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Comment #49214477
LLMs are not unbiased. Nothing is unbiased.
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Comment #49133698
> Those who are attempting to mislead won't. Sure, but this mandate means that if they're caught (which isn't unlikely), they can be fined up to 3% of revenue (not profit). Many wi…
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Comment #49125539
From their style guide: "Where you would normally pronounce the abbreviation as a string of letters - an initialism - use all capitals with no full stops or spaces (eg FA, UNHCR). …
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Comment #49058179
Yes, they have no obligations to you, just as you have no obligations to them (beyond whatever licenses apply to their content).
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Comment #48956274
What makes you think Paul Graham knows what he's talking about re: space, data centers, and the logistics of lifting data centers into space and the ongoing maintenance of them. I …
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Comment #48889462
The other parties aren't standing in this particular byelection because they (correctly) realise that it's just a media stunt by Farage, who is attempting to paint himself as a vic…
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Comment #48785375
> If you go in with the assumption that democracy does not work, then there is also no point in protesting You mean peaceful protesting. There are other kinds of protesting that ma…
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Comment #48772353
> i’m convinced we’re going to find out at some point they’re all on some kind of modern meth type drug that entirely breaks their reality It's called being out-of-touch obscenely …
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Comment #48684367
It is extremely difficult for me to care about the fate of private schools. In my opinion, they shouldn't exist. If the rich are forced to send their children to the same schools a…
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Comment #48620095
Out of pure curiosity, which UK bank was it?
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Comment #48608092
I think "over-18" posts on X within the feed are hidden behind a "please verify your age" button if you've not verified your age (in UK and parts of EU, probably Australia too). Th…
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Comment #48567593
Completely ignoring all the ways in which space data centers are fucking infeasible for a moment. Just because there are no laws in space, you still need to launch your rockets fro…
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Comment #48410043
I've just been implementing a bunch of URL-related utility functions in Go. Decided the most pragmatic solution of handling IPv6 addresses in URL hosts is to outright reject zone i…
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Comment #48381513
The stock market is not about future results, it's about gambling, especially over the last decade.
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Comment #48334946
If you buy the "AI DCs in space" pitch, you deserve to be parted from your money.
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Comment #48334844
All good points, but I think their main point of poor governance is still the pure motivation.
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Comment #48300624
You can change the audio track back to the original. Not sure if it remembers your preference, though, so if it doesn't that probably grates.
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Comment #48248450
Why is it their job to evaluate a 1m+ line code rewrite?
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Comment #48233098
All it takes is one determined journalist running experiments, or one whistleblower inside the company exposing these systems. Plus, you'd have to offer this service somehow, meani…
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Comment #48233089
I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't some sort of legal action against Google, the monopoly, to make the distinction in how their crawlers use scraped content.
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Comment #48225090
That's almost certainly illegal in many jurisdictions, and they'd definitely not be able to hide that they're doing it indefinitely. A sure way to be massively sued.
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Comment #48205238
A lot of the time they hallucinate the sources, too.
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Comment #48185686
Are you forgetting that you need to launch from one of those "suffocating regulatory states"?