SepiaSapient

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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
The worry about people from other countries kinda implies it, but maybe I'm misreading.
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
I found the auto translate thing very funny. Like this woman is some train station in Mexico and after getting an invitation in Spanish to some music event she doesn't even try to say "Gracias". Like yeah, obviously anyone wo
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
I think there's plenty of interest, Samsung, Pixel and Motorola are just some of the companies with multiple generations of foldables. Besides enthusiasts, the type of person that might want an iPhone duo is someone that doesn't r
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
Ah, now the pearl clutching makes sense. Some of other children in daycare are from the bad and weird ethnicity. Would a 23andme be a good requirement for playdates then?
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
How well does the average person know their neighbors when they move to a new place? Maybe if you had a routine where you and your children meet other families that live close to you... hmmmm
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
"Local man shocked that human child rearing is communal"
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
Maybe they are trying hedge due to the original book not being satirical?
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
This is a non sequitur. Yes, if someone doesn't actually believe in imminent AI doomsday they are not going full Sarah Connor on Anthropic. Yes, HN will not like if someone pipe bombs the office. What does it have to do with @ericmay&#
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by SepiaSapient 7d ago
>Because if you don't, then you will be one of its targets when it does, inevitably, come into being. Only if you don't spend 5 minutes thinking about the Self as a concept. Resurrecting someone by perfect simulation is a cool
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by SepiaSapient 29d ago
us-east-1 goes down and half of the "extremely complex and robust technical infrastructure" that Silicon Valley types have built stops working. The average computer toucher with delusions of grandeur would kill themselves if they
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by SepiaSapient 1mo ago
My country has stronger worker protections (for now) than the US, but employers would be happy (and do try!) to externalize pay to customers via tip. It doesn't work because people find it insane and refuse the US inspired nag tip scre
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by SepiaSapient 1mo ago
>who tips on Uber? People who aren't sociopaths, I'd say. Non-americans don't. To me, being socially expected to tip for a Taxi feels like a parody from a sketch comedy. ditto for tipping barbers or expecting tips over 10%
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Nobody tokenmaxxes because they like it, so it doesn't even produce joy. Besides, your argument is that something being wasteful is a simple binary, so we cannot make a value judgement without being the grinch.
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
For sure, it's arm twisting and/or individual moles, I doubt Apple is brimming with patriotism. As far as I remember participation in the OG PRISM wasn't really optional, the only "perks" were immunity from civil li
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
It's mostly bragging, it's impressive after all. Still... after the alleged Apple industrial espionage kerfuffle, I'm kinda suspicious about it being fully an accident. Y'know, your model finds a vulnerability and it sto
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Here's the content rules https://openai.com/policies/ad-policies , specifically in gambling: > Ads promoting products or services that involve wagering money on games of chance, skill, or uncertain outcomes are
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
I said it on another comment, but OpenAI doesn't seem like the type of company to value human oversight and "Go beyond keywords with richer context signals" sure sounds like the regular model with a specific system prompt. &g
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
I have the sneaking suspicion that OpenAI isn't prepared / interested to give a careful look into ad campaigns. Any bets on fucked up ads taking advantage of the convo context? I'm thinking: - financial anxiety + kelshi - ran
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Brainfart on my part. I was referring to what @majorchord was worrying about, the unencrypted messages in the client get exfiltrated and get sent to the spooks using steganography on some benign request, edited my comment. My mental model i
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Truly being honest, I think CSAM scanning of private comms is ineffective in the long term anyways. Pedophiles aren't stupid, you'll drag a bunch at first but the networks will be reestablished and sharing will be done via sneaker
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Beyond the privacy marketing angle, e2e allows companies with global exposure to sidestep any unpleasantness when they get a subpoena from Bumfuck, Nowhere. Sure, the NSA, GCHQ and Mossad have a way to exfiltrate the unencrypted data but pr
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
"Little devs" in this context is still a company that probably has investors, investors that can push for the acquisition. Even if a small dev studio is self funded or has normal debt that they can realistically pay off, the money
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Not to start a linguistic rabbit hole but the correct analogy would be "a certain language and social dialect tend to produce stories with a certain theme and dialog". >Ridiculous and provably false. If you prefer a counterexam
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Wouldn't the lack of medical expenditure win out against the loss of consumption from a pension?
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
Seems like it's true [0], the net migration has fallen since the year 2000. I imagine that the people commute from Poland to DE is also a factor. [0] https://stat.gov.pl/en/topics/population/internationa-
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
(Spoilers for The Wire) I buy the whole thing that some cultures give more weight to face-saving than others. I would classify my supposedly western country (Chile) as one that gives it more weight than, for example, Germany. Even then, thi
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by SepiaSapient 2mo ago
As a inverse example: a (German) family member has lived fully immersed for 20+ years in my Spanish speaking country. I doubt he could pass a C2 level test, there's simply a hard limit in language learning for most people without acade
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by SepiaSapient 3mo ago
Linking to the equivalent of "@groq is this true??" should be mocked.
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by SepiaSapient 3mo ago
Did they pay the toll? Or the worries of NSA weren't actually bullshit?
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by SepiaSapient 3mo ago
I mean, yes? I heard of these Chinese resellers like a week ago and put it on the TODO pile due to a lack of leads. Now I'm gonna go trough the list and see if there's any I find acceptable. If enough Westerners start using the se

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