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Comment · 8 days ago
I said for my family. I will likely still be buying android for myself, probably the grapheneos one if it comes out.

But for most people, the existing flow to allow external sources is already too much. For other people to install my APKs, while possible, is a slow and painful procese. Add waiting 24 hours? As good as blocked.

Comment · 8 days ago
Exactly, because now they are identical. And their phones are generally better, the prices now are also comparable or even cheaper.
Comment · 8 days ago
And this is why I've been recommending iPhones to my family when I always recommended Android
Comment · 17 days ago
Does someone know whether people saw the "predictions" in the actual test? Because saying random numbers blindly is not what I was doing. After my next number was predicted correctly, I changed my "strategy" to increase randomness (be less predictable).

So I don't know if this result is comparable to the one from the study.

My results were:

The house called 10 of your 87 scored numbers: 11%.

Blind guessing would average about 9.7 of them (11%).

Only 5 of the 206 people in a psychology study were more random than you. The house found you extremely hard to read.

Comment · 2 months ago
I swear I actually laughed out loud with this, is this a joke?
Comment · 2 months ago
It's truly unbelievable hot right now, this "good news" of solar production is pretty sad actually
Comment · 3 months ago
Even if you never watched TV your whole life, you still can't escape the consequences of other people watching TV.

That's the thing to keep in mind, it's not something an individual can "fix".

That's why policies and laws are so important.

Comment · 3 months ago
I've read "amusing ourselves to death" and there the author also criticises the idea that new technologies are "just tools".

The invention of the telegraph changed how information is traded and the contents of newspapers, the invention of the TV changed politics, and so on.

The medium shapes the message and induces behaviours from us. We never thought about wanting to promt chatgpt, or watch people doing sports on a screen. But the possibility of doing these things makes us change.

LLMs obviously have and will continue shaping the world, and I am also afraid that it will create a worse future than the one that we had until now.

I think deployment should slow down and research should be financed and diversified.

Comment · 4 months ago
Fresh people meaning burned out from the previous job?
Comment · 4 months ago
You can only say that because you know nothing about the Chinese ones
Comment · 5 months ago
And my og comment getting downvoted on this very intellectual forum that definitely isn't an echo chamber
Comment · 5 months ago
What? Big tech company is evil? No way! I thought cloudflare were good guys...
Comment · 5 months ago
I've always been confident in the ability of the US institutions to correct the mistakes being made, great to see an end to this ridiculous DOGE situation.
Comment · 5 months ago
Visiting without JS: "With JavaScript off, the page cannot tell you what your browser disclosed. The data is still there. The disclosure still happened. Only the telling of it stops."

I find this hyper dramatic LLM language extremely off putting, but appreciate the signal that allows me to completely disregard it.

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