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So this is basically a result of the DEA forcing eBay to enforce a ban on pill presses for them?

I hate how the government has basically been deputizing internet companies to enforce laws and regulations for them. If the DEA had done this themselves you could appeal it, ask your congressperson for help, or take them to court, but as long as their actions get laundered through a private company, the rights of the affected citizens disappear.

Human brains are not large language models.

> If you don’t install Apple Music or Apple TV, you can continue to use iTunes for all your media. … so why would I install either of those? What’s actually changing if I only have iTunes installed?

The way I see it, the source of humor is basically the superiority theory but applied only to a knowledge gradient. Socrates saying that he’s handsome is funny because it implies that he doesn’t know how ugly he is, and the rest of us do. We all laugh to show that we possess the knowledge he lacks - we “get the joke”. The handsomest man in the world saying he’s handsome isn’t funny because it’s just a true statement, there’s no one being dumb to be made fun of.

Well, it wouldn’t be the first time that a law with good intentions has prefaced a loss of freedom

When you have a hammer…

They’re raising the entrance fee from $25 (which was apparently set in 2015) to $30

According to the BLS inflation calculator, $25 in 2015 had the same buying power as $32.64 now

Apparently museums are getting cheaper in real terms! What’s the issue?

> Unless you're claiming that GPT-3.5 is deriving the Declaration of Independence (from information about the founding fathers?)

This would make a fun short story - “ChatGPT, author of the Quixote”

They should look to make it not tell lies first. If they were serious about trying to sell AI as a product, they’d make it functional instead of worrying about its tone.

It’s not “about” anything, it’s just nonsense generated by a computer program. Any meaning you find in it is pareidolia.

As is the article, and almost everyone talking about the topic.

But Copilot has been shown to distribute (parts of) the copyrighted works used to create it. That’s the difference.

I wouldn't care about this VPN if it weren't for the fact that I can't ignore it. There's an option to hide it from the toolbar, but every time I open an incognito window it pops back up again. It's incredibly annoying.