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New comment by AberrantJ in "Smoking ban for people born after 2008 in the UK agreed"

AberrantJ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:23:57 +0000

Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army.

New comment by AberrantJ in "Salmon exposed to cocaine and its main byproduct roam more widely"

AberrantJ — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:21:06 +0000

Or Arsenic - it really cures what ails you - you won't be bothered by whatever it was you were complaining about before.

New comment by AberrantJ in "The next generations of Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss, and Bubbles are available now"

AberrantJ — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:05:19 +0000

Thank you, I was excited for new drinks and flavors and this saved me the read.

New comment by AberrantJ in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

AberrantJ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:49:29 +0000

Of course not, because everyone making these arguments wants people to have some magic sauce so they get to ignore all the rules placed on the "artificial" thing.

New comment by AberrantJ in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

AberrantJ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:13:32 +0000

I'm somewhat confused on how it actually muddies the waters - any person could have read the source code before hand and then either lied about it or forgot.

Our knowledge of what the person or the model actually contains regarding the original source is entirely incomplete when the entire premise requires there be full knowledge that nothing remains.

New comment by AberrantJ in "Good software knows when to stop"

AberrantJ — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:58:27 +0000

That's also a good case of the difference between a "Yeah, it'd be cool if you added this feature for free" type of feature request vs "I'm actively paying a company making a hack version of what I'd like from you - would you please let me pay you instead - for the love of god, please please please take my money?"

New comment by AberrantJ in "So you're a manager now"

AberrantJ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:34:10 +0000

This time 100,000.

For some reason my high performance meant that in addition to my high performance I should manage these other people working on other projects (that are just as in depth as mine) and this can in no way detract from the amount of work I do.

God I want to quit.

New comment by AberrantJ in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

AberrantJ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:22:24 +0000

If you're willing to say that a fifteen year old bot was "writing" then I think having a discussion on if current "bots" pass the Turing test is sort of moot

New comment by AberrantJ in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

AberrantJ — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 13:46:47 +0000

Here's three comments, two were written by a human and one written by a bot - can you tell which were human and which were a bot?

Didn’t realize plexiglass existed in the 1930s!

I'm certainly not a monetization expert. But don't most consumers recoil in horror at subscriptions? At least enough to offset the idea they can be used for everything?

Not sure why this isn’t getting more attention - super helpful and way better than I expected!