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stevenalowe

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About stevenalowe

consultant, software architect/developer, musician, science fiction, author, ex-ThoughtWorker, Xoogler, retired

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49199874

    well that didn't take long - $700M in cuts coming [1] [1] https://mashable.com/tech/ea-sale-closes-shed-700-million-in...

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    Comment #49198651

    EA has been saddled with a heavy load on their way to the bottom. Private equity firms are not known for their innovation or longevity

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    Comment #49173419

    It is illegal for the President to sell this access and also illegal for recipients to act upon the information received. But who will enforce the law? Not the DOJ…

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    Comment #49173370

    Replace LLM with “intern” and the absurdity should be more obvious The fact that we can’t trust the code outright is a bug

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    Comment #49139089

    No, AI misinformation and data center hysteria are dividing people.

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    Comment #49125425

    yes they are while simultaneously warning that their models may be inaccurate - trying to have it both ways!

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    Comment #49116881

    the purpose of this war is not to win, but to distract

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    Comment #49116564

    yes but it seems likely that the user asked it to generate (hallucinate) a map, not annotate an actual map one would be well-advised to proofread everything from stochastic generat…

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    Comment #49116542

    seems odd/inefficient that it would hallucinate a bad map instead of retrieving an actual map!

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    Comment #49112984

    can't blame OpenAI for hallucinating a map, that's what it's good for - can blame officials for not proofreading it though

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    Comment #49112961

    startup idea: a social media platform where illogical or false statements are rejected with an annotated refutation it would be a very quiet place...

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    Comment #49106554

    this - if trustworthy - would be great for social media and "news" sites

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    Comment #49099367

    Link to article instead of a tweet about the article :/ [1] [1] https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/openai-rogue-models...

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    Comment #49098060

    yes please - better yet, train your own ACM model on it

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    Comment #49086954

    Your product will never be found by keyword.

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    Comment #49086349

    "Set Grok aside and the other fifteen models all sit in the libertarian-left quadrant, and none of them are anywhere near a border" Because the models are the average of everything…

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    Comment #49086287

    from 2009: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."

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    Comment #49085843

    "...Trump officials handpicked the potential recipients, decisions previously made by a panel of government experts who evaluated applicants based on the organizations’ experience …

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    Comment #49075795

    Yet another attempted blatant HIPAA violation this time via the Consumer Product Safety Commission

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    Comment #49075696

    How often do driverless cars crash into each other? Seems like a better proxy for the future, i.e. if there were no human drivers would the crash rate be zero?

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    Comment #49074145

    the real reason is: he's lying. Claims that funds were shifted to 'other agencies' that 'could have' prevented things, but didn't, in an attempt to obscure the fact/admission that …

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    Comment #49062635

    Disturbing to hear that even as an American citizen I only have rights when I'm on the ground in specific sovereign territory, of which the border (which is obviously American soil…

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    Comment #49061667

    dang, sorry

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    Comment #49054780

    sure seems like a lot of 'em have

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    Comment #49049931

    no, bats also yell at each other using individualized sounds [1] [1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-transl...