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As a father of two young children, LLMs have been kind of amazing. I’ve historically been someone who has project ideas and has fun building them. But for a few years now I just ha…

> An LLM isn't human. I don't really understand this thread of "humans do it so of course an AI does"... Why is it not reasonable to expect it to adhere to rules better than a huma…

> Paying a professional to talk to lawmakers about something that is in your best interest And I believe that if it were that above-board then many fewer people would complain. But…

I don't know anything about this company and what it may or may not have done, but to be clear, the link just says that when you star their github repo, they add your email address…

> AI doesn't add anything to the ability to do mass surveillance I recommend reading Yuval Noah Harari's Nexus for a deep discussion around this. He makes the point that what makes…

My apologies, internet stranger, for thinking I had different goals than the ones you so cleverly picked up on in my one paragraph comment. Clearly you were more correct about my g…

Others covered specs etc, but just came here to say the intro video is so much fun! I really enjoyed that.

It's not meant as a perfect analogy for global warming, but rather an illustration of how a constant state isn't necessary for something to be said to be "changing", which was OP's…

It doesn't; that's kind of a first-glance reading of the phrase without really thinking about it. Something can said to change from a certain standard even if it wasn't perfectly c…

I really wanted to love GitButler (https://gitbutler.com/). It makes it really easy to work with stacked PRs and keep them in sync, and do some nice tricks like decide which part o…

Electricity costs are a big factor in this, imo. Rates for my northeast town increased by ~25% in 2024 and are going up by another ~10% this year. It's a hard sell to spend a large…

I agree with some aspects, and think the author perhaps misunderstood some others. > If I collect 100 XP, what does it mean for my language skills? For that matter, why do I collec…

I'll respond to the content, because I think there are some genuine questions amongst the condescension and jumping to conclusions. > telling kids the truth before they're ready an…

This. The idea is super cool in theory! But given how these sort of things work today, having a toy that can have an independent conversation with a kid and that, despite the best …

Is it just me that finds the angle here odd? "The cost of treating illnesses has gone up due to X" rather than "more people are getting sicker due to X". Makes it more of a detache…

In Massachusetts, Kia has disabled Kia Connect for all vehicles purchased over the past few years. Any data collected by cars must be made accessible to third-party shops, and Kia …

I don't know that I completely agree. To some degree, sure — most folks probably don't notice the year-to-year updates in e.g. computing power. But my 70yo mother, who is pretty fa…

I'd say > "Ground-Breaking" New Magnet Free of Rare Earth Metals Developed Using Machine Learning Would've been a more accurate, but less click-baity title, that didn't imply the e…

Whoa, TIL that suspension railways exist! My first thought after seeing the end of the video was "why is this video flipped?" until I realized that it was only the train that was "…

Really nicely delivered, and a pretty great practical illustration (to the right audience) of the effects of global warming.

I do think this modified scenario makes the solution much clearer. At the same time, I also think that it feels like a significantly-enough different scenario from the original tha…

I think the reason it's so hard to understand is that we try to break the problem down into more digestible problems, and in this case, if you only consider the last stage of the g…