DennisP

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by DennisP 4mo ago
Yes, but the scary part of Mythos was that it was able to chain a bunch of seemingly minor vulnerabilities into a serious exploit. "Fix this code" doesn't do that, but does allow defenders to prevent it. If the government had
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by DennisP 4mo ago
The solution here might be the appeals court, since there is a deed restriction. The city agreed to it when they paid $10 for the land. The article mentions that Texas courts tend to be pretty serious about enforcing deed restrictions.
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by DennisP 4mo ago
True, but that's a different problem and to hedge against that you probably need hard assets.
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by DennisP 4mo ago
It's fine as long as t-bill rates match or exceed inflation. Then you can avoid losing purchasing power by just putting your money in the world's safest investment. Over the past century, t-bill returns have slightly exceeded infl
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by DennisP 4mo ago
Of course, and so would those same people.
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by DennisP 4mo ago
So if I don't think any words for a few seconds, am I not conscious? Suppose I'm an advanced meditator and maintain that state for hours?
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by DennisP 5mo ago
CUDA support is another reason, if you have a particular need for that.
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by DennisP 5mo ago
Among modern EVs, the Aptera will probably be closest. I don't think they're opening the software but they're going all out on right-to-repair for the hardware.
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by DennisP 5mo ago
If you look at total debt instead of just national government debt, then China is even worse off than the US. Article in Fortune: https://archive.is/53Vu0
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by DennisP 5mo ago
China also has 1,271 GW of coal capacity, and is planning 500GW more.
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by DennisP 5mo ago
Steve Yegge wrote about this in his book Vibe Coding . He says it takes about a year of experience before you're consistently getting good results. He writes about lots of different techniques for doing that, but also says a lot of it
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by DennisP 5mo ago
Plenty of interesting sci-fi later, though. Gattaca, Ex Machina, Her, Interstellar, Inception, The Matrix, Contact, Arrival, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
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by DennisP 5mo ago
It's not like the one comment is the only newsworthy thing that day. It's a big complicated world with so many important things happening that we can't possibly keep up. It'd be easy to fill up the news with a tiny fract
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by DennisP 5mo ago
I wasn't attempting anything like that, just working out the implications of a simple model of a real process.
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by DennisP 5mo ago
I think it depends on how you use it. Recently I spent several days using Opus Extended for help on a simple mathematical model. I came up with the modeling ideas and some hypotheses, it did the math and worked through implications. Then I
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by DennisP 5mo ago
For most of that time, I don't think many people had much use for more ram than that. If demand picks up, companies will provide it. And the Mac Studio was available with 512GB until ram got scarce and they cut the max in half recently
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by DennisP 5mo ago
I don't think it's valid to draw broad conclusions from the funding of a new company vs. an industry leader. If AMI builds something that looks impressive considering the funding they got, then they'll get plenty more in the
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by DennisP 5mo ago
Could always use a local LLM for stuff like that. One of my relatives works for one of the big audit firms and that's what they do.
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by DennisP 5mo ago
Since well before LLMs, people have been talking about "philosophical zombies," hypothetical objects that could emulate human behavior perfectly but had no inner experience. Some philosophers (one modern example being Kastrup) poi
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by DennisP 5mo ago
Ironically, it seems you may not have read past the first sentence of your GP comment.
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by DennisP 6mo ago
There are all sorts of things you could do that might make an AI like you, and none of them have more justification than any other. This is not an argument AI firms are making. I agree that short-term greed is driving investment, but it w
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by DennisP 6mo ago
Back in the 1980s if the US had followed France's lead, then we'd be in the position they're in now: 70% nuclear with much lower per-capita emissions.
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by DennisP 6mo ago
There's no reason to think an out-of-control ASI would spare its investors.
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by DennisP 6mo ago
Exxon has never bragged to investors that they'd burn so much oil, civilization would collapse from climate change. They've always talked about how great fossil fuels are for the economy and our living standards. It makes no sense
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by DennisP 6mo ago
They're not saying today's AI has that kind of power, and they're not saying future superintelligent AI will give you that power. They're saying it will take all power from you, and possibly end you. If this is some kind
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by DennisP 6mo ago
The system also wasn't designed for presidential immunity. Combining that with unlimited federal pardons, we're the wild west permanently, or at least until that decision is overturned.
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by DennisP 6mo ago
People love their home sports teams, even when they're losing. They love their kids, even when they're getting mediocre grades in school. It's like that. You're thinking of nationalism, which is when people think their c
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by DennisP 6mo ago
Those protestors are out there because they love America. They love it enough to try to make it better.
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by DennisP 6mo ago
I just read Steve Yegge's book Vibe Coding , and he says learning to use AI effectively is a skill of its own, and takes about a year of solid work to get good at it. It will sometimes do a good job and other times make a mess, and he
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by DennisP 6mo ago
A watch some people can actually wear. 49x63x22mm is a bit much for my skinny little hacker wrists. But with the LoRa I'm tempted to pick up a couple anyway.

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