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you can believe a small, irrelevant lie and still go on happy. a very big lie sucks in more and more of your reality until you have to disbelieve your own eyes and ears.

if you ask the chatbots for "list of top unsolved math problems", the JC comes in at a ranking of around #10 - #20. what, a problem that's been unsolved since 1939 was cracked beca…

no matter how good AI gets, i think it will never reach human-level in our ability to move goalposts

this is that xkcd "regular people can only name a few common feldspars" meme. over 90% of consumers have no knowledge at all of tech corps' philosophy on user freedom, they just bu…

https://pauseai.info/

yes, the third kind of AI user. kind of similar to the three kinds of soccer players: offence, defence, and people who don't play soccer. thanks for the comment!

lots of normal people like emoji. the kind of normal people who have never heard of hacker news

yeah, i type on a corne everyday: https://mark.stosberg.com/markstos-corne-3x5-1-keyboard-layo... having gotten over the learning curve, i definitely prefer it over conventional ke…

>Thanks to social services, the number of Americans who are in extreme poverty is approximately zero. or 4.19 million, if you wanted to spend 2 minutes and look up [the source]( ht…

what is your goal? what do you expect would be the pros and cons of linux or mac? personally, i tried macOS 2 years ago and got frustrated by all the restrictions and differences f…

1% of people post/comment, 99% like/retweet or just read. everyone you read on the internet is weird by default

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it's about twice as thick as any other typical phone

if you can't think of a way to reliably distinguish AIs from humans, that observation alone should raise great concerns which eclipse "spam comments on forums" or "bad results on g…

name 5 tasks which you think current AIs can't do. then go and spend 30 minutes seeing how current AIs can do on them. write it on a sticky note and put it somewhere that you'll se…

of course not. it's fun to mod and geek out about random topics. i also assume that if you have RSI/carpal tunnel/etc then experimenting with your keyboards switches from negative …

"I set a plate on a table, and glass next to it. I set a marble on the plate. Then I pick up the marble, drop it in the glass. Then I turn the glass upside down and set it on the p…

i mean... you're saying if signal weren't secure, trump's clown cabinet would stop using it? the guy who kept boxes of top secret documents in a bathroom at mar-a-lago? you don't t…

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would you rather the LLM make up something that sounds right when it doesn't know, or would you like it to claim "i don't know" for tasks it actually can figure out? because presum…

it is not written in the constitution, the bible, or the laws of physics that people have to wake at the time called 6am and have to leave work at a time called 5pm. people can cho…

AI skeptics have predicted 10 of the last 0 bursts of the AI bubble. any day now...

sure, i can explain it. it's called "general intelligence"