Plont

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by Plont 5d ago
I was unaware that technological progress stopped for everything but LLMs. All other types of technology have achieved their final forms. Wow. Seriously though, every AI story feels the same lately. There's: 1. company wants or gets mo
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by Plont 5d ago
I was unaware that technological progress stopped for everything but LLMs. All other types of technology have achieved their final forms. Wow. Seriously though, every AI story feels the same lately. There's: 1. company wants or gets mo
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by Plont 8d ago
That's exactly the problem though; humans will anthropomorphize everything from a roomba to a rock as it is. We're weak to this. We evolved in environments where looking for and recognizing real animals and humans was vital for su
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by Plont 8d ago
I believe they are just saying that fandom.com sucked and made the internet worse even from the start, not necessarily that Jimmy Wales is corrupt. Wikipedia actually does appear to have separate pages for every Lord of the Rings character.
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by Plont 8d ago
It's not possible to downvote comments on this website lol
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by Plont 8d ago
Why does it feel like everyone has just ignored/memory-holed this? https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a... That whole debacle is even specifically relevant to this thread because
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by Plont 8d ago
Email OTP is garbage without the option to also add a password. That just outsources the problem to the user's email service, and assures that compromising the email inbox alone is enough to immediately also compromise every service th
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by Plont 8d ago
I'm not giving up recovery codes, nor my ability to default to locking out people who physically have my device. I usually don't allow auto-login or biometrics login either. If a website/app goes passkey only (or, even worse,
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by Plont 9d ago
Whether or not it should be so, individual pirates are routinely taken to court, jailed, given insanely harsh punishments in an attempt to make them an example/deterrent, etc. "Should piracy be illegal?" is a different questi
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by Plont 9d ago
This is not one of those times.
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by Plont 10d ago
LLMs do not produce repeatable results, by their nature. Two people can give the exact same prompt to the exact same LLM and get different results. It's not a straightforward 1 + 1 always equals 2 process. This is like telling someone
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by Plont 17d ago
The page you linked to doesn't say that anywhere.
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by Plont 17d ago
Oh no, some people are terrible at cooking. Better ban cooking without a license. Giving your neighbor a home baked pie is now a crime unless you're a licensed pastry chef.
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by Plont 20d ago
You can't be serious.
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by Plont 21d ago
I wish the AI bros would take a fucking philosophy class. Jesus.
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by Plont 21d ago
You changed the title and made it 93% more misleading. That completely made up number is meaningless. So's "AGI", for that matter.
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by Plont 23d ago
How to spot a Dunning-Kruger-afflicted idiot: they find or invent a simplistic measure of "intelligence". And then they put themself at or near the top of their imaginary tier system. Also might refer to "IQ" as a thing
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by Plont 25d ago
I mean, he's not getting a royal allowance, even though his father does. It sounds like they already have peaceful transition away from monarchy worked out, in which case, threatening or committing violence is senseless and potentially
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by Plont 25d ago
He gets inheritance rights, so he'll inherit money from the royal estate (built up through his ancestors' royal allowances, or through any other means the throne has used to accumulate wealth), even though he doesn't get a ro
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by Plont 25d ago
I get what you mean, but using a word with a very specific meaning in a legal context to mean something else that's similar and likewise in a legal context, but with a more vague definition, will just create confusion. This kind of con
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by Plont 1mo ago
Is it not happening on Chrome even when you don't have the browser itself logged into a Google account?
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by Plont 1mo ago
That makes it worse, not better.
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by Plont 1mo ago
They literally didn't deny that. They made a separate point you appear not to have actually read. Regardless, I don't want baked-in Firefox adblocking in part because I don't trust Mozilla with that task either. They'd
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by Plont 1mo ago
But this change breaks functionality for some people, without correspondingly improving anything for others. So what's the point? In my experience, software that is designed to work only for the most average user ends up feeling terrib
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by Plont 1mo ago
Light text on a dark background can be illegible for people with astigmatism. (Somewhat depending on the axis of astigmatism vs. the direction of text.) Or if not illegible, at least a blurry, uncomfortable mess to read. Astigmatism is very
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by Plont 1mo ago
This is a terrible idea. It's just removing functionality in order to remove a button. With this, there will suddenly be a bazillion frustrated users who want to force an exception to their timed dark/light mode cycle, but can&#x2
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by Plont 1mo ago
Yeah. Google is an ad business. Their entire motive for getting invested in AI is ad revenue. We're supposed to believe they just... won't turn on the money fountain? After going into the red for their data center investments? Hel
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by Plont 1mo ago
Plus, those workarounds will only continue to work (in as much as they currently do) for as long as Google suffers them to. Enshittification, as always, works in baby steps. uBlock lite is already ineffectual in comparison to uBlock Origin.
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by Plont 1mo ago
It's true that humans are not perfectly logical actors, but even so, most humans won't tell you seriously that the swimming pools in the Titanic are empty, or that glue is a great pizza topping. At the end of the day, there's
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by Plont 1mo ago
That article doesn't actually link to the supposed study. I am going to ignore it, since I have no way of checking its methodology. Unless my adblocker is just blocking the link, but my adblocker is also blocking so many requests from

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