chemotaxis

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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
> I feel like everyone in this thread is assuming this is a good faith move by Australia to help kids in school and with socialization. I mean... you can say that about most of things in life. Behind every social movement or policy, it&#
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
Probably because AI appears to work, more or less, and now it's just a race to make it better and to monetize it. Before ChatGPT, I'd guess that the amounts of money poured in both of these things were about the same.
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
I've known quite a few people who went to therapy and I'm not sure that's even the right question to ask. I don't think they were paying to get helped as much as they were just paying to have someone to talk to . To be
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
This wouldn't ban the behavior, just the disclosure of it.
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
The best part is that this article is almost certainly AI-generated or heavily AI-assisted too. Before people get angry with me... there's plenty of small tells, starting with section headings, a lot of linguistic choices, and low info
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
I think the author is speaking authoritatively about things they may be less familiar with, or where they really want to push a particular doomsday / degrowth agenda (the only prescription at the end the article is that we need to stop
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
This is not necessarily a fundamental limitation. It's a consequence of a fine-tuning process where human raters decide how "good" an answer is. They're not rating the flow of the conversation, but looking at how complet
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
It's really getting in the way of all the daily AI opinion pieces I come here to read. More seriously, there are tens of thousands of people who come to HN. If Fourier stuff gets upvoted, it's because people find it informative. I
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
4562, 8825, 1065
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
I think that's common in most places. What's different in the US is that the IRS forces you to proactively provide a lot more information about it, though. I have a rental property and need to enter the same information about the
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
> I think the biggest mistake people make when thinking about mathematics is that it is fundamentally about numbers. It’s not. Mathematics is fundamentally about relations. Eh, but you can also say that about philosophy, or art, or reall
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by chemotaxis 9mo ago
I think that sort of goes hand-in-hand. "Normal", well-rounded people don't decide that software licensing is the most important thing in the world and don't devote their entire life to that. A normal person would be con
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> The number of people you want to follow is much smaller than that 0.1%. We're talking about bloggers reaching their audience. The audience they can reach via Mastodon is much smaller than on Twitter, even if you factor in the cons
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> Sadly, I have realised fewer people actually give an F than you realise; for some, it's just a paycheck. I found that most of the "people problems disguised as technical problems" are actually generated by people who get
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
I think this ignores the codebase churn in Big Tech. The code you write today probably won't be there in ten years. It will be heavily refactored, obsolete, or the product will be outright canceled. You can pour your heart in it, but i
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> Mastodon, you'll see all of them. Alone... look, I want Mastodon to be successful, but revealed preferences don't lie. Mastodon MAU is about 0.1% that of Twitter, down more than 60% from the peak.
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
The main thing is that no one wants the hassle of keeping up with 50 mildly-interesting blogs by visiting them regularly. You really need a "push" mechanism of some sort. Social media doesn't work for this because if someone
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> I'm surprised these newsletter gatekeepers haven't implemented a tip jar where you put in $/year and it gets divided based on readership. I've seen a bunch of publication with a "tip" button, but I suspect
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
Better yet, many of the graduates will become politicians, journalists, or prominent tech figures who will be pontificating about morality and regulating it for others.
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
I think your attempt to rebuke the proof is flawed too. The problem in your reasoning is mixing up "arbitrarily many" and "infinitely many". There's no convergence after a finite number of steps. But at infinity, th
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> My favourite part of climbing the corporate ladder is finally having enough clout to just say "no". But the thing is, in big companies, you can keep climbing all your life and never reach that level. You can be a VP and it st
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
Most importantly, Clippy happened before computers were permanently online. For it to harvest any data, I guess you'd need to mail in a floppy disk.
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> In a lot of ways, I'm thankful that LLMs are letting us hear the thoughts of people who usually wouldn't share them. I could agree with you in theory, but do you see the technology used that way? Because I definitely don&#x27
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> It's not just LLMs, it's how the algorithms promote engagement. i.e. rage bait, videos with obvious inaccuracies etc. I guess, but I'm on quite a few "algorithm-free" forums where the same thing happens. I thin
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> If a company’s crypto holdings are worth more than its market cap wouldn’t that mean I should buy the stock as its enterprise value is higher than its current market cap? Well, one question to ask is if the company can actually cash ou
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
Yeah, I don't like this. By insisting that the main tell of AI writing is that it's comically inaccurate, it accidentally enforces a pretty bad association: that if something looks accurate, it's not AI slop. I think you gott
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> It's why people can't post a meme, quote, article, whatever could be interpreted (very often, falsely) as AI-generated in a public channel, or ask a chatbot to explain a hand-drawn image without the off chance that they get a
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
I think this is pretty common for Quanta, and it might be sticking out more because it's a field we're familiar with. I'm really torn about this, because I think they're providing a valuable service. But their general fo
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
> There have been studies this year implying that some brain functions rely on quantum interactions. I'm not in the camp of "the brain is solved science", but come on. All of chemistry depends on quantum interactions and
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by chemotaxis 10mo ago
There are just two photos in the entire gallery of 150+ that show modern scopes. The rest is vintage CRT equipment, going back to black-and-white films.

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