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Comment · 3 years ago
How about make new scientific discoveries?
Comment · 3 years ago
> have a hard time reacting to fully formed ideas thrown at me thrown at me over a table. The other side coming with fully prepared for the discussion, while on the receiving end you need to do your homework realtime also doesn't help.

That's the feature, not a bug. It gives the meeting initiator a better chance of steamrolling their way to approval.

Notice the difference between meetings where people share agendas and docs ahead of time vs those where you show up and they walk you through the doc.

Comment · 3 years ago
What I see in that first image is the two rocks are the same shape, just rotated and scaled.
Comment · 3 years ago
If my laptop screen were legible in direct sun, I'd be out there. Wifi and headphones.

Sadly the laptop's too small and Chrome's too power-hungry for solar power to be an option: ⅓m width * ¼m length * 158W/m2 solar = 13W out of 67W to run it, or 19%.

Comment · 3 years ago
> We just need to take away the developer's choice and force them to integrate

Who's we? Who are they integrating with? A protocol? A business? A government?

This has been tried in a multitude of ways. There's always a bit too much friction or cost.

Comment · 3 years ago
Wouldn't the intense electro-magnetic signature of this drive make it highly detectable in an otherwise quiet ocean?
Comment · 3 years ago
It's because the US only has two parties, and both parties have priorities that override privacy concerns: pro-police and anti-regulation on the one hand; pro-tech and pro-federal govt on the other.
Comment · 3 years ago
> as their work relies entirely on user research

Definitely not the case everywhere.

Comment · 3 years ago
Ironically communism would've had a better chance of success if it had AI for the centrally planned economy and social controls. Hardcore materialism will play into automation's hands though.

We're more likely to see a theocratic movement centered on the struggle of human souls vs the soulless simulacra of AI.

Comment · 3 years ago
Was that part of some program?
Comment · 3 years ago
The Rig (2023) is a mysterious miniseries set entirely on an oil rig off Scotland. It feels like they're on a spaceship, isolated from terra firma and the rest of humanity. Starring Ser Jorah Mormont from GoT and Stevie Budd from Schitt's Creek.
Comment · 3 years ago
Using plagiarism rules seems both fair and appropriate (given the source of the AI's content).

A human reviewing an author's writing and then passing it off as their own isn't okay. If they make substantive edits such that it's essentially new work, then it's okay. Discussing with the author then writing their own versions is okay.

Really though what I'm after is a mass protection so consumers can understand that images they're seeing or language they're reading or hearing isn't from a primary (ie human) source. Sort of like the "actor portrayal" or "this image has been photoshopped" requirements some countries have.

Comment · 3 years ago
Each paragraph of AI-generated content should have to be prefaced with the phrase "computer-generated:" with the same visibility as the rest of the text. Same goes for images but with a watermark instead. No site-wide opt-outs.
Comment · 3 years ago
And yet misconfigurations still mean people don't get paged.

A simple solution is to make triggering a "fire drill" a standard part of your on-call rotation hand-off.

Comment · 3 years ago
My employer sure does. Unless you're telling me that devs in major US cities are actually 2x better than rural US coders, who in turn are multiple times better than devs in poorer countries.

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