Dan Hedges

Has any American president ever shit himself during a State of the Union?

Let them know they printed it upside-down. I'm sure they can fix it.

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Congrats!

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"Where do senior devs come from?"

America Twenty-First!!!

roses are red
violets are red
everything is red
this is a bloodbath

I am no longer able to detect whether a post is a joke or not.

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Everything you see, hear, taste or touch is a lie.

Only smell is true. All else is controlled by The Matrix.

The only question that can ever be known, here in Plato's cave, is: Who farted?

This reference made me feel so happy and also so old

Pullitzer potential

I think it's back up. Don't feel like working anymore though

Is GitHub down? I think GitHub is down.

You're not superrich then.

Our president does not know that Bad Bunny is an American

If you thought Vance got a cold reception at the Olympics, wait until they introduce Kristi Noem at the Puppy Bowl.

As for if Fox News is primarily oriented around becoming popular, rather than creating false beliefs, I think that the Dominion lawsuits showed that there are several people that know full well what they're doing.

The rank-and-file are just putting out TV, but there are those that know.

My mother was a labor union president who led a major strike during the 90s. My father had Fox News on constantly, even while sleeping. Now he's gone, and she believes everything MAGA.

I really feel that her beliefs were persuaded into existence.

Perhaps our parents (yours and mine) have social structures and personal traits that pull them toward viewing Fox News, rather than Fox News causing their beliefs.

I think that's what Hank is getting at.

Personally, I'm not sure.

So there's also the ethics of taking away all the entry-level positions, so that in the future, after the current generation of experts dies, there will be no more human experts.

The sad thing to me is that with LLMs competing, a human has no reason to write a crappy novel. LLMs will one day be able to do that easily. But without humans writing crappy first drafts, humans will no longer learn how to create great novels.

But for a human, paying for one copy of a book and reading it is enough compensation.

Yes, an LLM is trained on other authors' work. But so are human authors. The difference here is that LLMs train so much faster, and that training can be electronically duplicated infinitely all over the world. So paying an author for one copy while training an LLM is not enough.

Second, the ethics have to do with humanity, not the machine. An LLM cannot produce an excellent novel, it can only rehash things it saw in other (sometimes excellent) novels. Because artistic excellence is always about being a human, and an LLM has no knowledge of that.

A couple of thoughts: First, have you read or heard Cory Doctorow's take?

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Improv!

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The Baileys think you're weak.

But the Baileys are pleading with him not to do any of these things.

YouTube video by Washington Post 'Democracy Dies in Darkness': Super Bowl commercial (2019)

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.