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wellbehaved

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About wellbehaved

"It's good to be the King." -- Mel Brooks

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48777022

    "Third, I propose computational antitrust: the principle that market complexity itself is a competitive safeguard, and that regulators should consider computational difficulty as a…

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    Comment #42728934

    It's a double-edged sword: ancestor-worship blocks progress, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater also blocks progress. Real fundamental progress comes from the tiny minori…

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    Comment #42669222

    With that attitude how would the presently accepted languages/frameworks have come about?

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    Comment #42504023

    I'm pretty sure they're being intentionally programmed to fake alignment in at least the respect of gaslighting the user into thinking the AI agrees/aligns with them. I.e. intentio…

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    Comment #42083275

    Not merely downvoted but also flagged.

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    Comment #42064986

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41955522

    Likewise the use of the term "certain" is merely metaphorical.

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    Comment #41840713

    HN is not a meritocracy, anyone with an opinion can just chime in and then get upvoted by people who don't really understand what's going on.

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    Comment #41374943

    [flagged]

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    Comment #40875952

    OK Steve.

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    Comment #40483274

    You are correct, it's more properly thought of as a specification. However it's a bit more than a misnomer, it's a kind of religion or cult with roots going back decades.

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    Comment #40200666

    Blatant substance-free hit piece.

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    Comment #34081797

    Ergo the shadowban.

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    Comment #34081777

    Wisdom has never been popular, the dynamics that led to the death of Socrates have continued from his day to our own.

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    Comment #34046539

    Paul finally got a taste of his own medicine? Good.

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    Comment #34032757

    "it looks like you've been using this site primarily for flamewar and ideological battle" So you can attack my motives at will and I can't protest or I get banned, but if I critici…

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    Comment #34019239

    "no one" https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1603557011114889216

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    Comment #34009694

    My, if you had kept up this well before then we may well still have had something to talk about. Alas.

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    Comment #34009677

    "Journalists" (sic).

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    Comment #34008619

    [flagged]

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    Comment #34008176

    "no one": https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-04-28/elon-musk-t...

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    Comment #33945290

    The world needs more milquetoasts like Copernicus and less tall poppies like Galileo! /s

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    Comment #33945082

    How dare you express anything that resembles sincere courage here. Elon Musk can afford that, but if others were to follow his lead, imagine how bad that would be for Big Tech mana…

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    Comment #33945037

    Yeah. Look where this got Galileo. House arrest for the rest of his life. Bad call Galileo, you should have paid better attention to social cues! /s