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flashman
·قبل 3 أيام·discuss
You assert that, but can you prove it? Likewise I can say that the model is biased towards rating the Economist's claims as 'mainstream' and 'bang on' because as a high-profile publication those claims are repeated elsewhere and hence up-weighted.

I could be wrong - my point is, how would we know?
flashman
·قبل 30 يومًا·discuss
The current ID verification requirements for phones were introduced to Australia in 1997
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
> Claude and ChatGPT are not indoctrinating into the manosphere users asking about discounted cash flow formulae.

You're defining an extremely narrow case and then saying bias is irrelevant within it. At the risk of Godwin's Law that's kind of like saying it's okay if my accountant is a Nazi as long as they only ever have conversations about accountancy.
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
In the same way that a photograph is not dissimilar to the thing it represents, that is, in the most important way.
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
vast oversimplification of the experience of brain damage
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Maybe when the system can generate its own state, rather than that state existing as a deterministic output of its inputs, maybe then we can consider it to have the interiority and reflexiveness required to call something 'thought'.

A very convincing simulation of thought is not thought, especially without memory or any evidence of an independent will. LLMs have the same kind of consciousness as a nematode, albeit with less-complex behaviour.
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
well we could [HN terms of service violation]
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I didn't say there wasn't bot-generated content in the past. I said we weren't excited about a future where it was de rigeur.
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
I don't know what else you'd call the widespread and enthusiastic adoption of a technology that is designed to exploit people's trust in the veracity of images by mimicking reality as seamlessly as possible. I think it's both aberrant and abhorrent for the tech industry to be actively developing something that's permanently polluting our information environment.

Here's a local story published after I made my comment, about tour operators using AI images to misrepresent destinations in the area: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-01/ai-videos-spark-conce...

Increasing the availability of fake image generators directly enables more harms like these.
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Twenty years ago, I don't think any of us were excited about a future internet where we couldn't trust whether what we were seeing or reading was genuine. I hope one day we'll be able to look back on this era as an aberration, like that scene in Mad Men where the Drapers fling their picnic rubbish onto the grass and drive away.
flashman
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
hey OP what's with all the carryology submissions in the past two days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279413
flashman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Apple is smart to avoid betting the farm on generative AI based on large language models, which is really what we mean by 'AI' here. It costs a lot to create and to run, nobody is willing to pay enough to cover those costs, and when that financial reality hits, it's going to take the knees out from under some major corporations.

Maybe Apple will buy Nvidia. That would be a useful vertical integration.
flashman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
No, it's asking for my two-legged horse to have four legs
flashman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
But we all knew what they meant and here you are being tedious about it
flashman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Misleading, because satellites are made of different materials to meteors. Satellites are the dominant injection source of 24 elements into the atmosphere, including Al, Cu, Ti, Nb, Co, Zn, Sn, Pb, Ag, Li, V, Hf, W, Ge, Mo, Zr, B, and Ba. This list includes many transition metals, whose catalytic effects on ozone and cloud nucleation are mostly unknown.

Copper in particular is a well-known catalyst for the destruction of ozone.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027311772...
flashman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
well there was this previous issue in the crypto community where it turned out someone was not a competent engineer and should have stuck to their online exchange for magic: the gathering
flashman
·قبل شهرين·discuss
What's in the files they've already released? Some of them are > 800GB.
flashman
·قبل 4 أشهر·discuss
Not enough money though. Not hundreds of billions of dollars.
flashman
·قبل 9 أشهر·discuss
didn't help Shed Garvey lol
flashman
·قبل 11 سنة·discuss
Read this set of articles: "Things I wish I was told when I became a manager" http://fractio.nl/management/