Morromist

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by Morromist 4mo ago
I'm sure when this law goes through they won't stop and will shortly be lining up some even crazier surviellance tech. I'm thinking something that automatically scans your computer for porn or other things, like ripped film m
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by Morromist 4mo ago
Yeah, although I suspect the study isn't taking account major economic factors involving ai and remote work jobs - the fact is society is built around jobs you commute to and it takes a little bit of time for society to change. People
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by Morromist 4mo ago
One of my favorite dynamics: Warrior class that really kicks butt, takes control over the state and then slowly becomes obsolete but is so embedded in the social structure that it just sticks around sucking up vast resources for hundreds of
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by Morromist 4mo ago
I still do, honestly.
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by Morromist 4mo ago
Scout sounds like an excitable little dog that runs headlong into trees when trying to catch a frisbee. Given Microsoft's long history of failure with personal assistants I'm looking forward to this one! Clippy, Cortana, Copilot!
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by Morromist 4mo ago
That could be. I'm thinking of the Chu–Han Contention and the Warlord Era in China as times that it was probably the case - In both cases goverment control collapsed and there was not just one rebellion but a whole bunch that all spran
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by Morromist 4mo ago
Its by Augustus F. Lindley and called Ti-ping tien-kwoh; the history of the Ti-ping revolution Volume I and II. And its actually 955 pages. Its an account written by one of the generals fighting for the rebels, who was also a British guy. I
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by Morromist 4mo ago
That's pretty wise. I never considered that. During the very late part of the edo period China had the Taiping Rebellion, the deadliest religious civil war in human history by some meansures. I've read that it was caused by a very
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by Morromist 4mo ago
Smartglasses, NFTs, getting ai to write your emails, always talking to Alexa, taking photos of everything constantly for social media. People who do these things must think the tech makes them more likable and interesting. But, in fact, I i
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by Morromist 4mo ago
One thing that I find interesting about this is that "samurai lived in dignified but extreme poverty" but never really did anything to threaten the state and take its riches for themselves for hundreds of years, despite all of the
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by Morromist 4mo ago
Person: I prefer food cooked at home, even if the chef isn't a professional. You: Do you? even if the chef is covered in bleeding pustules and cooking with rotten food? No? That's clearly not what they were saying.
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by Morromist 4mo ago
I mean I can write a non-llm program that "has better reading comprehension than an average human" depending on what you think reading comprehension means. Today I went to ask an LLM some very simple questions, stuff you can googl
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by Morromist 4mo ago
those insulting graphs Microsoft put out with no labeled axes just shows how serious they are about all of this.
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by Morromist 4mo ago
I don't see anything in SOMA that's implausable, so I don't see how it fails to tell us anything about the real world, any more than any other prediction about the future. And we pretty much have to make predictions, its both
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by Morromist 5mo ago
The best sneaking experiances I've ever had in games is actually in modern Multiplayer games. Dayz and Squad are fantastic sneaking games, its hard, its fun and there's no need for a "You're in a shadow now" indicat
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by Morromist 5mo ago
I'm hearing from you: "People shouldn't have the right to determine how their country is run - I should - because I'm a technology-man, so I'm better than them."
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by Morromist 5mo ago
Imagine the political implications of this if it actually worked.
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by Morromist 5mo ago
AI is useful for programmers and a few other groups of people to do their jobs faster. For most people it is just a thing that produces crappy facebook memes, has made certain parts of life more dystopian - like job interviews, and people k
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by Morromist 5mo ago
I've heard this is now most of some CS jobs now. Just writing documentation for AI.
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by Morromist 5mo ago
I've gotten this too a lot. If you ask AI to cite where it got info you can lose a lot of confidence in it pretty quickly.
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by Morromist 5mo ago
One thing that SO had was you could see multiple solutions and implementations for something. Sometimes the "best" solution isn't very readable code, sometimes you are able to understand the problem better when you see a bunc
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by Morromist 5mo ago
Yeah. I wonder if the question "Did OpenAI steal a non-profit worth what is now maybe hundreds of billions of dollars?" will ever be answered. If not it will be one of the biggest heists in history.
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by Morromist 5mo ago
It is a LOT better than 2 years ago, but there are flaws and its unpleasant to watch. The most easy to spot is their shoes (which they weren't wearing 1 second ago) flying off their feet without being kicked off in the first 10 seconds
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by Morromist 5mo ago
I would actually love taking a class like that.
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by Morromist 5mo ago
Huh. I never took a class like that, but that seems like a great idea.
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by Morromist 5mo ago
I agree with you that no-tech parts of universities would work - obviously you can't avoid tech when teaching some things like coding, but mostly I think it would be a good idea. There are problems: Having students attend lectures is g
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by Morromist 5mo ago
Huh. You're right, I never thought about it that way. I had to look it up and apperently there are multiple theories that the reason ufo photos are always terrible quality is that there's some kind of terrible-photo-force-field ar
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by Morromist 5mo ago
This is one of those things where an objective person shouldn't start out with a completely neutral attitude. Have you ever heard that phrase "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"? For example, If I take a blu
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by Morromist 5mo ago
Yeah that's a big problem. Pretty sure you can see it in real life where lots of old dead accounts with weak passwords on facebook or twitter eventually get hacked. It must be pretty weird to see your dead grampa suddenly start trying
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by Morromist 5mo ago
Yeah, that's a problem, you're right. There are some ways to migitate it, but they introduce their own issues. Like say you give someone only 1 ID for their lifetime, they start to spam AI crap, you ban their ID - sounds ok except

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