Gormo

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by Gormo 4mo ago
> There's an almost intergalactic level of irony in the extent to which open source has benefited giant corporations and the military at the expense of individuals, and ultimately contributed to the commercialised enclosure of softw
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by Gormo 4mo ago
> The contradiction clears up when you realize that corporations are legal fiction without rights, merely privileges granted to them. That's not really correct. Corporations are recognized as distinct entities as a legal fiction to
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by Gormo 4mo ago
> You fucked up causality. My sentence has a clear causality order, which you ignored. I'm afraid I'm not seeing anything related to causality in your previous comment. On top of that, any discussion of causality would also it
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by Gormo 4mo ago
> There are many tells aren't there? There are no usable tells that apply generally in the first place. Pretty much all of the hyped-up memes in circulation about how to detect LLM output are highly unreliable. LLMs write the way t
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by Gormo 4mo ago
Along with people who don't want to waste hours of their day on unproductive commute time.
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by Gormo 4mo ago
But CSS can easily restyle every baseline HTML element. Making the web page look like the product is not only entirely possible without having to layer a framework on top, it's likely often easier and faster to implement than layering
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by Gormo 4mo ago
> Why can't both of those be true? I don't see any contradiction between them. "Corporations aren't people" and "corporations are singular entities unto themselves capable of exercising independent agency&qu
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by Gormo 4mo ago
My shortcut for launching "clean" Chromium session is `chromium --user-data-dir=$(mktemp -d)` -- each launch creates a new transient profile directory under /tmp, which is itself a RAM disk. Persistent settings are achieved
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Still not enough to convince me to read Substack blogs with anything other than my RSS reader.
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by Gormo 5mo ago
What web developer doesn't regularly test their site in a clean browser session?
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> If we strictly follow logic, then nobody and nothing can claim that anything is true or false. Sure they can. They may or may not be correct, but that's a matter of empirical validation entirely distinct from the logic flow itsel
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> Because the public is affected? An abstract concept is being affected in unspecified ways by a generalized category of activity? > If they were to run a highway through the middle of San Fransisco, a lot of people would also be affe
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by Gormo 5mo ago
A proposition and its logical inverse cannot both be false. That's a contradiction. A proposition and its logical inverse can both be unknown , and in fact, a proposition being unknown implies that its logical inverse must also be
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by Gormo 5mo ago
"False" isn't correct in strict boolean terms either, since that implies that the inverse is true. Claiming "there is extraterrestrial life in the universe" is false is logically equivalent to claiming that &quot
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> I have no idea, but the fact is they do! Well, that's the assumption I'm challenging. That does not seem to be a substantiated fact at all. Most of the arguments I've encountered online that attempt to make the case tha
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Before trying to explain why you think business executives aren't being prosecuted for criminal conduct, can you first point to a reliable source of data that indicates that this is actually happening, and isn't just a myth reinfo
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> So why then does it seem that corporations do in fact shield executives from criminal charges? Is this just collusion among the well-off? Money buys verdicts? Misinformation, propaganda, urban legends, etc. > but it sure as hell see
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by Gormo 5mo ago
I don't think most people see things this way. That itself is likely an exaggerated perception, and NIMBYism isn't quite as much of a controlling factor as is often believed. These projects usually do get built, but when NIMB
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Agreed. I don't know whether that's a significant problem, though, or if it's being overblown in the media, given that most states already have oversight mechanisms for utility pricing from monopoly service providers. Where
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> It _seems true_ when the people represented by the organizational model never face consequences for their actions, using the corporation as a liability shield. Corporations don't function as a liability shield in the sense you&#
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> The form/function distinction you're making requires the ability to hold two parallel representations of the same code in your head—the visual representation (what it looks like) and the syntactic representation (what it mean
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by Gormo 5mo ago
The point you're trying to make here seems to depend on an underlying premise that for people to use their property in certain ways, it's not enough that they comply with the various rules intended to minimize negative externaliti
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by Gormo 5mo ago
What mechanism do you suppose would cause LLMs to use writing tropes at a significantly greater rate than than is found in their training data?
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Replace "corporation" in each of your questions above with "organizational model employed by people as a mechanism for coordinating complex activities", and the answers should all become clear. Much of the discourse on t
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> Not liking what people do in a building is the same as believing in baseless conspiracy theories? Yes. Obsessing over what people you have no relationship with are doing in their own facilities based on loose-associative, emotion-laden
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by Gormo 5mo ago
If water usage is an externality, there's some other and more fundamental problem going on, since under normal circumstances, users of infrastructure are expected to pay for what they are consuming. Opposing data centers themselves, r
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> The objection is power and water consumption and any other externalities imposed on the local community. That seems a bit bizarre, since people opening new facilities are usually responsible for paying for their inputs with their own f
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by Gormo 5mo ago
Almost everything on that list seems invalid, at least as a simple checklist criteria. All of the tropes involved are ubiquitous in ordinary semi-formal writing, which is why the LLMs are using them in the first place. It's more reaso
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by Gormo 5mo ago
> I'm curious peoples criteria to determine this or is it just "vibes"? It's just vibes. There really are no reliable, simple criteria to determine if something was made with AI, and that shouldn't be surprising
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by Gormo 5mo ago
How would you know? I mean, I'm surrounded by lots of buildings , but I'm not usually aware of what's going on in ones I don't go inside of. There are lots of warehouse-sized buildings all over, and whether those buil

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