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i8comments··on YouTube is trying to block Invidious
What is a full list of solutions and alternatives?
i8comments··on [dead]
I think he thinks he is Hunter S. Thompson.
i8comments··on Discord became a perfect conduit for a leak of government secrets
Non-issue.
i8comments··on Cognitive distortions that undermine clear thinking
The biggest distortion to clear thinking are people in power shutting down thought in a variety of ways, be it social, psychological, physical, manipulation, threats, etc.

Intelligent people require power, or the approval of those in power, to thrive, and knowing logical fallacies in other peoples thinking or actions, or sometimes in your own, doesnt by itself give you the power to change anything and can in fact be even more dispiriting.

i8comments··on Gen Z are scaling back on eating out because they have 'menu anxiety'
What a bs "explanation".
i8comments··on Quest 2 is outselling Quest 3
I'm not getting any VR sets until theyre light enough to not give medically serious neck injuries with long term or vigorous use.

(I saw the dislocated neck X ray of a VR set reviewer)

i8comments··on What’s behind the Freud resurgence?
He never left.
i8comments··on Artificial intelligence systems found to excel at imitation, but not innovation
AI systems are not like people.
i8comments··on Most companies using AI are 'lighting money on fire,' says Matthew Prince
Reading what the article actually says beyond the clickbait, there is no reason to take that statement seriously.
i8comments··on Google admits Gemini demo was staged
I'll believe Google when I can test their product.
i8comments··on Blind Streamer Rattlehead Explains How He Plays Pro Mortal Kombat
Does he main Kenshi?
i8comments··on Mixtral of experts
The claim that it is better than GPT3.5, in practice, should be taken with a grain of salt, since the benchmarks themselves aren't... ideal.

Despite the questionable marketing claim, it is a great LLM for other reasons.

i8comments··on Americans' trust in scientists, positive views of science continue to decline
What else are comments?
i8comments··on Teddy Roosevelt pursues the boat thieves (2015)
Lethal force is only to be used in self defense, when your life is truly threatened and you truly have no other way of stopping them.
i8comments··on Pig brain function under extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control
Eating is a basic necessity for life, scientific experiments are not; you can eat plants instead, too.
i8comments··on Pig brain function under extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control
I say it is more moral to stop animal testing; our moral systems are different.
i8comments··on Pig brain function under extracorporeal pulsatile circulatory control
Eating meat for breakfast and animal testing involves suffering or killing.
i8comments··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
I am not giving into Google s coercion. Why are you?
i8comments··on Ecstasy and magic mushrooms show signs of helping with PTSD treatment
Psychedelics plus therapy; it is the combination that works.
i8comments··on FCC Is Trying to Stop Discrimination in Broadband Deployment. Telecoms Are Mad
Bringing Internet to more people is supposedly good for them, but is bringing more people to the Internet supposed to be good for the Internet?
i8comments··on Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row
Nuclear is not cheap.
i8comments··on Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
Only if you hava ADHD.
i8comments··on Why thinking hard makes us feel tired
I'm skeptical of potentially dangerous Internet medical advice. What are your qualifications?
i8comments··on Apple pulls its ads from X after Musk's antisemitic posts
There is no link to what Elon Musk actually said in his own words.
i8comments··on Privacy is priceless, but Signal is expensive
Salaries for executives in most tech competitors are inflated and should go down, starting with Signal.
i8comments··on Screen time does not affect child development
More research is needed.
i8comments··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
Why is it legally questionable?
i8comments··on Google plans to disable legacy V2 browser extensions next June
More reason to use Firefox.
i8comments··on SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight
Why are you confident?
i8comments··on Ask HN: Why is OpenAI firing Sam Altman such a big deal?
Not disagreeing or agreeing, what evidence or proof do you have?
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