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Big brain tech dude got yet another clueless take over at HackerNews etc? Here's the place to vent. Orange site, VC foolishness, all welcome.

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A (non-tech) comedy podcast I like covered FTX! (www.earwolf.com)
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Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.

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mass plagiarism is fine, but don’t fuck with ads: OpenAI disables Browse with Bing (news.ycombinator.com)
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it’s a short comment thread so far, but it’s got a few posts that are just condensed orange site

The constant quest for "safety" might actually be making our future much less safe. I've seen many instances of users needing to yell at, abuse, or manipulate ChatGPT to get the desired answers. This trains users to be hateful to / frustrated with AI, and if the data is used, it teaches AI that rewards come from such patterns. Wrote an article about this -- https://hackernoon.com/ai-restrictions-reinforce-abusive-user-behavior

But you think humans (by and large) do know what "facts" are?

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trying to join the LLM gold rush and crashing into the brick wall of harsh reality: configuring docker (github.com)
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Ah If it isn't the resident LLM skeptic. So deep in it, you've somehow convinced yourself a one shot ~50% hit rate is equivalent to homeopathy. (news.ycombinator.com)
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one of hn’s core demographics (windbag grifters) fights with a bunch of skeptics over whether it’s a bad thing the medicine they’re selling is mostly cocaine and alcohol

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“Electronics refers to circuit board assembly not discrete electrical components. I doubt you think their diodes or capacitors are US made” hn squabbles over a $2000 phone full of old components (news.ycombinator.com)
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"There are two ways to be comfortable breaking rules: to enjoy breaking them, and to be indifferent to them." paully g posts long form linkedin cringe (news.ycombinator.com)
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linked to the orange site because there's a funny contrast in the comments between paully's fans who think they've just read the greatest thing imaginable and paully's more jaded fans who want to know why he's posting this when the industry's entering a downturn

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tesla data leak? what tesla data leak? [orange site] (news.ycombinator.com)
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Tyler Cowen's brain worms have escalated to the status of art: AI will solve the crypto use case problem (archive.is)
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Just made TechTakes (awful.systems)
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This is an infrequent sub for Silicon Valley dumbassery, Sam Altman or Paul Graham or HN reactionaries or the rest of the spawn of the Californian Ideology who aren't actually the LessWrongers.

Originally an offshoot from SneerClub, created due to off-topic orange-sitery.