distant_hat

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Comment · 3 years ago
GPS is notoriously terrible inside cities with tall buildings and when you have overlapping roads, nearby roads with vastly different speed limits and so on. This would lead to way more accidents.
Comment · 3 years ago
Given the ubiquity of cameras and how optimized face recognition has gotten over time, this is mostly pointless at this time. You will be tracked unless you really pull a major disguise every time you go out.
Comment · 3 years ago
Where are the flaws? That the guy was attractive and managed to seduce others? He may have gone with other people's wives but that is on the wife to say no, not on him.
Comment · 3 years ago
Not all couples subscribe to monogamy. There is no reason to be judgemental about this in the absence of other information.
Comment · 3 years ago
Academia, especially humanities, has gotten amazingly intolerant of any divergent viewpoints over the past decades. Harvard is among the worst in this case. Try to get a marginally right wing personality to speak at Harvard. Students, encouraged by administrators, have increasingly turned on any thoughts that are even nanometers outside of the groupthink line. Professors are better, but they have less power.
Comment · 3 years ago
This is still a semi-puff piece. Makes it seem like he is being turned into a scapegoat for the industry and drums up sympathy for him.
Comment · 3 years ago
So like an hour of revenue.
Comment · 3 years ago
I suspect this appears to be the case because there is a ton of example pages around explaining tic-tac-toe games. My conjecture is that if you tried it with a game that wasn't so well studied as tic-tac-toe the LLM would fall flat on its face.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's a ton of well controlled studies that show the degree to which intelligence is heritable. This is not really controversial.
Comment · 3 years ago
The enshittification of tiktok is almost complete. The famed recommendation algorithm that would figure out and show you want is there but it doesn't generate money. At this point, it is the exploitation phase of the users.
Comment · 3 years ago
My neighbors cut down trees around their house so that the solar panels could have unobstructed Sun.
Comment · 3 years ago
Because you are sexist.
Comment · 3 years ago
You'd probably have to target the older women crowd. Teenage girls are at the peak of their sexual power and are actively fending off tons of interest every day. While they may be occasionally interested in something like this, I can't see them paying for it enough to be a viable market.
Comment · 3 years ago
The vast majority of people don't care about truthfulness which ChatGPT doesn't care about anyway. Entertainment is a way bigger driver of usage than utility.
Comment · 3 years ago
That's a sound advice for bonds but jobs are largely not like that by design. It is kind of like dating, and asking for a price upfront makes it closer to whoredom and companies explicitly downgrade you for being in it only for the money. If you want to sell a bond and the other person's price is too low, you don't sell it and that's that. For interviews, you end up spending hours through the interview process and may not even know whether you will end up getting a salary quote at the end of it. Getting multiple quotes is a great idea, but putting it in action is harder than it appears. It may help to go with someone like a recruiter who can disintermediate the process. I've often thought someone like an agent for software professionals could make a great idea. That person's job is to get you great gigs and good prices and she makes a percentage of your salary so is aligned with getting you the best offers.

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