Borealid

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by Borealid 2mo ago
I think you've entirely missed what I'm trying to say. If your objective is to expend as little energy as possible, it would be irrational to expand into space - that's a waste of effort. If your objective is to experience as
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by Borealid 2mo ago
What is rational about wanting to experience things? How about wanting power? Resources? Beauty? Those are goals, not logic. Rationality is a means by which you set plans to reach goals. It's entirely orthogonal to what those goals are
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by Borealid 3mo ago
U2F does not support PINs. You may be thinking of FIDO2, which does.
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by Borealid 3mo ago
"The AI" cannot "refuse" any more than a hammer can refuse. If you use a hammer to kill someone, you commit a crime and the hammer is unprosecuted. If you design a hammer to kill people and then give it away, you are par
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by Borealid 3mo ago
The grandparent comment is correctly pointing out the sentence is an LLM tell. "Membership is a question they ask a server" is a bogus sentence. "membership" is not a "question". It's syntactically valid s
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by Borealid 3mo ago
I think the DOI system provides a stable identifier for a paper that is not specific to arXiv?
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by Borealid 3mo ago
> it just requires a few cryptographic primitives and a set of device-bound keys Question: how do you make sure the keys are device-bound if you have no attestation about the hardware or operating environment?
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by Borealid 3mo ago
I was a bit upset to see vitriolic opposition online to systemd adding a field to store, entirely locally to a Linux system, the user's age. I think opponents to these bills frame it as current state vs complete, invasive third-party i
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by Borealid 3mo ago
That issue cannot be a bug in the game, because the operating system should not allow a game to (by any means) produce that type of behaviour. So it's a bug in your OS, potentially the network card driver. There are fewer of those on L
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by Borealid 3mo ago
I'm sorry it affects you directly, but the number of people who live in the whole state of Wyoming is around a half-million (even ignoring "rural"). If every single person in the entire state were affected, that would be 1&#x
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by Borealid 3mo ago
What percentage of people do you think are affected by AI datacenters? That argument applies better to blast furnaces than to data centers, but I don't see people complaining about steel. Data centers just don't take up much space
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by Borealid 3mo ago
If you want yourself to be the root of trust, you CAN generate and use your own keys for secure boot.
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by Borealid 3mo ago
The IPs are Cloudflare, the TLS fingerprint is uTLS Chrome, and the number of connections with xhttp is the same as your normal browsing. If you are willing to block browsing all ordinary web sites fronted with a CDN, then yes you can block
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by Borealid 3mo ago
I will have a stab at legitimately explaining the viewpoint you profess not to understand. "Institutional" or "structural" racism doesn't just mean racism by one or two people in power. It's the idea that the m
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by Borealid 3mo ago
The state of the art, "xray-reality", is not blockable. It's a legit tls connection with data smuggled inside it.
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by Borealid 4mo ago
Technically no, because selling a thing is both a risk and a cost (of time and money).
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by Borealid 4mo ago
Okay, understood. You are making a variant of the Chinese Room argument in which you allow some types of computer programs (but not others) to have reason/sentience. I'm not entirely sure what specific lines you're drawing be
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by Borealid 4mo ago
Just to make sure I've understood you... Are you arguing that with a set of identically-behaving black boxes, one could be "reasoning" and one could be "not reasoning", and a person would need to look inside the box
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by Borealid 4mo ago
The paper presents a constructive transformation from any finite-input (finite vocab, bounded length) transformer to an equivalent Markov chain. Do you have some concrete example of a transformer that cannot be represented as a mapping from
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by Borealid 4mo ago
No, not nonsense. Both are a lookup table whose key is the entire context window and whose value is a probability distribution for what the next token should be. You can say the choice of probability distribution in the value is "lever
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by Borealid 4mo ago
There is absolutely nothing stopping someone from distilling a modern LLM into a very effective Markov chain. The physical size of the model would explode because a context window containing C tokens of size B would need B^C Markov prior st
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by Borealid 4mo ago
The point is that the output is text that is statistically correlated with the input. The capability of the LLM is not to reason, it's to generate text that matches the patterns seen in the training corpus. It's possible that all
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by Borealid 4mo ago
I completely agree that humans sometimes are not applying reasoning to things. I'm not trying to argue a model can not "reason" or have "cognition", whatever those things are. I'm only saying that it's ab
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by Borealid 4mo ago
No. The how is relevant here because it leads to understanding of the resulting behavior. If you train the LLM on a corpus that shows people saying the sky is red, you get an LLM that is predisposed to say the sky is red. This is true even
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by Borealid 4mo ago
Your casual understanding is imprecise. At all times the LLM is, indeed, predicting the next token. Anything it does emerges from that. It did not "figure anything out". It predicted that text describing the use of a radial gradie
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by Borealid 4mo ago
Most spreadsheet engines are turing complete, so you could use them to run an LLM. I don't think many people would say an LLM written in Python is conscious BUT an LLM written in Excel is not. People just don't ascribe consciousne
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by Borealid 4mo ago
The Framework 16 lets you put a pad with twenty-four additional buttons on it next to the keyboard. These 24 buttons can be programmed to do whatever you want with reprogrammable firmware. Also, there are twenty-three different keyboard lay
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by Borealid 4mo ago
I said the owners can't be held liable, I meant the owners can't be held liable. You can "in certain circumstances" (negligence, overt criminality...) go after the managers. You probably can't go after the managers
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by Borealid 4mo ago
The post to which you're replying is implying that the lift shafts are entirely opaque to the wireless signal. So it's fine if the user doesn't have a shaft between them and the AP. When they move so a straight line from the
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by Borealid 4mo ago
As a slight hint, one of the more common types of corporation is an "LLC". LLC stands for Limited Liability Company. If the company's owners had unlimited liability for problems the company caused, that wouldn't be much

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