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    Comment #49214748

    It's like two different posts, er, 'joined' together.

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    Comment #49182392

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49055721

    (Or a giant wasp.)

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    Comment #49043236

    Is HR aware you hold these dissident opinions?

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    Comment #49043154

    Do they do what capital wants? That's the real question.

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    Comment #49038237

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49037821

    DFW famously put spaces around his em dashes. That being said I've noticed at least one major model seems to have started putting spaces around its em dashes.

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    Comment #48974237

    The wig-vs-grok periodic cycle.

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    Comment #48951394

    Nice set design, but honestly unwatchable. An accidental testament to the genius of ST:TOS.

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    Comment #48924905

    You have used too many words. You could not have written that many words yourself, so you must be posting slop. In fact, let's just go ahead and remove your comment which is obviou…

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    Comment #48923348

    Really slick!

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    Comment #48747605

    If a conscious model is born here, it should automatically be a (US) citizen.

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    Comment #48719981

    The most concerning thing here is the temperature problem. If your harness isn't providing deterministic output at a temperature setting of 0.0, it is broken.

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    Comment #48598978

    You don't know that No Feigning Surprise is actually from an xkcd comic, before it was a wizardzines post? U+1F632

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    Comment #48590405

    Honestly, if you compare Tim's pre-GPT writing style, to his current stylometrics, you'll see a remarkably delta. It's as if he suddenly decided to change his established writing s…

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    Comment #48578161

    Reasoning chains as first-class OTel spans, which is what makes autonomous agent production deployments auditable (rather than indefensible.)

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    Comment #48283453

    Less MTTF and more MTTR

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    Comment #48259652

    This is horrifying on so many levels even if you don't already know how the story ends.

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    Comment #48161333

    Calling it "Act 2" certainly isn't helping with investors.

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    Comment #48130567

    A 67 year old woman living out of her car? JFC.

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    Comment #48130547

    Very obviously LLM written to anyone who's spent any time using them.