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dpkirchner

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About dpkirchner

just some rando

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    Comment #49197777

    By my recollection the devolution started around 30 years ago.

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    Comment #49189498

    It looks like Radiate is an app-mandatory secondary ticket marketplace, I might be looking at the wrong Radiate though.

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    Comment #49189475

    I assure you I am indeed uncool.

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    Comment #49177227

    It's easy, you just need to hold your phone such that your eyes are pointed directly at the ads as they scroll up and down the screen. Thank you for consuming content.

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    Comment #49134329

    And recording your voice for fine tuning models they could then use to trick your friends/family/banks.

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    Comment #49092336

    If this were true, far right mainstream media (eg Newsmax, NY Post) would not have the viewership and readership they enjoy. In any case, few people here (and in general, IME) are …

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    Comment #49087360

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    Comment #48972489

    The last few times I tried to go bowling I was turned away because I was the wrong kind of customer. I didn't know when my kind was allowed (it wasn't on the outdoor signs). Layer …

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    Comment #48968068

    They'd even delete chats. You'd see, in comments, someone inviting the author to chat, but the link would (in the present) take you to a 404 page. Did the question get an answer? D…

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    Comment #48910716

    It's recently replaced "honest" with "straight". "Belt-and-suspenders" is still common, I don't know when they'll replace it.

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    Comment #48840890

    I had Claude make a world cloud from its responses because I was curious to see how big "honest" would be. It barely showed up, so I asked it to just give me the counts and it resp…

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    Comment #48789462

    I wish humans that make up "facts" would admit to it as readily as LLMs do. Even though I know it's just a training trick to ground the response.

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    Comment #48789431

    Whichever one you are more likely to do with friends and family, I'd say. IME that's TV because we're experiencing the same thing. If you're alone, it's probably a wash.

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    Comment #48774164

    And what of passengers?

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    Comment #48632847

    I'm pretty sure some agent harnesses read both files when present, so this @ "aliasing" is more token efficient.

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    Comment #48621614

    I wonder if they've deployed Mythos' pen testing against Persona?

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    Comment #48621601

    If it gives them a leg up, sure, why not?

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    Comment #48609859

    In person ID requirements all rely on punishing merchants if a minor fools them with a fake ID which aligns the incentives pretty well. It's hard to imagine how that would work onl…

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    Comment #48606616

    > How do adults declare themselves as adults without teenagers claiming to be adults also? It's pretty much impossible, so we should stop trying. It's exhausting seeing politicians…

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    Comment #48599566

    A dozen times a day, every day? No thanks.

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    Comment #48599532

    > Most people are just very nice and love chatting a bit as well In my experience, this depends on the context. Everywhere I've lived the only time strangers try to talk to me is t…