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kevinpet commented on Neuralink 'Participant 1' says his life has changed   fortune.com/2025/08/23/ne... · Posted by u/danielmorozoff
femiagbabiaka · 2 days ago
Have there been any reviews by independent experts? This reads like a promo piece, in particular I'm not sure why the fluff bits about Musk "being a regular guy" are relevant. Most of the linked sources are either other Fortune puff pieces or Neuralink press releases.
kevinpet · 2 days ago
Reviews by independent experts about the quality of this guy's life? I think he can be considered an authority on that subject.
kevinpet commented on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge   businessinsider.com/anthr... · Posted by u/pyman
organsnyder · 2 months ago
The difference here is that an LLM is a mechanical process. It may not be deterministic (at least, in a way that my brain understands determinism), but it's still a machine.

What you're proposing is considering LLMs to be equal to humans when considering how original works are created. You could make the argument that LLM training data is no different from a human "training" themself over a lifetime of consuming content, but that's a philosophical argument that is at odds with our current legal understanding of copyright law.

kevinpet · 2 months ago
That's not a philosophical argument at odds with our current understanding of copyright law. That's exactly what this judge found copyright law currently is and it's quoted in the article being discussed.

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kevinpet commented on Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban   lemonde.fr/en/france/arti... · Posted by u/divbzero
seszett · 2 months ago
Or coconuts.
kevinpet · 2 months ago
One could be carried there
kevinpet commented on US Army Appoints Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs as Lt. Colonels   thegrayzone.com/2025/06/1... · Posted by u/technologesus
kevinpet · 2 months ago
This seems a little weird to me, but direct commissions like this are pretty common for professionals like lawyers, clergy, and doctors.

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kevinpet commented on U.S. citizen in Arizona detained by immigration officials for 10 days   news.azpm.org/p/news-arti... · Posted by u/klipt
csto12 · 4 months ago
Truly the party of small government and personal freedoms :)
kevinpet · 4 months ago
They never claimed to be the party of personal freedom. There's a libertarian contingent within the GOP that wishes they could persuade people to go that direction, but unsuccessfully for decades.

They have claimed to be the party of small government. And even someone who disagrees with them can recognize the "small government" within their idealized view means government that is only involved in the things that government should be involved in. It doesn't necessarily (or in practice ever) mean less spending.

kevinpet commented on Demolishing the Fry's Electronics in Burbank   latimes.com/00000196-230a... · Posted by u/walterbell
taggart · 4 months ago
While attending the University of Arizona in Tucson in the early 90s, I got very confused by posts on Usenet talking about buying computers at Fry’s. You see, the Fry’s grocery store chain still existed in Tucson at the time, so I could not figure out where a grocery store would stock computers!

Needless to say when I moved to the Bay Area after college graduation, I wasted no time visiting the closest Fry’s Electronics. For me, that was the original Fremont location - the one in an office park off Mission Blvd with the space theme inside. I never see that location mentioned any more. It was closed after Fry’s bought the Incredible Universe stores and they moved the Fremont Fry’s to the IU store on Auto Mall Parkway.

kevinpet · 4 months ago
I was confused when I moved out to Phoenix especially because the logos are pretty similar. Turns out Fry's electronics was started by the sons of the founder of Fry's food.
kevinpet commented on TSMC begins producing 4-nanometer chips in Arizona   reuters.com/technology/ts... · Posted by u/heresie-dabord
losvedir · 7 months ago
It's interesting to me that this is in Phoenix. Does that mean good things for the city? I thought they were in a desert and running out of water, and not well positioned for climate change. On the other hand, maybe with more solar panels, electricity and manufacturing will be cheaper there in the future?
kevinpet · 7 months ago
There's no problem with residential water use in Phoenix. There are still farms that could be shut down if water is needed.

The biggest problem seems to be parochial NIMBYs. People don't like that TSMC needed to bring in Taiwanese workers to staff up the plant. They are currently posting AI generated renderings of factories with billowing smoke stacks when talking about the proposed Amkor semiconductor packaging plant in Peoria.

kevinpet commented on Jaguar Cars rebranding without any cars   jaguarusa.com/copy-nothin... · Posted by u/bigtones
orionblastar · 9 months ago
It reminds me of the New Coke ads, which Pepsi followed with the Pepsi Challenge.
kevinpet · 9 months ago
It was the other way around -- the Pepsi Challenge was what motivated New Coke.

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