Mordisquitos

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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
I think you missed the point of my message. Web browsing still happens by connecting to data centres, so why are consumer laptops so much more (unnecessarily) powerful today than they were 20 years ago? All the more so given that, at that t
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
The trend over the past three decades of personal computing has been for devices to become exponentially more powerful regardless of the actual computing needs of users. The excess computing power has famously been requested by projects suc
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
> That's fine. We need a fix for today's problems today. No, we don't. It is Anthropic, Google, OpenAI et al. who need a fix for those problems today. Let them deal with it.
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
It's not the net fart that kills your connection, it is the server smell.
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
So you're saying that four-day-workweek companies saw no decline in their productivity, in contrast to the Australian average productivity which went down overall‽ That means the four-day-workweek is even better than we thought it was!
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
What a hollow dismissal of based on acrobatic leaps of semantics. The word 'study' is no sacred possession exclusive to the natural sciences, and there is nothing wrong with properly conducted surveys as a method in sociology, eco
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
It sounds like Public Transport Baby Adoption is an evolution of the Cat Distribution System: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cat-distribution-system
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
That's an insightful prediction! Agentic LLMs won't only replace the browser, they will also optimize and enhance the content that you should consume. Would you like us to go deeper into how human comments and conversations on HN
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
> I’m genuinely confused as to why the speakers are baffled by the boos. Absolutely, I just made a similar comment before I saw yours. In fact, I would argue that the headline is also arguably burying the lede on commencement speakers be
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
What I found surprising of the couple of video examples I've seen was not the students' reactions; those were completely predictable. Rather, what most stood out to me was the absolute detachment displayed by the speakers in belie
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
> Most games bought on steam will never be played, not even once. How did you gain access to my Steam library statistics?
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
In fact, I find your very comment as an example of the variety of visual experiences that exist that I hadn't even thought of. I mean when you say “ Like when you are exhausted you get double vision” that itself sounds alien to me. I
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
I have a similar intuition to yours. On many topics it isn't so much self-censorship, it is simply that for many people there is rightly no motivation to go around announcing their nuanced, moderate, or no-opinion-but-unimpressed-by-ex
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by Mordisquitos 4mo ago
I am not impacted by this issue on either side, but I am in the "dehumanising" camp, so here are my opinions: > Is it dehumanizing to Filipinos that Filipinos probably now do their job more efficiently without having to learn
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
The quality of the content is not the issue here.
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
And yet we are discussing this in the context of a reporter having been fired from Ars Technica for publishing an article which included inaccurate LLM-generated summaries in 2026. How come? https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
You can prompt LLMs to scan thousands of documents to generate text validating your hunches. In some cases those validated hunches may even be correct.
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
What a relief that it only applies to when they're using their computers! At first I thought it applied to all work at their desks: paperwork, typing, phonecalls, etc. That would have been crazy. Does anyone know how many Meta employee
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
No, even if morphine were metabolically safer (I don't know), its addictive potential would outweigh the potential safety benefit. On the other hand, if in the early 2000s you were to share those concerns with certain doctors, they wou
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
I agree that Purdue Pharma was probably the most significant factor, maybe enhanced by the relative ease of granular lobbying of private doctors as compared to the challenges it may face in universal healthcare systems. However, I do suspec
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
The LLMs didn't only talk about the disease when prompted by the neologism. They also brought it up when asked about the symptoms. From the article: > OpenAI’s ChatGPT was telling users whether their symptoms amounted to bixonimania
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
> This seems like a wasted effort when AI will primarily learn the majority consensus view and not one-off misinformation. We have evidence to the contrary. Two blog articles and two preprints of fake academic articles [0] were able to
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
> The same people that shout "Capitalism sucks, free us from our labor" are the exact same types that hate AI. The exact machine that will free you from your labor, when harnessed correctly, is the exact thing you hate. What is
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
I'll admit I am not an expert in the field, but the fact that "chain-of-thought" optimisations function by getting the model to extend its own context window with more language to me hints that what we consider an "intel
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
I'm reminded of a book on my bookshelf (which I still haven't read, story of my life...), by the recently deceased ethologist Frans de Waal, titled 'Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?' . Of course, Bette
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
> It's like dumping kids on a 5 acre farm and saying they can do whatever they want. What do you mean it's like dumping kids on a farm? Are the suburbs really THAT lethally dangerous? Source [22 minutes]: https://w
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
> I can't imagine a real use case where you'd think this is desirable. Not S3, but here's a literal real use case: the entry for the Iraqw word /ameeni (woman) in Wiktionary. https://en.wiktionary.org&#x2
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
I would say that the restaurant would be wasting its time and resources by catering their website to hypothetical customers who are choosing to use inferior and overly engineered methods to find information about their physical surroundings
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
So you're saying that I, as a human customer, can see offers that AI agents are missing out on? Sounds great!
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by Mordisquitos 5mo ago
As a user, why would I trust an AI agent that cannot consistently use non-AI-tailored websites? If it cannot even do that, who knows what other failure modes it may hit me with.

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