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You need to be smarter (or rather: more knowledgeable in the problem domain) than the model to be able to use it efficiently. Hallucinations are still a problem occasionally but a …

The problem is that you can't have content moderation without having editorial intent. There is no such thing as "neutral moderation". Most moderated spaces these days rely on mode…

We really need to stop thinking in terms of individuals and more in terms of systems. The problem isn't just Musk. If it wasn't him, it would be someone else.

I know this will sound inconceivable to you but some people genuinely think nobody should have that much money - including themselves. If you want to make it sound irrational and e…

I'm sure they'll get around to building that electric VTOL Elon Musk has been "recently thinking about" for the past decade eventually, too.

I would strongly recommend against taking legal advice from anyone who is not your lawyer, whether they're a greasy dweeb or working for Microsoft's or Oracle's legal department. Y…

Fun fact: because AI written works don't have copyright (in the EU at least) and the level of prompting many people engage in doesn't suffice to create a copyrightable "work" and s…

You had me at "dick workout".

It's a war between Israel and the US vs Iran that was literally initiated by the US after a meeting between Trump and Netanyahu. Also Israel is a rogue state that has been committi…

This would be a lot more concerning if it wasn't widely known that Israel also illegally holds nuclear weapons of its own and therefore should have been sanctioned by the US for de…

The article also states that Iran shot down the fighter jet the US had to recover the weapons officer of. I recall news reports at the time insisting that this was actually an acci…

True. Hitting the water reservoir is childsplay compared to the targeted attack on a girls' school with which the US decided to open this war when Iran was signalling agreement to …

So this is how I find out that in Verdana lowercase pi looks exactly like lowercase Cyrillic п (pe), i.e. like an open rectangle rather than a bit curvy.

While I agree that the word has been misused by some bad actors in the "Woke 1.0 era", it's worth pointing out that this isn't what most people complaining about the word being "di…

180 children lost their lives because of decisions by people in the US military (and ultimately the US government / the POTUS). Let's not fall into the trap of adopting narratives …

Rampant capitalism is kinda genre-defining for Cyberpunk so Cyberpunk without corporations wouldn't really be Cyberpunk. _The Matrix_ only qualifies as Cyberpunk because within the…

The cited snippet is in TFA. Did you read it? Did you read the Hindustan Times article either? Because that one doesn't actually include any relvant statement, it just contains the…

If this site ever was anti-racist, that must have been a long time ago. I threw away my old account many years ago only to come back with this one (because it's difficult to comple…

If I understand correctly, the current outcome is that the twin remains on the birth certificate but his legal rights granted by paternity have been suspended? I understand the rea…

Claude is not a person and AI doesn't gain authorship let alone copyright. Unless you literally vibe coded it, Claude is just a tool. This is the equivalent of Apple appending "Sen…

I find it jarring how in recent years so many Americans (and especially American politicians) seem to have given up on the idea that the US should have any claim to moral superiori…

Considering that the concern is mostly and specifically about LLMs being used to automate decisions to commit acts of violence against humans: depends on how invested you are in ma…

Just as an unscientific anecdata point: from a quick test using the same prompt about being an independent journalist wanting to cover a report of the US/Israel/Iran double-tapping…

Admitting this kind of conflicts with the One China Policy and the implicit Han Supremacist attitude prevalent in CCP politics but China is ethnically diverse compared to Korea and…

Both the "nice guy" and the "asshole" are insecure. The latter is just better at masking their insecurities in such a way that others mistake it for confidence. This is especially …