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Aerolfos

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    Comment #49132470

    > In doing so, the article perhaps obscures the point that business collusion, I expect, is more often built around legitimate reasoning taken to illegitimate extents and conclusio…

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    Comment #49132410

    > Yeah, that kinda dark pattern / malicious compliance junk ought to be straight up illegal. It is illegal. > To comply with the regulations governing cookies under the GDPR and th…

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    Comment #49023575

    > Astronomers have pretty good terminology for stars, ...do they though? The "proper" terminology says all main sequence stars are dwarves, but nobody calls them all that in practi…

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    Comment #48750639

    Actually, that is the IAU stance. And their definition for exoplanet includes small, non-rounded objects orbiting stars which would be asteroids (or comets or whatever) if they hap…

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    Comment #48620843

    They're not very toxic, but my experience is that it's a small, elite community and they're very good at the game. You're going to have to go all in on learning the game, putting i…

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    Comment #48605072

    > Leading on from that, the staff are the most dangerous. My daughter has had generated exercises provided to her from multiple teachers, which are quite frankly entirely wrong. Th…

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    Comment #48604991

    By... another AI model. Which uses statistical generation to decide whether the answer is likely to be accurate or not.

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    Comment #48582563

    Sounds like Spain all right. The article also makes a big deal out of country-level factors like the system of autonomous communities, governance, in-house expertise etc. But all o…

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    Comment #48524897

    Because it's not open for modification by the general public? (emphasis general, not just technically minded people) Manufacturers need to pick a lane - either fully open, and then…

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    Comment #48494660

    From their mission statement: > I also object to making myself and my work depend on paying a subscription fee to anyone. I don't want an outage at Anthropic to affect my ability t…

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    Comment #48459138

    Yeah, probably. One of the worst things about LLM writing is how it makes big promises of what it can prove in some piece of writing, and then never really follows up on that, or h…

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    Comment #48458716

    What does that have to do with anything? Is reading comprehension really this bad nowadays?

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    Comment #48458484

    > > I do think they're worried about what it'll do to their prestige > Why must this always be the argument? It was the same with cryptocurrencies and NFTs, there is a specific typ…

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    Comment #48458435

    > I do think Ed in intentionally ignorant of the capabilities of LLMs. I think it's more complicated than that too. He's pretty well versed in the stated capabilities of LLMs. The …

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    Comment #48423903

    Sparta never really kicked butt, they just propagandized themselves as having done so in the past, even though their performance is pretty average compared to other city states (an…

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    Comment #48423850

    Either they're BS, or the people making these statements are self-incriminating to a terrible degree, either they don't care about their work or are outputting a very low level of …

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    Comment #48367487

    > * Valuation of the sp500, the hyperscalers and Nvidia is (mostly) reasonable based on earnings That is a hell of a statement to make (their earnings are mostly negative, after al…

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    Comment #48291382

    Or Nier, which are inspired by and connected to Shadow of the Colossus in the same way as SotC is connected to Zelda (explicitly mentioned in the article)

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    Comment #48232872

    > a big box store in a giant parking lot You know it's bad when stores don't even "have" parking lots, but are "in" them.

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    Comment #48232704

    It does, but hey the post above was complaining about recommendation apps in general so, yeah.

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    Comment #48228847

    Sponsored fear-mongering propaganda, why is this here?

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    Comment #48228794

    > Examples: we still can’t manage playlists of albums, or down signal genres of music or even artists, or separate “calm” music for sleep from all the other generative playlist ran…

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    Comment #48214054

    > > Machine learning was definitely nonexistent at that point. > Are you sure about that? Incredible statement to make, not only did machine learning exist, but neural networks exi…

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    Comment #48157803

    They have common ancestors, but it really should be "the crocodiles had split from the avian lineage", with avians including dinosaurs at that moment in time

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    Comment #48133297

    AI or not, it's such a bad article that constantly repeats itself and spends more time (and words) promising the upcoming sections and "deep insights" than it does on actually writ…