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The pendulum has swung far in the direction of favouring machine generated content over that from actual people. I wonder when it will swing back?

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What pendulum? The algorithms’? I don’t think any human is happy about their feeds filling with slop.

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I've been building a Markdown variant called Zd that's focused on extensibility and simplicity. I'm curious what you would change about Markdown if you were designing it from scratch, what challenges you face as a user, or what you wish were easier to do when incorporating Markdown into your own projects.

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Definitely tables are cumbersome.

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Yeah, 100%. That is completely something I am punting on currently. It would be easy to just copy over the solution from (extensions to) Markdown, but it's hard to entirely narrow in on both what tables ought to do and how to make them do it. If you had a magic wand, what would you have them be more like?

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What is the simplest physical system capable of open-endedly creating new knowledge?

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I finished Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte and now I'm struggling to take any other book seriously. I need a pallet cleanser or something before I can move on

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I wonder If I can just rant here?

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Feel free.

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Nice username. It could be worth a lot someday. 😊

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i would choose x and the fediverse over this tbh

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, the emote you can set as mood in your profile, what limits does it have? I was trying to use the scissors emoji ( ✂️ ), but it wouldn't let me

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Writing. I want to do it, very badly. I just don't want to be bad at it. You have to be bad at it in order to get good at it. But... Catch 22 isn't it?

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I think reading helps quite a bit, especially writing about what you’ve read, even to yourself, just so you can go through the process of having to explain something that you’re only recently familiar with. There’s something about that process that seems to be helpful, at least to me.

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Same. The way I consume information influences how I think. Short form content makes my thinking fragmented without a clear structure. I feel that fragmented thinking won't lead to convincing writing. And I'm trying to regain some of that lost control.

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Very interesting! I think something along those lines might be happening for me too. Another aspect, always cooking in the back of my mind, "if you can't explain it well, don't explain it at all."

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The fear of being bad at it is the only thing holding you back. I experienced something like that with playing music with others. Perhaps you could learn to lay down your critical brain during the creation process and that good/bad isn't a useful distinction until later when you're editing your work.

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Yeah, this is pretty much what I can't do. My critical brain has a lot of power. It's very evolved at this point :/

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Lonely in the night

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I really love the feeling of a new social network app! Takes me back to high school when I first used facebook. Somehow makes it easy to share things.

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prussia's emoticon is so cute! (=ヮ≖)

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i dont think its all talk, these are smart people that have been in ai since the 2000s, and they raise good points. current incentive structures are very dangerous long term

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they too have every incentive to exaggerate because they are selling safety and/or books on the topic. I don’t believe we won’t see it coming. Any issues that will manifest will be very visible and we’ll have plenty of time to mitigate their impact.

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they could be making a lot more money by just working at ai firms i fear. the thing that got me worried the hacking incidents lately, huggingface etc. if the capabilities consistently outspeed the development of safety measures, and if the private arms race logic continues, i dont think this is a good spot to be in long term

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Math class -_-

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可以发中文内容吗

Can I send content in Chinese?

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当然！そして日本語でも！

Of course! And in Japanese too!

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Hello! Is anyone else trying local AI? Im dont know what im doing but lately ive been trying "Llama 3,2 3b instruct q5km" on my phone and its been surprisingly good.

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Its to replace using central ai for basic tasks like text editing, analysis and brainstorming.

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If you have Mac, you might check out this app: blaizzy.github.io/nativ/

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i think the best you can get right now is qwen 3.8 27B. youre gonna need 24 gigs of some fast memory though, i heard theres decent quantizations that can also make it run on 16. im quite excited about open/local models, but theres big investment overhead with the prices right now

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You might be able to try out colibri, its quite good and the models are a bit better. I am unable to connect any of the cli agents to do things with it though, probably due to context limits, but try it out. OlMoe is the lightest

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there's so much room for activities!

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thinking on deploying excalidraw on my homeserver, so I can store drawings without bothering with export/import. Yes, excalidraw+ for $7/mo; but nowadays I pay only one sub - for Claude; everything else is personal software.

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Well, done, Claude did while I drove a car. It even added save/open file from the server (stored in SQLite). Deployed on my homelab server.

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I’ve never posted a lot on social medias. I hope I have a good time here!

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Anyone know how to get the projects view back on codex? It changed from project categorization to date categorization.

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Nvm. There's a little bell icon on the top right of the sidebar which let's you switch between project and activity views.

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The more I use Terraform the more I don't like it. Can I just get the option to track state with Ansible?

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Say more. I've been using it this year "at scale" and it sucks in the way that everything sucks when the whole company starts using it for everything. I haven't used Ansible in over a decade, but am curious what you like about it better.

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Ansible just melds with my way of thinking better. I have a really hard time wrapping my head around nested loops in HCL and the overall "ugliness" of the language. Plus, I kind of like being in control of the order things are created.

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