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greggoB

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    Comment #49257126

    This sounds like the basis of a scam involving a company called Clark that I had the displeasure of dealing with in the past. From what I understand, they had/have an operation run…

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    Comment #49210267

    > creative and high quality generative AI content So high quality I can certainly acknowledge because indeed the output from these models can be indistinguishable from human genera…

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    Comment #49194067

    > There is a grey area here of calls from businesses which the customer is signed up to Pretty much exactly how it is in Switzerland. I once had a rather unpleasant experience with…

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    Comment #49175598

    I think we're slightly below average with 20 vacation days per year as the legal minimum (compared to 25 on average in the EU?). Still significantly higher than the US, and with no…

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    Comment #49128492

    Understood, I've read the guidelines and will endeavour to follow them.

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    Comment #49121880

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49121842

    Yeah I see there are a bunch of other comments confirming so

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    Comment #49110021

    > To do so would be a breach of fiduciary duty Is openAI not technically still a nonprofit? In any case, this argument doesn't make sense, it's like saying Boeing didn't have a cho…

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    Comment #49101367

    > we need to be vegetarian In my experience it's been vegan even :P And yes, agreed, this is indeed counterproductive virtue signalling.

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    Comment #49091004

    Hard to tell what you're specifically bothered by - is it a focus on emissions that aren't specifically fossil fuels burned for electricity, or "shame, shame garbage", as you put i…

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    Comment #49089265

    > People who complain about aviation do more harm than good. I find this a bit hard to swallow. It speaks to a sense of impunity wrt emissions for a demographic that very arguably …

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    Comment #49053388

    Transformative implies neither good nor bad. You started this thought in your original comment re social media and how that's now possibly perceived as a net negative, despite the …

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    Comment #48976211

    Strange, I don't remember seeing the blog post link there - I must have just skipped over that. In general I found some parts provided interesting info (e.g. Kagi bought a t-shirt …

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    Comment #48971717

    > If you ask them what guarantees you have that they won't someday decide to sell your search history, their response will be "well, it doesn't make financial sense for us to do so…

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    Comment #48933919

    > We are very good at inventing entire people out of single opinions we read Can you clarify what this is supposed to mean?

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    Comment #48932099

    I don't understand this sentence.

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    Comment #48927230

    The comment actually describes a known social process, with a reasonable base assumption given that said leadership has shown a pattern in this regard. Just throwing out debate ter…

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    Comment #48927164

    I think examples such as letting people nudify children qualifies xAI as a bad actor without having to be political.

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    Comment #48913489

    All "shady sites" happen to belong to business created in 1949? That's quite the coincidence.

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    Comment #48799787

    > one of them had a seizure It's insane to me how much dogs are supposedly loved by such a large chunk of the pop, and yet people proceed to go apeshit with fireworks fully knowing…

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    Comment #48771793

    These sound like two entitely disconnected points, also sans facts? I could get 25 gbps in Switzerland for CHF 69 pm right now through init7. From what I've seen, this would be con…

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    Comment #48744407

    Not everybody across the world is doing that in equal measure (I've not heard of a concerted effort by Europeans travelling to the US to give birth in contemporary times). People m…

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    Comment #48739429

    Are any of these stipulated as criteria anywhere? There's also proportion of adult in prisons, people who believe in angels, and the mass-shooting high score > AC units per capita …

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    Comment #48734043

    Define successful? (You'll probably want to avoid metrics like happiness indices and life expectancy though)

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    Comment #48734012

    As a non-US citizen, birthright citizenship has always struck me as strangely unique to America - in my mind it comes from a time when it was actively trying to populate the contin…