NoFunPedant

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by NoFunPedant 4mo ago
If you enjoy doing your work, AI is like being told "Here is a robot that will make love to your spouse for you."
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by NoFunPedant 7mo ago
"Rewthe" is ruth, an old word for mercy, which today only survives in the negative form "ruthless."
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by NoFunPedant 9mo ago
If you don't have the writing skills to express your thoughts in your own language, how can you have the reading skills to be certain the LLM is expressing your thoughts correctly?
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
Claude doesn't know when it's lying or when it's telling the truth. It doesn't know anything. It's a computer program. It manipulates symbols according to mathematical rules. It doesn't know what the symbols me
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
I don't know how you imagine longtermism is relevant to this discussion -- the crisis is happening right now in front of all of us and the need for action is right now. The threat against libraries is just one part of a broader threat
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
Addressing the problem at the source would be a broad-based political movement that demanded enforcement of the First Amendment and a restoration of constitutional norms. That kind of political movement isn't a pipe dream -- two politi
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
Here's another obvious-seeming question: Why should would-be censors be granted power over libraries? Instead of concocting expensive schemes to get around attempts at censorship, how about if we address the problem at the source by pr
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
1. The states never had the right to secede. U.S. Constitution, Article VI: "This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof ... shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in ever
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
I'd like to believe that there is no such thing as free will, but I just can't decide.
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
Yes, the Canon Cat had a built-in manual, and I checked the manual quite thoroughly. I learned to use the Cat after a fashion, but even when I understood the Cat a little bit, it still didn't make any sense to me. It especially didn&#x
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
When I was in my late teens, right about the time this article came out, I was an ignorant, naive, first-time computer user. My college had some Canon Cats in the computer lab. I didn't know the first thing about computers, and I didn&
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by NoFunPedant 1y ago
"Market the hype till the market is ripe"?
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
Car magazines publish environmental stories all the time. I love tech and I love cars, but we can't ignore social costs.
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
OK, how qualified do you have to be to criticize tech companies and tech leaders? Mainstream journalists write for the general public, which means that ideally, journalists write to express the perspective of the mainstream public. Is it po
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
For a second I got excited, because I thought Mangione was being charged with actual dueling, à la Burr and Hamilton. Then I read the article and realized it was talking about conflicting charges, not charges of dueling, and suddenly the st
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
The BBC miniseries was called "Private Schultz": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081919/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
I think you misunderstand the nature of art. You say that creation is merely reworking past ideas. That might be true if art were mere decoration or a formal game of manipulating symbols according to rules. But the true purpose of art is to
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
As a former journalist and current PR professional, I'll say this is a brilliant way to destroy your clients' credibility in one fell swoop. If I were a journalist and I received an AI-generated pitch, I would immediately disregar
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
Some people actually have values, and some people actually believe, genuinely and deeply, in the value of art. I know that some cynical people don't understand why any of these things are important, but I think that's a sad attitu
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by NoFunPedant 2y ago
Step 5 there seems like a tremendous leap that I'm not sure would occur to someone not already thinking about traditional religion.