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The last paragraph in GP’s comment is the key. Nobody would care about a low effort poster, what they care about is the deception of pretending you put a lot of effort into the poster. It’s dishonest, and it would make me subconsciously question what else they’re being dishonest about.

Tech people seem to have a really difficult time grasping that the average person is not a utilitarian.

People are really bothered by perceived inauthenticity and injustice. And care about more things than the utility of the end product.

On top of that, we have a very out of touch political system that has continually ignored the will of the electorate. So then the tech people will say “see, the masses voted with their feet, they love the utility of AI generated art!”. Completely ignoring the perverse incentivizes and regulatory capture that led to that outcome.

If you were to poll 100 people on the street, they would be very against replacing human artists with AI.


For me what always gives it away is not the posters themselves, it’s the context. These are all overdesigned for a local community fair. There is no way they’d be paying for a professional designer for this, therefore it’s AI.

On the other hand if it had word art, grammar/spelling mistakes, images with wrong aspect ratios or clipping issues, that would immediately convince me it wasn’t AI.


Context is everything.

A twee handwritten sign for free range eggs at the roadside is likely to do well.

A handwritten sign for flying lessons on the other hand..


And anyone selling flying lessons could probably afford a graphic designer, it sounds like we agree.

Now that you mention it, I'm pretty sure I recall a hand-painted "Skydiving" sign at some small rural airport...

Prompt: make me a poster in the "looks like garbage made by someone who doesn't know how to use Microsoft word or what aspect ratio is" style...

japgolly’s signature for reduce above is slightly wrong, it should be `[A] -> ((A,A) -> A) -> Maybe A`.

I.e. there is no initial value to pass in, but the result is an Optional to handle the empty iterator case. That’s how rust does it, for example:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/iter/trait.Iterator.html#metho...


If your data should not be successfully folded if it's empty, you should've already parsed it as an Optional nonEmptyList instead of letting illegal states fly around for a while in your application.

Yeah that's good application design, but those concerns aren't so relevant to the person writing the standard library for a language. You can certainly include a specialized version of reduce for nonEmptyLists which just returns A, but that doesn't change the fact that you have to return an Optional for a normal possibly-empty iterator if you want your reduce function to be non-partial.

Yeah this is selection bias. The remaining uncontacted tribes are uncontacted because they are very hostile to outsiders.

Only partly, they also live in extremely remote areas that don't have a lot to offer. It's not like all the other indigenous populations were pacifists, they fought wars, murdered, raided, etc. but they were living in areas that were much more desirable for conquest.

The future is open models running on your device. No subsidized corporate tooling required. There will never be a reckoning for the people who are letting their coding skills atrophy.

I don't like it either, but that's the way it is.


I don't wish anyone any reckoning. But I can see and feel less competition for my niche knowledge and I welcome it.

What niche knowledge? It seems to me that applying general knowledge to new niches has never been easier.

Yeah I know it's not obvious. And very lucrative and very freeing, having this sort of knowledge and leveraging it.

Especially after clients have suffered the new found arrogance of non-experts riding on LLM output.

Look, let me be perfectly clear: if you're getting what you want out of your job and your personal projects, hobbies, whatever you do with your time, awesome! If you feel like the trade-offs of including LLMs in your workflows are good for you, great!

Just don't delude yourself into thinking this new technology, this new tool, is free of trade-offs. Net positive for you? Ok if you think so go for it. I haven't found the inclusion of LLMs in my activities beyond replacing the broken state of traditional search worth it. That's it. I'm not against it, I just don't find myself getting net positive value from deferring to code generated by these tools, is all I am saying. Nothing more, nothing less than that simple statement. Not for me.



If you read the "Adapting Probabilities" section of the link above, there's a nice explanation of why changing the probability works.

Obviously they'll get away with this in the US, but doesn't this break a LOT of EU privacy laws?


>Obviously they'll get away with this in the US

I'm not sure about that. Although this reporting is aimed at the everyman, the problem they describe is far more impactful for elites and corporations. This is pervasive violation of their personal, corporate and legally privileged privacy, and is a vector for systematic corporate espionage. So I suspect US Senators will soon get phone calls from donors really upset about this.


> So I suspect US Senators will soon get phone calls from donors really upset about this

:pray emoji:

Definitely need to find a powerful-adjacent group that could be damaged by the kinds of leaks these TVs represent.


The app has gotten consistently slower, buggier, with worse UX for over a decade. In all that time, I can’t recall a single new feature I’ve actually found useful.

The app was done in 2011. They could make a massive improvement across the board with a single git reset --hard command.


They’re not moving it to the Netherlands. There’s still plenty of countries that the Dutch trust, but the US no longer seems to be on that list.


They still keep gold with the New York Fed, this was just a rebalance:

> Before the deployment, the Dutch bank held 31.3% of its gold in New York and 19.7% in Ottawa.

> After the move, each country accounted for 18.5% of the Dutch gold reserve.


What building in Ottawa has 15 billion dollars of Dutch gold in it ?


The Bank of Canada at 234 Wellington Street. If you try standing around taking photos for over fifteen minutes or so, let us know how that works out.


I also would like to know. GPS location anyone? I'm asking for a friend


Yes policeman right here


Anthropic must see themselves as the most evil people on the planet then. Forcing a sentient being to endure a non-stop barrage of abuse from the general public would be an unimaginable crime.

I don’t think they actually believe that.


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