AlexandrB

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by AlexandrB 6d ago
The real LLM tell is tortured and inappropriate metaphors and unnecessary adjectives and adverbs[1]. What purpose is "quietly" serving in this headline? [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgKY9AlybA
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by AlexandrB 6d ago
This rings more and more true every day: https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writin...
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by AlexandrB 7d ago
> Why don’t we have a digital equivalent to this? This is the one place where NFTs make some sense. Ideally, such an ownership mechanism would be open and not tied to the lifespan of a particular publisher - something that's hard
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by AlexandrB 7d ago
I don't think this is the last time we will see this argument. Disney has a lot of value in brand equity to protect so it made sense for them to back away, but a "bad guy" company that's already regarded with distrust wi
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by AlexandrB 7d ago
3 years is probably too soon, but I would take the bet on "ever" any day of the week. > most importantly: there's enough competition that people would just use other models that don't do this. Show me a Smart TV witho
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by AlexandrB 7d ago
Absolutely they will. It might be "innocent" at first - "oh we don't want ChatGPT to recommend scam products so we will train it to prefer "trusted" brands" and then inclusion in "trusted brands"
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by AlexandrB 8d ago
eSIMs give a lot of control back to the carrier. My carrier does not allow transferring eSIMs between phones, but I can trivially move their physical SIM card.
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by AlexandrB 8d ago
A smaller closed size than current phones would be the main appeal for me. Phone bloat has gotten out of hand.
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by AlexandrB 8d ago
What's the material difference between this and Trump's "my button is bigger"[1] nonsense or the renaming of various bodies of water? I know the UN claims that "Correcting cartographic distortions of continental siz
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by AlexandrB 8d ago
You're missing the fact that all ads are scammy and I don't want to see any of them. There's nothing that makes a Downy ad more honest or relevant to me than an ad for BigCoin Online Casino - it's all worthless trash t
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by AlexandrB 8d ago
Apple Maps has Apple Ads and Apple Ads are awful.
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by AlexandrB 9d ago
Yes. Considering 90%+ of users will just connect their TV to their WiFi, shipping a cell modem with every TV to catch that last 10% seems like bad ROI. I could however see this happening in the future in response to regulation. For exampl
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by AlexandrB 13d ago
Interestingly, fiber signals can be split passively[1] (without a transducer), which should be extremely reliable. No idea what technology this kind of application would use though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fib
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by AlexandrB 13d ago
I would never use AI for shopping. The incentives to mess with the results for commercial gain are too great.
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
> As I grow older, I am feeling the need to stand up and try to protect my values. I agree. I'm tired of repeated bad faith interpretations of anyone who shows even the slightest disagreement with the current political milieu. Opini
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
I'm sorry, but you're not being honest. He both mentions specific problems that need to be addressed ("Cue the gypsies in Copenhagen, and their increasingly brazen behavior, after the city legalized overnight sleeping in park
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
Unless you get "grandfathered in"[1]. > Bernie Sanders: Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal. > Ezra Klein: Really? > Bernie Sanders:Of course. That's a right wing proposal which says essentially th
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
People betting online just destroy their families and cast their children into poverty. And gambling restrictions are hardly fascist. Online sports gambling wasn't legal a scant 10 years ago. Were we living under fascism at that time?
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
I'm sympathetic to this perspective, but the downstream negative externalities of sports gambling aren't just what happens to gambling addicts. The whole sport starts to revolve around the gambling - including strong incentives fo
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
> You should not accept this as fact, nor should you tolerate this current regime. Should folks who disagree with you politically tolerate the Obama or Biden regimes then? Or are the only regimes that should be tolerated ones that agree
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
Yes, you are correct, everyone who doesn't like your preferred political candidates is racist and sexist.
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by AlexandrB 14d ago
It doesn't matter. Even if they don't train on your inputs now they will "boil the frog" and do so in the future. What the user wants is irrelevant in the tech industry. > If they are doing this and anyone can prove i
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by AlexandrB 15d ago
Here's a real controversial opinion: If Clinton had won, the eventual backlash would be much greater and have elected a far more odious figure than Trump. America is lucky that Trump is kind of a bumbling oaf that channeled populis
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by AlexandrB 15d ago
The push for recycling has been successful at making people feel better about themselves, not successful at saving energy or raw materials. The article also goes on at length about this, but most of what's put in recycling bins gets th
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by AlexandrB 15d ago
I think it's beyond many people. A typical pattern is that you forget your bag at home and end up buying another one. After this happens a few times you now have an excess of reusable bags such that you will never recoup the "173
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by AlexandrB 15d ago
The thing with methane is that it has a lifespan of something like 10 years in the atmosphere before it breaks down to CO2 + water, while CO2 persists for centuries. I suspect that burning would release more net CO2 than emitting the methan
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by AlexandrB 15d ago
Moravec's paradox remains undefeated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravec%27s_paradox
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by AlexandrB 16d ago
I've gotten very comfortable not owning Ubisoft games[1]. [1] https://www.ign.com/articles/ubisoft-exec-says-gamers-need-t...
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by AlexandrB 16d ago
> a President who should never have been President in the first place. According to whom? The American people seemed to think he should be president. The thinly veiled contempt for democracy and voters among those who hate Trump is funny
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by AlexandrB 16d ago
> by the increasing rents extracted by the App Store and the services division in general I wouldn't care about the rents if they weren't in the form of ads being shoved in everywhere. The "2 ads in the first 3 results&quo

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