mcphage

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by mcphage 3d ago
That was tried, in the 1860s. What you’re suggesting didn’t go well.
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by mcphage 3d ago
They know, they’re just playing the FUD game.
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by mcphage 5d ago
Oh, you can, no problem. But you’re also wrong , and getting downvoted because of it.
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by mcphage 5d ago
This reminds me of Santayana's quote: “Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.”
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by mcphage 5d ago
There was also "Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams" which uses a parallelized version of logo to explore ideas about decentralized systems and is really excellent: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262680936/turtl
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by mcphage 5d ago
> have zero interest in it if it's AI-generated. Someone is using AI to make songs for ads on YouTube. Maybe it's not a new thing, but I just started seeing them recently, and they're so fucking bad . They're these
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by mcphage 8d ago
> No, basic algebra and calculus has not changed. That's all that's on the entrance exam? Basic algebra and calculus?
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by mcphage 8d ago
> The exam has not changed in difficulty Has what students are expected to know changed since the 60s? For instance, have there been any, I dunno, new developments in technology over the past 60-odd years?
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by mcphage 8d ago
I actually lol’ed :-)
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by mcphage 8d ago
The only proper response is a “LGTM” and merge it into main.
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by mcphage 9d ago
Yeah. It’s like well, that would be great if there was no tomorrow, but the thing about tomorrow is that it always famously comes.
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by mcphage 11d ago
Well, I heard it was the Epstein-Trump Boating School For Children, which taught vulnerable youngsters how to get away from Epstein’s child-rape island.
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by mcphage 13d ago
> they struggle with those things because of the way they are. it's completely irrelevant. I mean, they seem like fair game if you’re ever participating in a Turing Test.
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by mcphage 13d ago
> Pelicans are a solved problem at this point. An open-weight model on my own machine gave me this That feels kinda like when I remember seeing Ocarina of Time for the first time, and thinking “oh my god, this looks just like real life…”
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by mcphage 13d ago
> Can somebody explain why not just make a die with 5! sides, and roll it once to decide the order? Hey, that’s a good idea—now we just need to decide who rolls the die . …Well, if we had a set of die that each player could roll one of
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by mcphage 13d ago
> Also I said Sometimes the Adults are scared due to truths, and exaggerations. The "adult scared due to exaggerations" in this situation is you.
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by mcphage 13d ago
Because even beyond this area being safe, your claim that "There is likely too much crime in urban areas for children to walk freely" is wrong.
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by mcphage 13d ago
Actually it said "Beware of the Leopard".
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by mcphage 13d ago
> There is likely too much crime in urban areas for children to walk freely This is very much not true. If there are any urban areas that have too much crime for kids to walk freely, it's a vanishingly small percentage, and certain
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by mcphage 15d ago
> How do you spell words if you can't picture them in your mind? > Have you memorized that "pyramid" is spelled p-y-r-a-m-i-d and that for every word? Yes—I wasn't aware that there was another way.
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by mcphage 15d ago
Video games are profitable as ever, but they take years to produce, and the mass layoffs makes me wonder who’s going to be making the games coming out in 2-5 years. Also it has required a lot of write-offs from closing studios to maintain
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by mcphage 15d ago
> If killing/raping/burning the original inhabitants and stealing the city is good enough for the word to call Constantinople Istambul I don't see why the US which owns part of the lake can't call it something else. W
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by mcphage 15d ago
He also has “The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths”, which is short but perfect.
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by mcphage 16d ago
> today the west doesn't call Constantinople Istambul because it's the correct name but because the Turks are stronger than the Greeks What country is that city in?
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by mcphage 16d ago
What utter cowards they have running Google. No wonder the US tech industry has gone from the shining forefront of technology, to a bunch of weirdos alienating everybody, over the last decade.
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by mcphage 17d ago
> and some other bad actor with political connections (my money would be on Palantir) will just quietly pick up where they left off while everyone's patting themselves on the back for defeating Flock At that point, though, there wil
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by mcphage 17d ago
Right now AI has trouble maintaining coherence over a few paragraphs of text. How long will it be before it is capable of maintaining coherence over something the size of a GTA game? And how much money will that cost?
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by mcphage 17d ago
Yes.
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by mcphage 18d ago
…if you actually looked at the article, you would have seen that the answer was a resounding “no”.
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by mcphage 18d ago
Reading comprehension isn’t something readers of this site are great at.

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