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Folcon

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About Folcon

If you want to email me, it's just my username at gmail =)...

My blog if you're interested is my username at github.io.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/folcon; my proof: https://keybase.io/folcon/sigs/YymyeMrkK0_DKi7E8bGp_QaSRS5yiNTakWHZvg0k3Dc ]

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Socials: - github.com/Folcon

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #49167644

    I've been wondering about this, in some sense we might hit a big cultural black hole where all these cool things that we've created in the last few decades just are functionally lo…

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    Comment #49116764

    I know right? I felt I had to share it for fellow fans

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    Comment #49112663

    I enjoyed Thimbleweed Park personally, however for all those old Monkey Island fans like myself I'd encourage you to read this[0] analysis of the game series and lore to uncover th…

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    Comment #48932992

    It seems that radio stations outside the UK cannot be listened to, can you listen to any stations outside your country?

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    Comment #48905536

    Colour me curious, my email is in my profile, fire me an invite code!

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    Comment #48905374

    > the powerful will forget their obsession with controlling and exploiting others I do find this line of reasoning overly simplistic The drive some individuals have to control / ex…

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    Comment #48889615

    Would you mind sending me an email, I'd genuinely be interested in collaborating in this if you're interested, even if it's only brainstorming / discussing I've been looking at a n…

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    Comment #48889172

    I don't know about anyone else, but this really reminds me of 0x10c [0] I'm still fascinated by the idea of a setting with virtual mini computers, I've designed a couple as thought…

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    Comment #48815817

    Que? Did you reply to the wrong thing? Or are you accusing me of being a bot? Sorry, just really having difficulty working out how your response is linked to my message

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    Comment #48815222

    Valid point, done

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    Comment #48815169

    Not just punishment, from what is implied, indefinite detention of some kind[0] It's almost like they believe taking people out of the gene pool will eventually eliminate crimes of…

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    Comment #48815061

    The problem I have with this is not that I disagree with it, it's a good observation, it's that it ignores humans are very example biased and we really don't have many good positiv…

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    Comment #48815009

    In case anyone else wanted to get to a demo quickly: https://xcancel.com/MaximeRivest/status/2073544461473169432#... Original link for those who want it: https://x.com/MaximeRivest…

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    Comment #48814916

    I do wonder if the term will make a comeback, Retrieval Augmented Generation as a concept is a fairly fundamental idea, or maybe it's considered too generic which is why tool calli…

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    Comment #48807325

    I've never heard of these before, that's fascinating, thank you!

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    Comment #48764681

    Patents are an incentive to encourage an inventor to lay out an invention or process in exchange for the state protecting that process, we did this because there have been in the p…

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    Comment #48744753

    I've very much come around to this perspective as well Our current generation of AI tools still seems to be very much not there when you really try and use it's output There's a pr…

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    Comment #48738151

    I keep coming back to the idea of taking that concept and just running with it, IE building up a toolchain alongside some concrete tasks to solve with it and just adding more detai…

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    Comment #48735740

    I mean fair, but not relevant? I'm asking you the question because a statement like 50% of [population] is making a claim to some notion of what they expect society to look like yo…

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    Comment #48735171

    Out of curiosity, what is your expected baseline of what the average person and family in the US should be able to afford?

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    Comment #48732629

    Nice art style!

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    Comment #48731485

    I actually do wonder whether we're going to see more of a prevalence of people building one off software due to an increasing use of LLM's which makes the house building model you'…

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    Comment #48731334

    When you say other engineering domains have figured this out, can you give a more specific example?

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    Comment #48708778

    So I've been wondering about whether there's a new vector that can come out of this? Or perhaps new vector isn't the right way of putting it, not a security expert :) By mass shari…