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zombot

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    Comment #49242804

    > what dominates today is this 19th-century notion of technological progress as the only kind of progress, and therefore all technological change is progress, as opposed to — objec…

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    Comment #49240716

    The powerful don't need to convince. They simply command. They get used to it in their personal surroundings and then they expect it to work everywhere.

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    Comment #49240668

    > “I’m not an anti-technologist,” Lepore insisted. The usual easy cop-out. Everybody who criticizes Israel is an anti-semite and everybody who criticizes SV is an anti-technologist…

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    Comment #49206977

    The head money printer of a company whose sole purpose is to print money is worried his employees share his attitude? That gives him a good shot at winning the Olympics of double s…

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    Comment #49206924

    What these dimwits don't realize is that AI is already reading people's minds, just without all the extra hocus pocus that this new startup wants to add. Think about it, all the sy…

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    Comment #49206761

    The inspiration for this (seems to be non-satire): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49185370

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    Comment #49192587

    > Mass surveillance is a loophole to this contract. More like a hammer to your head.

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    Comment #49192560

    Not gonna happen. All the marketing fairy tales have the snake oil perform wonders. LLMs may not be able to jump, but they do walk on water according to some.

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    Comment #49192514

    > Conduit is collecting immense quantities of non-invasive neural data Stealing all my brain waves is called non-invasive now. > That means we must scale up our data collection by …

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    Comment #49178560

    Keep up the good work.

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    Comment #49167610

    Nag your representatives ad nauseam to make laws against this.

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    Comment #49167426

    I'm looking forward to prices for RAM and SSDs returning to sane levels.

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    Comment #49165600

    Happy birthday and thank you so much!

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    Comment #49165035

    > the person commiting suicide in one of their conference rooms https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tasneemnashrulla/apple-...

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    Comment #49164980

    So iOS is essentially unprofessional. A toy for those who have either no job or no private life. How does Android score in that respect?

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    Comment #49164579

    wxWidgets is out of scope, but `cxx-qt` might be a partial solution. Good find!

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    Comment #49154860

    Maybe they'll discover the illegal-immigrant gene or the unwanted-wrongthinker gene.

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    Comment #49154774

    Do their dashboards show ads? That's the foremost question in my mind after the BMW fuckup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49135511

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    Comment #49154727

    GP: > With the current capabilities, models still need constant babysitting and course correction. You'd be opening yourself up to even more babysitting. Would that really save tim…

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    Comment #49154273

    Of course they do. Using their own slop generators to propagate their marketing lies is probably cheaper than paying shills.

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    Comment #49153502

    For Qt apps written in C++ I don't see how that could work yet.

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    Comment #49152980

    When was the last time that a newly adopted technology revealed that amount of ... potential for improvement in our fellow humans? AI must have really hit some nerve to generate th…

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    Comment #49152852

    Great! > Meteorite Landings There seem to be significantly more of those on the northern hemisphere. I wonder what might be the reason for that?