jayers

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by jayers 27d ago
I think it would happen with any persona that Anthropic chose. I enjoyed the bouncy, optimistic style at first. I've since grown to hate it.
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by jayers 2mo ago
Well elite and rich are actually different categories. The guy down in my parents suburban neighborhood who started a carpentry business at 18 and is now 45 years old and a millionaire is in a very different category from someone who went t
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by jayers 2mo ago
The core of capitalism is about where ownership of capital (value producing assets) resides, that is, by private individuals. What private individuals choose to do with their capital, chase infinite growth and profit or sit on it, is up to
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by jayers 3mo ago
Self help usually doesn't teach you anything that is new. Usually they just repackage the same common sense that you've heard a million times before in a new way. That doesn't mean it is useless though, I have had my own life
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by jayers 4mo ago
How is this, in principle, any different from the DOJ using a subpoena to get customer records from an adult store that was allegedly selling illegal explicit material? Just because you use the internet to commit the crime doesn't make
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by jayers 5mo ago
Journalists by definition cannot be anonymous. That's why its a dangerous job.
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by jayers 5mo ago
Yes, that makes sense. However, unless there's a significant corpus of an author in the training data it won't recognize them. One of the author's that I fed into Claude was a passage from the book Leepike Ridge by ND Wilson.
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by jayers 5mo ago
> I expect next go-around they'll want to pay some big design agency for a custom site; it'll probably be six figures. I don't know how I should approach that discussion. Any ideas? Keep your ear to the ground and when you
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by jayers 5mo ago
It's funny: publishing work offline in books and magazines is perhaps more anonymous in the age of AI. I pasted in a number of passages from books on my bookshelf. Predictably, stuff that I read for my English degree in university is l
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by jayers 6mo ago
Profitable remains to be seen, but it is undoubted that the potential resources in the solar system are (pun intended) astronomically valuable. Getting at them is "just" an engineering problem.
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by jayers 6mo ago
That seems like an unfounded inference. Plenty of animals have more neurons than humans but lesser cognitive and language abilities. Language has lot to do with structure of the brain in addition to neuron count.
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by jayers 6mo ago
This isn't even a hard question. The movie theater is open but movies that are rated R are not. In this case, Reddit.com is a movie theater, subreddits are movies. The website might be open, but not every subreddit is. This is in fact
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by jayers 6mo ago
I'm incredibly dubious of the conclusions of this researcher. Claude Opus was used to gather and analyze all of the data. I am not skeptical of any of the research, the sources seem to be cited properly. I am skeptical that this resear
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by jayers 7mo ago
Of course not everybody is systematically hurt nor did I claim that. About 11% of porn users are addicts. Porn addiction is real and incredibly difficult. But even when you are not addicted, regular porn usage has negative effects on mental
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by jayers 7mo ago
As someone who was actually hurt by being exposed to pornography as a child (though this was on the wild internet before Discord), I think you're being both histrionic and downplaying the dangers posed to children online.
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by jayers 8mo ago
This is the crux of it. The digital world doesn't produce value except when it eases the production of real goods. Software Development as a field is strange: it can only produce value when it is used to make production of real goods m
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by jayers 8mo ago
My blog Christian spirituality and living a good life -> https://geoffayers.substack.com/
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by jayers 8mo ago
Too many calories is the basic explanation for why American's health sucks. Calories available per person has gone up ~32% since the 1960s (we obviously can't measure calories consumed per person, but supply and demand would dicta
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by jayers 8mo ago
Average home price in the late 60s was 25k so even if it is equivalent to $50k in 2016 dollars, 25k could still get you further than today in some specific areas.
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by jayers 9mo ago
My reaction to your original comment was probably too ornery. You are right that not everyone can make a great film, but I would still contend that most everyone (in the US and Europe) has the right material conditions to make a great film
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by jayers 9mo ago
Your comment left me incredibly annoyed because I think you fully misunderstand the relationship of AI to art. > If AI didn't promise massive artistic disruption -- the sort that threatens to put real creative power into the hands o
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by jayers 11mo ago
I think it is important to make the distinction between "blog post" and other kinds of published writing. It literally does not matter if your blog post has perfectly correct grammar or misspellings (though you should do a one-pas
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by jayers 1y ago
They don't have any political leanings but they do have a philosophical project. If you dig into the site a little you'll find that they're published by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture (housed at UVA) and IASC e