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One of those things is not like the others...

Yeah, I'm sure you're right. I was looking purely at orbital mechanics and gravity, but I think a four-stellar-mass black hole would certainly have other harmful environmental effe…

I don't doubt that those detectors are generally correct. Pangram seems to be particularly accurate. I see independent evaluations ranging from 97% accurate to over 99%. Frankly, I…

I tend to judge false accusations (when done negligently or maliciously) as harshly as whatever the accusations are of. Falsely claiming somebody is a liar is as bad as lying. Clai…

Well, it's jacobin.com.

I always got voted down when I posted the evaluation of the parent articles I got from my Ouija board. I just want to help people understand whether they should just reject bad art…

People are doing it, but not that much, because while it generates some pretty good five-second scenes, it fails terribly at generating any long-form video. And by long-form, I mea…

Well put. We need to make lawyering more like programming, in the sense that it should be open to the everyman... not make programming credentialed and licensed like a professional…

At 5 AU, gravitational force would be 1/25 or 4% the strength of the sun at 1 AU. If the black hole was four solar masses, it would exert a pull about 16% as strong as the sun. Pro…

Another article from that site: "Male students show more tolerance for political enemies than females show for their own allies" I don't necessarily disbelieve it, but it made me l…

"To evolve consciousness, an LLM would have to be programmed to evolve consciousness, and to do that, we would need to know what consciousness is and how to program it." I think th…

It's a subjective view that a huge number of UX designers absolutely believe is 100% factual, unfortunately.

What if he wanted his great-grandkids to benefit from his work?

I would argue that the initial development of windows 95 incorporated one of the most extensively researched and evidence-based UI designs ever, before or after. Far from perfect, …

That's the same for the vast majority of the United States.

>Isomorphic plagiarism by definition must steal from experts/creatives You seem to want to be precise, so you should probably use a different term than 'stealing'. It, by definitio…

That they claim something so blatantly ridiculous is one of the reasons they have no credibility in my eyes.

Yeah, this is my concern. We need to get to a point where everybody realizes that every image they see may be fake. Because that is and will continue to be the truth, regardless of…

Why would any of those follow EU regulation? The bots aren't in Europe, and the companies don't reliably know who's a bot.

To be a little more productive, here's a different link without as much nonsense: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/microsoft-s-stock-has-b... On MSN, ironically.

I would have been interested in the story, but Bloomberg presented me with this popup: "We've updated our terms. By accepting, you agree to our updated Terms of Service, including …

And they should.

There's a similar story about J. Edgar Hoover scribbling "watch the borders" on a memo, which was intended to be a formatting comment, but was interpreted as instructions.

That's true, but in this case, I would have naively thought they would immediately start work on Battlefield 7.

AI, I want you to serve man.