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237 karma · joined December 23, 2025

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DetectDefect··on How changing your diet could help save the world
Weak and ineffectual; even the author has not fully committed to their own stated goal ("eliminate or reduce your beef consumption"), instead appealing to triple-N (natural, normal, necessary) logical fallacies to justify the very thing this article purports to deter. This is not what leadership looks like.
DetectDefect··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
Social media users are unpaid employees of tech companies. Why any rational person volunteers for this dull work is frankly confusing to me. Even more confusing is when the same people try to moralize the predictably horrifying results of their work.
DetectDefect··on Cooking with Claude
"the stall next to us sold excellent dried beans. I’ve never used dried beans before" seems contradictory. Would it not make more sense to read a book or even brief article about beans first? How can people develop such an interest in an LLM, which effectively just repeats what you say back, while completely ignoring the very principles of what they mean to accomplish?
DetectDefect··on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
Flock works without license plates. Also, what do you mean "next"?

> if the object class of the identified object is that of a human being, then the object detection module 154 may further analyze the image 501 using a neural network module 507B configured to identify different classes of people (male, female, race, etc.)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US11416545B1

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