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by yawpitch 2y ago
http://archive.today/8H0H3
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I was foreman of a jury on a murder trial once; it’s my signature on the verdict form that sealed the fate of a man. In an extremely real and personal sense, I am directly responsible for putting a man in prison, and given his age, health c
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Excellent, technologically-empowered confirmation bias.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Maybe it’s just me and my old IPhone 12 Mini, but I really find it annoying when browsing to something called Coding Font to immediately face a popup with no “close” button that shows me a big unrelated ad at the same time as promoting an a
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by yawpitch 2y ago
A site that allowed those who feel they need this kind of negative feedback gamification to contribute their financial penalty to worthy causes would be a worthwhile thing to build. The thing to consider then is the reason why this whole i
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Well, this certainly is an interesting case of the abuse of servers to abuse servers. It’s almost teaching recursion. Please no one write that random script… f*king up high cash flow but ultimately usually pretty low margin businesses like
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by yawpitch 2y ago
If you were actually interested in helping anyone using this (highly dubious) concept, you’d obviously have each and every payment flow immediately and transparently to a charity working to help either those addicted to adult content or tho
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> 7. Governing Law: These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of BreakTheLoser , without regard to its conflict of law provisions. There are better ways to break an addiction than sending money to some scum
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Belief is irrelevant, it’s what evidence exists for that matters. Any intervention for PTSD that has an evidentiary basis and consistent effect across multiple studies is good . There is a tiny bit of that building behind Tetris as an in
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Are you seriously so abysmally bad at empathy that you’re unaware that doctors and nurses the world over watched millions of people die very often in agony, while forcible isolated from their loved ones, during the first year of Covid? Be
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> Keep Reading With a 7-Day Free Trial A world in which that phrase is everywhere may just make the case for degrowth.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Finally, the revolution begins!! #dozenuts
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by yawpitch 2y ago
It shows you random shit, you look at the random shit that catches your eye, it tries to show you less random shit. Repeat. It’s only reading your mind if the only thing in there is “how do I give Zuckerberg more money?”.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Paper negatives are interesting, but yes even when you’ve got a subject that sits still long enough and the camera is on a really steady tripod the result will still be a lot less than critically sharp when printed because the paper diffuse
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> A simple image amplified and focused by hand, through delicate rotations of plates of glass , and filtered toward a tiny mirror contained inside a camera that projected the reflection toward a viewing screen . When Karsh opened the s
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Maybe it’s just blogspot these days, but for me this automatically redirects immediately to a “install this malware to fix your computer” scam on every visit.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
http://archive.today/hmqH0
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by yawpitch 2y ago
I think you may have misread that part. It’s not a call to hew to the middle or silence the extremes, at least as I read it, rather it’s a call to stop soaking up an extreme amount of human time and attention on unproductive flame wars laun
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by yawpitch 2y ago
In the last couple years there’s been at least a dozen opportunities to get a shot of me walking along with a wild bird in hand. They’re usually injured or they’ve swallowed fishing line, sometimes (sadly) they’re dead. There’s a waterfowl
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Personally I’m much more concerned about the Live Internet Theory.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Surely not the entire economy, though I’ll generally concede your point… just today I saw two women exchange the output of ones chickens for the output of the other ones knitting needles.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Philosophically, and I suppose economically, can you lose something you never really had? I mean essentially his trial balloon popped early and he’s not going to realize $4B of phantom gains, but he’s not really lost anything by sending up
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by yawpitch 2y ago
tl;dr: myth, busted many times, and mainly based on vaguely racist pushback against the proliferation of “Chinese” restaurants into America in the 1970s… an enormous number of humans consume it every day with zero ill effect.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
> If you studied logic, you know: "all generalities are wrong". Including that one: we’re all, every one of us, hypersensitive to hydrogen fluoride.
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Not scared of anything, just more informed about both the realistic utility of LLMs — they intrinsically cannot develop knowledge, all they can do is reflect back knowledge already developed — and the utility to which “uncensored” LLMs w
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by yawpitch 2y ago
You’ve admitted it’s not a diagnostic tool. Because of that it’s also not a good or even moderately useful flag indicator, and decades of history bear that out, see the original article. Its only utility has ever been as a rough statist
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by yawpitch 2y ago
The MDN is a good starting point. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn
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by yawpitch 2y ago
There is no positive purpose that an uncensored LLM inherently has that a censored LLM inherently does not, unless you want to generate material society has deemed harmful and worth censoring. Which brings us full circle back to this CSAM
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by yawpitch 2y ago
No, that is McDonald’s fault, but knowing their BMI doesn’t actually help them in any way. BMI is, again, useless as a reliable measure of anything below population scales, hence why the article discusses an alternative that isn’t actua
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by yawpitch 2y ago
Oh how I wish it was figurative. Well done for reading up on the ridiculous history of one of the most ridiculous measures. Now try to not go down the rabbit hole of the calorie.

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