xenocratus

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by xenocratus 7d ago
Demis Hassabis [1], co-founder of DeepMind [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demis_Hassabis
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by xenocratus 28d ago
... the page never argues that AI is bad or not useful broadly. Not sure if this getting commented again and again is because people are just that bad at understanding that context matters. Not everything has to be evil / slop or pure
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by xenocratus 28d ago
You write your reply and ask the AI to fix the spelling / grammar for you. It's really not the same thing
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by xenocratus 2mo ago
> This is a crazy thing to notice after having been alive so many years — that your existence itself is so much to bear. Alternative interpretation: my existence is not about sitting there, getting mouldy on the sofa. It never crosses my
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by xenocratus 2mo ago
Because we have a limited amount of time and energy and other things might be more valuable to us. tbh, even this list kind of leans toward improving other measures as a means of increasing happiness. You could just write the article as &qu
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by xenocratus 2mo ago
I found paxys' comment fun, so you're right!
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by xenocratus 2mo ago
Building a small cloud service that I've been thinking of for a while, to take the articles I don't have time to read but find interesting in principle, and convert them to audio via TTS. Just filled a short flight with some artic
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by xenocratus 3mo ago
There is arguing, and then there is arguing. The whole post discusses whether to argue or not, without touching on the fairly important (imho) topic of how to argue and how not to argue. Vast majority of people probably hate to argue with s
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by xenocratus 3mo ago
They'd have you know they actually cared a bit too much about said compliance itself.
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UK PM tells Apple and Google to ban nude images on children's phones(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by xenocratus 3mo ago|10 comments
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by xenocratus 4mo ago
Quite enlightening, I propose one of us writes a novel about it, about how Napoleon just precipitated what was already there, enabled of course by those around him. It should show the impact it had on everyone involved. Oh, and let's m
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
I mostly stopped daydreaming at some point in my 20s too, after a fairly intense daydreaming life until then. Oh, and no kids yet :) so it could just be "life"
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
An ambiguous metric that's been (ab)used quite a lot by human fundamentalists to try to draw a line between what we can do and what machines can do, in order to feel better about themselves. Or were you looking for a different definiti
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
I took the "because of course" to be about having a word for everything - a stereotypical idea about the German language.
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
Let me rephrase that for you: red is for people who live in this world and accept it, blue is for people with white knight syndrome. OR. Red is for people who understand statistics, blue is for people who like to gamble.
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
Yes, I'm sure milk is all people steal. And I'm sure it's better for it to be stolen than given to food banks and charities. F off
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
> plus, if you see somebody stealing food, no, you didn't Don't tell me, in your view the cost of shoplifting is begrudgingly covered by those evil rich people who own everything, right? It's not passed down to customers,
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
> I just don't find these arguments convincing after watching my friend spend cumulative hours upon hours jumping between pirate streaming services trying to find a stable feed for every game. Then you haven't been through enou
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by xenocratus 5mo ago
> Now that you can just pay 10-20 euro for a streaming service Now that you can just pay 10-20 euros for each of 124293507239841524352 services, one of which _might_ show what you want... Fixed it for you.
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by xenocratus 6mo ago
> It's just a box of numbers, really cool numbers, with really cool math, that can do really cool things, but still just numbers. https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/TheyMade.s...
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Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church(bbc.co.uk)
119 points by xenocratus 6mo ago|49 comments
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by xenocratus 6mo ago
Neither, they're worried about bad rep.
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by xenocratus 6mo ago
> The fact is Europe hasn't offered America much of anything other than a vacation spot over the last 100 years. And there's the cookie banners too. https://youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?si=XCJWAtcZ0t633oLE
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by xenocratus 7mo ago
I mean, his name is Les Earnest, they should expect it.
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by xenocratus 9mo ago
Well in this case this is what you would've needed. Either you ignored that when you replied, or you didn't care.
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by xenocratus 9mo ago
We took that train, realised when we got to the other end of the line that we hadn't gotten where we expected, then turned back to the place where it separates. Waited for the next advertised train to airport (it's signalled on th
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by xenocratus 9mo ago
Not only unpopular, but pretty daft too. If you think the basics of a language should include "this train will separate into two at station X, please sit in the front Y carriages to get to Z" then enjoy doing a cross-Europe trip.
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by xenocratus 9mo ago
Nu sunt englez, așa cã n-o sã-ți rãspund în englezã.
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by xenocratus 9mo ago
"Show me the incentive, and I'll show you the outcome"
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by xenocratus 10mo ago
Not very "technically accurate", since it does not represent (at least some?) vassal states differently from their suzerain. For example, compare this [1] map of the Ottoman Empire with the one in this atlas. [1] https:/&#x2

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