gilmore606

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by gilmore606 1y ago
They're customer-obsessed the way Dracula is a neck enthusiast.
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by gilmore606 1y ago
If conforming socially is a terminal value for you, then this is more of a feature than a bug.
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by gilmore606 1y ago
So now it's a crime for me to share my "Evil Bilbo's face pasted on porn actors" memes? The west has fallen.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
Because he's envious and feels inferior, and thinks he's sticking it to those meanies who made him feel that way.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
> These are powerful building blocks, they're just not the be all end all. The building blocks up stack that use these as part of a broader architecture, that shape these and many other traditional techniques in software... this is
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by gilmore606 2y ago
Damn you're right, we should give Larry Ellison the benefit of the doubt.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
You are going to accept those overlords long before any of that is possible, and then it never will be.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
No, it's the other way around. Humans will continue the trend of interacting with "the world" less and less, and thus become more like the LLMs themselves. They won't get smarter; we will get stupider and meet them in
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by gilmore606 2y ago
It has the nice feature of marking whoever says it as a coward and a sheep.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
> When populations are half what they are now The people in charge in the west are not going to let this happen. Look at Canada.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
TIL where Ceephax Acid Crew got their name.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
LLMs let the massively stupid and incompetent produce something that on the surface looks like a useful output. Most massively stupid incompetent people don't know they are that. You can work out the rest.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
one thing we did on the C64 in this vein (I was a bad kid) was to send opcodes to the CPU on the 1541 floppy drive to send the head to a nonexistent track. This would sometimes jam the head and require physical repair of the drive.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
Google's monopoly position makes them invaluable to US intelligence and related psyops. They won't be broken up in any meaningful way. At most this is a threat to gain further control.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
I never really understood this. I work for a small contracting shop, and we definitely give a shit, because our reputation is on the line. Without our excellent reputation we wouldn't keep getting work. How do the big contracting fi
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by gilmore606 2y ago
Damn, the police should start using that app!
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by gilmore606 2y ago
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "there's actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you fucking moron"
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by gilmore606 2y ago
> Imagine not just reading a bed time story Instead of trying to imagine that I'm just gonna have chatGPT tell me what it would be like.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
Civ 4 was the last serious iteration, 5 and 6 are both ezmode simplified browser games at their core.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
> What's even the point? The point is to prime everyone to be OK with the neglect and elimination of old people in the near future, to help alleviate the demographic collapse.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
> Japan was already done fighting at that point Damn, they really should have told someone.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
"What’s reality? I don’t know. When my bird was looking at my computer monitor I thought, ‘That bird has no idea what he’s looking at.’ And yet what does the bird do? Does he panic? No, he can’t really panic, he just does the best he c
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by gilmore606 2y ago
Doing this in a trainer helicopter without doors was the most terrifying experience of my life. You don't want to do this if you don't have to.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
People go past that idea by noticing that it happened on Earth almost as soon as it possibly could have happened. If we just got incredibly lucky, you'd think the planet would have sat around a while before the big stroke of luck, but
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by gilmore606 2y ago
> We cannot tell all people below certain IQ to just stop using the internet What, why not? It couldn't be that hard to trick them.
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by gilmore606 2y ago
> I think when we start using it as a temporary measure it will become very clear what the downsides are It seems more likely we won't know the downsides until the damage is done, which is what happened with using fossil fuels in th
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by gilmore606 2y ago
minsky, 'society of mind', everything old is new again
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by gilmore606 3y ago
> You are equating the output of the model with the views of its creators. The existence of the guardrails and the stated reasons for their existence suggest that this is exactly what its creators expect me to do. If nobody thought that
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by gilmore606 3y ago
But what you said was that without Youtube you'd be at a disadvantage in "academic topics". That seems ridiculous on its face, unless you are somehow unable to read. My point is that I am in no way at such a disadvantage, n
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by gilmore606 3y ago
Damn, I've never watched a video to learn academic topics in my entire life, I must have actual brain damage. I just read books like some moron.

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