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Comment Re:Humans cant tell time either (Score 1) 99

It's far from stupid to discuss. It's what you pay OpenAI and Anthropic and Microsoft for. It's why they have the valuations. If you claim the LLMs are subhuman tools then the bubble bursts. And your little 401k goes with it. For someone defending LLMs you appear to have a very contradictory understanding of the industry.

Comment Re: Not wars over water (Score 1) 38

Similarly, if the Arabs wanted peace more than they wanted honor, they would have granted full citizenship to "Palestinians" in their territory instead of keeping them as refugees for four generations now.

That could be said to apply to the West Bank to a certain extent, as far as I remember (and I was a kid when it happened) that was the part left over after Israel had grabbed the land - kicking the previous occupants out which was the initial State of Israel. Refugees from there mostly landed in Lebanon, Jordan and Gaza.
Israel backed Christian militia perpetrated a massacre (Sabra and Shatila) in 1982 after the armed PLO fighters had withdrawn from the area and I have no idea what the situation is there nowadays.
Israel invaded the West Bank in 1967, "settlers" are treating a bit like the US treated the "Indians" in the 19th century, although still on a smaller scale.

Could you explain which are the territories where Arabs could grant full citizenship to Palestinians? Israel could do that in the West Bank but then they would be outnumbered. Jordan did that in the 1960s, something which basically divided the country into two - the previous inhabitants and the refugees, the two had different priorities and it did not go well.

Comment Re:Humans cant tell time either (Score 1) 99

What do humans have to do with super human intelligences? Are you saying that if humans are bad at telling the time, then super human intelligences should be excused for being worse than humans at that task? Did you miss the bit about "super"? It's from Latin, it means "above", "over", "beyond", "better".

Comment Re: Features which should have been core (Score 1) 35

You're conflating several things, imho, which are important to note.

Firstly, not everyone is entitled to voice their experiences publicly, it depends on where one lives, and what legal precedents there are. For the avoidance of any doubt, even in a country such as the USA there are limits to voicing one's experiences (such as when a judge issues a gag order).

Secondly, fake experiences are extremely likely, and in fact, have been common for at least one generation (20 years) on the Internet. Businesses use fake reviews to hurt competitors all the time. Businesses also use fake reviews to mislead customers. Individuals with an axe to grind do it all the time, too.

Historically speaking, the original justification by Google and Facebook for requiring real identities in the late 2000s was precisely as a silver bullet proposal to fight anonymous fake reviews, which were causing real damage to real businesses and people.

Thirdly, user reviews are simply a bad idea. The system suffers from all sorts of statistical biases, including survivorship bias, self selection bias, payola, etc.

The idea itself of a review, ie a critical account from personal experience by someone you trust, is actually sound.

The Internet companies however do not offer sound reviews, they offer accounts that may or may not be critical from experiences that may or may not be made up by people whose identity may or may not be made up and whose motives you may or may not want to trust. That is imho an accurate description of user reviews. Allowing deliberate anonymity only compounds the problems.

Comment Re:And just like that, everyone stopped using Plex (Score 1) 76

That would be awful, your described setup won't be able to handle subtitles and various sound tracks (multilingual support), it wont' remember where you stopped watching and won't be able to resume it later and would make a total pain to search the library.

You do realize that what you're describing is all of about ten lines of Javascript with the right libraries (audioTrackList property, subtitle library, currentTime property), right?

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