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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
For anyone who believes that phone companies would never listen to daily conversations without consent, this is a wakeup call.
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
Hobbyists care not for such things. Sure does matter at the enterprise level though.
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
All the deaths happened in Brazil, your logic is shocking, but sound.
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
Bit short on details other than "Let's see what LLMs can predict when we train them on various scientific data sets." Certainly a good thing to try, but the article feels like a PR piece more than anything else, as it's
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
TL;DR: Don't hold your smartphone while it's connected to a wired charging cable and there's a storm outside.
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
> We had serious news outlets write about senior people at OpenAI quitting because o1 was SkyNet I wonder if any of the people that quit regret doing so. Seems a lot like Chicken Little behavior - "Oh no, the sky is falling!" H
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
A terrifying amount of views are held on the basis of how good they make the holder feel.
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
Some people are willing to pay for the engineering.
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
Corporations certainly have advantages over individuals, but classifying them as superhuman intelligences misses the mark. I'd go with a blind ravenous titan instead.
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by LinuxAmbulance 1y ago
It really is an art compared to more modern options, mostly due to trying to replicate what a skilled operator at stamped metal factory at the time was capable of at a small scale. That and the press fit barrel and gas block are much tricki
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
That seems overly reductive. > It's impossible to live inside that system and objectively determine whether it's good or bad, let alone better or worse than other systems. I mean, if someone says "Let's pollute the ri
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
From what I've seen, tribalism is core to innate human nature. It's always been there, and until human nature can be edited like a spreadsheet, it always will be. What's changed now is how visible it's become and how muc
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Interesting. From what I've seen, the lack of empathy is the root of most of the political problems in the US. If people put the welfare of others first, for example, taxpayer funded universal healthcare wouldn't even be something
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
People aren't good at defining problems when it comes to political views because - as far as I can tell - nearly everyone has zero interest in actually solving the issue, or putting in work to do so. They want someone else to do the ha
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Way more than anyone should be comfortable with. Looks through thread Tribalism and purity tests abound.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
You'll find unquestioning dogmatism everywhere you go unfortunately. For what it's worth, the odds for rationally evaluating political ideas tend to go up around folks that have gone to universities that are known for some decent
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
As a backend person, sometimes I look at what's being done for front end stuff and pull back in ever so slight horror. It's an excellent article, and the work within is very well done, but there's a part of me that screams &q
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Long live the parenthetical! I wish it was more popular, it neatly indicates meaning so very well.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Solid advice all around.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
> Probably an unavoidable property that emerges from the sheer and perverse complexity of the human brain Complexity alone causing consciousness, much like an infinite amount of monkeys coming up with Shakespeare's complete works, i
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
I think ASI being able to care, in any sense, is something that is far off. Same for ASI itself, any optimism that it's invention is somehow inevitable in our lifetime is severely misplaced.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
> The goal of cryptocurrency is to have a financial system with none of that pesky government regulation. Except it's just a speculative asset, not an actual financial system, unless you count its use by criminal elements to actuall
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Now there's a series of novels I'd love to see on the screen. Assuming, of course that someone could do it justice. Not easy, given the scope.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
ADHD makes a mockery of working memory. The number of times I'll have to go back to see what the the fourth, fifth and sixth digit of a six digit sequence were is truly frustrating. The article indicates that working memory can be impr
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
"...suggesting that time’s arrow may not be as fixed as we experience it." That sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this article.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Safari exists only to allow me to download Firefox, much like IE / Edge. Joking, but not entirely. I love my Macbook, but every time I've used Safari, it's felt clunky and more awkward to use than Firefox or Chrome.
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
It'd be nice if there were details as to what the staff was doing with ChatGPT. For example, if they were just using it to generate email correspondence, eh, not a big deal. If they were using it to write legal text, that'd be a b
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
I've been invited to be a founding engineer a few times now, and crypto backed things are an instant no. How would this hold up in court? Let's say things go south and the founders drop everything and take what funds there are wit
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
Very nice, bookmarking this!
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by LinuxAmbulance 2y ago
That's not true. AWS started from a one pager that two employees in the Capetown office wrote (forget their names, it's been years) about the potential to sell compute as a service from the newly revamped Amazon.com website backen

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