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by computerthings 2y ago
> There was huge focus on trans and immigration and vaccinationa. Economic is distant third. I'm just not seeing that, e.g. https://news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issue-...
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by computerthings 2y ago
https://bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.social/post/3lh3dl3rkgc... > Elon Musk staff has been caught installing hard drives inside the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), the Treasury Department, and the Ge
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Who is "they"? And yes, you can absolutely explain it with desperation, and arrogance and in-fighting on behalf of the non-fascists. The issues on the minds of American issues were mostly things like housing, healthcare; economics
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by computerthings 2y ago
Where did Trump promise to remove Phyllis Fong? Or something less specific that would translate to this? He promised to lower egg prices, and "the majority of the few people voted for Trump, so any random thing he now does is what THE
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How did people adapt to TV, and how was it prior to that adaption?
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The poem "Blight" by Ralph Waldo Emerson comes to mind, too: https://emersoncentral.com/texts/poems/blight/
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by computerthings 2y ago
Well, it's not the Catholic Church worshiping AI as the savior of humanity. I have seen no indication that those who do are particularly religious, either, what do you base that on? And hey, when it comes to fallible Gods, ancient Gree
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Idolatry is always the worship of something into which man has put his own creative powers, and to which he now submits, instead of experiencing himself in his creative act. -- Erich Fromm, https://www.marxists.org/arch
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by computerthings 2y ago
While I meant closing the whole application at once (which restores all windows/projects and unsaved changes when you restart ST), you're right that projects keep track of unsaved state on a per-project basis, too. So you can open
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by computerthings 2y ago
> surveys indicated that an overwhelming majority of residents of Gaza supported Hamas Come on, nearly half of the inhabitants of Gaza are/were under 18. "Surveys" cannot make collective punishment legal, or annexation and
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by computerthings 2y ago
it applies to everything downstream from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42861038
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by computerthings 2y ago
I'm in the best boat, I don't want to use LLM but I think ST having hooks to allow people to make such plugins (if those don't already exist) would be a fine thing. Luckily, that boat has loads of space and you're all in
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by computerthings 2y ago
That's still my favorite feature of all, it even remembers the undo history. Never lost anything to a crash.
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Libraries aren't sacred to begin with. They're not like cows in India (if not in reality, then proverbially), popping up wherever they please, and nobody can do anything about it. Oh well, had this nice business here, but then som
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by computerthings 2y ago
Great job using your voice for the voiceless. > Nobody does that for GPT, Claude, etc Flat out not true. > companies will generally follow local laws And people are doing the right thing by talking about it according to their local
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by computerthings 2y ago
> All global powers engage in And the populations in them usually are against these things, which is why there is deception, and why fascination with and uncovering of these things have been firmly intertwined with hacking since day one.
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That's just dividing the world into "liberal" and "conservative", and both are defined as Americans see them. But also, let's take it at face value: what does it take to be best buds with "reality" an
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by computerthings 2y ago
> note how very little the current regime cares about the appearance of impropriety Yes, and I know it wasn't unfair treatment what "forced" them to get this way and do these things. They wanted to do them anyway. For me i
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by computerthings 2y ago
> “repeatedly pressured” Facebook for months to take down “certain COVID-19 content including humor and satire.” That doesn't quite mesh with "reason, evidence and a scientific mindset". Finding fault with additional claim
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I searched for the first title and found LOTS of articles about it. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/zuckerberg-says-the-wh... I didn't go down the list, but I'll just note that you're not clai
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by computerthings 2y ago
I said "LLM prompt" because I meant just that, a prompt. I described my stance on it more thoroughly here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829068
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Not that erosion of trust, an erosion of trust. Big difference. But yes, an erosion of trust was already there, just like there was never perfect trust, and like even in the worst hellscape humans can physically maintain "there w
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by computerthings 2y ago
I'd say like you bribe a robot, by bribing/threatening the people who make it. Killer robots, killer lawmakers, killer judges?
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"[..] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question tho
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by computerthings 2y ago
TikTok thanked Trump for saving TikTok from the ban he said in motion, which was huge negative PR for zero gain. And this isn't just "no longer being used to TikTok after a few days": > "I've never seen this befo
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That would be the best case outcome for some, and even that is a horribly bad outcome. But the vast majority of people would get DDOSed, scammed, misled by politicians and political actors etc. The erosion of trust just by humans being inte
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by computerthings 2y ago
My boundaries are absolutely only about me. Using spell check is one thing, but if you outright can't write without using an LLM prompt then no, I don't want to read it thinking a person wrote it. If that doesn't catch on,
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by computerthings 2y ago
> Using an author’s tools, or ethnicity, or sociowhatever as a proxy for quality For me the rejection of it doesn't even depend on there being any author involved with it, it could just be running free so to speak. And language is v
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by computerthings 2y ago
> I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. With Elon, I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Le
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> there's almost no information This is flat out untrue. And it's a self-fulfilling prophecy if you don't allow people to collate the information there is.

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