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by EA-3167 8mo ago
That's only a good argument if you think they're bound to be a detriment in those "demands", or that basic dignity is too much to ask for hard labor in return for crap wages and no job security. Putting that aside even i
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by EA-3167 8mo ago
If you want to see where the discussion on privacy and tech has gone since, suffer through the recent “film” Mercy. A sane reading of the premise would suggest a profoundly anti-surveillance and AI message, but it’s quite the opposite. In a
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OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok – these scientists are listening in(nature.com)
4 points by EA-3167 9mo ago|0 comments
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
They can be detrimental too, especially if they're linked to beneficial traits. The test is ultimately whether or not the harm done is sufficiently disadvantageous that it interferes with reproductive fitness. Baldness is arguably detr
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Transportation Department Plans to Use AI to Write Regulations(undark.org)
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
At some point you're forced to either believe that people have never heard of the concept of a force multiplier, or to return to Upton Sinclair's observation about getting people to believe in things that hurt their bottom line.
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
In many cases, especially for the higher end models, you can spend in the neighborhood of $100 to get an Rx face-shield. On the note of matters that didn't seem to come up much in the article, but that I feel like people should know: T
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
Most of us (reporters included) aren't protecting anything with their life, not just because of a survival instinct, but because what we're protecting isn't actually worth that much. For the relative handful who are custodian
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
Privacy from what? From a determined government and court system? Nothing is going to keep you private from that. From your peers and family? Apple and Google keep you private in that regard. As for the world of privacy in between those ext
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
It makes it a problem that's inherently present for any act of civil disobedience, unless you truly believe that you can hide from the US government. I'm pretty sure that all of the technical workarounds in the world, all of the t
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
Sorry, are you suggesting that violence doesn't also require coordination of a group? I think the record of lone gunmen solving institutional problems remains kind of scarce. Whether you want to be a guerilla group, terrorists, or take
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
It would be cheaper and more practical to talk about space-based sunshields, and that’s about as practical as prayer. At the altitudes any realistic glider can reach you’d have to use sulfur aerosols and not ice, and in either case you’d ne
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
The amount of aerosol you need to I next is enormous, it needs to be sprayed at an altitude higher than realistic means of injection are feasible, and it has to be done in a way that doesn’t produce so much CO2 that it defeats the point. Ca
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
To be fair the open with a big lie about how useful agents and AI in general are, which helps to set the tone for what comes next. Part of me wonders if it’s intentional, a way to weed out the non-marks before getting to the punchline that
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
If it's a matter of national security and compromise isn't possible, I'd encourage Denmark to seek or create alternatives; it's the best they can hope for. Denmark has no obligation to deal with Google and Google has no
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
The question isn't "Is bullying Greenland a net negative"... that's too obvious and empty to get clicks. The spin here is in taking a survey designed to produce a specific result, and then using it as some kind of anchor
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
So it all boils down to "No True Scotsman"? How about I offer you an alternative: We don't try to guess why you bought what you bought, or why you need to so actively rationalize it, and you stop assuming that those stickers
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
There was a point after which the outcome of WWII was obvious and inevitable, but could you have timed the ending to within a week or two based on that knowledge? Should the inability to precisely time something imply that the arc of its fu
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
It's possible to notice a trend while still having the wit to realize you can't precisely time that trend well enough to profit from it. Another example might be, "Trump is increasingly old, feeble, and incapable of doing his
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
If you look at the history of places like Iran, or more recently in Syria and Venezuela, the conditions you're describing are just as likely to lead to a mass exodus and a civil war of the remainders as anything like a successful revol
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
I'd argue that Signal is trying to sell sanity at their own direct expense, during a time when sanity is in short supply. Just like "Proof of Work" wasn't going to be the BIG THING that made Crypto the new money, the new
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
People love to remember the hits and forget the misses. They'll happily chat about how "hunger was the key to the French Revolution" while forgetting how many starved in the USSR, North Korea, China, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somali
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
Do you have any idea how many people here have paychecks that depend on the hype, or hope to be in that position? They were the same way for Crypto until it stopped being part of the get-rich-quick dream.
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by EA-3167 9mo ago
The problem is that the same is true for many medications and other treatments, but if you're in the "lucky" minority (a pretty large one) for whom there's some relief... it's worth the try. It's not like choos
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by EA-3167 10mo ago
What baffles me is why people still take it all seriously, we've had well over a decade to examine his patterns of behavior and the takeaway is that fully 99.999% of his utterances are worthless. In the rare case that his promises are
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by EA-3167 10mo ago
It’s essentially an economic death spiral, but that has a lot of energy and dynamism until it crashes. In this case as long as NVIDIA prints money and people are willing to play pretend for a paycheck, this will go on. But it will end and w
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by EA-3167 10mo ago
I’m doing the same thing with a Boox and Amazon couldn’t pay me to go back. Calibre is a godsend.
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by EA-3167 10mo ago
This is profoundly out of touch with how almost everyone who isn’t a particularly zealous member of certain movements lives their lives.
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by EA-3167 10mo ago
I’m in my 40’s and I’d rather just use a VPN, I can’t imagine that young people will feel any differently. Governments should feel free to take performative measures, and we’re free to circumvent them. Leave people to their fantasies of dig
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by EA-3167 10mo ago
It’s also the standard methodology for a number of scams.

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