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ifdefdebug

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    Comment #49180906

    You mean 1024 right?

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    Comment #49052630

    minesweeper works seemingly until you find some number that don't sum up...

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    Comment #48980166

    As long as trying to break that fiction has real-world consequences like jail time etc., it will work anyway.

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    Comment #48976335

    > Is GPT5.6 Sol Superhuman? This is not a simple y/n question. Computers have been superhuman at playing chess for decades now. Reading this article, I guess they are superhuman at…

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    Comment #48949382

    And to keep around a concurrent browser with full adblock abilities so they can cripple their own without too much of an outcry.

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    Comment #48751844

    Because your sex slave uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion?

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    Comment #48751793

    > The company says the robot completes Laundry Flow and Daily Reset tasks autonomously by default, but uses teleoperation assistance when needed to guarantee task completion. Does …

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    Comment #48706206

    Do you want the honest answer?

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    Comment #48607176

    Everybody and their grandma can "use AI". Reading (and understanding what you read), writing (coherently) and calculating (in your head) are those basic skills that need to be trai…

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    Comment #48282597

    well I see more problematic the people actually doing the Iran attacks and murder of heads of state. Betting on those is distasteful, but doing those things is where the damage lie…

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    Comment #48075094

    > So if instead of text we come up with a different representation for mathematical or physical problems, that could both improve But then, wouldn't we first have to translate all …

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    Comment #47923480

    This is like saying that talking about my financial limitations is irrelevant because Jeff Bezos also has financial limitations...

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    Comment #46265615

    well I AM aware that my comments here are shared with the whole world, which Y Combinator startups are a subset of...

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    Comment #45912261

    it's actually black and white, and needed some programming to work like this.

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    Comment #45902052

    I have an e-ink photo frame on the wall that switches picture once every 24h, picking one of my pictures of the last 10+ years by random. So every single one of my tens of thousand…

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    Comment #45381493

    But transistor designers didn't pivot away from designing transistors. They left Facebook and all the other stuff to others and kept designing better transistors.

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    Comment #45228018

    Sure, now show us how to recycle spent fuel rods (and become a billionaire).

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    Comment #44485627

    Newton's laws are a good enough approximation for many tasks so it's not a "false understanding" as long as their limits are taken into account.

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    Comment #44363975

    Analogy doesn't work because the bomb came first and the reactor later, that is, regarding fission the reactor isn't even here yet. And it was clear from the beginning that the cha…

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    Comment #44186220

    No way I get into a car that has a human driver who literally has no skin in the game.

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    Comment #44177909

    The fact check will come when some foreign soldier kicks in the door to your basement computer room.

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    Comment #44165382

    haha that word. back in the 80ies,some polish friends of mine taught me that but refused to tell me what it meant and instructed me to never, ever use it. Until today I don't know …

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    Comment #43854654

    Obviously they are not talking about the difference between the two browsers, but between the two situations. Your post looks like you chose the least charitable interpretation in …

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    Comment #43723443

    Recent claims that current LLMs pass the Turing test seem to be wildly exaggerated.

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