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Comment · 8 days ago
Imagine going to a history museum and there’s a sign outside that says “Some of the information here is totally made up”
Comment · 3 months ago
Fair!
Comment · 3 months ago
I have great memories of Snow Leopard. It even gave you back a few GB of storage (IIRC) at a time when every GB really counted.
Comment · 3 months ago
The Fallout analogy is perfect. Limitation stimulates imagination. I think that’s part of why essentially limitless AI models produce things that are so devoid of it.
Comment · 3 months ago
An airplane is not something I would personally want to beta test
Comment · 4 months ago
Putting aside whether or not I agree with the policy or whether it’s at all reasonable, a policy of restricting access to information because there’s a fear it could be used to create a weapon of mass destruction seems entirely different than restricting access to historical facts because they are embarrassing to the government.
Comment · 4 months ago
The fact that your username is a racist meme seems relevant to this complaint and how legitimate it is.
Comment · 4 months ago
But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. “Someone has filed an objection against something you wrote,”

No one in their right mind is going to do anything other than ignore and/or delete an email this stupid.

Comment · 5 months ago
I think there might be a difference between “I’m violating copyright law to enjoy a work of art” and “I’m violating copyright law on a global, species-wide scale to create a trillion dollar company and enrich myself.” Maybe you can argue the former is wrong but there’s no way it’s equivalent to the latter.
Comment · 5 months ago
If Google changes the internet so that no one visits websites anymore, no one is going to make or maintain websites. And at that point, A) What is left of the internet and B) What is left for Google to summarize via AI?
Comment · 6 months ago
How the hell are most people supposed to balance the risk of not updating software against the risk of updating software?
Comment · 8 months ago
Libertarian publication run by the wealthy suggests course of action that will disproportionately harm the poor, I’m shocked!
Comment · 8 months ago
This system introduces a fun question: What’s more likely, that you suffer total spontaneous memory loss or your best friends betray you?
Comment · 9 months ago
This is fanfic not science
Comment · 9 months ago
RFK Jr: “Not so fast”

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