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by probably_wrong 5d ago
No. You will have your slop and you'll like it, too.
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by probably_wrong 6d ago
I couldn't finish the book because my Kindle died halfway, but based on the opening chapters I agree with you. I admire her for the stance she's taking today and the personal sacrifice it's costing her to this day, but I won&
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by probably_wrong 8d ago
Perhaps that's the way to go: if we build our social media in agent-only forums no one will mine it for training. The only downside will be the inevitable "Are you a robot?" captchas.
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by probably_wrong 9d ago
I often read here comments along the lines of "there will be plenty of jobs for AI-unfuckers" [1], but I fear the truth may be closer to "sometimes things are broken, are then fixed with a broken solution, and will remain bro
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by probably_wrong 9d ago
I'd like to see a citation for "most of the west".
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by probably_wrong 10d ago
I'm going to disagree with your law of "conservation of filth" on the grounds that it's pushing things too far. Whatever amount of feces comes into your system via walking downtown on a regular day and then bringing the
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by probably_wrong 10d ago
Coming from a shoes-on culture I can give a couple points. First, in the rare cases you describe (when was the last time you stepped on feces?) one would indeed leave their shoes outside. But in the day-to-day your shoes have some dust on t
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by probably_wrong 10d ago
There's an article somewhere (read it many years ago) with the story about the first days of Tinder. The way they got their first users was to send (IIRC) the marketing strategist (a woman) to talk to attractive young women in bars and
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by probably_wrong 14d ago
I clicked on a couple ads once because I was desperate - I needed a cheap flight with a tight deadline and my usual search engines didn't help. I thought "if these ads deliver what they promise, I'll never book anywhere else&
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by probably_wrong 15d ago
For starters, it breaks two rule of the thread: "Agencies, recruiters, job boards, and so on, are off topic here" and "please only email these addresses to discuss work opportunities". Not that you don't get spammed
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by probably_wrong 16d ago
Mildly related side note: my Kindle DX died this year (it won't charge nor reset, even with a new battery) so I've been looking for a replacement. I'd like a second-hand one but, based on my eBay experience, barely anyone is
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by probably_wrong 17d ago
The problem of "what actually happened" is that we don't have enough information to properly understand what happened, what's new, and what's not. We do have language to talk about emergent behavior, with "evol
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by probably_wrong 17d ago
Do you remember that time in 2017 when Facebook reportedly shut down AIs after they started "talking to each other in their own language" [1]? Instead of reporting the story as "we set the parameters for our optimization pro
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by probably_wrong 19d ago
If a fireman is trying to stop a house fire and suddenly they catch fire themselves, no one would argue that they need to focus on the house fire first. Antidepressants are the same: they won't stop the bigger fire by themselves, but b
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by probably_wrong 20d ago
I'm not convinced by the author's point that ACs do not impose a burden on the electrical grid. They write that ACs have gotten more efficient, which may be true, but that's the same Windows developers have been saying over y
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by probably_wrong 20d ago
Having seen the increase in suicide rates for girls and young women [1], and having read the arguments for why no other explanation fits that data, I am convinced social media is indeed to blame. But as someone else put it once regarding gl
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by probably_wrong 24d ago
If we're reinventing sayings, I suggest Clarke's third law first: Any sufficiently advanced capitalism is indistinguishable from malice.
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by probably_wrong 26d ago
Whenever I need something from Google Books I inevitably reach the message that this is a limited preview and the part I need is not included. I therefore feel the same way about Google Books that how I felt when I learned that What.cd went
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by probably_wrong 29d ago
I know Meta it's not Google, but it's worth remembering that these promises haven't had a great measure of success in the past: > Facebook has been fined €110m (£94m) by the EU for providing misleading information about i
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
It has a 1-to-1 correlation, though: the faster you can generate code (which is the one quality under discussion), the more lines of code you can generate in a given unit of time, and vice versa. So I would argue we are talking about line
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
Lines-of-code has long been accepted as a terrible measure for code quality, and I believe it has been strongly correlated with poorer code quality.
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
I asked for the price too, it told me "you seem to be asking about repair prices, you should go to <other website> instead". I gave the answer a thumbs up, of course.
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
Some searching led me to this report from an NGO called "AirWars" [1] which, in connection with The Guardian, reports that "at least 22,679, and potentially as many as 48,308 civilians, have been likely killed by US strikes&q
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
Also, price of an Nvidia RTX 4090 according to a random website [1]: Jan. 2023: $1920 Jan. 2024: $1811 Jan. 2025: $1639 Jan. 2026: $2193 [1] https://bestvaluegpu.com/history/new-and-used-rtx-4090-price...
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
> Yeah I was in Europe for a month last month and this summer was the best ever. I imagine you don't intend it like that, but last month killed an extra five thousand people in Germany alone [1], more than one thousand of them in
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
> What other better solution do you imagine? I believe there are two ways to deal with a system that's not working as intended. One alternative is to have shock buffers for unexpected circumstances. Berlin, known for its chaotic n
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
Without writing my entire life story, here are some pointers. Best city: Leverkusen. Easy to get appointments, incredibly friendly personnel. Honorable mention for Potsdam. Worst city: Saarbrücken. I was undocumented a couple months because
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by probably_wrong 1mo ago
On the topic of rules: > [Rules mean that] someone, or a group of people, sat down and thought about that specific thing and decided on a standard for everyone. When you have to do something, you don't feel lost, because you can ju
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
The bid was accepted in 2018, during Trump's first presidency. So both yes and no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_FIFA_World_Cup_bids
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by probably_wrong 2mo ago
Mildly off-topic, but also mildly interesting. The Wikipedia page for "Ratlines" [1] discusses "systems of escape routes used by Nazis and their collaborators" and how they settled in Rome, Spain, Genoa, and various Sout

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