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howrar

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    Comment #39079128

    How could the validation layer be affected by the presence of these substrings?

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    Comment #39022945

    It's also helpful in that you can now take insights from and apply it to . Many things are easier to reason about when framed a little differently.

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    Comment #38829974

    I don't think it's possible to make everyone happy here. I find it a lot faster and easier to scan the titles when there's more whitespace between them. If they're too close togeth…

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    Comment #38686846

    I would say that the interesting part of this article is that you can treat mosquito bites with hyperthermia. Anyone who's had any contact with technology already knows that you ca…

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    Comment #38623165

    Whenever I read about anything self-hosted, it's always about not being reliant on a single third party to provide the services you need. If you control the software and the data, …

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    Comment #38512674

    Talking about Copilot, not ChatGPT, but it saves so much time when it comes to boilerplate code, naming variables, writing comments/documentation/descriptive error messages. Things…

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    Comment #38321020

    Everything is hard until you solve it. Some things continue to be hard after they're solved. AGI is not solved, therefore it's hard.

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    Comment #38320943

    Every token is already being generated with all previously generated tokens as inputs. There's nothing about the architecture that makes this hard. It just hasn't been trained on t…

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    Comment #38320792

    You can't even know that other people have it. We just assume they do because they look and behave like us, and we know that we have it ourselves.

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    Comment #38320420

    Well, that's the goal isn't it? Having AI take over everything that needs doing so that we can focus on doing things we want to do instead.

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    Comment #38258302

    > If you can quantify the "indirect benefits" I get from services you chose to use without my input, then you can quantify the indirect benefits a lemonade stand gets from the thea…

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    Comment #38244253

    > My lemonade stand doesn’t owe the cinema you decided to open up next to me any money. Generally, if a private cinema opens up and stays open, it's because they've determined that…

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    Comment #38237976

    That works for things that only benefit the person directly using the service, and shipping packages would probably be one of those. It doesn't work if you get indirect benefits fr…

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    Comment #37840272

    You never reach 100% freedom and security. You only approach it asymptotically as you gain more money. So maybe for some, their threshold for "enough" is higher than you think. May…

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    Comment #37802639

    The current trend in AI isn't all of AI, and any kind of work with the goal of producing AGI would definitionally be classified as AI.