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Comment · 1 month ago
I think the Labor Theory of Value is going to bite these companies and the economy as a whole in the end
Comment · 1 month ago
Got a genuine chuckle out of me
Comment · 1 month ago
They do not have emotions, goals, or motivations, "functional" or otherwise. They are statistical models that appear as a magic trick to people who aren't familiar with the math.
Comment · 1 month ago
I assume it's just the mods, not voting rings. It's usually comments that run counter to the HN-approved ideology.
Comment · 1 month ago
I've frequently encountered this same thing. Often the downvotes come a day later, but quickly.
Comment · 1 month ago
When the sex cult is built around the idea that they and everyone else should fear and respect the false, anthropomorphized God they've created in LLMs, then yes. That makes them stupid and stupid people should not be allowed so close to the wheels of power and history.
Comment · 1 month ago
Finder is terrible. Not sure why it's worth defending to the point of attacking someone who simpy made something which fills its gaps.
Comment · 2 months ago
Humility? I don't think they know what the word means let alone possess the capacity to demonstrate it.
Comment · 2 months ago
There is no equivalence. There is a mass of people who are concerned about "woke." The people who are emotionally invested in AI's success are a tiny minority who have no power to push a backlash.

Hmm wait a minute, unless that small minority is politically well connected with a lot of media access. Then they could manufacture a fake backlash. Much like the backlash to "woke!" Ok nevermind it is the same.

Comment · 2 months ago
It was created by a popular Bitcoin person and crypto people are its primary user base. Tipping people with crypto is part of the protocol.
Comment · 2 months ago
How does this impractical crypto nonsense keep making it to the front page?
Comment · 2 months ago
The tendency to describe things that are so essentially characteristic of the capitalist imperial core as resembling the Soviet Union is always so funny
Comment · 2 months ago
This is a breathtakingly dumb idea
Comment · 2 months ago
You know this was "a work" in pro wrestling parlance, right?

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