ConspiracyFact

6 ms·

31.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I read the article. It's dangerous nonsense.
32.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
> We'll get megabytes of code that just fails sometimes, for unfathomable reasons. But…that’s the current situation.
33.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
The problem is that model outputs are wholly derivative. This is easy to see if you start with a dataset of one artistic work and add additional works one at a time. Clearly, at the start the outputs are derivative. As more inputs are added
34.
Tell HN: Sites are bluffing with their cookie pop-ups
8 points by ConspiracyFact 1y ago|10 comments
35.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
After 250 generations of designing social structures to protect women and children, it’s good to see the west finally focusing on the mental health of teenage girls.
36.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Regardless of the law, corporations aren’t actually people, and neither are LLMs or agentic systems. When a running process appears to defy its programming and literally escapes somehow, and it’s able to sustain itself, we can talk about pe
37.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Ah yes, John Stuart Mill, that evil mastermind of reaction...
38.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
>People belonging to socially disadvantaged groups, such as women When can we stop with this?
39.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
AIs aren’t people. What we have is people using an algorithm to rip off artists and defending it by claiming that the algorithm is like a person learning from its experiences. If I wrote a program that chose an image at random from 1000 bas
40.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Age correlates with wisdom. It’s not a fallacy. I don’t claim that every person is wiser than all people younger than him.
41.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
So?
42.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
If anyone makes a similar comment in the reverse situation they’re dogpiled with “bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe MeNz?” comments.
43.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Men are more dissimilar from one another, generally, than women are from one another. Sorry.
44.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
So do you respect 12-year-olds as much as you respect 25-year-olds? Do you respect the opinions on work and adult responsibilities of a 23-year-old as much as those of a 35-year-old? Do you trust the professional judgment of a junior engine
45.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Japan is also full of Japanese people.
46.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
>The worst offender included in this chart, Meta’s Llama 3.1, resulted in an estimated 8,930 tonnes of CO2 emitted, which is the equivalent of about 496 Americans living a year of their American lives. So, basically nothing.
47.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of absence—however… I don’t dispute that you will come to remember something after needing it several times. But without a more or less comprehensive knowledge of the subject, how do you know if there’s so
48.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I think that this works well, to a point. Eventually, mastery demands memorization, because fluency demands memorization.
49.
Ask HN: Do you study for your job?
4 points by ConspiracyFact 1y ago|10 comments
50.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I know that part of the joke is that the questions had no good responses, but this: >Results >>I obtained 471 responses... >Conclusion >>It’s rough out there, man... is a bit tone deaf. The male loneliness epidemic is larg
51.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
I came here to say this. Does the author not think that dozens of these “geeks” have enough technical acumen to figure out what information their Echo is sending to Amazon’s servers? It would have been a noisy scandal.
52.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
It’s not illegal. You can be sued for it but not jailed for it.
53.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
This ultra-libertarian take is consistent but not realistic. Realistically, the group decides that some amount of work or sacrifice is not compatible with having a good life, so laws are passed that either disallow such extremes or mandate
54.
by ConspiracyFact 1y ago
You’re free to have your own beliefs about speech. Please don’t say that you believe in free speech, though.
55.
by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
When did the establishment start referring to developed nations as the “rich world”? That reeks of the kind of globalist elitism that conspiracy theorists go on about. Many an undeveloped nation is undeveloped because of the people who live
56.
by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
No one without some sort of ideological bias is going to do a serious study to address the question. That’s my point.
57.
by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
You have to be willing to entertain evidence from biased sources when you’re considering politically charged questions. By all means, consult evidence from various ideologies, but don’t hold out for unbiased scholarship that will never exis
58.
by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
What time and place does the author live in?
59.
by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Wait, you think that the “natives” of the countries of today were the original inhabitants?
60.
by ConspiracyFact 2y ago
Nonsense. In order to focus on the supposed injustice of inheritance itself , suppose that someone becomes wealthy through ethical means. If they then turn out to have a mutation that causes them to be immortal, at what point does it becom

More ›