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Dilettante_

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About Dilettante_

If I seem autistic that's cause I am.

grabbag.ogg+HNpm@gmail.com (Please include the subaddress(after the plus) for context, or substitute it with your own handle or something.)

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    Comment #49154474

    "Failure to Ground"?

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    Comment #49107610

    Back in the eighties we had to jerk off all our clients manually

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    Comment #49083665

    True, this is more of a "honk honk"(like a clown nose) type situation.

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    Comment #49083636

    I did understand that analogy from your first comment, because I have neither been living under a rock for the past few years nor suffered a heavy concussion minutes before making …

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    Comment #49080718

    Using LLMs to find errors and using LLMs to produce error-free artifacts are two extremely different levels of challenge.

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    Comment #49080451

    There should be/does anyone know if there is a name for this? When you truth-check exactly once and then just blindly runaway after that? Edit: Apparently in medicine there exists …

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    Comment #49065061

    > Locally we've got an overpopulation of goats, and apparently they're going to start shooting them from helicopters. Metal!

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    Comment #49045220

    These are always cherry-picked, though. They tell you about the 1/10 that went really impressively, ignoring the other 9 shots at the task where the clanker started to try selling …

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    Comment #49034017

    Pentagons are plenty occult fnord!

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    Comment #48990712

    Maybe they do get it, but are choosing to lean more into the authenticity angle. An art form, a medium, evolves when new cultures and sub-cultures take it up and add their own stuf…

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    Comment #48829519

    >the goal that it must never fail That's a good way to put it

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    Comment #48810413

    "Very experienced" might mean different things to you. The oldest repo on their GH is from 2017. As for highly skilled: Could you point closer to which parts of their portfolio we …

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    Comment #48786385

    Wow, it's so human already!

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    Comment #48775415

    > Consciousness tries to make things up, it learns that people notice this, it then begins trying to construct justifications that won't be predictably called out as false. There's…

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    Comment #48682120

    Oops, I just gormlessly assumed you meant the other one because I also had the (2006) one in the "unsuccessful/failure"-Bucket in my head. Sorry about that.

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    Comment #48670110

    Look at this hotshot who can't relate to massive losers! /j

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    Comment #48664619

    You actually aren't: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prey_(2006_video_game)

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    Comment #48664101

    You haven't been putting in any good-faith effort into having a "productive conversation" for at least three of your responses, setting up "This is how things are" with no attempt …

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    Comment #48659288

    What's wrong with me is I'm autistic enough to expect people to be able to follow arguments. I did not say "There are no differences between Government Bonds and Prediction Markets…

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    Comment #48659143

    > if there was any more EV to be gained, people with more money than you would have exhausted it In a perfect market that everyone participates in and in which everyone has perfect…

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    Comment #48659063

    The cryptocurency was also made with work. Hardware, electricity, and time were invested into the 1 unit of crypto. It's literally called Proof-Of-Work.

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    Comment #48653309

    But that's about juicing the maximum amount out of each bet, not about the matter of simply winning or losing(which was what I was originally responding to). If any situation one d…

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    Comment #48653164

    > just to be clear we are discussing gambling and not investing Where's the demarcation? The whole point of this sub-thread was "you absolutely can predict the outcome of some of t…

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    Comment #48653006

    Can you help me better grasp this? My intuition is thus: Sure, if I'm going at it like a proper rationalist, I'd have to do things like calculate expected value or whatever(I fully…

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    Comment #48652775

    Not only did you miss the point of the conversation entirely, you're attacking a point I explicitly addressed in my comment. I well understand how the system works, ggps comment ha…