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by cadamsdotcom 6 days ago
Pure rage bait.

Strong claims require strong evidence - which isn't offered here.

And besides, maybe the person running dates by Claude just does that for a bit of fun as a hobby. People have weird hobbies! Better not to yuck someone's yum.

Maybe alternatively it's that person's way of experimenting with these new tools to explore what they can do. Maybe that person will discover something - for example, ebay was a terrible idea when it was first brought up!

It'd be unsound to assume if you're playing with agents you don't also talk to humans.
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pavel_lishin 6 days ago
> And besides, maybe the person running dates by Claude just does that for a bit of fun as a hobby. People have weird hobbies! Better not to yuck someone's yum.

Sure. But assuming that he's referring to Emmie Chang, it's very weird to record every conversation you have in general, and extra weird to be doing it on first dates.

If I went on a date and realized I was being recorded, I would immediately leave. This isn't normal, this is a wild choice to make. I will absolutely yuk this yum, the same way I would yuk the yum of someone who follows their date home and records them through a window.

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xg15 6 days ago
Aah, sweet first dates. Pick a place, pick a time, swap each other's GDPR/CCPA consents. Who doesn't know it?
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dalvasorsali 6 days ago
> Strong claims require strong evidence

I wish more people viewed things this way.

Feels like a lot of the public discourse now is "strong claims, vibes as evidence".

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antisthenes 6 days ago
Anything presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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xg15 6 days ago
Evidence for what? That Silicon Valley has lost the plot? Or rather that its vision of "the future" turns out to be pretty horrible?

Weren't the past years - from attention economy, surveillance capitalism and enshittification over crypto grifters to rationalist cults , "existential AI risk" that they're simultaneously warning against and building to Thiel's "Antichrist" to every Big Tech company pivoting from progressive to conservative the moment Trump comes back into power - enough evidence?

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fragmede 6 days ago
Their vision for the future was California Forever and it was shot down.
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