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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
After predictably failing at generating a sewing pattern, Gemini gave me yesterday this excuse: > Because AI generates pixels based on visual patterns rather than mathematical geometry, it creates the illusion of a sewing pattern withou
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
Which right exactly are you invoking?
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I think you're misreading the parent comment. As an example: Tesla has promised unsupervised self-driving for its cars for the last 10 years. Every year the promise is "it will be here soon", and yet this year we found out th
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I think your comment points towards the heart of my complaint, namely, that Firefox stopped extensions on its tracks to offer parity with a browser that doesn't care about extensions. It fits the post's complaint about doing thing
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
Oh, the irony...
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
> if Mozilla spent all money on the browser only, if Mozilla made the best browser ever, would that really make a difference? It's obviously impossible to say, but when we look at things that did happen due to Mozilla's finan
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
> A reverse centaur is just a person with a horse head right? Well, no. A centaur is a normal person with stronger-than-human legs. That is, it's an augmented person who drives the powerful machinery underneath. Think of a person
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
The point of my comment is to call attention to the SV tendency of hyper-focusing on the newest shiny toy as a solution to all problems while ignoring the real solutions to the real problems we have right now. If we assume roughly 1.2k peop
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by probably_wrong 3mo ago
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. (quote by Stephen Jay Gould)
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Not everyone's footprint is the same, though. If I cut down my plane flight in half that means I'll take a plane every two years, meaning I'll also see my family half as much. You'd also have to include that, since I tra
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
> I think someone should start a community online where AI isnt allowed. In case you haven't followed the saga, the latest[1] digg.com relaunch failed because they couldn't deal with the bot onslaught [2]. Whoever finds a rel
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
The "anti-AI thing" is a direct result to the actions of the "pro-AI thing" crowd. Personally I don't think it's any more ridiculous that the amount of money currently being burned to convince me that I should
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Based on my experience it's more about being able to recognize an opportunity when it shows up and being good enough at your craft to take it. But no one can tell you what that chance will look like. Maybe it's a smart question to
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I vouched for your comment because, while (IMO) dead wrong, I didn't think it was "this should be flagged" wrong. The article uses the word "dilemma" exactly once in the introduction, mostly because that's not
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
The first game I thought of when reading the article was Shadow of the Colossus, mostly because the article opens with a screenshot of the game and talks about it in detail. I appreciate the honesty of recognizing that you commented without
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
You may want to take a look at the "AI hallucination Cases" database which tracks cases when someone used AI and ended up presenting made-up sources in a legal case. https://www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinations&#
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
My understanding is that loitering laws are much older than that - the first versions of these laws seems to date to 1342 [1]. IMO what all these laws have in common is that they're designed to allow the police to legally ask questions
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
> Imagine your boss getting real time feedback on coaching style, or you getting pointers on how not to argue with your wife. This sounds like a dystopia: either I'm receiving some machine-generated feedback that no one checked an
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I'm not a writer but I do write quite a bit for scientific reasons. I'd like to add a small tweak to your comment. The people I know have no confidence whatsoever in their writing, rewriting and rephrasing the same paragraph over
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I just watched the short and I'm not a fan. I understand that they are trying to make a point and the presentation is great, but the way they paint the social worker and the judge (who, based on the story, seem to be a cool dude) feels
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I think you're misunderstanding the OSS philosophy. If the outcome was all that mattered then piracy would be good enough. I'd argue that this is the same situation as with Tivoization [1] where the final product is not truly free
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
> If you can't fight them, join them. This is a similar argument that the one people used to justify Facebook: "if you don't join then say goodbye to your social life". Now that we have papers, books, and even court
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Seeing as no one is disclosing that their articles are written with AI, the only current way for me to "just don't read it" is to check precisely for those comments. But if you have a better way for me to avoid reading AI con
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I'd like to frame this differently: watermarking is a (weaker) form of DRM, and DRM has never worked in favor of the users. I know of at least one music GenAI service whose ToS forbid me from using their productions in ways that are in
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Works for me with Firefox 140.10.2esr on Devuan 5.
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
From the article "Knitting bullshit" discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032461 : > Inception Point AI, on the other hand, is a slop factory employing just 8 people which, according to Anne, pu
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I'd warn HN users not to click on that link simply because it will load a 26Mb message that will likely cause quite a strain on kernel.org's servers if everyone here does it.
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
It's only fair since I can't block their AI on WhatsApp either.
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
I think it's a fairly reasonable assumption that he retired (he was 60 in the 1930s) but the article could have made that part explicit. On my first read I thought he had become a junk collector out of depression for the death of his w
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by probably_wrong 4mo ago
Alternative explanation: they're following the Meta playbook of releasing surveillance features during a "dynamic political environment" that's keeping their opponents distracted. https://www.nytimes.com/

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