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plewd

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    Comment #48645378

    Not much if you only use it as a glorified search engine, but the problem stems from all the other things you can make it do for personal use after jailbreaking.

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    Comment #48490791

    From another user who copied it: https://pastebin.com/rcAqEFG1

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    Comment #48398255

    That's a fair point, and it gets into intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation. Problem is that nearly all students are conditioned to care about external motivators (GPA, parental expect…

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    Comment #48398135

    Is that really a fair comparison though? Were there any stats showing that ball pens directly impacted metrics like grades? I understand that it's harder to see things without the …

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    Comment #48395773

    I'm curious why this comment got flagged? At least to me it looks really human (typos, uncapitalized words, etc..)

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    Comment #48395700

    Those that start negatively impacting day-to-day life significantly, although I believe nearly everyone can benefit from some sort of therapy.

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    Comment #48291244

    I don't know much about stats, but does "the null is that the success rate is the same" imply that it's a sketchy methodology because they can come up with some findings ("ruder pr…

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    Comment #48233170

    Isn't that exactly what the free trial is for? Am I missing something?

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    Comment #48147600

    It's not just about documentation. If stuff really goes wrong, you need people who deeply understand the codebase so that they know where to look and how to diagnose the issue. It …

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    Comment #48108150

    I honestly don't think it's possible for platforms to have "nice" algorithms like this without slowly slipping into the "maximum-engagement" algorithms we're plagued with now. I re…

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    Comment #48107986

    Most of them only got to that position from being loud in the first place, so I'd think you could still put them in the latter category.

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    Comment #48107965

    I re-realized this about a week ago when the "red button vs blue button" debate started appearing a lot on Reddit and Instagram. It's frustrating when every comment is just a shall…

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    Comment #48062978

    Personally, in almost all cases I think it'd be more convenient to just prompt AI myself (and maybe get the original prompt) instead of having to sift through overly-verbose AI out…

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    Comment #48062653

    The mental gymnastics at play here are astounding. Why would women acclimate to it and see it as the norm while men don't? If anything, exposing men to violence will also make them…

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    Comment #48008873

    > There was simply not much I could work with (what I thought at the time). This has been my big blocker keeping me from talking to most people. I feel quite adept socially once I …

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    Comment #48008066

    Not sure what you mean by "not public", given that you can just search it up and find a Reuters article from March giving out his full name and background.

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    Comment #47412766

    Even noticing the sarcasm, it just seems a bit... unnecessary? It interrupts a discussion without adding much, so to me just seems snarky for no good reason.

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    Comment #47410365

    I doubt the web will allow itself to be transformed into our idealized version of it, so the question seems to just be: do you want to be part of the obscure circle or not? Neither…

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    Comment #47362523

    As an intern I feel the same everyday. It feels more natural to me to just keep digging into the codebase until I figure something out instead of asking for help. Part of it is wha…

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    Comment #47351910

    I think people care less about risk and more about human creativity & genuinity. Personally, I get disgusted when I see AI encroaching into artistic fields because I hope new techn…

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    Comment #47306917

    like OP originally said, the LLM doesn't have access to the actual process of the author, only the completed/refined output. Not sure why you need a concrete example to "test", but…

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    Comment #42273450

    But surely there are also more truths, and they spread faster than ever before? The amount of lies has increased but so has the amount of information in general, any question you h…

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    Comment #42273026

    Aphantasia is really annoying to explain to people, like trying to explain blindness to a person who's always seen. I can't "see" anything, but I'm able to reason about it and kind…

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    Comment #42075945

    I really don't believe this is just a trend in Democrats; Republicans aren't innocent of this either. They'll resort to the overused labels of "socialist," "woke," or "un-American"…

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    Comment #42075893

    > Men feeling threatened by women who make more than them or are smarter than them seems like something that needs to be worked on individually rather than socially. I get where yo…