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I suspect they're talking about LLM tokens.

Yeah but something something testosterone manliness degeneracy decadence.

Sending emails from an ergonomic chair for eight* hours a day and having to be civil to female coworkers and polite to your boss inherently degrades the male spirit in a way that permanently damaging and poisoning your body with 12-hour factory shifts with a foreman yelling at you doesn't. This is so self-evident and obvious that nobody even bothers to state it, it's just an assumed undercurrent in discussions of "bullshit jobs" etc.

None of those are primarily marketing tools, they're things you use after you've already decided you want to use the product. They don't need to grab and hold attention and convince you that they have what you want, they just need to convey information.

Yeah, if I use a credit card in person, isn't it merchant's responsibility to verify my identity to their satisfaction for each and every purchase, and they let someone else (that's not an authorized user) use my card, I'm not responsible for any spending?

Right, but choosing to troll the company you own because the board fired you for repeatedly, extremely publicly "Having a normal one", looks a lot like a mental breakdown of some sort.

I mean it's basically identical to a signature in terms of identification value, and, by the sounds of it, usage.

The only difference is that demonstrated in the described case, that the stamp is expected to be passed on to whomever is in authority, whereas we would never say "This CEO can't be ousted as he refused to relinquish his signature."

Also because most of the investors, by ownership, are Matt.

I'm with you, but there's a bit of an arms race where the more people have SUVs, the more unsafe people in non-SUVs feel (due to collision characteristics, but also because they can't see past the damn things).

The construction is cheap, overcoming the obstruction is not.

Once again, you're writing up nicely formal formulae with zero justification.

It's fine to eyeball it and give your gut feeling, but it's disingenuous to present that as probabilistic fact.

Edit: Also, you've downgraded your claim from "Extinction event" to "dangerously unaligned"

> Even if there's just a 1% likelihood

This is like me saying "Even if there's just a 1% likelihood of me getting struck by lightning..."

You're implying that 1% likelihood is the floor, because 1 is the lowest natural number and feels like a good default "low percentage", but there's zero justification for putting the floor that high.

Conjuring an unsupported "low" probability and multiplying it by a massive outcome to make it seem significant is one of the most irritating ways people launder their opinions(/gut feelings) through "math".

If the evil AI wants to take over the world one thought every 18 months at at time on my consumer laptop, the fan whirring and the laptop refusing to do anything else the whole time, it's welcome to try.

They're not bad for note-taking in STEM courses.

They didn't know that the product they were using was one of their opponents. That's the entire complaint, that it represents a conflict of interest to engage in direct competition with your customers, who aren't competing with your main business model.

If Google or Microsoft suddenly got in the business of publishing books, and mined established authors' works in progress for material to publish, that would also be a bad look, even though we know that they likely have access to our files.

Possibly the content is (or was) all broadcast on free TV, and the donation lets you access it on-demand through streaming?

Relativity fixes that a little, you don't need to go light speed to make it all over the place within your lifetime, it's the observers who sent you off that will never reap the fruits of their effort.

I think they're kind of saying that's the problem, that intuitively having a screen inches from your face displaying things that are further away in decent detail, with things like contrast and saturation and brightness color palettes being modifiable should have some obvious possibilities for people with limited vision - but Apple wasn't interested in developing for and demonstrating these options.

I'm near-sighted, so I can see how magic glasses that let me focus on everything as if it's six inches away could be nice. That being said, normal prescription glasses work very well for my particular vision impairment, and "You only have to buy glasses once more ever, but they're $3000, weigh over a pound, and need to be recharged" isn't a great value proposition for my needs, but it doesn't take much imagination to figure that being able to toggle even just dark, high contrast, or colorblind modes irl would be nice for some people. Not worth it for me, but possibly for others.

>was very nearly been rear-ended twice due to false positives

To be fair, if the cars behind you had automatic emergency braking you would be at much lower risk of getting rear-ended when there's a false positive.

The comment you're responding to doesn't appear to have been edited, so you might benefit from rereading the sentence you quoted a snippet from.

You kind of have it backwards. Cities that overbuild commercial space and underbuild housing get to reap the sales taxes without having to provide the same level of services.

And then the residents complain that people keep commuting to work in the offices they zoned for instead of housing towers.

>The moment these LLM brains are given access to natural selection and evolution in the hardware space

Ok, but that's still sci-fi. We've made a huge advancement in automation of knowledge work, but hardware still has no clear path to what you're describing, or even to anything similar to it.

They wouldn't do that if there weren't market demand. Competitive games lose their appeal when cheating becomes too prevalent.

Similarly, payment processors lose their appeal if they can't prevent people stealing your money, or spending stolen money on your products.

Harris rose over twice as much money as Trump in 2024.

Because it doesn't benefit the state to hav corrupt cops?

You misunderstand what you're calling an excuse.

My experience was that the visuals were a cool distraction from familiarity with the rules/identities. People always want a shortcut to comfort, and they often want it to be that a thorough exploration of motivating examples, often with graphics, grants understanding and comfort before facility, but I've always found that a relatively cursory description of the motivating example is more than enough, and after that I just need well-organized reference materials, worked examples, and rote practice.

It's frustrating, since it feels like an intelligent enough approach should be able to skip the rote practice, but it turns out that conceptual mastery requires mastery of execution, which requires familiarity, which requires practice.

And I say this as someone with very strong intuition, who was always asking why I needed to practice if I already understood, who often grasped concepts immediately - turns out, I still needed practice to understand thoroughly.

My wife and I just habitually empty our hands and pockets into the bin.

Most recent flight we took, she couldn't find her passport for the extra security check right before the gate. It took us about half an hour to get around to having the security open up the (now closed) bag scanner, which lo and behold, had somehow eaten her (securely places in the bin) passport. The tech was shaking his head, saying "See, this is why you don't put your passport loose in the bin" as if that's a normal thing everyone already knows specifically to avoid.

The children and elderly should simply learn how to bike 45mph in the road.

I don't think skillfully translating into idiomatic, grammatical, well written text is meaningfully easier then composing the text yourself in the first place.

If your goal is to defeat an AI detector for kicks, this might work. If your goal is to save effort by using AI to produce text, I don't think this works.

I don't have any numbers handy, but my impression is that the vast majority of rice people eat is white rice.