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Restraint won't make the unpredictable gamma ray burst or unstoppably-sized asteroid go away.
Re:GPT-4o on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:47PM (#40369333)
Personally I've always said it with a hard r
Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:42PM (#40369253)
Yep. It's amazing to see how quickly people start denying reality when they don't like someone's beliefs/behavior.

I could acknowledge that a hypothetical smart, woke, furry, trans, porn-addicted programmer that regularly makes great FOSS contributions is intelligent and capable while still disliking their beliefs/behavior.

Separate the "art" from the "artist."

Re:The Most Talented Person in the World on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @12:35PM (#40369162)
This is definitely the best option. Community search blocklists, like uBlock Origin
Re:Ilya Sutskever to leave OpenAI on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @01:28AM (#40363382)
Incorrect, he led a recruiting battle for Ilya: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nORLckDnmg&t=75s
Yes. The census now is self-reported too, all racial censuses are and always have been, do you think we started using phrenology squads after 1900 or something?

Are you denying that the US was much more homogeneous and White back in 1900? Interesting cope. Not a Great Replacement if White people just never even had the country in the first place huh?

> The country peaked pre-civil rights era? Before the computer industry?

Yes, absolutely, in basically any metric you can name besides GDP. Computers and the internet are not inherently good, multiple generations of social media addicts doesn't mean we've reached utopia.

The civil rights era and Vietnam were just so obviously the beginning of the end for the US's prime.

Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:24PM (#40362765)
I'm asking whether you live in England or Australia, special guy.
Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @11:24PM (#40362762)
I love White people. I don't like race traitors of any kind.
China is already beating the US technologically in many areas and it won't even be close within 10 years.

America was much more White in Ford's era. 87.9% in 1900 and it only became higher until 1950, which not-so-coincidentally is when the country peaked.

>That's an odd reference to DEI

It's the state religion of the leading democracies of the world, and our highest societal value. China's "national mission" is to improve itself and progress technologically and dominate the world economy. America's national mission is to replace all White men in positions of power with trans black disabled lesbians.

Which do you think is going to result in more technological innovation?

I don't see art doing well in either system, currently, and it seems like a lower priority. I think art can only flourish and progress in a relatively culturally homogeneous country where people are able to express themselves and push boundaries without fear of having their lives ruined. We may never see this again anywhere in our lifetimes. Well, maybe in Africa.

The only democracies that have ever managed to succeed were able to overcome the inherent flaws in democracy due to being racially/culturally homogeneous. The US and Europe will not be so in the near future, thus they will not succeed.

Freedom is great, but when it results in the place I live gradually turning into a shithole due to political paralysis I grow more inclined to value national competency over freedom.

Would you rather live in the Congo and have the right to strongly criticize the government or live in China and not have that right?

Authoritarian governments can actually get things done. China built a high-speed rail system connecting every large and medium-sized city in their country in 10 years. We can't manage to build a high speed rail system in one state in the US. (California.)

On a federal level, every President that represents a different party than the last immediately undoes the changes made by the last. The only lasting changes from a Presidential term are Supreme Court justices because they're for life.

Democracy < dictatorship if you value technological and infrastructural progress over diversity, equity and inclusion.

IANAPNA either, but a solid object like a planet blocks light differently than dust clouds. Dust clouds, even dense ones, still allow some wavelengths through that planets do not. I would guess that's what allows them to be confident that it's a planet.
Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:27PM (#40357664)
Yes, you can justify not continuing your genetic line and letting your race die out. You can justify anything, humans are great at explaining their behavior. Its just that actively hating your own race and wanting it to die out makes you an insane person and a defective human being
Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:23PM (#40357615)
>mate

So which group is your country being replaced by? Muslims or Chinese?

Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:58AM (#40352064)
I think you're like 10 years behind in the programming, the new line is that well obviously the Great Replacement is happening, but it's a good thing.
Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:45AM (#40351992)
Not when they've replaced every customer-facing position. Oh and all teachers.
Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @01:37AM (#40351949)
Yes nothing more unreasonable than not wanting your race to be replaced, wanting border laws to be enforced, and not wanting your children to be groomed into cutting off their body parts. You are definitely sane and your entire family is definitely insane.
Re:Who Wants to Be a Thousandaire? (2011) on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:30PM (#40301433)
Hacking doesn't hurt people, theft/scamming does
Re:Apple introduces M4 chip on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @01:20PM (#40300592)
It is being optimized, it's just that the optimization is geared towards vacuuming money from brainwashed pockets instead of making a product that's worth the money.
Racist people also know why less children are reading for fun.
Re:Apple introduces M4 chip on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @02:00PM (#40289238)
The mental gymnastics Apple fanboys will do to defend being sold garbage are amazing.
Re:Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019) on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:18PM (#40276960)
I said "people that value style over substance and non-technical people," you appear to have read "non-technical people."

>ignorant

In fact the only techy people I know that enjoy MacOS seem to be ignorant about what they're missing. I've had multiple people be very surprised when I showed them the clipboard manager built into Windows and explained how insanely slow switching between windows over and over to copy and paste multiple things on MacOS feels without it. They genuinely had no idea because they, again, never leave their Apple bubble.

Like the iPhone the one thing Macbooks objectively have going for them is (overpriced) good hardware.

Re:Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices on Monday May 06, 2024 @01:14PM (#40276899)
Why would Israel have to do anything? With the flagging system, even if there's just a minority of pro-Israel users anything anti-Israel is now effectively banned.
Re:Microsoft CTO: Thoughts on OpenAI (2019) on Monday May 06, 2024 @03:16AM (#40272038)
Like the other replies are saying: you're in a bubble, like most Apple users.

MacOS needs third party apps to not be incredibly frustrating, and often the apps are subscription based. (Window management, clipboard history, and power management are the big ones - even if you go with a free option like I do, it's not good that the base OS is missing essential features in these areas.) There are many little annoying things that can't be easily disabled, like Apple Music launching every time you connect your bluetooth earbuds. There are incredibly bizarre UX choices, like not having "pin" in Finder be a right click option.

As for development, Windows + Powertoys can do everything MacOS can better, plus game (and game dev). For anything Linux I can use WSL2. I can natively develop any kind of software for literally any non-walled-garden platform on Windows (and use a VM if I'm forced to make an iOS app, god forbid). Why would I intentionally choose to limit what my computer can run and what development I can do?

I'm forced to use a Macbook for work, but would never use it if given the choice. MacOS is for people that value style over substance and non-technical people, just like everything else Apple.

Making something cool and selling it for a profit isn't grifting
Which is more "hacker" - Rabbit or Google?
Are you referring to this? https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt-plugins

Rabbit's approach is one-sided (train their model to generate needed API calls, and maybe also perform Selenium-style simulated actions?) which should make it more flexible if inherently less reliable than dedicated plugins written by developers from the apps looking to be called via AI

It's cool. Would not have been as cool as an app
It can do a lot more than ChatGPT's app, let alone Siri which can do even less.

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