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crashmat··on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
You appear to be exactly the kind of person the article is talking about. What exactly makes LLMs have "better" opinions than others?
crashmat··on Building a Simple Search Engine That Works
All American companies pay taxes to America which is basically always commiting atrocities so I don't think that's a strogn enough reason on its own.
crashmat··on Brain overgrowth dictates autism severity, new research suggests
Isn't there evidence for neurotypicals only _thinking_ they are focussing better and actually not? Also note that this 'high' you are talking about would likely only apply at higher doses than ADHDers actually get.
crashmat··on Chickens in Trees
I think the comparison was more based on the rooster approaching when they werent looking and stopping when they were. I can't recall any other monsters that do that.
crashmat··on Chickens in Trees
I have grown up on a purely vegetarian diet since I was born and I don't have any health problems from that. I know anecdotal evidence is usually not great and I will admit it is harder to maintain a healthy diet whilst vegetarian (but not too much), in this case it surely cannot be true that you can't live on a vegetarian diet without any bad consequences if I have done that?
crashmat··on Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora
probably because when humans pay full attention and think clearly they can not hallucinate for 99% of things they can sense (disregarfing optical illusion), but there is no 'pay attention and dont hallucinate' switch for LLMs.
crashmat··on Lowercase – A simple way to take and share notes
I think amount of is usually used for 'continuous' (I'm not sure on the word) substances like flour, water, or salt, rather than multiples of discreet objects.
crashmat··on Goodyear Inflatoplane
It says because of the airflow from the engine it could be punctured by up to 6 .30 calibre bullets and maintain pressure. Is this enough resilience? (I don't really know about aircraft combat)
crashmat··on Run0, a systemd based alternative to sudo, announced
noting I have been recommended doas as a more lightweight version of sudo so other people are trying to do this kind of thing
crashmat··on iPadOS Identified as Digital 'Gatekeeper' Under New EU Tech Rules
isn't this ungoogled chromium? Or base chromium?
crashmat··on Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)
I think it's so they can have one main definition for each base word and then derivatives just link to that
crashmat··on Jeff Lawson buys The Onion
could I ask what kinds of positions the 'extreme American left' takes on issues to distinguish them from the moderate left?
crashmat··on How do MRI Headphones work? (2022)
Was it good? Do you have the title?
crashmat··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
I don't know whether this is the account you are talking about, but of the second account they discuss an image posted by saying: 'It had originally been posted by a satirical account that generates images of the former president' so if this is the account you are talking about..

I won't deny the BBC has often very biased reporting for a publically funded source.

crashmat··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
I don't know whether this is the account you are talking about, but of the second account they discuss an image posted by saying: 'It had originally been posted by a satirical account that generates images of the former president' so if this is the account you are talking about..

I won't deny the BBC has very biased reporting for a publically funded source.

crashmat··on OpenAI and Elon Musk
I don't know whether this is the account you are talking about, but of the second account they discuss an image posted by saying: 'It had originally been posted by a satirical account that generates images of the former president' so if this is the account you are talking about..

I won't deny the BBC has ofteb very biased reporting for a publically funded source.

crashmat··on Home Screen Advantage
You don't need to sideload on android. You just install it.
crashmat··on Stable Diffusion 3
I don't think there are any (even far) leftwanting to ban non-diverse representation. I think it's impossible to ban 'conservative thoughts' because that's such a poorly defined phrase. However there are people who want to ban religion. One difference is that a much larger proportion of far right (almost all of them) want to ban lgbtq depiction and existence compared to the number of far left who want to ban religion or non-diverse representation.

It says on the wikipedia article itself 'The horseshoe theory does not enjoy wide support within academic circles; peer-reviewed research by political scientists on the subject is scarce, and existing studies and comprehensive reviews have often contradicted its central premises, or found only limited support for the theory under certain conditions.'

crashmat··on What's an obelisk, anyway?
No, that's obelix. Obelisk is is a type of storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square plastic enclosure.
crashmat··on A practical guide to quitting your smartphone
It will be much larger with images. Measured in TB.
crashmat··on Macs can now inform Apple if any liquids have been detected in the USB-C ports
Nah the reason I complain about the dongle is because I don't know where to get a reasonably priced one with good audio except apple and theirs break like crisps crack.
crashmat··on 9 years of Apple text editor solo dev
It's much worse for apple music classical. It's great for classical music, but the way the library works with works and recordings is unintuitive and they decided to remove the ability to download (!?) and the ability to share playlists in the classical app and those as main-app only.
crashmat··on Anti-aging drug for dogs moves closer to gaining FDA approval
Humans can easily develop an emotional attachment to any living creature they care for, even things that aren't alive. Acting as if someone's emotional attachment to a creature is somehow invalid because it's not a creature people care about as often seems like more of the troll move here.
crashmat··on If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing
The problem is it's incredibly hard to create a semi-ethical company like steam without an enlightened despot.
crashmat··on Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
It does sound good, but not very durable. I got one recently because i got a phone without a headphone jack foolishly thinking I'd just buy an adapter and it broke the second time I used it, just making clicking noises.
crashmat··on Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
I would say less people have moved to wireless for at-home headphones, with many pairs of headphones intended for use with a pc still being wired, so I dont think 'everyone else' has moved 'on' to wireless in all contexts.
crashmat··on Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
It might not have usb-c.
crashmat··on Fairphone 5: Keeping it 10/10?
All connectors used that often break, but usbc is generally accepted as being more durable than microusb
crashmat··on Nuclear Reactor Simulator
I was on AQA and I learned about water as the moderator. Could this be an Edexcel specific thing?
crashmat··on Tiny volumetric display
I saw some poi that worked like that. The performer did a very good show with them
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