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Costco isn't perfect, and things slip through still. For example: this is a minor annoyance, but comes readily to mind. https://www.costco.com/p/-/orgain-organic-protein-and-superf…

pulse audio's pain points were in setup for me, and in setup alone. using it has been a breeze.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI relevant link. I remember watching this video with the takeaway: if you want it secure, build it yourself... which is what I am currentl…

> Any tool that tries to enhance a low quality image or video is just going to be making up the missing data. So there is some things that instinctively don't sound correct here. A…

What are you even trying to say: "undercut the professor"... The further you try to constrain this topic into this illformed analogy the weirder it becomes. If we start off with a …

This is a silly perspective, inaccurate, and out of bounds framing. Public libraries, in this instance, is curated data from all the internet, obtained through not legal means (I d…

> "...I am a computer program that generates responses to your prompts based on what my training data tells me is most likely to be correct and sensible." This is correct only for …

I agree with this. And also think that we should train and select for trustworthy models. I also agree that these models may never truly be trustworthy.

Regardless of how correct they are, they assume liability: which is a metric that you do not improve with more bookkeepers.

does this assume a maximum of one malicious bookkeeper?

...again: liability is the key issue. Cost savings a not exactly an isolated issue here.

Why would I want both a less accurate book keeper and to incur all of the liability of doing the books myself?!

AI only needs to be better than a human, which is also fallible. But I would only accept AI note taking if it was reconciled (in a timely manner) by a human listening to the audio …

Besides the reward of a more capable brain, the reduced effects/risks of dementia, the contrarian need to argue, the altruistic desire to help neighbors with difficult problems, th…

The most compelling reason to learn to code is exactly the same reason to read lots of books (fiction or otherwise). It exercises your brain. A brain that can easily sort, parse, a…

If AI was a productivity boon: wouldn't a company employ the same or more employees to capture more market share at a competitive edge. Shedding employees because they are more eff…

...well actually... There are more combinations than merely having only X, or an XY combination. And there is more fuzziness even in the Y and X expression, as you said. It's fuzzy…

I do not believe it exists. If it is never, then it must not exist. proofs I would accept: (for Christianity) Biblically accurate angels descend onto earth, to everyone, and submit…

> Someone who does not believe in god will not be convinced to believe by a proof of god's existence. But of course that's not true. I would believe in a God with proof of their ex…

One idea that stuck out to me was an array of giant thin solar powered spinning metal Crookes radiometers magnets in a line to make a railgun-like launcher. Materially cheap to do.…

> Fiat currency isn't just a matter of belief or stories ... Then how do we, as a society, determine how much a dollar is worth?! We do use force to enforce the stories we tell abo…

Thank you for the clarification. Music is weird. My understanding was the well-tempered clavichord was one of the oldest deviations (that was written) from the concept of just into…

We actually have multiple names for all the notes - which have a 'reason' to exist. A B-double-flat and an A-natural, and G double-sharp exist, distinct for notational purposes... …

Reading causes your brain to hallucinate. Visualization is a muscle: reading is the weights at the gym.

My assumption with their intent: is that red tokens come in 'slot' a-b, and blue tokens go in 'slot' c-d - Positional encoding determining data/text. I don't think is guaranteed to…