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by standardUser 1mo ago
Big Tech has accumulated too many grievances across too many segments of society and made too much money in the process, so let's not act surprised at a backlash. And data centers are remarkably well-suited as a focal point for people
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by standardUser 2mo ago
A growing segment of young men increasingly embrace violence, conspiracy theories, far-right politics and machismo in general. Women can tolerate and even embrace a lot of male-coded things, like sports and cars and video games, but do you
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by standardUser 2mo ago
Those 60-year-olds existed in a brief and exceptional moment of wealth creation brought about by factors that are unlikely to happen again in ours or our children's lifetime. The problem being that the American ethos decided to pretend
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by standardUser 2mo ago
"Marriage follows the same pattern. Women now substantially outnumber men on university campuses and outpace them in degrees earned, yet the preference for husbands who match or exceed a wife’s income and education has not correspondin
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by standardUser 2mo ago
The genius part is that the negotiations that determine how much they can get away with charging completely excludes the consumer. Two for-profit entities, with no mandate to actually provide care, decide how much they should pay each other
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by standardUser 2mo ago
And then do what, precisely? Quit your job and find one with better insurance options?
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by standardUser 2mo ago
If hitting a home run is getting a woman pregnant, then I'd wager men are hoping to strike out in 3 pitches during 99.5% of their at bats.
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by standardUser 2mo ago
I don't think most adults can get much social value or satisfaction from an AI conversation they know is not a real person. Those who can get that satisfaction likely have so few human-to-human interactions that an AI companion may be
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by standardUser 2mo ago
“Obesity and diabetes could easily account for all of this,” Wither Ozempic? I've seen several friends and family members use it to great effect and thought it might sweep the nation. But I imagine most of the same barriers that keep p
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by standardUser 2mo ago
Seems like a minor issue, since most men only utilize their sperm two or three times in their entire lives, if at all. Maybe men should be freezing sperm while they're young and virile.
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The War on Self-Driving Cars Will Kill People(reason.com)
4 points by standardUser 3mo ago|4 comments
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by standardUser 3mo ago
The list of legislation we need is getting very big very fast, but our Congress is dysfunctional and the president only cares about the SAVE act. Even when we've had a functional Congress, most protections like these are written in fav
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by standardUser 3mo ago
You're suggesting a for-profit company both hobbled it's own product and is actively lying about doing so. The only way that's true is if the Trump admin has crawled all the way up Anthropic's ass. But by all accounts, t
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by standardUser 3mo ago
Better than a foosball table and kegerator.
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Europe's Great AC Debate(nymag.com)
3 points by standardUser 3mo ago|0 comments
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by standardUser 3mo ago
Meanwhile, China is pushing the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization (WAICO), which, in the face of internal divisions and impotent leadership among Western nations, could prove to be the first global regime that China get
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by standardUser 3mo ago
All of the agencies responsible for those regulations were created by and get their funding from Congress. Currently, they're asleep at the wheel. Or a better idiom might be "cowering in the corner".
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by standardUser 3mo ago
Any future president will know better than to economically hamstring our closest allies and important trading partners.
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by standardUser 3mo ago
Trade is being reconfigured in the midst of Trump's idiotic trade war (and even more idiotic real war) and militaries worldwide, particularly our closest allies, are seeking non-US sources of arms.
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by standardUser 3mo ago
AI and microchips should probably be treated like nuclear weapons and disease research. They all have profound non-military value, but powerful nations hoard them, build elaborate systems to deter proliferation, and reap most of the benefit
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by standardUser 3mo ago
It's also too bad our society shares in the collective delusion that sex work can be prevented. It not only makes sex work far more dangerous, but it tramples on these exact kinds of novel spaces for sex/intimacy.
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by standardUser 3mo ago
You have to build up a context, or otherwise seed the memory, to get anything useful out of these LLMs on a large or existing project.
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by standardUser 3mo ago
At a certain point, people value reliability over improved performance. I think a lot of us have hit that point as this technology becomes indispensable to our work. I'm sure I'll use Fable... eventually. But at 2x the cost, I&#x2
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by standardUser 3mo ago
Yes, someone is asking you to consider the personal situation of the stranger you are critizing. My deepest condolences for your inconvenience.
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by standardUser 3mo ago
I appreciate this comment immensely - too many people seem to mindlessly assume that every other person shares their own situations, and it could not be less true.
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by standardUser 3mo ago
The Trump administration has been working overtime trying to build databases of people in this country. Leaving no stone unturned, legal or otherwise. I vaguely remember a time when American conservatives were against precisely this, often
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by standardUser 4mo ago
Sometimes I wonder, if we were actually allowed to engage in the consensual drugs and sex that constitutes 95% of the activity people want to "get away with", would our societal response to infringements on our privacy be even wea
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by standardUser 4mo ago
I used to have an easier time ignoring the mass surveillance angle. If I'm 1 in 300,000,000, then someone would have to have a good reason to waste resources on investigating little ole' me. But with AI, safety via obfuscation no
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by standardUser 4mo ago
Every technological revolution spreads more rapidly than the last, so it's novel almost by definition. The internet gradual expanded over 2-3 decades, long enough to give most people, and the economy, the chance to keep up. This is hap
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by standardUser 4mo ago
Honestly I think what is missing is not developers but designers. Or, I should say, designers hired to create competent designs that serve people well and not to instead manipulate users. If you want better front ends - get more and better

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