Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org
Computer programmer
"From what we can tell, Haugen works at Google. So much for "Do no evil."" – Kent Anderson
Joined Mar 2023
Erik Haugen
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So look—I've never been quite as big of a Steven Wolfram fan as Steven Wolfram is.
But to if you can get past the idiosyncrasies, in this piece he does a better job than I could of trying to explain from the ground up what it is that ChatGPT is doing.
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-doing-and-why-does-it-work/
@Yetimon This is a testable hypothesis, I think, and trivially fails. Look at the Scientific Revolution, for example, to see it falsified.
Hitchens was a gifted speaker, but didn't always make much sense, I guess.
@AthenasOwl Do assault weapons account for the difference?
I don't really understand the assault weapons ban, or at least the way it was written – I could see banning firearms altogether, or banning certain calibers, but who cares if a mass shooter has a barrel shroud and a flash suppressor or not?
I know some mass shootings used "assault weapons", but it seems like the shooter would have murdered just as many people without them in most cases. Different features, not covered by the ban, seem more important: Bump stocks are now banned, for example.
So... I'm thinking something else changed in the last 15 years to account for more deadly mass shootings. Media coverage seems to be another common answer, but that doesn't seem convincing either.
Erik Haugen
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I was promised a sci-fi future where robots would do all the menial tasks so that humans could focus on creating art and instead you assholes built robots to do the art so we all have to fight over the jobs doing menial tasks, good job.
Erik Haugen
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Another day, another classic author's works get rewritten "to preserve their relevance to modern readers". This time it's Agatha Christie.
This process is so condescending. Can they really think so little of readers?
#introduction
Greetings, I'm a Christian, husband, dad, and computer programmer in Texas, USA.
My hobbies include powerlifting, and, uh, ...
Wish I had more time for gardening, reading, photography.
Computer programmer
"From what we can tell, Haugen works at Google. So much for "Do no evil."" – Kent Anderson
Joined Mar 2023
