[–] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Article next to it is an anonymous review of Jünger's In Stahlgewitter, which is certainly A Choice.

(Jünger wasn't a card carrying Nazi, but served in the Wehrmacht in WW2 and is kind of a right-wing ideal of an aesthete)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago

    On second thought I won't post it myself, it's a bit too mean-spirited and facile. I haven't been party to the discussions on IRC so I am probably missing a bunch of nuance.

    I do compare the mods to Robespierre and co which might be seen as less of a compliement. I do believe they're working under a lot of pressure and it's hard to make decisions that please everyone.

    I am mostly not unhappy that it's not been a complete victory for the sloppers

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    This is a weird side-effect of Lobste.rs culture, it really dislikes being just a collection of links on the front page that increase traffic. And there have been multiple attempts to place links there via deception. Plus the community will give you hell (and flag your submissions as spam) unless you do the needful and comment a bit.

    That said it's really easy to work around by just making good content, having an RSS feed, and letting the community discover your stuff and post it. Or ask a buddy with an account to do it for you. But that in its turn requires actually learning how the community works.

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    current difficulties

    1. Day 21 - Keypad Conundrum: 01h01m23s
    2. Day 17 - Chronospatial Computer: 44m39s
    3. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
    4. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
    5. Day 20 - Race Condition: 15m58s
    6. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
    7. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
    8. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
    9. Day 22 - Monkey Market: 12m15s
    10. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
    11. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
    12. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
    13. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
    14. Day 18 - RAM Run: 05m55s
    15. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
    16. Day 23 - LAN Party: 05m07s
    17. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
    18. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
    19. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
    20. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
    21. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
    22. Day 19 - Linen Layout: 03m16s
    23. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
     

    Problem difficulty so far (up to day 16)

    1. Day 15 - Warehouse Woes: 30m00s
    2. Day 12 - Garden Groups: 17m42s
    3. Day 14 - Restroom Redoubt: 15m48s
    4. Day 09 - Disk Fragmenter: 14m05s
    5. Day 16 - Reindeer Maze: 13m47s
    6. Day 13 - Claw Contraption: 11m04s
    7. Day 06 - Guard Gallivant: 08m53s
    8. Day 08 - Resonant Collinearity: 07m12s
    9. Day 11 - Plutonian Pebbles: 06m24s
    10. Day 04 - Ceres Search: 05m41s
    11. Day 02 - Red Nosed Reports: 04m42s
    12. Day 10 - Hoof It: 04m14s
    13. Day 07 - Bridge Repair: 03m47s
    14. Day 05 - Print Queue: 03m43s
    15. Day 03 - Mull It Over: 03m22s
    16. Day 01 - Historian Hysteria: 02m31s
     

    “It is soulless. There is no personality to it. There is no voice. Read a bunch of dialogue in an AI generated story and all the dialogue reads the same. No character personality comes through,” she said. Generated text also tends to lack a strong sense of place, she’s observed; the settings of the stories are either overly-detailed for popular locations, or too vague, because large language models can’t imagine new worlds and can only draw from existing works that have been scraped into its training data.

     

    The grifters in question:

    Jeremie and Edouard Harris, the CEO and CTO of Gladstone respectively, have been briefing the U.S. government on the risks of AI since 2021. The duo, who are brothers [...]

    Edouard's website: https://www.eharr.is/, and on LessWrong: https://www.lesswrong.com/users/edouard-harris

    Jeremie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremieharris/

    The company website: https://www.gladstone.ai/

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