there.
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by worrycue 3y ago
Top contributors might not be interested in moderating though. It’s a different kind of activity - like being a tennis player vs being an umpire; Don’t think Roger Federer was ever interested in being an umpire. P.S. Also moderating anythin
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The voting system is gamification of forum posting. Instead of posting when you feel you have something to say, people end up chasing a number for the dopamine hit.
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> There will be no lack of people that would line up to have moderating powers in a large enough subreddit. I don’t see how having bad mods not willing to put in the work and is just taking the role for the power is good for the subreddi
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by worrycue 3y ago
Until someone starts one … heck you are looking at one right now; specialised but it works in more or less the same way (with more restrictions on downvoting).
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I wonder how all the various subreddits will work without their moderators. If moderators stop doing their jobs I have a feeling many subreddits will devolve into chaos - spam, off topic posts, crazy people posting the most vile and repulsi
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by worrycue 3y ago
Technology Connections has a video on that, sort of: https://youtu.be/hGVVAQVdEOs
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by worrycue 3y ago
I tried that in Bard too. First time it replied 7 letters and no code. Second time it said 8 with code snippet, d a v i d j l 3rd time, it said 8 again with code snippet, davidjl and it counted out the letters e.g. "d
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by worrycue 3y ago
Out of curiosity I tried some of these in Bard, Prompt: How many letters are there in " davidjl"? Answer: There are 7 letters in "davidjl". Are you interested in other names? Prompt: Plea
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> Double down on the simplest possible input mechanism and pretend it is enough. Today, of course, Apple ships an excellent stylus that they are happy to sell you for $129. The thing is, it is enough for general use. The Apple Pencil (or
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> people can 'self-select' thus reducing headcount Self-select usually mean the brightest and most capable select another job though.
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“Pattern matching” feels cargo cult science …
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> But you can't write an OCR with a bunch of ifs. Aren’t all programs include AIs just a bunch of “if”s at the machine instruction level?
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> Also education, where kids can ask questions and give the answers. Not sure how parents feel about putting kids in front of a machine that can fabricate lies. I mean a encyclopaedia getting information wrong is one thing - garbage in,

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