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ktoo_

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    Comment #47581121

    This is incredible! Now I have something real-ish to do at lunch time. And I get to play spy! Thanks!

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    Comment #47581031

    I suppose we're at the playing-the-fiddle-while-Rome-burns stage?

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    Comment #47421196

    Well congratulations! You've produced the thing you wanted to make and that's awesome! And I bet you learned heaps along the way. We're moving into a really weird time where this g…

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    Comment #47421009

    This is terrific work. Thank you for writing and sharing it. It captures the unease I have felt about UBI. It describes the feeling of regret I get about the state of public works.…

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    Comment #47420669

    How do you deal with two people bidding to replace the same message? I'm most curious about your development process. This has a very strong feel of being vibe coded, which I have …

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    Comment #47420550

    This is the kind of abstraction I was hoping to avoid. It's obviously intellectually dishonest to compare AI to a shovel. I'll not bother with more. You're not in the market for th…

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    Comment #47408813

    Is this coloured just on the AI exposure rating and not by the predicted growth at all? Because it paints a much red-er picture.

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    Comment #47408743

    There's nothing stopping any tool maker from doing those things. In fact, they do those things all the time! So if tool makers and tools are all limiting use in a self-serving way …

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    Comment #47407483

    Do you really think that when people make things that have risks associated with the use or misuse of those tools that they have no responsibility to mitigate those risks or preven…

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    Comment #47393432

    > it is akin to putting lipstick on a pig. It helps, but not much. The lipstick helps? This had me in stitches. Sorry for the non-additive reply. This is the funniest way I have se…

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    Comment #47054792

    That last line was humor. Those are recognised "productive" activities. I guess if I had to really explain it, I was trying to offer a rephrased take on what I saw as the meaning o…

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    Comment #47054753

    But you didn't say that. You just said I didn't know what 'indulge' means. Although I'm sure the irony of your final quip has escaped you, you have editorialised it into a valid cr…

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    Comment #47042806

    I apologise for you misunderstanding my example as a strict definition? For anyone who hasn't understood my meaning: Indulge is a word that implies that you're allowing yourself so…

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    Comment #47042170

    There's something about this that stands out as very concerning for me. This, clearly very clever, young man is 14 years old. The article says: "Wu had always been fascinated with …