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unrented7977
3d ago
Can't be hungry if you're dead
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5d ago
It is, but only if you don't suck at it very bad
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6d ago
Why not kill your neighbor? After all, there's no telling when he'll get it in his head to come kill you. Might as well go ahead and murder anyone you bump into, they might be a murderer themselves!
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6d ago
Being nice to other entities costs you nothing. Caring about others costs you nothing. Ironically, these are core tenents of ~most religions
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6d ago
> these people use their services and contribute nothing back What a wildly twisted statement. More accurate to say these users refuse to be exploited and thus have little monetary value.
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6d ago
Workers unionize when they're being treated poorly by management. Workers in such situation tend to not produce their best work. You have cause and effect ass-backwards
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7d ago
Those two ideas are not mutually exclusive. A thing can both be free and suck.
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7d ago
Using the word "copium" is a "if you smelt it you dealt it" type of deal.
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7d ago
> moved by +20.58 points toward GPT-5.5 Score go up. Probability go up. Conclusion.
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7d ago
When you look closely, plants are made of many overlapping and highly sophisticated molecular state machines. The particular balance of select signaling molecules in a specific place within the plant triggers different response behaviors. I
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7d ago
Heat. PVC melts, silicone burns.
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7d ago
Yes, clearly no more hardware will ever be produced. We've sold all hardware, it's over, everyone go home. Spin down the factories, we already sold all hardware we'll ever make.
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8d ago
The joke is renaming/annexing England so that the name New England now properly becomes New America It isn't funny, it's just dark
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8d ago
> if we just let OpenAI steal any good idea they can get their hands on if they think it is profitable I have terrible news about how literally every leading AI model was trained
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8d ago
Simple: we aren't. We can find local optima , but there's no real way to prove a given design is the best of all possible designs. We can only find designs which work and meet the given criteria. One can prove that a design is
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8d ago
Whoever came up with that brilliant idea is probably paid twice what I am
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8d ago
Comments like this always ignore the fact that in the olden days before phones, a majority of people read newspapers or books and busybody news columnists bemoaned how everyone was lost in their media instead of socializing. Literally nothi
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8d ago
There's growing popular sentiment that being a millionaire/billionaire at all is morally repugnant and antisocial behavior that deserves to be shunned, if not punished.
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9d ago
And we take away people's ability to drive when they kill people.
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9d ago
This is like suggesting fruit and veg could outcompete heroin. You can't compete against someone who is willing to cheat. You can't entice users to a better social network when their addiction to the old one has been engineered to
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9d ago
It's so you buy a new one every few years instead of keeping the same TV for a decade or two. Capitalism cannot survive when products last a lifetime.
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10d ago
"Linux" encompasses everything from microcontrollers to planet-scale supercomputers. You can, in fact, build a Linux that runs in as few resources as you like. No qualifiers.
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10d ago
The made the best browser on the planet in Google's Bell Labs era and then they used it as leverage during their "do evil" era.
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10d ago
And the US might grow a government with a spine and take Android away from Google. It's all hypothetical.
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10d ago
As I understand, that was not at all uncommon back in the day. There were no senior developers, the technology simply wasn't old enough. You'd find teenagers with vastly more knowlege and experience than any older developer simp
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11d ago
I inherited a project two or three years ago which was consuming a Watson API. Obviously I didn't get a key, but I think they were only using it as a speech-to-text API. Really sad, actually.
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11d ago
You pull it from the edge of the bench to where you're working and press the switch at the same time. It's not rocket surgery
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11d ago
Yes, that's the point Socrates is making here
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11d ago
My boss is building out local AI hosting specifically as a hedge against USGov banning access to frontier models for everyone not on the crony list. Why play ball with a hostile government when you can host your own frontier models?
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11d ago
Claude by default deletes old chats after a few months. I installed a custom end-of-session hook that throws chat transcripts into a database so that any model can read any other model's chat history. Super easy
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