mountainb

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by mountainb 17d ago
Sort of like how the medieval world relied on a small class of aristocratic landowners who loved riding fast horses and killing each other, the postmodern world relies on a small class of people from all walks of life who will work much har
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by mountainb 1mo ago
Using this tool seems to generate superior cringe posts to the actual cringe posts. I made one about what my female toddler’s violence taught me about B2B SaaS sales and the story it created, while implausible, was genuinely charming.
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by mountainb 2mo ago
LLMs have created more billable hours for me as an attorney because the LLMs convince the client that they need to know more about irrelevant issues, how specific statutes may apply, and other such things. They may ask about specific proced
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by mountainb 2mo ago
Taxes in the US go to a cluster of major items. Medicare, other medical, Social Security, interest, VA benefits and veteran's medical care, federal spending on the indigent or disabled, and Defense. Those together are 94% of annual fed
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by mountainb 2mo ago
This is why, here at GloboCorp, we kill an Excel monkey at the office right after the daily standup. The open office plan makes it so that the whole team hears the screams (and some lucky team members catch a little splatter). Death creates
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by mountainb 2mo ago
It's a digital picture book for "adults" that operates on the same principles as picture books for children.
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by mountainb 3mo ago
It’s a guy asking to make an end-run around the constitution and the APA regulatory framework based on a flimsy sci fi premise. Naturally it provokes a negative reaction.
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by mountainb 3mo ago
This reads like an AI with an overflowing context window wrote it; or in the alternative it’s a list of statutes written by an arrogant and delusional king. It is this type of arrogance that will lead to an unfavorable reaction by Congress.
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by mountainb 4mo ago
You can prompt up some really cool commercial-grade art within the limitations of the models. Getting more precision and consistency in the images requires additional technical configuration and actual artistic skill such that it more resem
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by mountainb 4mo ago
We fought what, two wars for this vassal? Deleting an account is a pretty minor favor compared to that.
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by mountainb 4mo ago
That's more or less how it works. To actually have the system carry out your intention it would have to use significant hardware resources (and even then who knows if it would actually work). Alternatively you would need to break up th
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by mountainb 4mo ago
Much like a lot of LLM usage burns tokens so that mediocre people can hallucinate that they're doing something brilliant, Yudkowskyism is just a lot of empty verbiage for the purpose of building a sex cult around a plump gnome. Reusing
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by mountainb 5mo ago
Many actions have a negative value. If I give two toddlers ball-peen hammers, release them into a window store, and then close the front door while I wait in the parking lot, was my action likely to create value or likely to destroy value?
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by mountainb 5mo ago
The best way to understand European policy is that at a high level they want to establish a quota system both within Europe and globally. The problem with creating a quota system is that you have to be able to punish countries who cheat on
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by mountainb 5mo ago
Why would that be bad? Why is more better?
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by mountainb 6mo ago
All of this is work, more work, admin work, things I would pay an assistant to do. Why would I want to be a system administrator when I can just not give my children systems that I need to administer? This type of solution provides a simple
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by mountainb 7mo ago
I have heard phoned in homilies from some priests but this is not accurate in the United States based on my travels and weekly local attendance. Sorry that you had a bad experience.
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by mountainb 7mo ago
Yes because that is how regulations really work and what the purpose is. In practice all companies both tiny and massive do everything that they can to use the state to quash competition and to reduce the risks of litigation. Software in ge
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by mountainb 7mo ago
Regulation would be preferable for OpenAI to the tort lawyers. In general the LLM companies should want regulation because the alternative is tort, product liability tort, and contract law. There is no way without the protections that could
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by mountainb 7mo ago
I own two SUVs because they are useful. Can't we be critical of ourselves and some of the consequences of our own choices?
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by mountainb 7mo ago
If the medium is the message, the SUV communicates that there is only space for the nuclear family members, speed and comfort is of the essence, and the road is the only acceptable avenue for transportation. The sidewalks are for homeless p
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by mountainb 7mo ago
Population declines have happened many times in many places in history, and it sometimes heralds collapse and at other times it is just a temporary phenomenon. Part of the issue is with how you define the metrics and what you consider succe
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by mountainb 7mo ago
Fair use is a case by case fact question dependent on many factors. Trial judges often get creative in how they apply these. The courts are not likely to apply a categorical approach to it like that despite what some professors have written
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by mountainb 8mo ago
The WSJ effectively became a lifestyle tabloid. Its devolution has been shocking.
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by mountainb 8mo ago
I think the real reason is that it’s an entirely different media experience than the current types. Most modern games are either gambling traps (microtransaction hell) or extremely high fidelity products that leave nothing to the imaginatio
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by mountainb 8mo ago
Evidence doesn't mean overwhelming proof. My post was confined to 1989-1990. I didn't make the claim in your post. Homer Simpson also doesn't work in a factory; he's a nuclear engineer at a power plant. I dunno what you&
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by mountainb 8mo ago
No, it's useful evidence in the same way that contemporaneous fiction is often useful evidence. The first season aired from 1989-1990. The living conditions from the show were plausible. I know because I was alive during that time. My
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by mountainb 8mo ago
Resisting production isn't unethical, but telling your client to commit fraud is illegal, unethical, and waives attorney-client privilege. Generally that lawyers in tech can be both good and bad, but that both the culture at west coast
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by mountainb 8mo ago
There is a conservative case for this in that the 30 year fixed mortgage, combined with all of the foreclosure protections both old and new, amount to a government benefits program. Historically, this type of mortgage was developed to promo
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by mountainb 1y ago
Try to drop a foreign phrase into MS Word to add a little color and watch it go completely berserk.

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