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martin1975

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    Comment #48838100

    nailed it.

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    Comment #48838093

    i use it, but i could re-create everything the AI produced, it just takes me longer (I'm a dev). And yeah, that latter part of your sentence is what freaks me out - that someone th…

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    Comment #48826068

    I guess it was only a matter of time before this niche of business developed. AI is an imprecise "programming" language, full of ambiguity (English) trying to produce precise relat…

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    Comment #48652620

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48439141

    nephesh (נֶפֶשׁ), is a word in the Hebrew bible that the KJV (English) renders as "soul" hundreds of times, and it also translates the very same word as "life," "person," "creature…

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    Comment #48438987

    > the moment an artificial inteligence is going to "receive" a soul, is the moment it is going to be made to sustain itself. You should try your hand at sci-fi writing. You may be …

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    Comment #48391437

    Easily one of my top 10 favorite episodes. The judge broached on the subject of what makes us distinct from Data (e.g. machines w/great heuristics) - the existence of a soul. Or ra…

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    Comment #48391412

    > How can you have a subjective experience without a body? Great q. Deepening it further-how can you have a subjective experience without consciousness, which isn't necessarily tie…

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    Comment #48391189

    Thank you, human being! Have you looked at the price of a RTX 5090? I can get a used car for that.

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    Comment #48390669

    Not quite. You have machines that can aid and expand your (human) understanding greatly, that wasn't possible without machines. Machines don't think. They aren't human. They have n…

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    Comment #48390544

    Reading this invoked the image of ouroboros in my mind.

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    Comment #47406411

    Curious, what type of code and in what language do you write that the compiler wouldn't take care of this without you even trying?

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    Comment #47226358

    What's with the antisemitism? Did some Jew hurt you personally?

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    Comment #47226219

    And they will soon find out that world's make believe. No one I know, and I know hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people would allow themselves in a room to be recorded su…

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    Comment #46883722

    I've been writing C/C++/Java for 25 years and am trying to learn forex disciplined, risk managed forex trading, It's a whole new level of hard work/thinking.

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    Comment #46447965

    Sounds like Windows needs to undergo a similar evolution, or rather, renewal as what OS 9 did moving to OS X. I'm not sure what that might look like, but the easiest route is to pr…

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    Comment #46357528

    this is the extent to what I use any LLM - they're really good at looking up just about anything, in natural language, and most of the time even the first hit, without reprompting,…

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    Comment #45190676

    Am I the only one who has never owned an Apple iPhone? I just got my Pixel 7 upgraded to Pixel 10 Pro XL, couldn't be happier.

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    Comment #44965759

    Nothing against emacs, but check out NeoVIM. If you like Emacs, you might like NeoVIM and its powerful extensibility features.

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    Comment #42880156

    Reminds me of one of my favorite ST: TNG episodes, "The Measure of a Man" - I urge anyone who read this note to watch this episode. Ultimately it comes down to the question of whet…

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    Comment #42287576

    I never buy routers w wifi. Running PC Engines APU4 with Ubiquiti AP is more rock solid/stable than anything else I ever ran which had wifi+wired in a single router.

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    [flagged]

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    Comment #40722624

    To all the CS folk, he was a legend.

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