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geraldalewis
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About geraldalewis
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Comment #46129915
Apotheosis of enshitification.
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Comment #45469620
> rightsholders
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Comment #45456670
This seems like a parody, but I think it's not.
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Comment #45255858
> weren't just laborers I'm trying to read that in a charitable way: you're pointing out that, to a person who is fine with being cruel to laborers, they might not be comfortable w…
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Comment #41449824
This seems to me like the apotheosis of Jef Raskin's Humane Interface - super cool!
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Comment #41278404
I give this project five bags of popcorn and a little commemorative octocat keychain.
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Comment #40305271
I think this glamorizes and engenders an unhealthy relationship to work. “Rock star” and “ninja coder” works the same lever Steve Jobs used in the 70s to take advantage of smart pe…
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Comment #40152282
I thought it was interesting, but I think citations are needed.
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Comment #40058892
Sorry for the meta-commentary, but I don’t think it warrants its own post: wow the Overton window has shifted right on HN. I’ve noticed it with other comment threads but this one d…
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Comment #38214828
This seems like barely-massaged LLM content and/or just a bad marketing page.
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Comment #37538813
> All I want for Christmas is a GPT-4 level model with less obnoxious RLHF, and if it heils Hitler occasionally while crapping out awk code, so be it. What an ignorant thing to say…
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Comment #37116289
I have only seen the first two images, but Paul Bourne + something that looks like non -Abelian sand piles!
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Comment #35909955
I think the latter -- I encountered the same thing.
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Comment #35909852
Sometimes Gandalf adds punctuation unprompted!
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Comment #35520983
> For most people, performance on one type of cognitive task (e.g. verbal reasoning) is highly correlated with performance on the other types of cognitive tasks. It's cool that tha…
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Comment #35520931
He went through the trouble of citing his sources, you should too.
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Comment #35520643
I think this video by `Shaun` is informative and well-researched (articles and books are cited). It's long; the creator isn't especially succinct, but it's as entertaining as the m…
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Comment #30509414
Being scared/stressed/panicked by a nuclear attack during a pandemic is reasonable. Trying to be conscious about taking care of your mental health during a traumatic event is hard …
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Comment #30509242
The comments here are silly. You can absolutely prioritize your risks, which means you’re not precluded from taking sensible precautions if you’re able to. This isn’t rock/paper/sc…
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Comment #29052295
It's 90 minutes, but ContraPoints' videos are really great. Here's her perspective on J.K. Rowling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us
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Comment #28936279
I think up-voting folks need to re-read this article with a more critical eye. It's def not up to the standards I'm used to seeing on HN.
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Comment #28477914
Holy smokes, there are some tone-deaf comments in here
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Comment #26070649
Reporters like Brandy Zadrozny and Ben Collins were writing about the threats extremists were making before Jan 6th. That's not "junior high hall-monitor tattling"; that's reportag…
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Comment #6004109
That is the most beautiful handwriting I have ever seen.