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ClumsyPilot
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> A well-trained LLM that lacks any malevolent data This is self-contradictory. An LLM must have malevolent data to identify malevolent intentions. A naive LLM will be useless. Might as well get psychotherapy from a child. Once LLM has
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The frustrating thing about your argument is that it runs on a pretence that we must prove squares aren’t circles. A person may be unable to provide mathematical proof and yes be obviously correct. The totally obvious thing you are missing
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> You need to be a person to have the skills Generally a non-person doesn’t have skills, it’s a pretty likely to be true statement even if made on a random subject.
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It is ironic and sad that colonies were both oppressed and not profitable. The way Britain has restricted Industry in India (famously even salt) left it vulnerable in WW2. Colonial policies are really up there with great failures of communi
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We have EU laws on the books But different mentality They don’t gel very well
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In UK it cannot be insured, it’s technically legal but in practice there is no insurance for them so you are still a criminal Also electric scooters and mono wheels are illegal
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US has plenty of protectionism, including recent 300% tax on bombardier, and pushing Europe to implement bans or tariffs on Chinese competitors of US corporations.
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> consumer hostile If these practices were invented in China/Russia we would call them deceptive and fraudulent.
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EU Ebike regulations are the worst on the planet, our cities are dense and traffic is slow, but we've wasted an opportunity to replace half the cars in European cities. First consider the 16 mph / 25 km/h speed limit - have y
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Most US industries are owned by 1/2/3 oligopolies. The only way to compete is to create your own monopolies.
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The greatest lie in the world is that US Gov. wants free market. It has spent the last 10 years lobbying EU to ban Huawei, Chinese electric cars, Tiktok, etc.. It has banned foreign ships from travelling between US ports, a deal by Japan&#x
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> The system that would score best tested against a list of known-truths and known-lies, isn't the perceptive one that excels at critical thinking: it's the ideological sycophant This is an excellent point
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> why are all its car companies monopolistic mega conglomerates that rule the world like Volkswagen, Stellantis, Daimler Benz, BMW, and Renault? You just named 5 companies, that’s competition. US has 1/2 companies controlling 90% ma
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> Unless you go into extreme lengths to build your own custom ROM, which might not even be properly doable Also the process is prone to unexpected issues, bugs, etc.
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> > With the popularity of disk brakes, why don't we have a standard size for pads? Same as for shifters: the braking compound and design for a race road bike will be really different to what a DH race bike requires I really don’
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> Inertia of user base is by far the largest predictor of what will stick in a market Why are you calling open source of market? These appear to be feuds and battle of ideas fought between contributors, with minimal input from end users.
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But TLS relies on having a domain If domain intern depends on tls you have chicken and egg problem
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Exactly, there is free fuel and aluminium just floating by, and we are unable to use them to upgrade our ships or refuel them. Until we make full use of robotics and 3D printing, there is no point of heading far. And we have all the tools.
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All of fiction and discourse fails to consider that the Solar System is actually a huge place and just the period of settling and industrialising it will take hundreds of years. Everyone things that a game breaker technology is better engin
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> violates causality But we don’t know that casualty is a law of physics, do we?
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It’s not user friendly
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> This sounds like Python development....and React.....and Svelte....and oh, remember Angular 2 to 3? I can open a webpage written in Angular 1, or written in year 1990. I can run a program written for windows 95 on my new PC with window
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If they enormously different, what are you going to call South Korea, Armenia, China? I mean is anything comparable? The real point I was trying to make is that they achieve similar outcomes, in passenger safety comfort. And if we really do
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Try to transport the following objects - would you rather do it on a bus or tram? a longtail ebike, a pushchair with/for 2 kids (horizontal arrangement), a dining table for 6 people and 30 kg of cement I tried it, and with most of em t
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> If you want to build a train the best way to save money is to build exactly the same as everyone else does: standard off the shelf trains, running on standard off the shelf rails, and standard off the shelf overhead rail. You are speak
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> they're completely different cultures and jurisdictions Separated by huge distance of 20 miles, both have thousands of same EU laws )still on the books, share thousands of years of history and at one point ruled by the same arist
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Important background: Building the same tram in Britain costs at least 2X more than in France, often 3x more. UK tram track construction typically involves deeper track beds compared to France/EU, using concrete slabs of 500-1000mm dee
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> The beautiful thing about freedom is that along as people don't infringe upon the rights of others, they don't need your permission to just go build things and exist This is hollow sophistry, and it’s not how things actually
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> There is no reality where I will accept that… Welcome to the club > if I create something. I spend and risk my money on web hosting. I write the code... You can create a forum in 20 minutes, it’s all open source and I did that when
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> Being able to pick what content they host is fundamental to freedom of speech for private entities Interesting position - when somebody posts illegal content on YouTube, they are not liable, it’s not their speech. But when I want to po
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