DiogenesKynikos

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by DiogenesKynikos 2mo ago
> Next thing you’ll say we’re not native to that land right? We only lived in the middle east forever There were very few Jews in Palestine for nearly 2000 years. The founders of Israel were almost all Europeans, and their families had b
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by DiogenesKynikos 2mo ago
"Okay, we stole the country and expelled the native population, but they should just get over it and move on." It would be easier for the Palestinians to just move on if millions of them didn't live under 59 years of Israeli
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by DiogenesKynikos 2mo ago
> we realized it was time to return to our own country The problem is that it was someone else's country. "Returning" after 2000 years and telling the people who have lived there for centuries that you rightfully own the p
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by DiogenesKynikos 2mo ago
Who knew that seizing the literal holy land and expelling most of the native population would make the neighbors angry?
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by DiogenesKynikos 2mo ago
The case mentioned in the article I linked to involved a private citizen suing a tech company, based on China's GDPR-like laws. He won.
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by DiogenesKynikos 2mo ago
You probably could sue them if they really did store your information without your consent. It would be a hassle, but China does have privacy laws. Companies do get sued for violating them.[0] 0. https://www.chinajusticeobserver.
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by DiogenesKynikos 2mo ago
> At the same time people are complaining that they are getting dumber. I think this is due to rapidly rising expectations. When LLMs first show they can do some new thing, we're excited at first. Then, we quickly start taking it fo
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
What is the practical harm that is actually being avoided here? When people speak in public, they assume that other people around them can overhear what they're saying. This is just gathering anonymous statistics about word use. It&#x2
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Machines already do think. Any reasonable definition of "thinking" includes what LLMs do. One would have to craft a rather arbitrary and tortured definition of "thinking" to include human thinking but exclude LLM thinkin
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
This is a feature among the Germanic languages (of which English is one). In German, these are called splittable verbs, and they can appear in two forms: "upstep" and "step up," depending on the sentence structure. That
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
I recently discovered that even high-level non-native speakers do not know the term "fraidy cat."
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Why is it unethical to record what people say in public settings, like a cafe, transcribe it, and then throw away any identifying information? You could go even farther and only store the individual set of words spoken without any ordering,
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
It's a mistake in the sense that if you go and rob a bank while shooting wildly, you only hit the customers "by mistake." That's not an excuse. The US is bombing both military and civilian targets, by the way. Trump has
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
You don't get to start a completely unprovoked and illegal war of aggression, bomb tons of targets with little care, kill 100 schoolchildren, and then say, "But it was a mistake."
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Where did you read that? SARS-CoV-2 is not descended from any previously known variant. In fact, since the pandemic started, closer cousins of SARS-CoV-2 have been found in the wild in Laos. The evidence points very strongly to the initial
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
It sounds like you need to be less condescending and engage with my actual comment. First, the "hype" is not externally imposed. It's the genuine reaction of hundreds of millions of people to a technology that would have been
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Gain of function research is not anywhere near as dangerous as the public believes. In the US, it was very convenient to blame it for the pandemic, even though SARS-CoV-2 is of natural origin and almost certainly spilled over at the Huanan
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
This is when you realize that English is a Germanic language. "Shprakh" is from the same root as "speak," so the literal, word-for-word translation is, " A speak is a dialect with an army and flotilla ."
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
I bought a cheap electric toothbrush from a no-name Chinese company. The battery lasts 6 months on one charge with daily use. It cost about $20. I wouldn't be surprised if it's manufactured by the same factories that make Philips&
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
> Louden points out, for example, that Swedish and Norwegian are highly mutually intelligible, but neither is considered a dialect of the other, or of a parent language, primarily because each is associated with a separate nation-state.
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
You're making a highly arbitrary distinction between learning and ... learning? The LLM can immediately learn and start using new skills. To any lay person, that's what learning is.
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
The LLM is the model + context. The output depends on both. You're making an artificial distinction. The LLM sees a new programming language for the first time, and can immediately code in it. That's learning by any reasonable def
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
In theory, it can't. But in reality, it does in important cases. Germany has implemented EU sanctions against a German journalist, which deprive him and his family of the ability to conduct basically any economic activity in Germany or
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
I can imagine an AI insulting humans in the same way: "The underlying model is just a biological neutral network. It seems you carbonoids get upset when someone talks honestly about synapses and neuron firing."
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Is your position that all coverage of Rust is gossip? That's just not a tenable position. By the way, the article I linked to discusses the history of Rust in the Linux kernel, which is hardly gossip and illustrates why Rust is notable
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
I gave you the first search result. There are probably tens of thousands of articles in newspapers and magazines about Rust, along with probably hundreds of published books. Unlike Odin, Rust is notable and heavily covered by secondary sour
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
This took me approximately two seconds to find: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/02/linux-leaders-pave-a...
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Publishing retractions is a sign of reliability. Wikipedia is actually more concerned about sources that don't publish retractions. If Odin is so notable, why haven't any of the normal tech publications ever mentioned it? One comp
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Shifting the problem from anonymous Wikipedia editors to newspapers and magazines is a big improvement.
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by DiogenesKynikos 3mo ago
Do you want Wikipedia editors to start citing YouTube videos? I'll tell you what will happen if sourcing standards are loosened in that way. You'll get tons of editors arguing, "So and so said this at 21:45 in this podcast.&q

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