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falcor84

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    Comment #49213050

    It's a sequence of thin lines, between using Chrome out of the box, to using something like Brave, to using a highly customized Zen Browser, to having ChatGPT look up a particular …

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    Comment #49212868

    Well agreed, but it's not new, the web has been actively made user hostile by every website owner and their "273 partners".

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    Comment #49177048

    >Results: Overall, 22% of L4 crash involvements were deemed police-reportable or maybe police-reportable, and two thirds of these occurred in driverless operation. L4 vehicles were…

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    Comment #49163546

    Sorry, I'm confused. My formulation "experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person" and your "topic experts overestimate how much the …

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    Comment #49161372

    There's also the idea on the other side of the coin - whereby experts on a topic underestimate how much they know about it compared to the average person. And of course there's a r…

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    Comment #49157706

    > Especially because it takes weeks before the infected start showing symptoms. I just wanted to say that your phrasing here is a fabulously ominous one for the first episode of an…

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    Comment #49121748

    Sorry about the nitpicking, but s/monopoly/duopoly/

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    Comment #49110422

    Yes, pretty much, but stopping at the cpu level (about the first half of the course).

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    Comment #49097976

    I appreciate the grammar refresher, but my comment was about a monopoly on AI being very unlikely rather than it being an ontological impossibility. What am I missing? Why should w…

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    Comment #49096258

    What monopoly? What I'm seeing over these last 3 years is the fastest and fiercest competition I could imagine.

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    Comment #49092272

    While I'm as cynical as anyone, for what it's worth, it seems to me that such deceleration is broadly in line with their founding charter, where they wrote: > We are concerned abou…

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    Comment #49073764

    You're making this very dichotomous, but I'm not convinced. Why shouldn't there be a way to bring issues to the parliament's attention without private money? For example, while fla…

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    Comment #49030191

    I don't get the argument. It sounds to me like you're saying that because my own chess skills are insufficient to allow me to have a proper game with a grandmaster and I end up los…

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    Comment #49028252

    > Do you feel like you're having a conversation with a peer when you prompt an LLM in the topic you're an expert of? For the love of God, I'd hope not. Yes, I do feel that. Make of…

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    Comment #49026919

    But it's not the same thing. I went through this conversation between Terry Tao and ChatGPT about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample [0] and it looks a lot more like a conversa…

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    Comment #49023943

    Maybe you forgot to put "Enhance" in the prompt? /s

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    Comment #48957026

    https://archive.ph/ZgrAP

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    Comment #48918382

    But the thing with "pure" math, is that it can unexpectedly get adulterated by debased concerns such as enabling cryptography for the world economy.

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    Comment #48908610

    I'm not a grifter and am not looking to use this for anything myself, but I just found myself nerdsniped to get Codex to reproduce this, and had it also write it up as a skill - ht…

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    Comment #48908484

    Sorry, I couldn't resist and just got Codex to replicate this for me as an OCR-d page on top of an AI-generated image - https://jsfiddle.net/wmLvojr7/

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    Comment #48904283

    > Donald Knuth's code would be much more likely to meet my standards during a code review than some LLM output. Just to nitpick - will it actually? I don't know what your relations…

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    Comment #48904205

    > "Apple" is a generic name, that does not actually really express anything particularly specific. ... > "apple" as an idea doesn't really express anything concrete without lots mo…

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    Comment #48900124

    But the underlying table changed since. I'm not very familiar with these myself, but it seams to me that the best solution is to keep a session cursor for the user, and these are a…

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    Comment #48892731

    What do you mean? Are you arguing that it's impossible to fully translate things? Would you argue that "apple", "manzana", "pomme", "mela", "maçã" etc. all refer to different ideas…