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Comment #47970846
Definitely rude, too close to the same name. Warp just recently open sourced their client, a [not community] personal fork should be more considerate.
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Comment #47952594
Does it not sound insane to you that you need to expose your biometrics to a corporation just to make anonymous posts on a forum?
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Comment #47917618
Cool concept! I play Go, and it's extremely unnerving that all the good shapes you play in Go are essentially the worst shapes you can play in Tiao :D
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Comment #47883937
Sure, but that seems out of scope of the original comment.
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Comment #47880354
What is the purpose of this mindset? Should we encourage typical corporate coldness instead?
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Comment #47667420
Same here, maybe we're grandfathered into a good plan or something.
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Comment #46952750
Since when has raising taxes actually solved any major problem? We have enough taxes, the issue is the corrupt politicians swindling it to themselves and their cronies.
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Comment #46952729
Power is not the problem, because power exists regardless of who owns it. We the people actually have a relatively high amount of power in our states and communities. We just don't…
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Comment #46774955
LLMs are an amplifier. The great get greater, and the lazier get lazier.
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Comment #46240165
Youtube's downvote button has served me quite well for this purpose.
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Comment #46115219
Yeah, Mithril got this right over 10 years ago. Still good to see at least one big player finally catching up. React's state model has always been a pain to work with.
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Comment #45649229
Same here. I tried codex a few days ago for a very simple task (remove any references of X within this long text string) and it fumbled it pretty hard. Very strange.
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Comment #44698219
I misread your "It always backfires" comment as making something illegal always backfires, rather than the desire to make things simple always backfires (note that "always" implies…
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Comment #44698200
Of course you prefer reductionist, because that fits your interest of doing nothing, rather than seeking a solution to the very real destructive consequences of the genre in questi…
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Comment #44690036
You're framing of "sex icky" is a common reductionist approach to remove all humanity from the topic and try and make it purely logical. But that's always been a ridiculous way to …
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Comment #44689993
Not being 100% effective isn't backfiring. No law is ever absolutely effective. But making something illegal objectively makes it more difficult to obtain, and is certainly effecti…
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Comment #44689959
> if one were to operate at that level then Facebook would be illegal. Sounds great, where do I sign? Sure ban porn, but IMO ban social media first. Or at the very least, mandate e…
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Comment #44535803
Anything can be used for evil, doesn't mean that thing instantly becomes evil.
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Comment #44450929
Even though the conscious brain doesn't always directly control motor skills, I wouldn't call it "merely an observer". It's your consciousness that decides your goals and beliefs; …
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Comment #44409728
What are the most common issue/mistakes that make communities fizzle out?
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Comment #44388089
Even figuratively, it's not criminal.
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Comment #44365956
Yes. Humans in general are very bad at dealing with delayed consequences.
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Comment #44322555
Let's be real, people have said similar things about AI too. It was all fluff, until it wasn't.
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Comment #43988164
Terrible idea how so? You just said it's a personal project. What's the harm in learning and doing what you want? :)
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Comment #43959112
> If they did, what's stopping everyone else from doing it? I am expressing doubt. This is a pretty interesting topic on human nature. Chain of reasoning doesn't always result in p…