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by infotainment 4d ago
What's interesting is it's basically the same reason that HAL killed everyone in 2001 A Space Odyssey; he was given an impossible goal (keep the true mission secret, but also, never lie to the crew), and realized the only way to
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by infotainment 6d ago
Same! If they came out with a just-the-front-screen-of-the-Duo iPhone, the form factor would be just about perfect, IMO.
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by infotainment 8d ago
The "distillation" argument always seemed pretty weak to me. If one argues that training an AI on copyrighted content is merely analogous to reading a book (and therefore is fully transformative), then it stands to reason that tra
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by infotainment 8d ago
Good, now do the entire country next. AirBNB (and its clones) do nothing but make things worse for actual residents of a place.
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by infotainment 12d ago
> You should never have to take something away from people who aren't disabled just because making it accessible isn't feasible. The ADA is a horribly-designed law precisely because it encourages this behavior. Reforming it
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by infotainment 13d ago
> Cheap electric transportation can finally offset USA's lacking rail commutes I'm not sure how building an electric aircraft would help with this. Are people going to suddenly switch to commuting by plane? Fixing America&#x2
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by infotainment 14d ago
It had amazing music and visuals, but the story made absolutely no sense, and consequently the game fails as a sequel to Chrono Trigger IMO. If, for some reason, you want to enjoy reading a lengthy online screed about the issues with Cross&
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by infotainment 16d ago
Exactly -- the classic example is the northern border of India: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/02/14/google-...
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by infotainment 1mo ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
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by infotainment 1mo ago
Anything that hands more copyright-related powers to the music industry is a bad thing, IMO.
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by infotainment 2mo ago
> Why do frameworks like Claude Code or Codex have the concept of “skills” instead of just using well-organized Markdown docs? "Well-organized markdown docs" are exactly what skills are . More specifically, they are well-org
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by infotainment 2mo ago
Yeah I feel like you could run a similar analysis on random non-AI Github projects and get the same result. Most of them never go anywhere.
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by infotainment 3mo ago
If you primarily choose to watch educational videos sure, but YouTube can give you just as much brainrot as TikTok, depending on what the recommendation engine decides you might like.
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by infotainment 3mo ago
The answer, IMO, is simply banning all algorithm-driven social media, for everyone and not just kids. This conveniently sidesteps the identity/privacy arguments, makes it much easier to enforce, and would present an even greater net
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by infotainment 3mo ago
The angle of this that people may not realize is that San Francisco already owns the power generation (ie, the Hetch Hetchy dam). [1] PG&E simply owns the wires, and overcharges for their use. [1]: https://www.sfpuc.gov&#x2
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by infotainment 4mo ago
The major difference is that this is currently the only New Glenn launchpad, which is likely to cause major launch delays.
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by infotainment 4mo ago
> The arrogance of American tourists is truly boundless. How dare Japanese people not speak English! Who do they think they are? This attitude is so unbelievably prevalent among native English speakers. "Obviously everyone shoul
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by infotainment 4mo ago
100% this -- westerners love to criticize Japan's justice system, while ignoring the fact that much of it actually works . Drugs? Petty crime? Homelessness? No other country comes close to managing these problems as well as Japan do
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by infotainment 5mo ago
> Andrej Karpathy can train a GPT-2 class model for less than $80 now, so at least the environmental cost of training may drop to a point that it's acceptable to LLM vegetarians: https://twitter.com/karpathy/st
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by infotainment 5mo ago
Of course, which tells you the position from which the author of the linked post is arguing.
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by infotainment 5mo ago
> built on massive exploitation of human labor and make profligate use of scarce resources This kind of hyperbole repeated ad infinitum by haters online is not-constructive, IMO. I would be quite certain that the manufacture of whate
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by infotainment 5mo ago
I suppose opinionated people on the internet and ideological consistency have never exactly gone hand-in-hand. > Like the boring fence-sitter I am, I think it will have a mix of positive and negative effects. Definitely the correct way
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by infotainment 5mo ago
Always has been
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by infotainment 5mo ago
Online shopping is a pox upon society
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by infotainment 6mo ago
Don't worry, GIMP's UI never made any sense to anyone (Graphic Designer or otherwise), save for hardcore GIMP fans.
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by infotainment 6mo ago
> Did Meta spend around 60Mn lobbying for age verification to be forcibly added to every OS install ? Of course they would want this -- as long as the OS reports that the user is over 18 via such a system, then Meta is legally off the
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by infotainment 6mo ago
> The proposals, which return to Parliament on Tuesday, would replace juries in England and Wales with a single judge in cases where a convicted defendant would be jailed for up to three years. Wow, this is literally the plot of the Ph
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by infotainment 6mo ago
This article misses a major point: even without nuclear weapons, NK has always had the option to shell Seoul with conventional artillery and completely destroy it. That, above all else, is likely why no one tried to topple them before they
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by infotainment 7mo ago
I'd say if one has any interest in writing objectively about space technology, one will likely end up being perceived as having a "pro-Musk bias". Elon himself is indeed questionable, but you really can't argue with his
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by infotainment 7mo ago
I do wish they'd release some open model weights though. Their attitude against open weight models in general is what's keeping me from subscribing.

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