darth_avocado

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by darth_avocado 3d ago
I think it’s more than money and slowing progress. Public perception on AI is in the gutter. That is a much bigger threat to these companies. They’re trying to turn it around.
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by darth_avocado 3d ago
I would argue they should have to. They scraped data off others, a lot of whom did not want that data to be used for AI training, and still had to share it with the frontier labs. It’s only fair they should have to hand it back. The only wa
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by darth_avocado 11d ago
But is that true though? This seems bit of a romanticism. Having lived in rural villages in Asia, I can tell you people are about as happy as anywhere else. They worry about not being able to afford or have access to basic healthcare. They
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by darth_avocado 11d ago
And yet, here we are just pouring glyphosate on public lands by the tons… Nothing changes even if we know about these chemicals
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by darth_avocado 12d ago
Identifying as independents means nothing. 67% of independents in 2018 viewed one party more favorable and were unfavorable to other. In other words, the independents have a partisan lean towards one party and are more likely to vote that w
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by darth_avocado 12d ago
It’s much more expensive. You as a consumer can buy a movie for $5 with a DVD on sale. But tos generally don’t include commercial activities. If you reach out to the film studio to get their permission, they can charge you anywhere from $10
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by darth_avocado 14d ago
I don’t know if Claude performs similarly from a percentage standpoint, but if you’re using it for search (online or personal docs or wikis), it often also just makes things up. When you point it out, it’ll do the “ohh you’re absolutely rig
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by darth_avocado 19d ago
You’re talking about a product that’s quite literally “pick it up and sell it”. Adding a single step to the process will be economically more expensive. Mining, logging, fishing etc. are all similar examples.
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by darth_avocado 19d ago
In a few million years
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by darth_avocado 20d ago
The social network is more dead than when he bought it. Wouldn’t need the an acquisition first by an ai company and then a space company to hide its worth.
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by darth_avocado 22d ago
Why not use your actual account instead of creating a throwaway one if you feel so comfortable saying this?
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by darth_avocado 24d ago
I read the article after commenting. What opinion do I need to change? Seems like I was correct?
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by darth_avocado 24d ago
Didn’t read, but let me guess. We’re gaining more trees in countries like China where large scale project to prevent desertification exist or in places like Russia or Canada where warming climate is opening more space where trees can grow.
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by darth_avocado 24d ago
Right, no one is debating the implications of the ruling and whether they are right or wrong. The parent comment was made within a specific context. We’d be here all day if we were to discuss citizens united.
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by darth_avocado 24d ago
If you’re referring to citizens united then that does not grant full personhood to corporations. It just protects free speech from corporations because it views the speech as coming from the individual persons that form up the corporation.
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by darth_avocado 26d ago
The opposite can also be true. Just because a position was marked as “hired” doesn’t mean anyone was actually hired.
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by darth_avocado 26d ago
> Let’s not pretend X is bad because of Musk alone. HN can be just as terrible too. I am yet to see racial slurs, hateful speech, scams, porn (consensual and non consensual) or any of the endless things that are okay on X but not on HN.
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by darth_avocado 27d ago
The irony of not being able to use LLMs for an LLM degree
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by darth_avocado 27d ago
Im not smart (maybe average), but a lot of my unhappiness starts from just having access to information. And then more I process the information, the more unhappy I become. Smarter people than me probably have more information and are able
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Who would’ve thought that growing water intensive crops in the middle of the desert and growing cities like Phoenix with suburbs with lush green lawns at a much higher rate than rest of the country was going to be without consequences.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Is this a common experience now? I haven’t been there in a while, but one used to be able to use credit cards at bigger establishments and smaller vendors used to accept cash even if UPI was advertised in their shop. Rarely was anyone mad t
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Bivalves are probably the lowest impact proteins and are already part of the diet across the world. The sequester carbon, clean up the water they grow in and are filter feeders that can leverage the coastline that will eventually be under w
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
They are wrong too. But my comment was specifically addressing your argument that criticism only exists because it’s China and not because they are wrong. Whataboutism isn’t a great defense here. Everyone doing it needs to not do it. My par
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
First of all, just because something is legal, doesn’t mean it’s good. But more importantly, specifically Chinese fishing vessels aren’t exactly innocent either. They go dark to go and fish in waters where fishing isn’t allowed including ec
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
The oceans are depleted. And some countries with shadow fleets are to blame more than the others. But somehow it’s not even a small priority for most countries. Whales are dying because they are malnourished and that is an indicator that th
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
It’s not “full” self driving then is it?
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
*while being unemployed or having the threat of unemployment 24x7
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Try living next to a constant 80-100 dB hum 24x7. You’d not be complaining about people being irrational.
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
> Make Solar Energy Economical Isn’t it already?
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by darth_avocado 1mo ago
Do they build their own software or contract it to the consultants?

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