aquaduck

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by aquaduck 4y ago
> Myself and the OP are more worried about the other path: a dystopia in which the majority of people are forced into something much worse than wage slavery by those in control of the thinking machines. My fear is that nobody will remain
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by aquaduck 4y ago
My cynical prediction: Google search (as we now know it) will be retired. Google will provide AI-generated text which attempts to answer the user's prompt, with links to results in a handful of curated sources such as wikipedia.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
My argument is that opposition to gay marriage isn't intrinsically hateful. The ancient Greeks had no notion of gay marriage, for example, and they weren't exactly averse to gay sex or to men who enjoyed it. Your system of values,
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by aquaduck 4y ago
It's apparent from your other comments in this thread that you're not arguing in good faith... but this is a pet peeve of mine, so I'll bite. Do you regard Brendan Eich's views as hateful? If so, why?
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by aquaduck 4y ago
I've never understood what exactly the "open" in OpenAI is supposed to imply. They produce proprietary, gated models - not open in any meaningful sense.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
I don't think politeness is quite the right concept here. Nobody's getting jailed for saying "fuck you", for example.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Well, the GP was specifically complaining about how he's tired of all the bot-splaining.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
> Desktop Linux is more complex, more fragile, and more choice-less than 10-15 years ago. More complex, sure. Bare ALSA was simpler than Pulse/PipeWire. But the benefit of the additional complexity is that nowadays, sound just works
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Same underlying facts, different interpretation of the facts.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Didn't work on the desktop? I've been running Linux exclusively on my desktops for 15 years. Desktop Linux is better today than it's ever been. Why does every OS need to be suitable for average consumers? Librem and Pine64 ar
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Counter-argument: DALL-E is smart enough to understand that an astronaut riding a horse makes more sense than a horse riding an astronaut, and therefore assumes that you meant "a horse-riding astronaut" unless you go out of your w
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Well said. I'll have to remember the kiosk metaphor for Android.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
You think FOSS is bad for humanity relative to proprietary software, or you think that all software (including FOSS) is bad for humanity?
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by aquaduck 4y ago
> I think we were close. We got general purpose computers and we had a robust open source movement. Why do you say we "had" a robust open source movement? As far as I can see, FOSS is as strong as it's ever been. The Linux
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by aquaduck 4y ago
> Yes. I received a request to build a social credit score solution based on credit card purchases for rewarding ESG-type behavior. Hmm, I'd be interested to hear more. I thought ESG was a metric by which investors and funds judge c
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by aquaduck 4y ago
It seems that different people have vastly different use cases for phones. I don't use any of those apps, and if I did, I'd prefer a larger screen and physical keyboard. My phone is for calling, SMS, navigation, and notifying me o
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by aquaduck 4y ago
My understanding is that polyethylene is one of the most benign plastics with respect to leaching, and that PEX should be even more benign than normal polyethylene because of the crosslinking.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" really should be required reading for all high school students. Personally, I re-read it every few years - chronic exposure to terrible English makes the bad habits grow back, so y
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by aquaduck 4y ago
> my favourite is when patients subjected to corpus callosotomy probably function as two independent brains and yet the individual cannot tell from inside, it doesn't "feel" like two people My layman interpretation of this
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by aquaduck 4y ago
I think you've missed the big one, which is contextualization. Outlets A and B might both publish the same quote from the same source making some claim. But outlet A might contextualize it by talking about his degrees, credentials, and
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by aquaduck 4y ago
I assume "heat death" most likely refers to the noisy ("high-entropy") backdrop of shitposts.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Couldn't it plausibly just be a confusing scene, or have difficult-to-understand dialog? I can think of several things other than importance that might correlate with users re-playing a scene.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
I'm not OP, but this is a made-up interpretation, not a fact. Unlike facts, interpretations don't have unambiguous true/false values - the question is whether or not (or to what extent) the statement is consistent with facts.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
My first thought is that perhaps they chop the head off, butcher the animal, and all body parts containing meat would be removed and end up deposited somewhere else. The heads, presumably having no useful meat, get dumped near the abattoir.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
Thanks for the reply. I guess the combination of a new account, a link, and talk about plans and payments was enough to set off HN's spam filter.
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by aquaduck 4y ago
This is somewhat off topic, but I'm wondering if you've considered offering a pre-paid lifetime plan. sr.ht looks great, and I've considered moving my project over from github, but the thing holding me back is that I don&#x27