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hcta

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    Comment #48835750

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism

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    Comment #46747226

    The figures (150 verbal IQ, etc.) seem to be plucked out of thin air, and the central idea---that there would be an IQ 'threshold' separating people who can be successful/good writ…

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    Comment #45958530

    Trying to show off how smart one is is probably part of the motivation behind many interesting comments posted on here, and more generally, a big motivation behind a huge number of…

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    Comment #45935219

    I located this course https://github.com/ATOMSLab/LFSE2024 with video lectures @ https://www.youtube.com/@tylerjosephson8860 . Let us know if it's good

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    Comment #44851650

    This guy was (is) a whole other level of genius.

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    Comment #44842641

    if you're going to claim that something is not a valid translation of a word, you should probably know what it means first--duh?

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    Comment #44297054

    > We recruited a total of 54 participants for Sessions 1, 2, 3, and 18 participants among them completed session 4. > We used electroencephalography (EEG) to record participants' b…

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    Comment #42349549

    They have each made the individual choice not to invest more effort in solving the case, the same as you have probably done.

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    Comment #41586106

    "so-and-so is crazy, so nothing they do can be explained" is right up there with intelligent design as a useless paradigm for understanding the world.

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    Comment #41454786

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41440759

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/loo#English

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    Comment #40896376

    i have a local llm installed already but thanks

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    Comment #40896353

    Then let us not descend to the level of our inferiors but maintain an intelligent standard of discussion. There is no reason to cry whataboutism which is what you are doing here in…

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    Comment #40893629

    The idea of "whataboutism" as something not "okay" is a rhetorical manipulation tactic.

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    Comment #40085343

    1. what you're describing as a "file" is really no different from a "password". I assume you're choosing to call it a "file" because you're picturing generating some huge blob, but…

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    Comment #39438385

    should've just used a neural net

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    Comment #37605988

    you say that like it is a bad thing. Sign me up for the plane of existence without management frameworks please.

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    Comment #37088844

    surely being able to construct a turing-complete computing device is a sufficient condition to qualify as general intelligence, and it seems like a reasonable bar for considering a…

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    Comment #36890448

    This post seems almost completely vacuous to me. I guess you could read it to mean that if a person cheats, there must be some "societal problem" causing it. That would seem to imp…

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    Comment #36469629

    Write a manual on how to do it, and then market yourself as a writer. What is your secret?

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    Comment #35664092

    what shenanigans? This reads like a kind of FUD. Once your software has been released under the GPL, you can continue developing it under the terms of the GPL.

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    Comment #35562563

    I wouldn't guess the risk of this causing major damage is greater than >1%, but it still seems like an unnecessary risk. It is a finger searching for a button and there are buttons…

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    Comment #34064347

    It's interesting to me how people will react to something that seems over-the-top ridiculous with responses along the lines of "omg, this has to be satire"---seemingly without cons…