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by wredcoll 9mo ago
> but I think most of us can all feel societal erosion happening and the decline of average IQs and the fact that a huge generation of growing young adults can barely read. Let's not pretend this has nothing to do with multiple epid
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by wredcoll 9mo ago
I applaud the effort, but last time I tried this the major issue was the sheer amount of book data only available from amazon.com and scraping that is tedious to put it mildly.
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Sure, where's the line? If you want to tell me that llms are inherently non-deterministic, then sure, but from the point of view of a user, a saw stop activating because the wood is wet is really not expected either.
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Yeah, no kidding. I was alive 20 years ago, this isn't like talking about the 1800s, what exactly was different with the craftsmanship and ethics back then?
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
> The hammer doesn't decide that the thing it's swinging at is vaguely thumb-shaped and self-destruct. Sawstop literally patented this and made millions and seems to have genuinely improved the world. I personally am a big fan
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
I don't know where your quote is from, but trying to own the "default" web browser and tying it to your OS monopoly seems like a pretty great idea from a "making money" perspective, if perhaps not a legal or ethical
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Boy this smells a lot like early days of blogging about block chains, specifically ethereum and friends. It's not that there's nothing useful, maybe even important, in there, it's just so far it's all just the easy parts
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Shell Money as the Original Currency in the American Colonies(blogs.loc.gov)
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Boy this smells a lot like early days of blogging about block chains, specifically ethereum and friends. It's not that there's nothing useful, maybe even important, in there, it's just so far it's all just the easy parts
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Sure: define innocent.
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
My point, which you keep missing, is that nobody is actually "good" or "bad". They do good and bad actions . America actually does quite a bit for hungry children, both within and without her borders. Is it enough? Perh
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
At no point did the phrase "goodness of pure hearts" appear in my text. That doesn't make usaid saving 90 million lives less great. Also, remember how america is not a single person? It is in fact millions of people? You want
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
I can, in fact, back up the assertion that the corruption is much worse now. It's not even difficult. What is the point of lying about something like that?
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Well, the alternative was trump, who is more senile, more corrupt and has somehow been a public loser for longer than biden has been a politician.
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Since this thread has mostly been for the benefit of others reading it, let me close with this: It's fine, good even, to be unhappy with e.g, joe biden and want someone better, however you define that. It is very much not fine to not
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
I was trying to find evidence for that but nothing popped up, where did you find that?
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
How can you copy and paste from wikipedia but not even read the entire comment you're replying to?
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Boy I am real tired of this frankly, well, I was going juvenile, but I'm pretty sure most kids are smarter than this, so I'll just call it what it is: an idiotic, damaging and ultimately false understanding of reality. The world i
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
No, what they said is we had less corruption when people were ashamed of it.
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Ok, I'll play: > We estimate that over the past two decades, USAID-funded programmes have helped prevent more than 91 million deaths globally, including 30 million deaths among children. How about that? Or are you going to come up w
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
I'll quote from myself: > [1] The best the fairly obvious house republican "investigation" into joe biden could manage was some vague statements about his son getting paid for having the last name biden, which may or may n
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Are you trolling? The implication is clearly that GenZ is unusually hyperbolic. That their predilection for hyperbole is somehow unusual or notable, otherwise WHY MENTION IT.
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
> This really is all wrong. One might think this based on pitches from different times but all Empires are evil by their definition and America has always been that, always Again, the problem with this train of logic is you inevitable co
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Ok, give me biden. Where are his lists of corruption scandals[1]? His public statements about taking bribes? I'm not quite sure how to explain this very obvious point: biden and his government was not corrupt in any meaningful sense an
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Yeah and that would be a lot more relevant if we were talking about, dunno, programming circuits or constructing proofs. Instead we're writing english language sentences to be read by humans. Where connotations and implications and oth
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
What's the relationship to doge?
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Huh, hacker news keeps telling me we should run the government like a business though?
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
I mean, the article has paragraphs like: > With the system online, there were still many improvements to be made. Like taxes, applying for retirement was still an incredibly confusing process. Working closely with talented designers and
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
The creation in the article appears to be genuinely useful and impressive as well. It certainly benefitted a great deal from other people's work, but so did apple and linux and whatever else.
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
You're literally being downvoted for stereotyping an entire generation. The word stereotype implies it, but it's not remotely close to true. Like, the easiest, most obvious example in the world is trump: he hyperbolically brags co

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