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attheballot

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    Comment #49208251

    > IMO the post-mortem is more a satirical response to the HN criticism They have edited it again to be slightly more emotional. It's why their "On Taste" closure doesn't actually p…

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    Comment #49206675

    I was expecting them to state that they were doing a bit with the post-mortem, but the punchline never came. It is even more consistently AI coded than the full text. Give us a /s,…

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    Comment #49150486

    In other words, they did not even need a prompt. You could probably skip feeding the paragraph and just told "generate visuals for the opening paragraph of the LotR", and the LLM w…

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    Comment #49150427

    I fully agree. But I do think this was a poor demonstration of the idea for another reason: Tolkien works have a HUGE corpus of training data. It's great that random users can come…

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    Comment #49150295

    Yeah, Obsidian has allow me to create a comprehensive back and frontlog of all types of media. And that is super useful to me, and I can make this little connect information base i…

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    Comment #48888926

    You know, seeing a total of 3 replies on this topic, I think the lesson here is to, from now on, with comments like this, to clearly state "Pi has * ALL* the tools, can you name on…

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    Comment #48393372

    None will. But hide them in a box, away from where others can see, and they will happily sign a piece of paper that says they do. One so called a ballot.