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willmadden

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    Comment #49252056

    What about it?

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    Comment #49228478

    You missed the Terra Invicta "you think it's easy, but you'll be dead in 40 hours because you are underperforming" curve.

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    Comment #49204483

    No, you are putting words in my mouth. I would gladly pay more taxes for representation that had me and my peoples' interests in mind. I'm not a libertarian idiot.

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    Comment #49202630

    You didn't read my post objectively. My point is that the current governments, with the exception of some local governments, do not represent or serve their constituencies; in fact…

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    Comment #49200092

    You are claiming infrastructure can only be maintained by a government? That's a ridiculous assertion. Most of the work is outsourced to contractors. They are acting as mediocre pr…

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    Comment #49196719

    You don't really own it because of the property tax. Unless you live in Malta or a handful of other countries you are effectively renting from the state.

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    Comment #49196658

    Yes, then we can build a company store where the slav... er, "employees" can shop and discuss how to be more productive on their projects!

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    Comment #49145227

    Thank you.

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    Comment #49104766

    Anthropic and OpenAI have proven themselves to be aspiring monopolists through their positions and actions. Why would you want to share your research with them?

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    Comment #49076971

    "All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing." I love how they invoke fear of "terrorism" to justify their oppressive position. Ant…

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    Comment #49070084

    Or a strikethrough token!

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    Comment #49037747

    It's more than information overload. It's an overabundance of distractions specifically designed to steal your attention. I block dark pattern sites during working hours. It helps …

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    Comment #49025677

    Ok, but in 24 months that's the equivalent of downloading 100 variations of MSDOS. Torrents and vpn exist. I think this is more of a problem for corporations.

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    Comment #49025611

    They'll do the "tornado cash under Biden" routine most likely.

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    Comment #49025571

    Filtering based on hardware is super helpful. Everyone should do this. There are millions of models, and most of them require a server room to load and run.

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    Comment #49023775

    What a waste of resources.

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    Comment #48900293

    I would like to see climate research funded, but it needs to be de-politicized and stop being used to push fear propaganda and sinister policies. They used it to flat out destroy t…

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    Comment #48833511

    Politics on this site is as astroturfed/censored as reddit, and the moderators are interchangeable. It's good for tech news.

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    Comment #48825649

    Fun fact: there are significantly more heat deaths in Europe than car fatalities. Interesting priorities...