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by paretoer 2y ago
There are a lot of people who basically believe in a conspiracy of stupid people while at the same time believing anyone who believes in a conspiracy is stupid. It is an amazing trick of modern propaganda. These people are so manipulated th
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by paretoer 2y ago
Having lost 30lbs so far in 2024, you are highly under estimating the devastation of our gluttonous foodie culture. All the factors you mention I suspect are completely meaningless in comparison to consuming excess calories and I am pretty
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by paretoer 2y ago
Having worked at large corporations and now a small company, I think the reason for this is so no one can be blamed for anything when things go wrong at a large corporation. The main function is that it insulates upper management from any r
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by paretoer 2y ago
This is nothing new. I grew up going to Canada every weekend in the summer. Canadians have known more what is going on in America than Americans for at least the last 35 years. I love Canadians but never in my adult life have Canadians not
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by paretoer 2y ago
As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about how you would lose more by st
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by paretoer 2y ago
As someone who doesn't use social media this analogy strikes me as a rationalization for something you know is bad for you and a waste of your time but you can't stop so you make up this fiction about a dollar auction.
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by paretoer 2y ago
The old "can't make money with numpy, its all produced in already"
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by paretoer 2y ago
An even more fundamental problem is in trying to judge something completely subjective like how good food tastes. I assume you believe you have good taste in food and I very well might find what you think is good to be terrible. It is not i
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by paretoer 2y ago
Totally agree. I would think part of a good defense is to simply not care about politics on any level. Personally, I think all these counter measures are a fool's game. It most likely ends up being a form of self labeling as a person t
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by paretoer 2y ago
But it will cause a reduction in wages and the quality compared to hand crafted fabrics will be inferior when automated.
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by paretoer 2y ago
I suspect this is a feature of the modern world. I have heard of a few philosophers of their day years back being considered "the most learned man in Europe". Not the smartest, but the most learned. Learned implies agency, smart i
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by paretoer 2y ago
I don't personally see a solution other than student loan money being much harder to get. There is so much bad research because there are too many researchers. For myself, I think I am smart enough to have worked on a PhD in economics
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by paretoer 2y ago
Anything that starts with "no..xyz" is always bullshit IMO written for an audience of morons.
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by paretoer 2y ago
I question how valuable the ontology is even once you come up with it. It seems to me if the idea behind all this was that valuable, it would have transformed banking in the 2000s and all banks would currently run on Palantir products. Like
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by paretoer 2y ago
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down! These people shouldn't complain when their is no creativity left in society.
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by paretoer 2y ago
I almost never put my camera on. I think people mostly like turning their camera on to show off their home office, living room or book case. Beyond that, there is just no point. It is a distraction overall. Business meetings in headsets is
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by paretoer 2y ago
I just think these are the thoughts of old people. The creative mediums of the day are tiktok videos and video games. It is the same line of thought from back in the day that the electric guitar is just noise, people should play a "rea
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by paretoer 2y ago
Maybe for a very short amount of time. I suspect this quickly will be like specializing in the repair of cheap, Chinese made desk lamps from Walmart. If the cheap desk lamp breaks, you don't pay someone to fix it. You buy another one a
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by paretoer 2y ago
Totally agree the difference is in the scaling properties. On the other hand, I look around the room I am in and it is filled mostly with "low quality" Chinese made products. While you can't compare these products to expensiv
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by paretoer 2y ago
That is the base style. You can get much different image qualities adding different types of film, cameras, etc to the prompt. With that said, I loved Midjourney a year ago but I am at the point I have seen enough AI art to last several liv
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by paretoer 2y ago
You can't be using KDE Plasma then. I don't even know how to access the KDE Plasma help because it is just so easy to use. I am writing this on a $500 ASUS Vivobook that came with Windows 11. The hardest thing was making the KDE t
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by paretoer 2y ago
IMO the unreasonable uselessness of LLMs is because for most tasks involving language the accuracy needs to be unbelievably high to have any real value at all. We just don't have that. We have autocomplete on steroids and many people a
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by paretoer 2y ago
I am not a software engineer and these tools allow me to make a giant mess of an app in a weekend that kind of does what I want but I only get that weekend. Once I come back to it after any length of time, since I have no idea what I am doi
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by paretoer 2y ago
50 years ago at my elementary school playground in the US I remember a scorching reflective metal slide that would slide you right into pool of mud. I haven't seen one of these slides in America in at least 30 years. Any new playground
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by paretoer 2y ago
I kind of remember the Turing Test was a big deal for some 70+ years. We should have known that once we pass the Turing Test it would almost instantly become as passe as Deep Blue beating Kasparov on the road to general intelligence. I am t
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by paretoer 2y ago
All the actual creative people I know don't care what other people are doing. What other people are doing is usually a sign of what not to do if you want to be creative. "Creatives" so strongly against AI art I suspect are no
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by paretoer 2y ago
I think the entire idea is fatally flawed. My experience is that the best music is found randomly. I like so much, I don't even know what I really like. Even what I like is always changing. I need to listen to ton of random things I do
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by paretoer 2y ago
Many people are just interested in expert credentialism and expert theatrical performance for an audience though. If you really want to know a subject well beyond theater, you obviously would have to know many adjacent subjects and many see
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by paretoer 2y ago
I would say it is a completely underhanded way to negotiate and I love negotiating. The only good answer to that bullshit question is "The maximum you are willing to pay". Then you can start over with a real negotiation. The best