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by EMIRELADERO 2mo ago
Apathetic mass-murder is unjustifiable, and the ultrarich would need to justify it to their families, who would then need to justify it to other people they know, and so on. And remember that we're talking about the majority of the glo
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by EMIRELADERO 2mo ago
Everyone should read this about "happiness": https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... > "It would seem that human beings are not able to describe, nor perhaps to imagine, happin
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by EMIRELADERO 2mo ago
The former, because it's anthropomorphizing a model. Anthropic is especially guilty of this. They have been using such language for a while, like when they analyze model weights for mechanistic interpretability and call it the model&#x
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by EMIRELADERO 2mo ago
You are right to feel that way about the frontier labs, especially Anthropic. From https://stratechery.com/2026/anthropics-safety-superpower/ > "Anthropic believes that they are the ones who should have fi
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by EMIRELADERO 3mo ago
Hosting and providing Chinese models wouldn't be the same as doing business with the sanctioned entities though, you don't interact with them in any capacity if you only use the weights and don't sign any contracts.
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by EMIRELADERO 3mo ago
> Proprietary model weights are IP I don't think they are. Not copyright at least. There may be some "trade secret" stuff for them but they're not copyrightable.
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by EMIRELADERO 4mo ago
> These numbers are seem pretty low compared to what I was able to achieve specifically around windows kernel, win32k<->win32u to be exact. Care to give more context to this? Seems interesting
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by EMIRELADERO 4mo ago
Material that shouldn't be published for any reason is already subject to a sealing process. What else is needed?
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
Funnily enough, Orwell actually reviewed We in 1946: https://orwell.ru/library/reviews/zamyatin/english/e_zamy
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
Things aren't as hopeless as you assume. I read this essay a few months ago which calmed those doomsday theories for me somewhat: https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
Extreme control of movement and sleep including deprivation of it for arbitrary amounts, constant lighting, no outside time, nothing to do for months at a time, lack of nutritious food, all those things in combination constitue torture unde
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
Why do you believe mantaining an acceptable level of peacefulness requires torture?
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
Could you tell me how actual torture helps that system, and why exactly you can't take it away without disrupting the harmony? It is definitely possible to hold people in detention without torturing them while also getting acceptable r
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
That's a false binary. European nations manage without either of them for example.
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
Even granting that (which... no. How is it true? Any evidence?) it's still less inhumane than what Japan is doing here. The conditions amount to torture. The fact that many people opt to falsely plead guilty and get a reduced punishmen
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
Direct torture is certainly less humane than abandonment.
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
They would have used the "ghost user" strategy. > "Perrin now offers a different framing. “Article 8 ter, which I had adopted, was not at all aimed at obtaining encryption keys but at introducing a ghost participant into a
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
It's not about the displacement of workers. It talks about a fundamental principles-level objection to unbounded "progress". It's not an absolute argument and Orwell himself says so, but it is worth keeping in mind. Try
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
The virtues you mention are not a consequence of the tortuous treatment described in the post though. Conditions could rise to Western humane standards and the underlying Japanese culture that allows for such peaceful living would still rem
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by EMIRELADERO 5mo ago
> Pretty much any cognitive thing we do manually could be done in software. Yes, although I suggest being careful with that kind of thinking. https://www.orwell.ru/library/novels/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier/...
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by EMIRELADERO 6mo ago
Still, that's no reason to accept a return to that state of affairs. Progress happens slowly and imperceptibly, but on a grand scale it does happen.
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by EMIRELADERO 7mo ago
You can mitigate malware while still allowing for the same level of end-user control as the manufacturer. Look at Windows itself! People getting infected on up-to-date installations is a rarity nowadays, all without draconian lockdown polic
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by EMIRELADERO 7mo ago
It's not about "design", because the iPhone is perfectly capable of running arbitrary code, it just refuses to do so if you're not Apple. The situation is such that the legal owner of the device has less power over it,
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by EMIRELADERO 7mo ago
My pet theory is that this has been accelerated due to the cultural rejection of the humanities as worthy of study. Orwell wrote about this: https://orwell.ru/library/articles/science/english/e_scien &gt
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by EMIRELADERO 8mo ago
While the article points out many worrying trends which are true, I would caution against making far-reaching predictions, especially if they involve drastic, rapid change. Orwell warned about this sort of thing already: https://
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by EMIRELADERO 8mo ago
Yeah, that attitude is not new. > "The point is that as soon as fear, hatred, jealousy and power worship are involved, the sense of reality becomes unhinged. And, as I have pointed out already, the sense of right and wrong becomes u
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by EMIRELADERO 8mo ago
> Social media platforms aren't free speech platforms either, you're subject to their terms and conditions. Sure, but this verification rubbish comes from the government.
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by EMIRELADERO 9mo ago
Exactly. Here's Orwell speaking on the whole thing: > "An argument that Socialists ought to be prepared to meet, since it is brought up constantly both by Christian apologists and by neo-pessimists such as James Burnham, is the
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by EMIRELADERO 11mo ago
This is misleading though. There is simply no other choice if you want to use mainstream apps. It could be argued (successfully in my view) that any agreement is null and void due to its acceptance under duress. Users have an inherent legal
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by EMIRELADERO 1y ago
Sure, but that still leaves the mystery of how qualia is generated in a mechanistic manner.

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