throwaway439080

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by throwaway439080 6mo ago
Yes and no. I think the interesting thing about this story is how it's been presented: AI as a scapegoat for incompetence. The police made an inexcusable mistake out of carelessness. They simply couldn't be bothered to spend five
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by throwaway439080 7mo ago
> Guess who sits on the school boards? People who get elected to sit on the school boards? I think you're actually just complaining about democracy. My local school district has banned phones during school time (enforced by an auto
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by throwaway439080 8mo ago
Uh. 25% support military intervention in China? Which would, with high probability, escalate into a nuclear war? I guess this tells us how many of the polled Trump voters are totally out of their gourds.
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by throwaway439080 8mo ago
Wow. When I saw the headline, I thought this would be a generous donation so that Olympians wouldn't need to work day jobs to make ends meet, allowing them to focus on training. But... nope...
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by throwaway439080 11mo ago
The thing I learned from Amazon's senior principals is that actually it's good and normal to turn red in the face and scream at your junior colleagues that they're fucking idiots when they have the temerity to politely disagr
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by throwaway439080 1y ago
"Strive to be Earth's Best Employer" coming from Amazon leadership is maybe best understood as a joke. Amazon is a meat grinder, even more so since the big tech layoffs started. (This kind of comment always elicits current Am
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by throwaway439080 1y ago
Kind of amazing the author just takes everything at face value and doesn't even consider the possibility that there's a hidden layer of instructions. Elon likes to meddle with Grok whenever the mood strikes him, leading to Grok&#x
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by throwaway439080 1y ago
Of course they are. The interesting thing isn't how good LLMs are today, it's their astonishing rate of improvement. LLMs are a lot better than they were a year ago, and light years ahead of where they were two years ago. Where wi
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by throwaway439080 1y ago
What's to stop ICE from declaring anybody they don't like an alien and rendering them to the Salvadoran prison? We already know they're inventing false pretenses to classify people as gang members. There is no functional over
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by throwaway439080 1y ago
> Even the most egregious cases, which are very bad, have left a paper trail for lawyers and journalists to follow. We don't know the identities of, or even how many people have been extrajudicially rendered to the Salvadoran prison
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by throwaway439080 2y ago
Uh oh. I use em dashes all the time in writing. Am I an AI?
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by throwaway439080 2y ago
Agreed, "I made a deduplication software in my garage! Do you want to try it?" is a terrifying pitch. I've been writing a similar thing to dedupe my photo collection and I'm so paranoid of pulling the trigger I just keep