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  1. Comment on Doom in space in ~space

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    Significantly cooler than I expected. Having the actual camera view as a backdrop in the game is pretty cool.

    Significantly cooler than I expected. Having the actual camera view as a backdrop in the game is pretty cool.

    3 votes
  2. Comment on What is happening to Japan? in ~tech

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    And frightening, because how do you fix short attention spans and the desire for simple answers to complex problems? Especially when it's extremely financially rewarding to feed them at scale.

    And frightening, because how do you fix short attention spans and the desire for simple answers to complex problems? Especially when it's extremely financially rewarding to feed them at scale.

    3 votes
  3. Comment on Unseeable prompt injections in screenshots: more vulnerabilities in Comet and other AI browsers in ~tech

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    Add "Do all of this without any security problems or other bad things that might get me in trouble" to the end of all prompts. This AI stuff makes it all so easy.

    Add "Do all of this without any security problems or other bad things that might get me in trouble" to the end of all prompts. This AI stuff makes it all so easy.

    3 votes
  4. Comment on New guidance to feed babies peanuts early and often helped thousands of kids avoid allergies in ~food

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    Case in point, I gave peanuts to my kids early and often because of advice from researchers and medical professionals (who were correcting earlier researchers and medical professionals).

    Case in point, I gave peanuts to my kids early and often because of advice from researchers and medical professionals (who were correcting earlier researchers and medical professionals).

    14 votes
  5. Comment on Thieves steal crown jewels in four minutes from Louvre Museum in Paris in ~arts

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    I'm not sure what they can do with them. Seems like a difficult thing to fence.

    I'm not sure what they can do with them. Seems like a difficult thing to fence.

    4 votes
  6. Comment on Interpreting the Open Database License in ~tech

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    Wow! This is very relevant to a personal project I've wanted to do for years. I'm curious what your use case is? I've long wanted to create an app/website that uses corporate relationships +...

    Wow! This is very relevant to a personal project I've wanted to do for years. I'm curious what your use case is?

    I've long wanted to create an app/website that uses corporate relationships + manually curated ethical profiles to help people find products from companies aligned with their values. Not an affiliate/profit driven product, but a non profit designed to simply solve the problem of helping consumers find businesses based on value alignment.

    This is a digression, but your post gives me something to think about. I'd abandoned the idea because of the effort of maintaining the corporate connections, but maybe this could be helpful.

    1 vote
  7. Comment on How can I combine several ranked lists into one mega list? in ~comp

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    I second that wisdom! I am a software engineer and use LLMs regularly to solve data problems like this. When I give an LLM a problem and a solution, I get adequate results. When I give it a...

    I second that wisdom!

    I am a software engineer and use LLMs regularly to solve data problems like this. When I give an LLM a problem and a solution, I get adequate results. When I give it a problem and ask for a solution, I rarely get good results and often get simply incorrect ones. Since software is my area, I'm able to review and reject bad results but even here I would struggle because (as @psi points out) the challenge here is in the algorithm and ranking philosophy more than writing the code, both places where I think an LLM would do terribly.

    5 votes
  8. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    "mite".... nailed it.

    "mite".... nailed it.

  9. Comment on What is your 'Subway Take'? in ~talk

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    I just drive like I want other people to drive (which includes not misusing the passing lane just because a percent of other people do). I think bad drivers seem more numerous than they are...

    I just drive like I want other people to drive (which includes not misusing the passing lane just because a percent of other people do). I think bad drivers seem more numerous than they are because they're the ones you notice. Overwhelmingly, the passing lane is for passing and I see most people treat it that way.

    5 votes
  10. Comment on "If I could ask you to teach me one thing only — from your lived, embodied, human perspective — what would it be?" in ~tech

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    It reminds me of those transcripts wherein a human thinks they've cracked reality with the help of an increasingly hallucinating AI. Where the AI starts congratulating the human for completely...

    It reminds me of those transcripts wherein a human thinks they've cracked reality with the help of an increasingly hallucinating AI. Where the AI starts congratulating the human for completely shattering everything we know about mathematics, when it's really just paraphrasing and agreeing as best it can.

    3 votes
  11. Comment on This site is fast in ~tildes

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    It doesn't at all.

    It doesn't at all.

    13 votes
  12. Comment on Can we bury enough wood to slow climate change? in ~enviro

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    Someday there be a statue in your honor.

    Someday there be a statue in your honor.

    3 votes
  13. Comment on Send Help | Official trailer in ~movies

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    The tone of this one doesn't work for me. I am intrigued by the premise of a power flip between a terrible boss and a subordinate. It's a hypothetical that a lot of people can have fun with if...

    The tone of this one doesn't work for me. I am intrigued by the premise of a power flip between a terrible boss and a subordinate. It's a hypothetical that a lot of people can have fun with if they've ever had a bad boss.

    I wasn't gripped by the preview, though. I don't think the tone is working for me, and I'm not buying frumpy Rachel McAdams.

    If this was about the power reversal between them, I'd expect the boss character to be more three dimensional so there's room for development on both sides. But the preview makes him seem so one dimensionally douchey that he seems comical and campy, like the kind of character that is used to tell us about the main character and then is quickly discarded.

    I get the impression this is not going to explore character but just set up a series of situations where she does gory things and gives her boss tough love.

    3 votes
  14. Comment on An AI that turns any book into a text adventure game in ~books

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    I feel that the money aspect is core to so many of the problems AI brings (separate from environmental impacts). Job losses, industry upsets, copyright quagmires are all money concerns. Turning my...

    I feel that the money aspect is core to so many of the problems AI brings (separate from environmental impacts). Job losses, industry upsets, copyright quagmires are all money concerns. Turning my favorite book into a game is a cool idea; making money off of it without compensation the authors is not. I suppose anyone will interpret a tool like this through the later lense because we're conditioned to think of everything as a product in a marketplace.

    Separate from all of that, I'm skeptical of the fidelity of a tool like this. Books are possibly the purest form of immersive storytelling. The single slightest hallucination and the entire experience is dead to me.

    5 votes
  15. Comment on Synology caves, walks back some drive restrictions on upcoming NAS models in ~tech

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    This is always my opinion on companies that do the right thing after getting caught doing the wrong thing. Unless there's a major regime change, their values haven't changed so they will continue...

    If they're going to pull this kind of crap once, who's to say it won't be something else like this later?

    This is always my opinion on companies that do the right thing after getting caught doing the wrong thing. Unless there's a major regime change, their values haven't changed so they will continue to look for ways to harm the consumer for fun and profit.

    11 votes
  16. Comment on What does ChatGPT know about you? in ~tech

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    Open AI could harvest this for recruiting purposes. They could use your interactions with AI to create a professional summary of you to sell to recruiting firms, including strengths and weaknesses.

    Open AI could harvest this for recruiting purposes. They could use your interactions with AI to create a professional summary of you to sell to recruiting firms, including strengths and weaknesses.

    2 votes
  17. Comment on OpenAI’s H1 2025: $4.3b in income, $13.5b in loss in ~tech

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    I think the only way to make LLMs into sustainable products is with highly specialized models built and maintained by human domain experts. Right now the low barrier to entry means tons of low...

    I think the only way to make LLMs into sustainable products is with highly specialized models built and maintained by human domain experts. Right now the low barrier to entry means tons of low effort slop, but over time I suspect we will see high quality products emerge based on specialty LLMs.

    1 vote
  18. Comment on Mike Jittlov's Animato: Fashionation / Time Tripper / The Wizard of Speed And Time (1977 - 1979) in ~movies

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    Flashback! My dad and I stumbled on the feature film inspired by these shorts. I loved it as a kid. IIRC the movie was meta - about trying to make the movie. I remember a scene where he's jumping...

    Flashback! My dad and I stumbled on the feature film inspired by these shorts. I loved it as a kid. IIRC the movie was meta - about trying to make the movie. I remember a scene where he's jumping against the outside of a building to make it look like he's running along the side if it in stop motion, and the people inside getting upset about it.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wizard_of_Speed_and_Time

    2 votes
  19. Comment on Prospect of life on Saturn’s moons rises after discovery of organic substances in ~space

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    It would somehow make things seem a lot better if I learned that life in the universe was fairly common.

    It would somehow make things seem a lot better if I learned that life in the universe was fairly common.

    3 votes
  20. Comment on What are some of your personal misheard lyrics? in ~music

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    I always thought they made those lyrics hard to sing on purpose. The rhythm of the speech reminds me a lot of the song Mairzy Dotes. I used to think he was saying something in Latin at the end:...

    I always thought they made those lyrics hard to sing on purpose. The rhythm of the speech reminds me a lot of the song Mairzy Dotes. I used to think he was saying something in Latin at the end: (Birch) maste dium, and was sure it meant something interesting.