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by wvenable 7mo ago
Maybe the metaverse is a viable concept or maybe it isn't. But Meta doesn't care about the metaverse or the potential users of it -- they simply want their own platform similar to how Google has Android, and Apple has iOS, and Mi
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by wvenable 7mo ago
What if the police force is the local gang?
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by wvenable 7mo ago
Why won't we just dole out real punishments instead of an indirect chain of money? Money is not the solution to everything.
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by wvenable 7mo ago
Did you see the word "repeatedly"?
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by wvenable 7mo ago
More than $1.5 billion has been spent to settle claims of police misconduct involving thousands of officers repeatedly accused of wrongdoing. https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
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by wvenable 7mo ago
When I got my first PC (a 286 with a 2400 baud modem) I had to wire my computer to the telephone line from my bedroom all the way to the kitchen. I had some very long telephone extension cable and every morning for 2 weeks my parents woke
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I mostly find it useful for learning myself or for questioning a strange result. It usually works well for either of those. As you said, I'm probably not getting it's actual reasoning from any reasoning tokens but never thought
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I disagree. The city or state gets sued and they pay the result from the taxpayer funds and literally nobody learns anything, especially not the hard way. Everyone is so completely divorced, and in some cases immune, from consequences tha
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I think you have the interpretation correct. It seems like any state can say you're a fugitive from their state and now you have even fewer rights. Every day I learn some new fact about "justice" in the United States.
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by wvenable 7mo ago
It literally doesn't matter -- you're focused on the wrong thing. She could be that woman's exact twin and it wouldn't matter. Spending six months in jail and losing your house, your car, and your dog with the flimsies
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I think I like "blindly trust" better because vibe coders literally aren't looking.
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> I'm still being forced to live in a world filled with people who do use it and whose behavior affects me. My point... way at the top... is exactly that. People's behavior does have an effect but it always has. The Preside
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I don't trust it completely but I still use it. Trust but verify. I've had some funny conversations -- Me:"Why did you choose to do X to solve the problem?" ... It:"Oh I should totally not have done that, I'll
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by wvenable 7mo ago
The teardown is impressive. The next question is whether anyone other than Apple will be able to get parts.
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by wvenable 7mo ago
Probably could get the battery directly without all the other disassembly steps...
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> Believing that, say, the use of AI will primarily enrich billionaires that are already doing societal harm is not clouding one's view of AI. It is one's view of AI. That's fine. Nobody is forcing you to use AI. I dis
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> I don't see how this rule could be enforced with such a caveat I don't see how this rule is going to be enforced anyway. Many people posting with AI help won't get noticed at all and about 100 times a many people are go
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by wvenable 7mo ago
As a software developer and human being, I know people often say they prefer one thing while actually preferring something else. That's human nature. People have strong feelings about AI in general and that can definitely cloud wh
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> the difference is that you get to see the unfiltered, unique perspective of a real human being. The implicit unfounded assumption is whether that's actually worth more than a well written orderly response. Most comments are kind
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I think all your examples are all perfectly fine. As for expansion, that might just be the risk we take. I been downvoted on reddit for being "too verbose" in my replies and I'm a human. And perhaps just reading the prompt
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by wvenable 7mo ago
Do you though? Like what real difference does it make to you? Can you even tell if this has been passed through an LLM or not? If you can't tell, why does it matter? I don't want to be robo-slopped at en masse or be fed complet
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> Please, understand that morality and legality are different concepts. You don't believe that fair use is a moral issue? I think obviously it is. > So something is stolen only if its gone? Yes, that's the definition of sto
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> If you had the LLM write the comment, then it wasn't your thoughts. But what if I provided the LLM my thoughts? That's actually how I use LLMs in my life -- I provide it with my thoughts and it generates things from those th
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> Amusingly your comment carries some of the tropes of AI authorship It was trained on 30 years of my posts on the Internet, I'm sure some part of it sounds just like me.
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by wvenable 7mo ago
I don't think the real issue is LLM posts. The issue with low quality on the Internet has always been quantity . The problem always has been humans who post too much, humans that use software to post too much, and now it's huma
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> Of stolen text, or at the very least of text ingested without consent. Stolen? They've taken it all and it's gone? No. They read it and processed it and that's fair use. Some companies might have acquired some of il
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by wvenable 7mo ago
Clean room is merely a defence in case you get sued by someone saying that you copied the work. It's not legally necessary. If the presumption is that LLM training, despite reading all the source code of everything everywhere, ultimat
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> It implicitly assumes that humans and algorithms are the same. They are not - humans have rights and free will, algorithms don't. Humans cannot be bought or sold, etc. I don't think that's a necessary condition for that
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by wvenable 7mo ago
> If LLMs are not derivative works of the training data then why is so much training data needed? If you went to school for 12-16 years, that's a lot of training. Does that mean anything you produce is a derivative work?
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by wvenable 7mo ago
Consider it an LLM cache. The result has already been cached so you don't have to generate it again.

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