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From the user’s perspective, there’s not much difference between good code and bad code if the gameplay is the same. The bad code might be a nightmare for the developer adding new …

I think there are good use cases for AI, I never said otherwise. Creating simulacra of real people is not one of them, I believe. > yet adoption and the gamut of use cases keep eve…

1. Neither of my screen is to the side of the other. 2. The demo doesn't even work, the div stays centered in the viewport, not the program window when I open a side bar (Firefox).…

I’m not surprised, that’s exactly the kind of person who would want this kind of technology. Remember, society as a whole will decide what's acceptable, there are no objective, nat…

Joke’s on you: my browser window isn’t centered.

> Imagine an LLM which actually sounded like you, and to an extent, thought like you. How much would you pay to have access to a smarter version of yourself? I find the idea dehuma…

Whatever country you live in, I guarantee you have homegrown criminals from your culture too.

Then just stop playing games if that happens. They’re not necessary, it’s not worth getting fucked over by the corpos. Or make your own games or play ones made by indies that you c…

If someone asks you a question at work, you answer them, or explain why you won’t/can’t. If they wanted an AI answer they could have asked it themself.

AI or no AI, it’s incredible that this design won. Either the judges have questionable judgement or the other entries must not have been very good.

It immediately looks like AI slop because nearly every square inch is filled with with something, however meaningless and useless it might be to the overall composition. AI is good…

I think we should be doing less conquering of the planet we live on.

That wasn’t clear to me. Yes, they share similar roots because they have a common ancestor language. Just like any pair of extinct or extant languages descended from PIE.

That still does not make Sanskrit an ancestor language of English, though both English and Sanskrit do share a common ancestry several thousand years ago. English has borrowed word…

That’s what I meant, but worded poorly: that for anyone to legally be living there it wouldn’t currently meet the standards. Renting any part of that building out is likely not wor…

Not every technology needs to exist simply because it’s possible.

Based on the pictures I can’t imagine anyone legally living there. I don’t know for sure, but I imagine usable windows are required for living spaces.

I did read the article. It mentions HIV/AIDS. The comment I replied to said only HIV, and as they noted, HIV alone doesn’t necessarily imply any ill health effects at all. However …

> Are we supposed to accept the idea that an IV drug user sharing needles contracts HIV and they never have to work again even though they'll be getting medication which completely…

I used to live just about across the road from a large cemetery in the middle of Chicago. It was one of the quietest places around to take a walk and be surrounded by trees. Cemete…

I think you could make a scientific theory of harmony (and perhaps music or even sound more generally) through the physiological lens of human perception. Straying a bit from music…

I see what you mean, I misunderstood initially.

Imagine a sheet of paper folded in such a way that if you looked at it perfectly edge-on it would appear as a 2D Hilbert curve.

Couldn't you just take any 2D space filling curve and extend it infinitely on the Z axis to make a space filling 3D surface?

It reads as if "an anonymous researcher" is describing Mathis Mansière, which is quite humorous.