Finbel

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by Finbel 1mo ago
Two years ago it would have been insane to say that you got help from ChatGPT to fix your outdoor plumbing, people here would have been frothing at the mouth for merely suggesting it. Four years ago it wasn't even on the radar of futur
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by Finbel 1mo ago
Seen from the outside, the US seemed a lot more coherent pre-Trump.
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by Finbel 1mo ago
Firefighters, schools, tax collection, well fare programs Or are you suggesting these would turn as problematic as zero-privacy surveillance systems in case the government becomes totalitarian?
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by Finbel 3mo ago
Textbook fallacy fallacy.
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by Finbel 3mo ago
Maybe it’s like that trick where if a thousand people guess the amount of beans in a jar almost all of them will be wrong but their average will be very close to, if not, correct.
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by Finbel 4mo ago
I doubt it. I'm stupid and I use LLMs a lot but I can still meditate for 30 minutes. But apparently some of the smartest people in the world have lost the skill? But the commenter haven't, because why, they're 15 years older
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by Finbel 4mo ago
I feel there's an interesting juxtaposition between these two quotes: "The economy has absorbed automation before; agricultural employment collapsed from ninety percent of the American workforce to two percent and civilization con
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by Finbel 4mo ago
To me this is semantics as far as it's related to "why don't you want to learn?" I have a co-worker in another team that write java endpoins we consume. I can tell him what I need and I trust the output. I don't nee
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by Finbel 4mo ago
Yes, but that's a completely different argument (that I agree with). Essentially, yes they are conceptually similar but one is bad because you have to pay rent to use it.
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by Finbel 4mo ago
>Also, when did we stop liking to learn? Why is it a bad thing to know all the ins and outs of a programming language? I do not know the inns and out of the assembly layer my high level code end up as. It's not because I don't
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by Finbel 4mo ago
>The difference between a puppy and a cockroach is that we can relate better to the puppy. I suppose the difference between a human and a cockroach is that we can relate better to the human as well in this reductive way of thinking?
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by Finbel 5mo ago
It's not novel in the sense that nobody knew about img2img. It's novel in the sense that nobody thought of using img2img to solve this problem in this way.
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by Finbel 5mo ago
There's a certain irony in the fact that whoever you're responsing to got their message removed.
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by Finbel 5mo ago
Of course you're not one of "us" if you're one of "them".
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by Finbel 5mo ago
Wow, never thought about the fact that the system deteriorates from having more than one option
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by Finbel 6mo ago
Sorry I'm from Sweden and our banks have a service called Swish where we can send money on the phone. Paying in cash is extremely uncommon now a days. Every time I've bought or sold something on FB Marketplace the last decade I&#x
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by Finbel 6mo ago
Yes but "the search space is too large" is something that has been said about innumerable AI-problems that were then solved. So it's not unreasonable that one doubts the merit of the statement when it's said for the umpt
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by Finbel 6mo ago
The whole fight with Anthropic was because they wanted to use it for mass surveillance (and autonomous weapon systems). How is mass surveillance not orwellian.
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by Finbel 6mo ago
>Hey that's a weird thing in the result that hints at some other vector for this thing we should look at Kinda funny because that looked _very_ close to what my Opus 4.6 said yesterday when it was debugging compile errors for me. It
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by Finbel 6mo ago
That's silly, they don't want to manage people, they prefer to build actually useful things. I've recently learned how many programmers actually don't care about building things. They love the craft, for all they care th
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by Finbel 6mo ago
You see how that's a circular reasoning? The defense budget should by all accounts be called the war budget if we look at how it's spent (Iran).
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by Finbel 6mo ago
But... you ARE blowing things up with it?
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by Finbel 6mo ago
I think you're the one applying anti-vax logic here. Imagine beating a guy up for looking at you wrong and then get into a semantic argument with the judge on how you shouldn't be charged with assault because it was actually an ac
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by Finbel 6mo ago
Problem is that "others with AI" aren't producing what I consume, i.e food, heat, clothing, housing and health care. They're just producing what I produce, i.e software.
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by Finbel 7mo ago
Or it could have just been a genuine question. I'm not American and I've seen DoW used in newspapers and thought the name change was official. Personally I've thought it a more apt and honest name for what they do. But the ba
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by Finbel 7mo ago
On the other hand calling it "Department of Defense" seems quite whitewashing of what it actually does.
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by Finbel 7mo ago
So slightly before 1440 was peak Truth for humanity?
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by Finbel 8mo ago
One fun thing would be to raise the abstraction level of the game. How would it feel to only interact with your base/economy/army via prompting and face someone doing the same. Would words per minute replace APM, what would the me
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by Finbel 8mo ago
It sounds like Tolkien didn't quite agree with the simplified take that Orcs are "just" a force of evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolkien%27s_moral_dilemma
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by Finbel 11mo ago
It's so strange. I do all the things you mention and it works brilliantly well 10 times out of 11.

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