alvah

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by alvah 14d ago
AU Pro user here. 3.8 Flash available (default) in the web app for me.
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by alvah 29d ago
While that is terrible, it's still nowhere near proving your original assertion.
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by alvah 2mo ago
They added search & deep research ages ago.
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by alvah 2mo ago
I think Ed Zitron has this market covered already
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by alvah 2mo ago
Except you do, if you are an average user, i.e. not self-selected into the HN bubble.
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by alvah 2mo ago
I was downvoted a few weeks ago for making this exact point. Humans can and do use em-dashes occasionally, but given that you have to go digging for the key combination, you're not using it every 3rd sentence like every AI model does.
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by alvah 3mo ago
> (& fiends) Freudian slip?
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by alvah 3mo ago
The HN readership has changed massively in that timeframe, from the earlier Hackers and Painters / libertarian ideology to a much more socialist outlook. I could speculate about the reasons for this, but my theories would probably attr
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by alvah 3mo ago
It does make you wonder about the "E" part of the EA cultists who infest that particular company.
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by alvah 4mo ago
That's hilarious. Reminded me of the scene at spaceport security in the original Total Recall where Arnie's AI loses the plot.
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by alvah 4mo ago
"I've never worked at any company where there was any limit to the work to be done." Then you live in a bubble. Many organisations are restricted in available profitable work to be done, by many factors. Capital & cashflo
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by alvah 4mo ago
There was a similar case in Seattle with the South Lake Union Trolley, which was quickly renamed to South Lake Union Streetcar, once T-shirts pointing out the unfortunate acronym started drawing attention. This one is clearly deliberate tho
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by alvah 5mo ago
"Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't." <- this is the point you missed.
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by alvah 5mo ago
I see, so people in the non-HN universe aren't abandoning the em-dash where it's actually appropriate, due to massive over-use by chatbots? And despite there being no em-dash key on a keyboard, the appearance of em-dashes in text
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by alvah 5mo ago
"Sorry, you're just plain wrong" that's a bit of a leap, when I'm stating my interpretation of what the general opinion is, not how the world should be. Have you interviewed everyone? (I don't just mean the sma
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by alvah 5mo ago
Not the point, and no it doesn't. 99% of anything published since ChatGPT launched, that contains em-dashes, is suspected AI slop. Very few writers will make the extra effort to manually insert an em-dash - in fact hardly any writers e
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by alvah 5mo ago
I thought you would miss the point. Looks like you did.
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by alvah 5mo ago
where is the em-dash key on your keyboard? Yes, I know you can use a shortcut. 99.9% of people don't.
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by alvah 5mo ago
Isn't it, at least partially?
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by alvah 6mo ago
What a ludicrous reply, to suggest it should be "socially unacceptable" to believe the Paperclip Maximizer thought experiment might reveal a scenario that is bad for humans overall.
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by alvah 6mo ago
How did 40 wells get drilled in the Norwegian shelf last year, and 42 the year before? You can't just make things up.
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by alvah 6mo ago
As mentioned in another comment, the US-centric view of how university and professorship work is certainly not the case in Germany.
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by alvah 6mo ago
You probably need to step outside of your US-centric bubble if you are to comment on how university works outside of the US. There was a fairly large clue in the parent comment.
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by alvah 7mo ago
That is the best explanation I have seen yet of the difference. I'm definitely stealing it...
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by alvah 8mo ago
"Why publish on Substack, a venture‑backed tech platform whose leadership has chosen a permissive moderation policy?" fixed it for you.
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by alvah 8mo ago
"So it makes you feel fuller without adding calories, like GLP-1 drugs" Nobody really knows how GLP-1 agonists work, but given the other effects (e.g. insulin stability, change in other addictive behaviours etc.) it's definit
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by alvah 8mo ago
"One point is that the things that have increased in cost are more heavily regulated/government controlled than the items that haven't." This is one of the central theories behind Kartik Gada's ATOM concept. He may
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by alvah 9mo ago
lol, the arrogance of youth.... I think the point I'm making might be too subtle for your young, idealistic brain.
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by alvah 10mo ago
I don't care if you are tired or not, it's not something you can just assert and move on. Also, you know nothing at all of my opinion on whether "a handful of billionaires own everything" is a bad idea or not. All you kn
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by alvah 10mo ago
"Inequality has been going up in the US for a very long time, which means a lot of people are not being rewarded as much as they should." The second part of your sentence is not necessarily true. It might be true in some or even m

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