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by pigpop 3d ago
This seems like an odd take. I remember when a large portion of the people I'd speak with online were very pro 2a while also being countercultural. There was a strong individual liberties/responsibilities, anti-government, pro-dec
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by pigpop 5d ago
What use is this when you can just prompt the LLM to insert those or use any other style of writing that looks human?
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by pigpop 6d ago
I almost died from cringe when I hovered over the link and realized what he was talking about.
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by pigpop 6d ago
I think it's very important to distinguish procedural generation as only one component required for emergent, unpredictable gameplay. If you lean on it too heavily then yes, you will just have 10,000 variations on plain oatmeal. The ot
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by pigpop 6d ago
"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent" applies to running a business as well as trading. There is no certainty when you're dealing with the individual whims of millions of people.
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by pigpop 7d ago
If all the earnings are in the tail then what the heck is in the head? or are you talking about the case where sales are flat and it's all tail?
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by pigpop 7d ago
This is actually a fairly well studied area and surprisingly even a term as short as two years would likely be enough to ensure that a profit was returned on the investment. Most media including books, movies, music and video games earns th
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by pigpop 7d ago
An excellent reminder that intelligence isn't a requirement to be a member of congress.
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by pigpop 8d ago
It's better to use a specialized model for that https://retrodiffusion.ai
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by pigpop 8d ago
You must have your units really messed up because there's no way that's right. A GPU drawing 700W for 10s would be 1.9444 Wh or 0.0019444 kWh and that's if the GPU was only serving your image gen for the whole 10s which is un
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by pigpop 24d ago
For some roles, I agree but I also think that there will be many new-ish roles that will have lower requirements right down to being a warm body capable of walking and talking. The lower requirements will be possible because these roles wil
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by pigpop 24d ago
You're right, I should have clarified that they are still slowly integrating it and it isn't the thing running all models. I meant moreso that since they are planning on moving more usage over to Cerebras wafers, they're able
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by pigpop 24d ago
Reading this as someone who switched over to ChatGPT after (and largely because of the changes made in) the Fable release, it reads a bit naive. Not only do I find Sol to be as good, if not better than, Fable it is also faster, better behav
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by pigpop 1mo ago
I think you're stuck on the word "paid", I meant it as "receive a salary" or be in the employ of someone else rather than operating your own business.
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by pigpop 1mo ago
There are still plenty of the old guard left so it hasn't been entirely overwhelmed yet. I guess AI arrived just in time to nuke it on the way out.
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by pigpop 1mo ago
Farmers aren't really paid, they sell goods at market prices. Modern farms are more similar to operating a manufacturing business than they are to a salaried position or profession. They don't earn high incomes compared to white c
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by pigpop 1mo ago
I don't disagree. You can add medical doctors to the list as well, lots of nerds but also a lot of clout chasers and money-grubbers who couldn't care less about the profession. I don't want to see programming take the same pa
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by pigpop 1mo ago
An incredibly boring and unimaginative rehash of naysaying draped over a thinly disguised ideological agenda. Why is this on the front page? Edit: it's from a student newspaper from back in 2020, that explains a bit about the content b
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by pigpop 1mo ago
Maybe I'm just old but people talking about being in programming for "status" or to be "highly regarded" really irks me. I'd rather see the entire field burnt to the ground and replaced by robots than to have i
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by pigpop 2mo ago
Incandescents are mostly in the red/warm end of the spectrum anyways so you don't need to change the color temperature at night.
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by pigpop 2mo ago
It's called a dimmer switch.
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by pigpop 2mo ago
The best option at this point is to just sign up for a paid plan with either ChatGPT or Claude and then ask the model the same thing. My preference would be for ChatGPT and if you've been out of the game for a long time then using the
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by pigpop 2mo ago
Software brained developers can't comprehend the idea of capital expenditures required to operate a business. Too spoiled by cheap laptops, free software and coffee shop wifi.
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by pigpop 2mo ago
I'm not making a generalized argument about human (or AI in this case) caused extinction, I'm making a specific argument against the claim made by the OP. Is that clear?
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by pigpop 2mo ago
I think it's a bit less about being extremely skillful and more about the number of people who go into hardware combined with the cost of living and renting office space. There are a far larger number of people capable of re-soldering
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by pigpop 2mo ago
We didn't just get rid of passenger pigeons, they were hunted for meat and as game and driven away or killed to prevent them from damaging crops. Chickens are another example of high variability in treatment, battery farms exist but so
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by pigpop 2mo ago
I guess those robot tanks are just accidentally murdering everyone then.
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by pigpop 2mo ago
>what do we do to animals that are less intelligent than ourselves? We do a lot of different things but we typically don't make an organized effort to eradicate them unless they are actively doing us harm. There is also a massive di
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by pigpop 2mo ago
This is a groaner, especially since we've been writing detailed specifications and whitepapers for decades. The only difference is that we used to write them assuming other humans would create their own implementations to satisfy them
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by pigpop 2mo ago
In some cases but coming from someone who played MUDs back in the day on a monochrome display and dial-up I know I would have been very interested in playing one with NPCs powered by an LLM had they been available back then. The NPCs as the

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