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SrslyJosh

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About SrslyJosh

Mostly harmless.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49014088

    This is hard to understand without any references. Can you please share a relevant link or two?

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    Comment #48853376

    > We're in the same situation now, with your access to the Internet - commerce, social networking, information - going through a walled garden of Gemini or OAI or Ant or Perplexity…

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    Comment #48573228

    So, using artificial intelligence requires more expertise than not using it?

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    Comment #48573210

    > The writing was fine, and each individual paragraph was fine, but the whole thing together was meandering and dare I say pointless. It was so many words and yet so little seems t…

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    Comment #48056699

    > "Agents need control flow, not more prompts" Can't wait for ya'll to come full circle and invent programming from first principles.

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    Comment #48056685

    I can't tell if this is satire or not. Well done!

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    Comment #48027804

    Rules for thee but not for me.

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    Comment #47968467

    Yes, no credit if I have to ask someone to turn it off for me. It could obviously be a toggle here in the US.

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    Comment #47811720

    [flagged]

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    Comment #47811438

    > "coding the old way" You mean the way that the majority of code is still written by professionals?

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    Comment #47785032

    > A lot of people got into crypto because they want to manage their own money uncontrollable laughter

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    Comment #47785026

    Not "investing" in cryptocurrency would be a good start. =)

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    Comment #47711621

    > The Fremont factory lines that built those cars are converting to manufacture Optimus humanoid robots: one million units per year at $20,000 each, with public sales beginning in …

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    Comment #47591348

    This is where I stopped reading: > Scotty was built with the help of AI So it sounds like my heuristic worked. =)

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    Comment #47591328

    I can't think of a less useful avenue of research in cryptography right now.

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    Comment #46997639

    I think that the ideas of AI boosters and other tech maximalists will pretty much always "struggle to land" with normal people. (See also: the ring ad.)

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    Comment #46995540

    That's not a search box.

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    Comment #46991761

    > the AI did respond graciously and appears to have learned from it I have a bridge for sale, if you're interested.

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    Comment #46249773

    Because it's simpler, duh.

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    Comment #45973907

    > The middle class have financially benefited very little from the past 20+ years of productivity gains. More like the last 50 years. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/0…

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    Comment #45906955

    Using an LLM for a "financial workflow" makes as much sense as integrating one with Excel. But who needs correct results when you're just working with money, right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Comment #45852745

    Detecting "human speech" means shutting out people who cannot speak and rely on TTS for verbal communication.

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    Comment #45828899

    Durable execution paired with an unpredictable text generator? Sign me up! /s

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    Comment #45736804

    The key word here is "if". https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robert-jr-caruso-23080180_ai-...

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    Comment #45683581

    > An October 2024 report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime described the use of Starlink in fraud operations. About 80 “Starlink satellite dishes linked to cyber-enab…