AnimalMuppet

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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
So I see two categories of people here. The first is "main character syndrome" - people who see themselves as real and everybody else as not. Self-centered, egocentric people are one flavor of this, and sociopaths are another.
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
I remember a web page put up by an SGI employee, saying that x86 wasn't going to destroy the Unix workstation business. The title was "Pecked To Death By Ducks". Then Intel came out with dual-core processors, which was the n
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
How is a Virginia Woolf play "political advertising"?
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
How long before at least one model is steering customers toward products that it receives a kickback for?
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
Well, lag time against current tax law is definitely model.
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
TL;DR: Because Russia is ramping up hybrid/unconventional attacks, and Belarus is training for an attack on the Baltics. Russia and Belarus are being aggressively hostile; if you want peace, prepare for war.
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
If you're going to be content with "nobody could ever prove it wrong", what do you have against mainstream religion? Fantasy is fantasy. Either it's true to what's really there, or it isn't.
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
Not in an absolute sense, perhaps. But it was there enough to mostly function most of the time. And international life was more stable because of it.
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by AnimalMuppet 5d ago
Depends on how close other options are to what I want. But if you're going to have an agent rather than a human respond to enquiries from potential customers (= $), then I'm not convinced I'm going to like how you respond aft
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
Because without noting that, "revoked" sounds like all limits are being removed, rather than that we're back to the 2024 limits.
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
I think you miss rayiner's point. He's not disputing whether CO2 is a greenhouse gas. He's saying that doesn't make it a "pollutant" as the term was understood at the time, say, the EPA was created. There wa
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
Wow, I have never had to do that. Not to get a job, not to keep one. I mean, I have seen good jobs go bad, but I have never seen one where the truth would get me fired. (Maybe I just didn't stay long enough when I felt things star
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by AnimalMuppet 6d ago
I have seen an American book, published in the 1960s, whose title included "An Historical Survey". For me, on this one, if there's an "an", it pushes me to not pronounce the "h" in the next word, even tho
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
> Sometimes I can find it if I keep revising, but staring at a sentence too long can entangle you in a particular linguistic frame that can be hard to escape. This expresses quite well an experience that I have sometimes had. Your first
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
There's a difference between me getting AI to write something I want to read, and getting it to write something you want to read. The difference is that I know me, but I don't know you. The other difference is that, if I get
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
On what grounds? The US didn't just take Greenland?
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
I'm not sure that it's wanting to control their neighbors. I think it's fear of their own populace. A functional, prosperous democracy next door, with people of the same ethnic and cultural background, might give Russians t
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
"The near field is not described by Maxwell's equations"? Yeah, I want to see the experimental proof of that claim...
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
Russia earned their paranoia the hard way - Napoleon and Hitler. They remember an invader that reached Moscow, took it, and held it for weeks, then burned it on the way out. They remember another invader that came within 35 miles of Mosco
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
No, I don't think I did. That voice grates on you. It grates on all of us. But it would grate on us less if we didn't hear it all the time - if it wasn't half of the words coming at us. Dibes said, "I am so exhausted
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by AnimalMuppet 7d ago
"That particular voice". Yeah. Different authors should have different voices. Having them all sound the same is like having all your food taste the same. It makes you want to throw up after a while.
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by AnimalMuppet 8d ago
Non-trivial infinite loops are very much not an "idiot" thing on embedded systems. "Run until power off" or "run until the warhead detonates" are perfectly normal things to do in that world.
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by AnimalMuppet 8d ago
How often should we allow human provided targets to go unverified by a human before killing every innocent student inside the target? That is, the question of whether targets should be verified is orthogonal to the question of whether human
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by AnimalMuppet 8d ago
It's not a folk truth that I saw it, in a mainstream news report, said by a Border Patrol employee to justify their actions more than 100 miles from the border. That's not a misinterpretation; that really happened. At least once
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by AnimalMuppet 8d ago
I can't supply you a reference. It was... maybe 4 to 6 months ago? Border Patrol was doing something more than 100 miles from the border, and a reporter asked them what their justification was for being active that far inland, and th
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by AnimalMuppet 8d ago
But with people, we learn some "tells". We learn (imperfectly) to tell when they're lying or untrustworthy. We don't have tells for when AIs are lying to us, or when they're making stuff up.
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by AnimalMuppet 8d ago
Even worse: The Trump administration claimed international airports as part of the border. (I saw that once, months ago. I do not know what the legal state of that claim is, or even whether it is currently part of their theory of what
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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
Does the first missile kill the targets? Do the launchers know, for sure, before they launch the second? Or are they launching two for redundancy, like often happens in military situations? Planes and missiles can break down or get sh
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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
Re 4%: And, as we saw in 2008 and after, being stuck against 0% with no room to move is a really uncomfortable place to be. Re the "1 trillion dollar coin": I like your wording: "Theoretically valid". I don't
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by AnimalMuppet 9d ago
Sure. But we would need solar powered trucks, in quantity. (Or electric, same effect.) That takes capital beyond the solar panels. Electric trains are a thing. Stringing catenary over all the mainlines in the US is not cheap. Electric a

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