AlexandrB

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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
What's new is the inversion of who holds these opinions. With the internet/computers, company leadership was often the skeptical voice while small pockets of individuals would push these technologies from the bottom. AI is the c
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
> Roughly 20% of undergraduate students at Ivy Plus institutions (including Harvard, Brown, and Cornell) are registered as disabled and receive accommodations. This figure has surged dramatically over time, rising from fewer than 3% at H
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
> we could take care of everyone with disabilities 10x over with plenty to spare. Yes, like the 40%[1] of Stanford undergrads who have disabilities. The greatest long term impediment to what you're suggesting is folks who don't
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by AlexandrB 2mo ago
No idea what you guys are talking about. The Christian faction of the right has waned significantly since the Bush presidency.
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The reason the "myth" persists is because there are some folks who take advantage of the system like this. In fact, many people personally know someone who's doing this. We can debate what percentage of recipients it is and
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
This is like the Canadian version of "no true Scotsman". When the province in question has 1/3 of the population of the country, what's the difference?
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> Take your dissatisfaction with the way the government manages payments to the voting booth And vote for who? I have yet to hear a compelling solution from any party. At most, politicians advocate for throwing more money at the problem.
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Yup. Recently drove 6 hours (each way, twice) to get to a Canadian private clinic to get treatment. This saved approximately a year (or more) of waiting in the public system for a routine outpatient procedure that takes 30 minutes to perfor
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Not true in 2 particular ways: 1. "Eureka moments" often pop up almost out of nowhere, this suggests that there's processing going on at a non-verbal, non-token level. 2. The fact that we think in language is an evolutionaril
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> If we replaced every neuron in your brain, one by one, with a silicon equivalent, would you stop being conscious? At what point? Would you be able to tell? The idea that we could have a silicon equivalent at all is already a huge assum
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
"But that's just a bad implementation, many other sites do it right!" And many sites block paste from password managers. Passkeys have so many ways to do them wrong that we're going to see all kinds of new and exciting f
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
They might be the same thing cryptographically, but passkeys remove your ability to manage, move, or back them up at will. I can trivially move any single SSH key I want between my Mac, my iPhone, my PC, my Raspberry Pi, and my backup media
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
My elderly mother accidentally created a passkey (in Chrome) for one of her accounts. Normally, I try to keep a copy of her accounts and passwords in case she forgets them so I can help her out. With the passkey, this is impossible. She doe
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Password managers for passkeys have a huge problem when dealing with any kind of remote support or working on someone else's hardware - you can't just copy/paste or type in the passkey so you're forced to install the pas
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The Yubikey is the "one device". But most people don't buy Yubikeys so the "one device" is, in practice, a smartphone.
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
They were also saying that AGI is just around the corner[1] and humans will soon be obsolete. Every prediction coming out of these guys is in the realm of hyperbole and it's impossible to know if it's extreme hyperbole or just a s
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Jensen Huang wants to sell more hardware, he doesn't care whether it's Anthropic, OpenAI, or some Chinese company that wins. So he has a vested interest in AI being perceived positively so that the construction of datacenter conti
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
A better analogy is a storage locker. AFAIK police need a warrant to search "your" storage locker even though it's on someone else's property. I don't see why data in the cloud should be any different. Pre-emptively
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> And how is US doing on digitally totalitarian and hostile towards its own people? Seemingly better than everywhere else in the world, including where I live (Canada). Whataboutism doesn't really work when you use the least bad opt
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> 3) The "attack" part of "distillation attack" refers to distillers creating tens of thousands of fraudulent accounts, using proxies to bypass georestrictions, deepfaked IDs, and paying real people to pass biometric
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
Interesting article, and I agree that ECC needs to be more widely available. But I think this is a major overreach: > We need ECC RAM to be more widely used. Ideally we would have some government action to force this given the ongoing co
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The increase in atmospheric CO2 in the coming decades is nothing compared to how much CO2 increases in a closed room - for example a bedroom that you spend 8 hours in[1]. The paper you linked even notes this (exerpt below). This kind of ala
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> I love the idea of building more housing, but I think a lot of homeless people have an income of literally 0, so wouldn't they be homeless regardless of how cheap housing is? There's research that shows why increased housing
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
You're reaching for the easy answer ("capitalism bad"). Look at all the students cheating with AI, folks using AI to write personal greetings to family, etc. On some level, it's human nature to take shortcuts. I don&#x27
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
The ability of Silicon Valley to hype itself up into a frenzy is unparalleled. Apparently nothing was learned from "blockchain for everything" and "we're going to live in the metaverse".
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
If/when the AI bubble pops, this website will be really funny. I guess it's already funny. This is what it shows for Apr 2026: > Reliable Agent copies thinking at 13x human speed Still waiting for a reliable agent to think at a
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
How can their internal representation represent "concepts" when the training data is all words? There's no possible experience of the world there. No input other than a bunch of imperfect labels we created for stuff.
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
It's not the voice. It's the repetition. /s
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
What should be changed is the exemption algorithmically curated feeds still get under section 230. This has always seemed like a huge loophole. Once social media feeds are picking and choosing what to show users based on opaque criteria the
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by AlexandrB 3mo ago
> Do you believe that food can become an arbitrarily small proportion of the economy This is not necessary at all for economic growth to be infinite. Food prices can "inflate" and so stay at, let's say 20%, of the economy

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