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Comment · 1 day ago
Eh, letting the customer footgun never comes off well. They will always fundamentally blame your advice or lack of advice.
Comment · 6 days ago
Couldn't they combine the training data with a ton of synthetic data that allows them to understand how 3D engines work?
Comment · 3 months ago
Surely if we made it cushy enough people wouldn't go crazy
Comment · 6 months ago
We found pretty good results with a sort of inoculation strategy, lots of slow boring TV, sometimes she even tells us to turn it off because it distracts the parents too much LOL
Comment · 6 months ago
How much of this is unnecessary regulatory burden, though? There probably is some margin of improvement over what the anti-nuclear lobbyists have imposed.
Comment · 7 months ago
I guess I see why, though. Taken from the perspective of tropes of middle Americans, it's pretty condescending and claims everything they are is idiotic and responsible for the state of the world, when it is more complicated than that and the ivory tower has its own culpability
Comment · 7 months ago
I have to imagine that given birds are descendants of dinosaurs, which evolved quite a long time ago, they've had a lot more time to optimize certain things.
Comment · 9 months ago
Picture wrench attacks. What use is your Monero's security, for example, as I turn a screw into you until you give it up?
Comment · 1 year ago
I mean, I didn't need to learn those things, they were just in whatever web GUI I originally learned on; all I knew was that I could ignore it for now, a la the topic. Should the UI have masked that from me until I was ready? I suppose so, but even then I was doing things in an IDE not really knowing what those things were for until much later.
Comment · 1 year ago
I remember when I first learned Java, having to just accept "public static void main(String[] args)" before I understood what any of it was. All I knew was that went on top around the block and I did the code inside it.

Should people really understand every syntax there before learning simpler commands like printing, ifs, and loops? I think it would yes, be a nicer learning experience, but I'm not sure it's actually the best idea.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think the problem is that it's also an interesting problem for humans. It's very subjective. Imagine a therapy session, filled with a long pensive pauses. Therapy is one of those things that encourage not interrupting and just letting you talk more, but there's so much subtext and nuance to that. Then make it compared to excited chatter one might have with friends. There's also so much body language that an AI obviously cannot see. At least for now.
Comment · 1 year ago
Spamming leaves is probably just the cheapest strategy?

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