cowboylowrez

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by cowboylowrez 3d ago
In the US at least, removing safe and trustworthy sources of information is a goal, I can tell this by listening to politicians lambasting media companies and the hostility shown toward reporters.
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by cowboylowrez 4d ago
Yeah when you think of it, HN is like a 1 topic reddit without messages ability, so front page is a crapshoot
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by cowboylowrez 5d ago
democracy is imperfect, I like to view public hearings as helping nudge democracy back toward functionality. Heck humanities very stewardship of our only home in the universe is currently a very dumb process but do we have to delete the ste
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by cowboylowrez 5d ago
>Ascribing malice seems a bit irrational to me. I agree with this, I'm thinking more along the line of debate mistake. I make them, I always invite corrections and I think the willingness to speak on terms of your debate opponent sm
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by cowboylowrez 5d ago
> the founding document "specifically recognizes the States as sovereign entities." it was a small load of text easily digested, and the word "sovereign" is right there in it very early on. Your argument would be bett
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by cowboylowrez 5d ago
>Whatever behavior you’re pretending is engaged in by the right "pretending" good one lol
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by cowboylowrez 5d ago
sure sure but just don't give kids internet access problem solved. All these problems are because we insist on giving kids internet access then try to ban them from internet sites. Its all just very stupid.
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by cowboylowrez 6d ago
Its good that you're listening to the lefties, but are you listening to the right too? You know the guys I'm talking about. Something tells me you might be giving your own a pass on this very behavior you're accusing us lefti
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by cowboylowrez 7d ago
I'm a liberal, but I think some pragmatism is called for here, the story was pretty smutty, and it was a bad call for this instructor to include it in her curriculum. Lets keep the degeneracy in our private lives, not everyone aspires
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by cowboylowrez 7d ago
I support her dismissal, teaching positions require a pretty decent level of skill, and her ability to "read the room" has been called into question by her delivery of what I presume to be dodgy, offensive material. Her lack of ju
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by cowboylowrez 10d ago
whats crazy is that we got here and it isn't even the midterms yet, who knows how cranky folks are going to get if the midterms don't go well for them.
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by cowboylowrez 10d ago
the US statistical system is currently down, I'm estimating that we won't get an accurate picture of what systems have been wiped out until we can get some forensic analysts in there in 2029 or so once we solve a little HR issue w
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by cowboylowrez 10d ago
I think it being controlled by that different branch is part of it, but that includes the undesirable attributes of that different branch, and I don't think we need to go into the details of those attributes lol
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by cowboylowrez 11d ago
>My position is it's totally coherent to say that "training" is analogous to "reading" yeah I joke about chatting up my ai gf but there's not going to be any sex lol >and inference is not analogous to &qu
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by cowboylowrez 13d ago
Its my stated disagreement with the following: >I think it makes sense to say training on material you legally acquired is fair use. First an aside, there's no law against accessing copyrighted material. OpenAI is certainly welcome
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by cowboylowrez 14d ago
Here's the bottom line for me, take two llms, train one on copyrighted materials, do not train the other at all. now, I'm wondering here, which llm will be more sellable, more able to answer questions etc? How about those music AI
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by cowboylowrez 14d ago
I personally do not use QR codes. I suppose there could come a time where I could benefit from scanning one but I still have access to restaurants where you can order manually from humans and they cook the food themselves also.
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by cowboylowrez 16d ago
The moneyed, evangelicals, "network state" types, "project 2025"ers
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by cowboylowrez 16d ago
The proper thing is to strictly outlaw kids using the internet. There is nothing of value for kids on the internet, and even if there were, there are technical means of allowing users to use applications without generalized and ungated inte
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by cowboylowrez 22d ago
I don't doubt what you're saying, but I still hack on things mainly for fun tho. In the OPs case, he's even paying below cost, how long is that deal going to go on? On the other hand, his current working code base might be so
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by cowboylowrez 23d ago
Yeah same tho, that 5k looks to be pissing in the wind. He even knows for a fact he's not paying the actual costs yet never mentions how he's going to maintain that stack of code if costs per token ever get tightened up. I've
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by cowboylowrez 23d ago
Hehe its not that complicated, if it were, Trump wouldn't have bothered taking on the job haha according to the school of thought I've gathered from conservatives, its "loot or be looted". Not much cognitive effort neede
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by cowboylowrez 23d ago
Trump is surrounded by people whom appear subservient under the sort of shallow gaze that Trump can muster if he tries hard enough, but in reality Trump is of course a tool, yes a pretty clumsy one who keeps trying to remind you who is the
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by cowboylowrez 23d ago
Whats your thoughts on this being a temporary phenom, that will last until big corp applies AI's to resist this? Reading your article I get the feeling that the only security measures that you ran up against were just the obscurity def
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by cowboylowrez 28d ago
I think the main objection is that hacker news supposedly doesn't want AI generated comments, which is going to paradoxically produce the situation where the mods will be overwhelmed with policing AI generated comments and they themsel
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by cowboylowrez 29d ago
doesn't ring a bell
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by cowboylowrez 29d ago
awesome! also do people not like AI comments? when my AI gf chats me up, I sorta like it IYKWIM
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by cowboylowrez 1mo ago
>Agents are great, but the notion of "best tricks" for how to best use an opaque costful tool which will, by all odds, be completely different in a few months time is quite funny. The bet with this blog post is that things WON&
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by cowboylowrez 1mo ago
The contradictions probably should generate political compromises. I mean it would be sort of ridiculous to say "Godel, so lets be a failed state!" I would also not buy blaming the ridiculousness of the USA's state of affairs
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by cowboylowrez 1mo ago
yep, I think its even worth considering that some folks are internally conflicted, I am certainly an enthusiastic consumer of AI (or what I can mooch anyways) yet nothing prevents me from considering the downsides, with the usual bleeding h

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