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by shermantanktop 4d ago
Watches? Jewelry? Monogrammed clothes? Custom-printed shoes and t-shirts? Lots of examples, and of course it affects resale. Apple was clearly thinking outside the category of “consumer electronics.”
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by shermantanktop 5d ago
Take a hard look at the people who are super into this stuff. Ignore the people who have a direct financial interest in it. Look at the people who are left, who are truly enthusiastic about AI-generated music as users. In my experience th
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by shermantanktop 5d ago
Peak so far . Maybe there’s a hype singularity where the hype is so strong that nothing can escape.
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by shermantanktop 6d ago
Do it twice to be sure
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by shermantanktop 6d ago
I suppose a 1 key piano can have unlimited notes, at least until the key wears out.
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by shermantanktop 6d ago
Some subjects are hard. Music notation is mathematical notation that is optimized for ease of consumption by notation experts. It is not optimized for learning. Same with many activities. Pedagogy and real-world use are different goals.
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by shermantanktop 7d ago
Insurance and HMO CEOs salaries come from somewhere, and it’s not malpractice judgments.
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by shermantanktop 7d ago
Funny, my opinion is the opposite. Excel is a much better spreadsheet than Word is a word processor or than PowerPoint is a presentation tool. Of course it’s got quirks and unfortunate relics of its long history, but I reach for it willing
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by shermantanktop 8d ago
Are you sure? I mean, yes of course tiny sample windows have this effect. But it seems at least possible that LLM is more prone to this effect when making estimates of human performance or behavior than when doing it for other topics. In an
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by shermantanktop 8d ago
There is such a thing as lack of bias in statistical outcomes, right? E.g. fair dice? Measuring it may be probabilistic, but it exists. What I'd like to see is if the LLM would exhibit the same behavior wrt other types of predictive s
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by shermantanktop 8d ago
“It is hardly my place, sir, to criticize the facial peculiarities of your friends.”
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by shermantanktop 8d ago
I knew before I opened this comment section that it would trigger a bunch of reactions, all because of the word “bias.” Please just go read the abstract; your first reactions to the headline may not be relevant.
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by shermantanktop 8d ago
I think the paper is about bias formation, not reflecting existing bias. If the formed bias was against HN usernames that started with “r,” would it still seem daft?
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by shermantanktop 9d ago
I was baffled by this because the rightmost square didn’t seem to have any pieces where the letter would fit vertically — the unplaced pieces had a border which made it impossible to see which might.
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by shermantanktop 9d ago
The gents loo at a non-posh UK pub is about the lowest you can go in the western hemisphere.
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by shermantanktop 9d ago
At home? 100%. Out in the world? Very much depends. I was just in a stall where the inside of door had a pictogram forbidding users from standing on the edge of the bowl and squatting. I assume this might be for visitors from countries wher
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by shermantanktop 9d ago
I read through those links (ha) and I agree, they knew the overall story was interesting to players, but intentionally elevated story over continuity. That was my original point. The same debates happen about early games made with far less
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by shermantanktop 9d ago
Here’s how I think it makes sense: accountability for unethical behavior arrives via more or less direct routes depending on who you are. The more you look like a high-status leader, the longer it will take, and the more likely it arrives a
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by shermantanktop 9d ago
Being in favor of right-to-repair is generally popular on HN, for obvious reasons.
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by shermantanktop 9d ago
I don’t seem much point to intentionally curating a set of skills, and specifically invoking them by name, only to watch the ai skip them all and do better by just reading code and internal/external websites.
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by shermantanktop 10d ago
Sometimes? I’m no expert, but I’m pretty sure these games were generally not built with a hefty bible full of inviolable lore. Plot and continuity errors are common enough to show that. Some people are very invested in making sense of thin
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by shermantanktop 13d ago
Alas, mine is far too visible. But I will spare you the associated downvote.
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by shermantanktop 13d ago
If you don’t know how to do that now, the fastest way to learn (for most people, surely) is to have an LLM teach you and critique your efforts. And then you’ll realize that it’s unlikely you’ll get practice at doing it from scratch, since t
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by shermantanktop 14d ago
The only important question in this space is how to balance the speed of development of this technology with safety. And globally, as a human race, our answer is: speed. Yes, lots of AI scientists spend lots of time and energy on safety. Bu
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by shermantanktop 14d ago
> Recently, I was at a baseball game with my partner. One of the reasons I enjoy going to baseball games in person is to watch the crowd. As I looked around, however, I noticed something different: many people had tuned out of the game a
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by shermantanktop 16d ago
He points out the value of introspection, which the literary culture has in spades, but the scientific culture utterly lacks. If we get the worst outcomes from AGI, the scientists who worked so hard to enable it are unlikely to reflect deep
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by shermantanktop 19d ago
“Orthogonal” is similar. It’s been commonplace for decades in my world but seems Claude-ish.
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by shermantanktop 20d ago
You can invert that. Why do people with similar or the same genetic code (identical twins) have such variation in symptoms? Ultimately, the symptoms are what people experience, and treatments often center on mitigating symptoms. Having an
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by shermantanktop 20d ago
Building understanding through use, as opposed to reading, is not a controversial idea.
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by shermantanktop 21d ago
Literally the next thing that happened after I posted this yesterday: my kid texted me that Dolly Parton had died. That’s how some news gets to me—- it’s important to someone I know. It turns out that that is both a good filter and fast en

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