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FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
Poe's Law and all.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
Little tip for the younger folks reading this: if you are given two contradictory explanations for something, the correct explanation is probably the third one.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
HOLY GOD. Worst possible wording.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
> Use an LLM to do a real world task that you should be able to achieve by reasoning.

Such as explaining the logical fallacies in this argument and the one above?
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
If you're trying to tell me there's a sucker born every minute, I knew that.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
Not ready to mount weapons on, if that's what you're asking.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
This reminds me of the contemporary use of e-bikes in Ukraine, which I understand is one of the many reasons that this war was not the curbstomp Russia seems to have expected.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
I think I've just seen the perfect vehicle for commuting in Boston.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
At the moment I read "how to reason" in the headline my bullshit detector started to go off.

LLMs do not reason, they do not think, they are not AGI. They generate by regurgitating.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
I mean I don't doubt that it happens, but the swimsuit rule probably cuts down on it. And to be fair, that pool is possibly the sexiest place in Berlin.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
The EZ is the keyboard I have. I found that almost harder than getting used to the layout, was the extra pressure that's required, going from using the squishy keyboard that came free with my last desktop machine to something with mechanical switches.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
I don't think anyone is holding Ireland responsible for "Irish" pubs. It somehow just became a genre of bar on its own, and it's easy to do in a lazy caricatured way, suitable for someone whose chief aim in owning a bar is rooking tourists: shamrock-based logo, change the name to "O'Whoever's", and have Guinness on tap, good to go.

Then you have other places like my old hangout from 20 years ago, which had a few of the same visual signifiers of Irishness, but the owner being in fact an Irishman, he didn't feel the need to go overboard with that. Hope that place is still open and doing well.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
The dome pool is also the one part where you are required to wear a swimsuit. I'm pretty sure the reason is that if you didn't, let's put it like this, that water would become a health hazard pretty quick.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
I was last there three to four years ago, nudity was required except in the pool, there you had to wear a swimsuit.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
> Vic 3 being another example

Isn't that the truth...I love Paradox games as a rule but you have to accept that they'll be slow.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
Oh, sorry, I thought you wanted to have a discussion, I wasn't clear on the fact that you just want to be a condescending dick. Have a nice life.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
I am also a dedicated worker-from-home, and I know plenty of other people who are smarter than me who work by choice from the office every day.

Even confining the discussion to those of us who logistically can do all of our jobs over the network, I've come to think that there is no single policy that can be applied over an organization that won't alienate a significant fraction of your staff. Organizations that don't find ways to accommodate the whole spectrum of, uh, "work-remoteness" are going to be at a serious disadvantage in the years to come.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
My point is not whether the rationale is valid or invalid: the point is, they're not going to do it. Is that wrong, in the ethical sense? Quite possibly. Do they care? No.

Try googling the "Golden Rule" and you'll find a version that says "they who have the gold make the rules".
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
Perhaps nobody has told you yet, but other people might have different tastes than you do.
FFP999
·3 years ago·discuss
Why _would_ they block themselves? How would that be to their advantage?