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People want to help you with stuff and you can either fight against the way the world is or you can stoically accept the difficulty of expressing your thoughts and feelings.

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Concrete blocks lining the drive here were just a half-assed solution to keep dogs from crawling under the fence but I think it actually turned out looking okay

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I really like semi-permanent constructions where if you change your mind later the materials are all still fine to use for other things.

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It is a lot more tolerable when devices fail in an analog way with degraded quality rather than outright failure. I think this explains a lot about why chatbots delight even when they're behaving quite poorly.

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We've done so bad at writing software that experiences hard crashes that users are now satisfied with anything as long as it doesn't ever just fail out with a blank screen and an error code

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As long as there is some hope that they can try again with a refined prompt rather than simply being helpless when the computer won't go

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In contrast with traditional "machine behaves perfectly or not at all" attitudes, the shameless unapologetic attempts to guess are what people have been craving

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For all our history we have been happily conversing with other people who often get the facts wrong.

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What confuses me is why all the attention on ML is directed toward expanding the role of computers into domains they are poorly suited for rather than on repairing human-computer interactions in domains where computers work pretty okay

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Category transformers instead of monad transformers. Is this anything

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Moderation in film mostly means that content is tagged so users can select what they want to be exposed to, why does moderation in social media always just imply censorship and banning?

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In this way it seems like moderation is naturally aligned with feed curation these sites are already interested in and so not even controversial

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The point of movie ratings isn't to suppress objectionable material, it's to help buyers find the objectionable material they're interested in. The R rating serves as both a warning against and promise of tits and guns

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So like if racists want to find more racist stuff they should be in favor of content filters

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On engineering as a cowardly retreat. https://chris-martin.org/2024/hard-reality

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If you find that you or your spouse is becoming a cast iron person, just go ahead and build a system of hooks that can mount 500 pounds of skillets on the wall

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In the abstract I want to be happy when people are concerned with political goings on that don't directly impact them. You care about others, that's great. In practice mostly I've learned to recognize a growing fixation on pop political topics as a big red flag that somebody's mental health may be on a downward slope.

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I suspect lack of locality tends to be a huge factor in losing a grip on life. When your thoughts swim always in spaces that are too distant and too large.

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People always find BBs and shit in shelter dogs and ask "why would somebody shoot a dog?!?!" and the answer is pretty simple, it's because when dogs are loose they kill livestock, and so people defend their property against this stupid menace

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Solar panels have a finite lifespan (30 to 50 years?), so you're basically saving some money by pre-paying for some number of watt hours, not opening up something unlimited.

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Distributed edible permaculture, though? That sounds more like a society built around abundance rather than scarcity, but it is much more something that people have to do and commit to rather than a consumer product people simply buy.

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I used to hear people talk about gardening as a radical act, whatever happened

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Turns out that when you need to create a bunch of multiple choice quizzes, the ability of LLMs to hallucinate plausible-sounding wrong answers is actually exactly what is needed.

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@IanSudbery Yeah, I've yet to see a demo that doesn't still require a manual curation step. Still it seems somewhat less taxing to not have to come up with everything on your own.

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I know it's just the billing code but I can't get over this "import beer" that was brewed a quarter mile away

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