Aerolfos

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by Aerolfos 14d ago
> We could consider them clueless for falling for that, or an alternate viewpoint is that they are victims of widespread fraud. Pretty much what this blog post says: https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerat
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by Aerolfos 15d ago
> This is an article that only cites Zitron’s opinions about subjective model quality. You’re tisk-tisking people to be objective about a bunch of words saying that the author’s opinions are better opinions than the guy he’s talking abou
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by Aerolfos 22d ago
> Europeans would be far less likely to tip (or tip generously). Southern europeans tip, there wouldn't be much difference there Northern ones it depends, they don't tip at home but they usually do on vacations to southern euro
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by Aerolfos 28d ago
Deeply ironic that it sure looks like taking the original post, pasting it to an AI with the message "make this angrier" and then simply copy-pasting the output back to the website. In direct violation of their own (supposed) prin
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by Aerolfos 2mo ago
> In doing so, the article perhaps obscures the point that business collusion, I expect, is more often built around legitimate reasoning taken to illegitimate extents and conclusions, than around outright fabrications. It also doesn&#x27
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by Aerolfos 2mo ago
> Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. It is illegal. > To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive you must: > [...] >
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by Aerolfos 2mo ago
> Astronomers have pretty good terminology for stars, ...do they though? The "proper" terminology says all main sequence stars are dwarves, but nobody calls them all that in practice. Some astronomers insist on saying "yel
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
Actually, that is the IAU stance. And their definition for exoplanet includes small, non-rounded objects orbiting stars which would be asteroids (or comets or whatever) if they happened to be around the Sun. All that debacle around dwarf pl
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
They're not very toxic, but my experience is that it's a small, elite community and they're very good at the game. You're going to have to go all in on learning the game, putting in massive effort into every game just to
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
> Leading on from that, the staff are the most dangerous. My daughter has had generated exercises provided to her from multiple teachers, which are quite frankly entirely wrong. This was hilariously pointed out after I called a meeting w
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
By... another AI model. Which uses statistical generation to decide whether the answer is likely to be accurate or not.
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
Sounds like Spain all right. The article also makes a big deal out of country-level factors like the system of autonomous communities, governance, in-house expertise etc. But all of those should apply to Malaga as well, which also built a m
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
Because it's not open for modification by the general public? (emphasis general, not just technically minded people) Manufacturers need to pick a lane - either fully open, and then people who need it can harden their own stuff (and at
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
From their mission statement: > I also object to making myself and my work depend on paying a subscription fee to anyone. I don't want an outage at Anthropic to affect my ability to do my work. I think it is a grave mistake to build
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
Yeah, probably. One of the worst things about LLM writing is how it makes big promises of what it can prove in some piece of writing, and then never really follows up on that, or has specifics that go all the way towards the original, grand
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
What does that have to do with anything? Is reading comprehension really this bad nowadays?
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
> > I do think they're worried about what it'll do to their prestige > Why must this always be the argument? It was the same with cryptocurrencies and NFTs, there is a specific type of proponent who always accuses critics
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
> I do think Ed in intentionally ignorant of the capabilities of LLMs. I think it's more complicated than that too. He's pretty well versed in the stated capabilities of LLMs. The fact that he isn't a deeply involved tec
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
Sparta never really kicked butt, they just propagandized themselves as having done so in the past, even though their performance is pretty average compared to other city states (and very dependent on their tributaries and slaves, at that).
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by Aerolfos 3mo ago
Either they're BS, or the people making these statements are self-incriminating to a terrible degree, either they don't care about their work or are outputting a very low level of quality and being amazed at how "great"
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
> * Valuation of the sp500, the hyperscalers and Nvidia is (mostly) reasonable based on earnings That is a hell of a statement to make (their earnings are mostly negative, after all, except nvidia). Would require exceptional evidence, wh
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
Or Nier, which are inspired by and connected to Shadow of the Colossus in the same way as SotC is connected to Zelda (explicitly mentioned in the article)
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
> a big box store in a giant parking lot You know it's bad when stores don't even "have" parking lots, but are "in" them.
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
It does, but hey the post above was complaining about recommendation apps in general so, yeah.
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
Sponsored fear-mongering propaganda, why is this here?
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
> Examples: we still can’t manage playlists of albums, or down signal genres of music or even artists, or separate “calm” music for sleep from all the other generative playlist rankings they use. Youtube music thinks "videogame musi
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
> > Machine learning was definitely nonexistent at that point. > Are you sure about that? Incredible statement to make, not only did machine learning exist, but neural networks existed! The first perceptrons were built in the 50s
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
They have common ancestors, but it really should be "the crocodiles had split from the avian lineage", with avians including dinosaurs at that moment in time
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
AI or not, it's such a bad article that constantly repeats itself and spends more time (and words) promising the upcoming sections and "deep insights" than it does on actually writing any of those facts.
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by Aerolfos 4mo ago
> Or is it more young men vs the establishment where the establishment wins the vast majority of the time but occasionally a young dude makes the right longshot bet? Seems like the latter - except that not only describes how people perce

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