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Comment #49253288
Firefighters, schools, tax collection, well fare programs Or are you suggesting these would turn as problematic as zero-privacy surveillance systems in case the government becomes …
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Comment #48742539
Textbook fallacy fallacy.
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Comment #48616917
Maybe it’s like that trick where if a thousand people guess the amount of beans in a jar almost all of them will be wrong but their average will be very close to, if not, correct.
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Comment #48394249
I doubt it. I'm stupid and I use LLMs a lot but I can still meditate for 30 minutes. But apparently some of the smartest people in the world have lost the skill? But the commenter …
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Comment #48333172
I feel there's an interesting juxtaposition between these two quotes: "The economy has absorbed automation before; agricultural employment collapsed from ninety percent of the Amer…
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Comment #48047142
To me this is semantics as far as it's related to "why don't you want to learn?" I have a co-worker in another team that write java endpoins we consume. I can tell him what I need …
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Comment #48047047
Yes, but that's a completely different argument (that I agree with). Essentially, yes they are conceptually similar but one is bad because you have to pay rent to use it.
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Comment #48045346
>Also, when did we stop liking to learn? Why is it a bad thing to know all the ins and outs of a programming language? I do not know the inns and out of the assembly layer my high …
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Comment #48033125
>The difference between a puppy and a cockroach is that we can relate better to the puppy. I suppose the difference between a human and a cockroach is that we can relate better to …
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Comment #48004729
It's not novel in the sense that nobody knew about img2img. It's novel in the sense that nobody thought of using img2img to solve this problem in this way.
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Comment #47708959
There's a certain irony in the fact that whoever you're responsing to got their message removed.
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Comment #47671579
Of course you're not one of "us" if you're one of "them".
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Comment #47657582
Wow, never thought about the fact that the system deteriorates from having more than one option
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Comment #47623556
Sorry I'm from Sweden and our banks have a service called Swish where we can send money on the phone. Paying in cash is extremely uncommon now a days. Every time I've bought or sol…
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Comment #47560899
Yes but "the search space is too large" is something that has been said about innumerable AI-problems that were then solved. So it's not unreasonable that one doubts the merit of t…
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Comment #47539713
The whole fight with Anthropic was because they wanted to use it for mass surveillance (and autonomous weapon systems). How is mass surveillance not orwellian.
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Comment #47499040
>Hey that's a weird thing in the result that hints at some other vector for this thing we should look at Kinda funny because that looked _very_ close to what my Opus 4.6 said yeste…
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Comment #47437615
That's silly, they don't want to manage people, they prefer to build actually useful things. I've recently learned how many programmers actually don't care about building things. T…
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Comment #47346840
You see how that's a circular reasoning? The defense budget should by all accounts be called the war budget if we look at how it's spent (Iran).
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Comment #47346829
But... you ARE blowing things up with it?
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Comment #47346811
I think you're the one applying anti-vax logic here. Imagine beating a guy up for looking at you wrong and then get into a semantic argument with the judge on how you shouldn't be …
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Comment #47332452
Problem is that "others with AI" aren't producing what I consume, i.e food, heat, clothing, housing and health care. They're just producing what I produce, i.e software.
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Comment #47205549
Or it could have just been a genuine question. I'm not American and I've seen DoW used in newspapers and thought the name change was official. Personally I've thought it a more apt…
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Comment #47205531
On the other hand calling it "Department of Defense" seems quite whitewashing of what it actually does.
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Comment #47066942
So slightly before 1440 was peak Truth for humanity?