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> ...of an LLM is that it can help my poor wife with her research, she spends all day every day in small town archives pouring over 18th century American historical documents.

> I'm still not transcribing important historical documents with a chat bot and nor should he

Doesn't sound like she's interested in technology, or wants help.


Maybe someday you'll be poor starving on the streets, and you can use your anecdotal bias to keep you warm and feeling full.

Well if the poster is not doing drugs and is taking care of their health the odds are overwhelmingly against this scenario even if it would satisfy your schadenfreude.

Oh really? Please cite the sources. I didn't say I hoped it happened. Just that it does happen. And it's an extremely myopic and callous way to look at the state of the world.

Hn has for the most part always been like this.

I still remember 14 years ago or so, when applied science posted his diy electron microscope build and a handful of top comments were low effort nerd snipes and criticisms.

Nothing to do about it, I don't think. Its the warty culture here.


The guy in the video disagrees with you. From his other video, 23 mins in,

> next, rinse aids. use them. this isn't a scam.

I'll trust the dishwasher expert until there's some proper citations.

You have to realize that every time you sip a glass or eat off a surface that's provided by a commercial entity, you're getting items that have come in contact with industrial appliances that dispense rinse aid.

I have a difficult time believing that something so ubiquitous is as harmful as you claim, but I'm open to being convinced.


"This isn't a scam" means that rinse aid works. It doesn't imply anything regarding its safety.

There is some research (see my other comment) hinting that industrial level use can be harmful (households dilution levels are probably fine).


Wait til you hear about the dangers of using industrial amounts of dihydrogen monoxide :p


I think this is the research that suggests possible damage - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36464527/

The US by and large can (and does) assert authority outside of its jurisdiction, from which another country can choose to capitulate.

Most of the time countries do, because they are all swapping data on their citizens between themselves to skirt various laws.

In the case where the US really wants something, and the country won't yield, they'll fund contras or destabilize the government (if small enough to be bullied) or impose sanctions so drastic it's effectively a soft act of war.

This is all to say that, the US has nearly unlimited authority while it stands as the world's defacto superpower.


The unfortunate truth, 300,000 years later and humans still operate on "might makes right" whether militarily, or economically.

If the violent, untrustworthy, Americans choose to go to war with their former allies over some data then that's their choice. Better than just giving these warmongers everything they want.

They can assert what they want, they have no way to enforce it.

Pretty funny you're jumping straight to warfare. This proves why Americans cannot be trusted.

In any case, it's better for me that the Americans will need to start a war with the EU to get at my data instead of just giving it to them.


We agree, I'm not saying anything is good or desirable. Just pointing out, this is how they achieve overreach: coercion.

I'd argue that placing faith in any large institution is folly. Especially when that institution has a bunch of perverse incentives to act immorally.

Any nation with any amount of leverage has abused it.


For anyone reading this that thinks anything this person is saying is compelling, I urge you to do your own due diligence.

The sentiments mindslight are expressing are harmful, and could someday land you in a lot of trouble (but I hope you never have to deal with anything like it).

It's simple: never talk to the police. They are not your friends.

https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE

The only thing you ever say to "clear things up" is "lawyer."


Is this real? This is absolutely nuts if true.


They occasionally do stupid things like this, the other day I asked Codex to make some changes to a few files and it refused because it was too much work.


That's one of Codex's few warts. At the same time, A strong self-estimation of one's abilities within context is ostensibly a feature and not a bug, and that the more self aware it is to the task, the better execution path it can create for that task. But practically, yes, I agree. It's very annoying. I run into the same issue.


Yes. I'm not really sure how to prove it but it's real.


It's just internet speak from the days of tumbler. It usually has cutsie connotations.

Tumbler speak has a bunch of whacky things, notably "chimkin nuggers."


As an aside, something extremely annoying I've noticed about tplink is that every once in a while when I go to log into the router, it redirects to a tplink website and proxies my local router page through it.

Terrible.


Yeah it's so annoying. Hitting back and stopping loading (or just hitting back) usually gets me to the page.


Im curious where all you top commenters were 5 years ago when grammarly was a product used by most professional writers.

If you weren't as incensed then, it's almost like your outrage and compulsion to post this on every hn thread is completely baseless.


Perhaps because it didn't stick out like a sore thumb? Or because it became so prevalent they observe the exact same tics in every other article they read nowadays?


Are you speaking for yourself? Or someone else?


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