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tenuousemphasison How to Write with an LLM

Sure, if you don't mind your fact checker to be confidently wrong often.

tenuousemphasison A Decade of Hype, 3k Roofs, and One Redirect URL: Tesla Kills the Solar Roof

All of it... it reads like someone experiencing mania.

tenuousemphasison Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

It's actually worse than that. IP laws trump property laws because they prevent you from using your property in ways you would otherwise be able to. It's nothing more than base rent seeking.

tenuousemphasison Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'

This is going to blow your mind, but people created music, literature, art long before intellectual property laws existed. IP laws are nothing but rent seeking.

tenuousemphasison Everybody's Lost Their Minds

TIL a global pandemic that infected hundreds of millions and killed millions of people wasn't an inherent problem.

tenuousemphasison The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities

You're saying that bankrupting a casino was actually 4D chess? Ok, buddy, whatever you say.

tenuousemphasison A Decade of Hype, 3k Roofs, and One Redirect URL: Tesla Kills the Solar Roof

Are you ok?

tenuousemphasison TALA Is Open-Source

Ironic given the product is a layout engine.

tenuousemphasison Whistleblower warns Postal Service mail ballot system has catastrophic problems

Ok now what's the potential false positive rate?

tenuousemphasison Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO

She'd have some teeth with President AOC.

tenuousemphasison Microduck

You can train it to do pretty much anything.

tenuousemphasison U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications

Hey, if all it takes to get the government to hurt those immigrants is electing a narcissistic pedophile to the highest office of the land, then so be it.

tenuousemphasison Why can AI generate Super Mario but not a wedge ramp for my robot vacuum?

This exactly. It can write code, compile it, render and inspect it. It took quite a bit of back and forth but I got Claude to generate a complex mating part from a 3D scan.

tenuousemphasison Google wins bankruptcy auction for Spirit Airlines emails, chats, documents

I was wondering if this is valuable for the mineable PII or for the AI training data? Maybe boyh.

tenuousemphasison Why must a socialist also be woke?

>open borders

I see you're not a serious person.

tenuousemphasison Civilian plane crash in New Mexico tied to military GPS blocking

NOTAM is itself a broken system responsible for many mishaps.

tenuousemphasison So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂

If it wasn't an apartment and you could cut holes in the wall, I would say a ductless HRV.

tenuousemphasison The coolest use for the Vision Pro

Awnings are your friend, particularly on windows facing the equator. It's not very difficult to calculate all the ways sun will hit a window throughout the year and design an awning to block the sun in the summer but not the winter.

tenuousemphasison Google Discloses $94.1B in SpaceX Stock, Marking 6% Stake

>All these come together with orbital data centers…

Only if you remain wilfully ignorant of thermodynamics.

tenuousemphasison SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video]

They generally initiate landing aiming just off shore and only adjust to the landing pad after everything is nominal. So yes.

tenuousemphasison OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened

Let me get this straight... Your solution to the AI box experiment is to never put the AI in a box at all?

tenuousemphasison It's getting harder to focus every day

>There exist problems which cause years of suffering which can be solved in hours (sometimes minutes). Not every problem is like that, of course, but some are. Procrastination is like that, sometimes posture is like that, and mental effects of social media are like that.

So simple to solve all those things in mere minutes, yet you can't even say how? Do I have to buy your book or subscribe to your website to find out the solution for poor posture and procrastination!

tenuousemphasison OpenNode – Bitcoin Payment Processor

Yes, it goes up and down. Fiat currency only goes down. It's a lot more fungible than stocks.

tenuousemphasison Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

So do most people.

tenuousemphasison Steam Machine: Between 12k and 15k Units Sold per week

There's an Nvidia branch of Bazzite, and it works great. I'm even surprisingly able to play Star Citizen, which is notoriously finicky.

tenuousemphasison GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims

Critical thinking isn't exactly your strong suit, clearly.

tenuousemphasison Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes

Never go full crazy.

tenuousemphasison Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes

Mortgages are generally paid over 30 years.

tenuousemphasison Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes

Globally, $14k/mo is unbelievably, obscenely rich.

tenuousemphasison Photos of items from families in different countries with different incomes

You're shifting the goal posts, but I'll bite... what is 'safely' owning a home, to you?