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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
If it ever become impossible to spot a human from a bit, then bots become valuable contributors to online discussion with interesting insights so I don't see the problem.
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by Blikkentrekker 3y ago
I don't understand banning these kinds of things in general opposed to simply taxing them considerably. A man should have the freedom to damage the environment so long as he pay for it, and that money can then be used to undo his damag
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
One of the many, many reasons I think the fact that the big vendors did not accept XHTML 2.0 and instead wanted HTML 5 was probably influenced by the that it makes it almost impossible for smaller vendors to developer their own new independ
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
It requires so much to be able to generate answers tot hings asked about a wide variety of subjects, not to be able to generate grammatically valid sentences and parse them, which other a.i.'s also did before with far fewer tokens.
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
No, not at all. I'm purely saying that the argument that they are different from humans is not necessarily substantiated.
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
> In this (and other comments by you I think?) you've implied the onus is on the AGI sceptics to prove to you that the LLM is not sentient (or whatever word you want to describe motive force, intent, consciousness, etc that we asso
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Universal grammar only speaks to the ability to parse and form sentences, not to internal logic. That ChatGPT is capable of producing human-like sentences from pattern recognition without any universal grammar baked in, even if the underlyi
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
That is a very wrong view of something that communicates so closely with the hardware and deals with graphics. It's very much chasing a moving target of new graphics technology and many of the innovations made by Wayland have been port
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
It doesn't matter and it's still a theatre. Those malicious applications can do what they want regardless by editing arbitrary files and obtain the same end. The supposed threads of malicious applications keylogging and stealing y
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
> Not sure what you mean. Many of the things one can at least ask permissions for as I read it on the Apple system are actually purposefully simply not available due to similar concerns. Many of the leading Wayland developers believe in
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
“keylogging” is such a moral panic. If applications can edit arbitrary files on the system it's already game over. I have no idea why people focus so much on “keylogging” as the supposed super important and dangerous thing. If one run
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
These permission systems in practice don't really do as much to shield users as many think though. People often just drop the word “sandbox” and say “applications are sandboxed” and that that means that they're safe but it's
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
The situation with Wayland is actually worse than this by far.
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
IT makes windows stand out more from each other. They are in effect very thick borders that stand out. Do you believe there is no merit to being able to set border size for windows?
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Cynically speaking I'm somewhat scared of the way i3 is programmed that adding gaps would have to be hacky. My instincts tell me that if that be the case, the code probably isn't very clean and itself full of hacks.
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
So, what I'm to take from this is that though plasma itself can be donated without risk, the other components cannot?
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
> We can actually refine blood plasma down to a state where it's basically 100% safe even if someone with "bad blood" donated it. Do you have a source on this? Given that many blood donation facilities still refuse many
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
You'll notice I'll never spoke of “fault”. I spoke of what is in Youtube's interest.
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Indeed; it doesn't feel as though it be in the interest of the website which is why support is dropping. Youtube wants people to subscribe, which I don't do, I simply add the RSS feed of channels I want to be updated about which i
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
I really don't even care that much about skin colors. White, black, purple Americans tend to have similar perspectives on things, so do white, black and purple Swedes. The issue is that the articles on many international things are cle
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
It is my perspective that gender and race are completely insignificant compared to culture and it annoys me how often Anglo-Saxons think otherwise, probably because of never really having interacted with a foreign culture. In the end, from
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Indeed, that's a common issue too with historical events. But even scientific things. I can't read Mandarin, but I've been told many times that many subjects on many linguistic concepts on the Chinese Wikipedia look very diff
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Mostly because I'm tired of these U.S.A. “diversity” efforts which come down to “more persons from the U.S.A.” overlooking most of the world. That they apparently think gender defines perspectives more than ethnicity and cultural backg
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
They're not trying to recruit contributors outside of the Anglocentric perspective; they're not in any way trying to mitigate that problem.
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
I used to donate, but no longer do, not for this, but because I'm tired about the Anglocentric, U.S.A.-centric style on Wikipedia with little efforts to fix it, as well as other neutrality issues. When they flung some banner about soli
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Which makes it more confusing why it was originally as it was because it's really not harder to implement as any compiler implements it as desugaring before optimizations een occur and this form is simpler. The only explanation I see i
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
Peer-reviewers also don't follow particular names around; they see the name above the submission and it influences them, as on H.N. no doubt. But it's far worse, even without a recognized names, most votes are cast without proper
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
The nice part is that that can be gamed and should be gamed. People should copy the writing style of famous auctor's then to expose the system and keep people honest because then they know there are copycats.
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
It's not different from Reddit or H.N. in the sense that most people that vote never bothered to read the entire post and the same thing is true with peer review. This isn't simply the case in soft-science as the Bognanov affair
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by Blikkentrekker 4y ago
I've seen many arguments against double-blind which were very unconvincing, and they were all from the people that already had a big name, the ones that decide how journals operate. In any case, this is the tip of the iceberg. The enti

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