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Are you kidding? That's an insane amount of load increase to manage. "Scalability" isn't one thing, especially not at that level, so it's ridiculous to knock them for it. That amou…

Someone else quoted a 14x increase in load due to AI hammering github. I wouldn't be at all shocked if that was true, considering how much AI tools are DDOSing the entire internet.…

Now you have two problems lol, in that you don't know if the tests are any good or actually test the thing in question. Sooner or later you run out of turtles to put on the stack.

Nah. You can succeed in every single individual thing but fail at the overall project because the parts don't align into anything that makes sense. If you need examples, look at ga…

We don't have sci-fi AI, and in any case "this thing is now possible, therefore [much more difficult thing] will be possible soon" is not a rational thought.

People have been talking about this for literally a hundred years at this point. It's not a thing and isn't gonna be one.

I mean, it is. Textiles are a technology. Extracting usable fiber from plants or animals was something we invented, so is making yarn. Knitting was invented, and shaping cloth to a…

The Dispossessed. If you like that one, you'll like the rest of her work.

Not a lawyer, but have friends who are, and the answer is absolutely not lol. A lot of legal language looks like code, sure. It can be formulaic and full of terms of art ("actual m…

> 2) composition of the workplace will change (more women will elect not to participate) What? Why on earth would it specifically hit women?

> Going with the possibly-hallucinated AI answer is rational as long as you know the hallucination rate isn't 100% I hadn't even considered people might evaluate knowledge that way…

> is it so surprising that people tend to trust it more Yes and no. I think most people would agree that Wikipedia is, on the whole, a pretty great first resource on anything. It t…

If you ask that, you fundamentally misunderstand the point. It's not about the LLM, it's about whether people will critically evaluate what it spits out.

And they can get you for theft, etc, if you do. Sometimes the social and legal controls are far more effective.

No, I don't have anything like that. I have a friend with diagnosed OCD and that is an entirely different beast. And I have tried cutting that stuff out (was never big on most of i…

Yeah, that does nothing. I love to cook, and I can cook super healthy and like it. I'm still hungry lol. There's a part of my brain that constantly thinks about food. It's like tin…

Why? There's zero prizes for unnecessary struggle. It doesn't make you a better person, it just means you struggled more.

Yeah, I posted elsewhere about it, but GLPs instantly switched that feeling off like it was throwing a breaker. It's wild.

It's more like...you just don't want them? It's kind of wild. The first week I took them, I discovered there was a loop in my brain that was constantly thinking about food, and I n…

Why? They both get you to the same place, and one is vastly more likely to work. I don't get the weird moralizing around this.

Not...really? It's pretty normal. Tech companies share intelligence and knowledge all the time -- there are a lot of birds of a feather and consortium groups out there. Since a lot…

Silicon Valley is not as large as it might seem, and knowledge sharing and consortiums and working groups happen a lot. You can complain about supply chain problems, or you can act…

Threatening to revoke the rights and freedoms of your fellow citizens and put them in a hellhole is pretty antisocial and sociopathic behavior, my dude. That makes me suuuuper unco…

Considering that's where all the people and money are in this country, it's clearly not a problem for most folk. You're entitled to your outlier opinion, of course.

I'm hearing this high pitched sound, does anyone else hear that? I clicked and scrolled through several of those studies, and those snippets are incredibly misleading. I would reco…