PeterisP

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by PeterisP 2y ago
In this context money is just a unit of measurement. If we say that we need more of a particular kind of infrastructure and reduce a particular kind of activity, etc, then the discussion requires being able to say how much of those (man
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by PeterisP 2y ago
I'm definitely assuming that they don't limit their training data to what is open source and crawlable.
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by PeterisP 2y ago
That comes from a time/place where it was issued to 100% adult citizens and it was illegal not to have it - i.e. you have a duty to get one when you come of age or become a citizen or your old one expires, and it's a misdemeanor w
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by PeterisP 2y ago
Sure, timing of the events, but infinity kind of breaks it - if external observers don't see someone falling in, then they didn't fall in yet , and if external observers see that falling in takes an infinite time (as in this case
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by PeterisP 2y ago
You can calculate or 'measure' an arbitrary approximation of that ratio by various methods, but calculating all of it takes infinite time, which I don't have and thus can't do it.
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by PeterisP 2y ago
Some time ago every election or referendum simply put a stamp in the passport when voting, but that was before plastic ID cards. Now they have an online verification process before handing you the ballot papers; this also reports your ID fo
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by PeterisP 2y ago
The key issue and the whole purpose of that question is that also both a. and b. could be considered wrong. If the person answers A, then the grader can state that this is correct if they like them, or assert that instead B is correct if th
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by PeterisP 2y ago
There's the dichotomy of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object - only one of these is possible. Either there can be an undefeatable AI detector, or an undetectable AI writer, both can't exist in the same universe. And
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by PeterisP 2y ago
Such an increase can actually be quite feasible; quadrupling the labor spent on final examination would be perhaps a 10% increase for the total labor spent on preparing and teaching a university course, and at university level (unlike earli
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by PeterisP 2y ago
I'd argue entirely opposite, that a dead man's switch should 100% rely only on someone else's services and should avoid any dependencies on your stuff, as something happening to you is correlated to something happening to t
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by PeterisP 2y ago
Sure, but it would be reasonable to assume that most people in this forum won't die broke.
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by PeterisP 2y ago
It's not about it being impossible to cryptographically prove/validate it, but rather about services choosing to not attempt to try to validate it. They generally don't provide such an option, because it's tricky, somewh
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by PeterisP 2y ago
The percentage of amount paid->amount received is not the appropriate number as it excludes the (very different!) tax rates on various kinds of consumption, however, it is reasonably straightforward to end up with a single number for the
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by PeterisP 2y ago
Radical parties gaining mass support is an indication that the centrist parties which should be 'more reasonable' are deliberately ignoring some major factor which a lot of the voters care about. Anyone looking at the rise of AfD
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by PeterisP 2y ago
I think that novel writing and reviews are types of writing where potentially AI should eventually surpass human writers, because they have the potential to replace content skillfully tailored to be liked by many people with content that&#x
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by PeterisP 2y ago
They definitely try to replace part of the people this way, starting with the areas where it's the easiest, but obviously it will continue to other people as the capabilities improve. A big example is sports journalism, where lots of v
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by PeterisP 2y ago
For the economic impact of monetary systems, the main role of currencies is handling credit - handling direct transactions is intuitively the direct application, but the impact of transaction costs ('costs' in the economic theory
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by PeterisP 2y ago
If someone would do the thing-to-be-detected (e.g. accessing CSAM) every day, then that 0.14% probability of detection turns out to be 40% for a single year (0.9986^365) or 64% over two years, so even that would deanonymize the majority of
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by PeterisP 2y ago
The existing conventions do not prohibit attacking militants while they are in the middle of civilians, even if they are not doing that as part of some hostage/human shield operation. It may be considered morally not ok, but doing so
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by PeterisP 2y ago
Well, that's a problem.
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by PeterisP 2y ago
The concept of "make the new code look like the existing code" still applies - in the example you gave, if you need to add examples148-200, and want to do it in a better way, then it would be wrong to do that new way for the new c
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by PeterisP 2y ago
I am a bit confused why shifting liability would be linked to maximizing data theft, and why would that data theft be done by some regulatory agencies - can you elaborate? The liability shift that I had in mind is mostly about immunity from
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by PeterisP 2y ago
This is why "self-signed" is a misleading term, as it means both literally self -signed, as in, "we have added root of trust that we control and our devices trust only certificates signed by ourselves, as cryptographically v
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by PeterisP 2y ago
We are replacing such things, although USA is a decade or so behind the rest of the world due to various legitimate sociopolitical and historical reasons. In most places worldwide identifiers equivalent to SSNs and passport numbers aren&#
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by PeterisP 2y ago
The author raises two major arguments for why the current low level of care is entirely appropriate - "the prevailing attitude among business leaders is: Damage to the company’s reputation SOUNDS bad, but (so the thinking goes) it’s re
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by PeterisP 2y ago
> Large enterprises generally have only so many business functions. Well, no, the difference in quantity of business functions can be enormous due to duplication. A small business will have an accounting business function, but a large bu
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by PeterisP 2y ago
If they think the response from Stripe for fraud/spam/PBL was too harsh, wait until they see how their banking partners (Deutsche+Fargo) will handle that; if they can't even keep up a level of due diligence that's "
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by PeterisP 2y ago
Airdropping "tons of food" wouldn't move the needle. Airdropping thousands of tons of food per day, every day, for years on end would temporarily reduce famine. It wouldn't prevent famine (armed groupings who would gain
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by PeterisP 2y ago
> Perhaps in the urban setting but the majority of this country is not contained within cities. 83% of USA population live in urban areas, and that proportion is still steadily growing. The same trends apply everywhere else in the world
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by PeterisP 2y ago
It should be impossible to negotiate this with individual policemen - if the state or municipality has the requirement and authority to provide security for something, then the conditions for that should be handled by the government (and th

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