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Comment · 29 days ago
incentives, pressures, dynamics
Comment · 29 days ago
Do your camera’s film anything outside your property?
Comment · 1 month ago
This is how law develops, no?
Comment · 1 month ago
HF falls under French jurisdiction, right? Couldn’t a case be made over there?
Comment · 2 months ago
perhaps onion2k meant that openAI could’ve reimplemented it once in-house on their side for the codex app?
Comment · 2 months ago
Omarchy is an agent first experience, no? just ask your agent!
Comment · 2 months ago
[1] > A radio device at BBC did all this and not humans?

Technology mediates (human) agency.

[2] > My argument is that radio is a medium through which humans communicate. An LLM is not.

KaiserPro's argument is that radio (a one-way medium) mediates how humans communicate (phonetically), thus influencing how people speak.

Now that does not explain how the printing press and radio have influenced word choice (both of which I would like to see examples of!)

[3] > I can't remember any radio determining words or adjusting grammar of the person speaking through it.

Now media themselves did not really have something that looked like the kind of pseudo-agency that LLMs seemingly have. There may be some kind of qualitative leap.

Comment · 2 months ago
If you add enough heat, pressure and (geological) time it becomes coal!
Comment · 6 months ago
Differs when I ran a local DeepSeek model.

You also get to see the <thinking /> tokens.

Comment · 7 months ago
Looks like Graebers bullshit jobs, right?

  1. https://davidgraeber.org/articles/on-the-phenomenon-of-bullshit-jobs-a-work-rant/
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
  3. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-bullshit-jobs
Comment · 8 months ago
Methane traps far more heat than CO2 before oxidizing back into it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Modern WAIS-IV-type tests yield multiple factor scores: IQ is arguably non-scalar.
Comment · 1 year ago
What features did BCPL have at that point that C didn’t have (and stil does not)?
Comment · 2 years ago
Do you have a link to that podcast?
Comment · 2 years ago
“laf” or “lag”?

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