OrsonSmelles

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by OrsonSmelles 3mo ago
Surely you could have made essentially the same point without regurgitating one of the most perniciously derogatory lines ever concocted to describe teaching? All of the market forces you describe are real, but they are partly sustained by
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by OrsonSmelles 3mo ago
He can be wrong in both directions! Lived experience is a uniquely rich and direct source of knowledge, and on average it's wise to take people seriously when they're speaking from it, but it's also very possible for an indiv
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by OrsonSmelles 3mo ago
If we're making superficial critiques of others' comments with minimal relevance to their philosophical content, let me point out that meat is defined by its consumption as food and need not be muscle tissue specifically. Brains i
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by OrsonSmelles 3mo ago
>If someone actually joined and org with plans to be a whistleblower Yeah, I mean that's just espionage and should raise your standard of evidence for any claim made. The credibility of whistleblowers comes partly from the idea th
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by OrsonSmelles 3mo ago
But you can see the CBRN weapon nexus in your examples that's missing from the Tiananmen prompt, right? Do American models refuse to tell you about COINTELPRO, Kent State, or My Lai, for instance?
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by OrsonSmelles 8mo ago
That would be Skippy's List[0], which as far as I know is the seminal work in the genre (at least on the internet). I originally learned about it through a (rather less compact) version about someone's D&D crimes[1], which was
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by OrsonSmelles 9mo ago
They already ride British nature photographers—what do they need bikes for?
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by OrsonSmelles 1y ago
Well, we could start with some ELIZA instances.
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by OrsonSmelles 1y ago
I think having a commitment that strong to a dangerous activity should factor into whether you have kids in the first place. Maybe it doesn't make the answer an automatic "no", but I think one has to really think through on
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by OrsonSmelles 1y ago
This is the best work I know on the topic (admittedly having done no literature review): https://gwern.net/tla
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by OrsonSmelles 1y ago
To the windoooooooooooooooooooow....
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by OrsonSmelles 2y ago
There's probably a legal distinction, but personally I really don't want, say, my grocery store tracking how long I spent in which aisles to add to my advertising profile. (Yes, I use rewards cards, but I have the option to not en
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
Alternating or stochastically varying pronouns in your examples used to be a common way to make an effort at inclusive writing, usually preferred aesthetically to constructs like `his/her'. (The style before that was basically t
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
>corporate entomologies Now there's a ready-made Far Side concept.
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
Just to be clear, even when a human writes and refines prompts, tweaks parameters, and iterates generation until they see something they imagined but lacked the traditional art skills to produce... we have not ended up with art? (If someone
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
>Art has depth, art has emotion But significant portions of those qualities are imputed by the viewer! The artist has their own intent and experience during the creation of the art, but that only inheres in the art insofar as another m
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
>why are you in the comment section of Hacker News and not just asking ChatGPT to generate social media comments on the article? Because I know the brains generating these comments have rich, diverse experience and a large set of refined
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
I think I'm slightly more worried that photonicinduction has actually died when he goes silent for a while, though. I know it's mostly down to career/relationship ups-and-downs, but there's always a chance it's &q
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
I mean, yes, I would love to see a gravely sick institution volunteer, "we are flawed, we are obliged to change, and here are some well-coiffed heads on spikes as a down payment". It's an extremely unlikely scenario in the
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by OrsonSmelles 3y ago
While I've said something like this comment scores of times in my life, and it's definitely a necessary corrective for a lot of optimists who don't think too hard about how they think, I don't think it's a useful pl
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by OrsonSmelles 4y ago
But those people have generally marinated their entire lives in a background frame that usefulness == worth and (as a generalization) are under-equipped to generate meaning internally! It's not obvious to me that, say, the fifth genera
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by OrsonSmelles 4y ago
If they won't even let a book in, the phone is definitely in exile - between eye strain, work emails, and the entire internet, phones are pretty terrible sleep hygiene offenders.
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by OrsonSmelles 4y ago
From a slightly cynical perspective, the biggest advantage to human moderation may be psychological: it's easy to choose who to blame for failures and often you can push that blame pretty far down the hierarchy to reduce the impression
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by OrsonSmelles 5y ago
>Are you arguing people can't easily switch between ios and android? I mean... yes? Even just affording a new handset could be prohibitive if you want a parity of hardware features. But also, we shouldn't underrate the barrier
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by OrsonSmelles 5y ago
>RealID requirements This doesn't invalidate your point, but man it irritates me how many states have chosen to retain a noncompliant ID tier in order to avoid eating costs or raising fees. At least my state offers a full EDL so the
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by OrsonSmelles 5y ago
>thinking USPS is even slightly interested in innovating Or, you know, it's hard to innovate when you're in organizational crisis mode trying to prefund 50 years of retirement while not being allowed to market-rate your core se
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by OrsonSmelles 5y ago
Yeah, I've definitely accidentally created packs of booze hounds that way. Definitely a head-scratcher before you get what's going on.