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by blast 6d ago
Daniel Litt on this: https://x.com/littmath/status/2098130808456241372 https://xcancel.com/littmath/status/2098130808456241372
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by blast 7d ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636930
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by blast 2mo ago
This position is so extreme, you'd have to have called Reader Rabbit "electroshocking kids" as well.
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by blast 2mo ago
Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface
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by blast 2mo ago
Is "residential proxy" a euphemism for botnets or is there a difference? Genuinely curious.
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by blast 3mo ago
> The Possessed (2010), The Idiot (2017), and Either/Or (2022) That's like publishing Hamlet (2010), King Lear (2017), and Thus Spake Zarathustra (2022). I wonder what her thought process is in choosing these titles? An
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by blast 3mo ago
What's inaccurate in how he quoted her? The context seems fully consistent with the quote.
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by blast 4mo ago
> exams are designed so that cheating is not a viable strategy to obtain high grades That's interesting. How do they do that?
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by blast 4mo ago
mlinsey wasn't anthropomorphizing technology, and your GP comment seems extreme to me.
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by blast 5mo ago
Whatever its other merits or demerits, reinstating the draft would cut back on needless wars. Abandoning the draft is what ended the anti-war movement, and to reinstate it would be to revive those protests. For this reason, if nothing else,
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by blast 5mo ago
That leaves no solution when the quantity becomes more than any human can review.
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by blast 5mo ago
A 'psyop' psyop!
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by blast 5mo ago
He also went to OpenAI's office and threatened to burn it down. https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/10/tech/suspect-arrest-openai-ce...
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by blast 5mo ago
"Violence like this is not the answer. However,"
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by blast 5mo ago
Humans are social animals, so any mystery about another person is interesting, and wealth and fame multiply this.
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by blast 6mo ago
friday news dump tho
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by blast 6mo ago
Fuck boosting engagement.
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by blast 6mo ago
"The lesson is not just to resist. It is to grow up." Barf.
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by blast 6mo ago
Well said and I agree completely...but did Robert Plant play guitar?
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by blast 6mo ago
Gptzero and Pangram both say this article was AI-generated. Seems we've forgotten how to do other things as well.
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by blast 6mo ago
> the cheapest bridge that just barely won't fail That can't be right? What about safety factors
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by blast 6mo ago
The joke has been old for a while already.
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by blast 6mo ago
This trend predates LLMs though.
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by blast 6mo ago
That's a great point which never occurred to me about Dijkstra, even though I knew where he came from. My father in law used to like this joke: "He was Dutch and behaved as such."
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by blast 6mo ago
When did Woz post here? I'd love to see that.
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by blast 7mo ago
This doggerel is every bit as propagandistic as what it opposes, and has nothing in common with Owen's poem of unbearably real experience.
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by blast 7mo ago
The gas victim scene is harrowing. But what haunts me even more is the men without boots, marching with bloody feet.
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by blast 7mo ago
Sorry for replying so late, I only just checked the thread. "I was mislabeled but not locked up" is misleading because hospitalization was phased out decades ago ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinstitutionali
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by blast 7mo ago
I feel like we might have more to learn from you than the other way round. Where by "we" I mean the traditional programmers who frequent this place.
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by blast 7mo ago
All three of these (birth, live music, and cooking) involve the body in ways that can't be virtualized. One long-term effect of AI adoption might be to cheapen and commodify the virtual, and reorient us to embodied experience. I hope s

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