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hexator

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About hexator

Software developer in Boston

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    Comment #49124832

    This just sounds cartoonishly evil

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    Comment #48985950

    I'm worried that any ban on Chinese AI models might be an excuse to get mass surveillance.

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    Comment #48984589

    I love this emerging "3D pixel art" trend. Stylized graphics always age better than realistic. And it definitely has more charm

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    Comment #48908286

    The Catskills have those environmental protection laws because they are the water source for NYC. It would be very stupid to relax those to build data centers.

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    Comment #48346312

    These people should be treated as insane, because they are.

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    Comment #48325534

    > not only is the premise wrong The blog post offers several studies as evidence, where's yours?

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    Comment #46304039

    Yes but let's not pretend this isn't a new interpretation.

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    Comment #46140271

    Moving to the Cloud proved to be a pretty nice moneymaker far faster and more concretely than AI has been for these companies. It's a fair comparison regarding corporate pushes but…

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    Comment #46140237

    Some people really do hate AI, it's not entirely about the layoffs. This is a well insulated bubble but you can find tons of anti-AI forums online.

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    Comment #46049943

    Couldn't you just say that language is just one of many avenues of thought, instead of being the only way?

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    Comment #46047191

    I keep thinking I need to get into some new AI topic like MCP, but then my procrastination pays off when it becomes outdated not even six months later.

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    Comment #46047155

    In hindsight, the previously scientific conception that Humans were somehow different than animals and that we don't have things like instincts comes across as incredibly foolish a…

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    Comment #46037380

    It's good to have competition, but they're a fair bit behind SpaceX and it's hard to see them catching up without a lot of investment.

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    Comment #46037204

    I'm a bit worried how invasive and toxic this could end up in ~10 years when OpenAI needs to push profit more.

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    Comment #46037190

    Nevertheless, Google has a remarkable trust problem with the general public.

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    Comment #46036657

    We're not talking about famine, we're talking about people living in poverty? What's your argument here? That because nobody dies of malnutrition we don't have true poverty?

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    Comment #46036650

    I can definitely see a situation where a renting single-earner six-figure household in a place like SF may require assistance. It's all about the relative cost of living and financ…

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    Comment #46036577

    Living paycheck to paycheck is not the same thing as being in poverty

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    Comment #46036540

    You can debate the exact statistics all you want, but to anyone not well off right now, both in the US and the UK, it's pretty clear there's a growing cost of living crisis and gov…

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    Comment #46036502

    That's a pretty radical claim. Do you have any sources? edit: so many downvotes from asking a simple question

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    Comment #45982439

    Well, you're right that this isn't journalism per se. But it's not trying to be, so your comment is a bit weird. Nobody is confusing the ACLU with CNN.

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    Comment #45982070

    I'm not talking about cultural differences. I'm talking about people simply being assholes online. You will always have a group of people complaining about the rules, that is inevi…

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    Comment #45981971

    "virtues" is just a loaded word now unfortunately.

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    Comment #45981778

    "enforce a set of virtues" is a weird way of saying "enforcing basic decency". Let's be clear here, people who are rightfully banned are always going to complain. Our opinions as t…