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by xk_id 2y ago
Every day we stray further from using the web to deliver documents.
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by xk_id 2y ago
So where do people publish their original stuff now to shield it from LLMs? I’ve been looking at different options and I guess the Gemini protocol is maybe the best option for now?
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by xk_id 2y ago
Does anybody have advice for finding appropriate assets to purchase for individuals of very low net worth? Suitable here means: - affordable to begin with (max 3-4 figures) - not mass produced (so they’re not already hyper-efficiently distr
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by xk_id 2y ago
Such a thin veiled whistle blow against woke culture. The very concept of corporate-curated glyphs restricts and normalises communication to a limited range of concepts pre-approved by the architects of consumer culture. But apparently this
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by xk_id 2y ago
Unbelievable how even a pr piece posted by their own university doesn’t bother to link the actual damn paper. What a joke the whole academic industry has become, since those corporate aspects have been grafted onto it. Anyway, thanks.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Even the most strictly enforced religions couldn’t avoid cults and schisms. The progress of understanding really seems inevitable. You can only gaslight yourself for so long, into denying the natural predisposition of the human cognition to
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by xk_id 2y ago
Radical cultural relativism is rooted in a profound ignorance of human cognition: it is true for every human, who has ever lived, that a more precise empirical knowledge of the world is preferable. It is even likely that we might also learn
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by xk_id 2y ago
The only significant, deleterious phenotype in il-11 KO mice is the inability to sustain pregnancy. So far it seems to have a very high safety profile.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Enduring the misery is not even the impressive thing; that’s just the default condition of every animal on earth. What is extraordinary is that, despite their misery, somehow enough humans have managed to contribute to the incremental creat
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by xk_id 2y ago
Actually, bullshit also happens to have an academic, formal meaning, and it has been defended successfully in the context of AI: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40626692
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by xk_id 2y ago
Not really. Two ligands of the same receptor can have very different effects. There are 5ht2a agonists who don’t even cause perceptual effects. Besides, LSD has activities at several other receptors as well, which contributes to its effect.
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by xk_id 2y ago
> the "open" web will be the preserve of a few hobbyists. And maybe that will be the Web healing. If all the value extraction moves elsewhere, we might finally have a sane web of hypertext documents again.
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by xk_id 2y ago
So you are basing your outlook on extrapolating from a completely different engineering domain and a completely different socio-historical context?
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by xk_id 2y ago
Never in the history of man has the slope of progress been linear. The AI crowd is entirely predicated on a platitude.
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by xk_id 2y ago
“Over an arbitrarily long timeline, assuming stable geopolitical conditions, technology will continue to improve, at an arbitrary rate”. What a groundbreaking insight, no wonder people are excited.
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by xk_id 2y ago
There is the aspect of how AI works (unoriginal plagiarism, unconsentual data harvesting, intractable confabulation). On top of that there is the aspect of AI marketing (companies trying to fabricate demand for it, by gaslighting users into
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by xk_id 2y ago
Wow, a great example of healing in response to internal tensions.
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by xk_id 2y ago
Absolutely. I have become very “AI-phobic” and any author who unironically uses, or references AI I automatically consider discredited and therefore don’t engage with the content. This is not an irrational reaction or something that can cau
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by xk_id 2y ago
I’d rather copy the whole thing down by hand, than rely on a bullshit generator for my access to knowledge.
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by xk_id 3y ago
Delivering STATIC DOCUMENTS via dynamic javascript apps running on top of http is the quintessential caricature of overengineering.
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by xk_id 3y ago
They really had an opportunity to capture significant market share and they ruined it. Their interface also doesn’t work without javascript. What a shame.
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by xk_id 3y ago
> premium features like "advanced VPN and privacy-oriented AI," Excuse me,what
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by xk_id 3y ago
You’re awfully convinced about something you can provide 0 evidence for.
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by xk_id 3y ago
“AI aids” is a wonderful accident of language.
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by xk_id 3y ago
As a consumer, I'm devastated by how AI is destroying the quality of services I used to rely on. As a tech professional, I'm stoked about everyone who is investing their time and energy into gambling on text generators, instead of
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by xk_id 3y ago
the argumen is much stronger for green tea. depending on time of harvesting and grow conditions, it has a lot more fluoride than black tea. this study found 7mg/L: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34343066/ General
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by xk_id 3y ago
Except if you drink the daily recommended amount of water, you don't come anywhere close to the fluoride in 1 cup of green tea. It's just a completely delusional panic.
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by xk_id 3y ago
I've taken fluoride supplements as a child and I've never had a cavity in my entire life. So with n=2, the evidence is overwhelmingly in favour of fluoride.
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by xk_id 3y ago
There is far more fluoride in a cup of green tea and nobody ever panicked about that.
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by xk_id 3y ago
It’s not a comment on the value of the treatment, the headline is just wrong. Saying “cancer vanished in every patient” without further qualification is ambiguous, not too different from saying “illness was cured in everyone”. The correct t

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