PontifexMinimus

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by PontifexMinimus 29d ago
> So, you mean, like another human person? No human is vastly better than all humans at all cognitive tasks. Humans can't think 100 times faster than humans. Humans when interacting with computer networks have limitations on how fas
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by PontifexMinimus 1mo ago
The way the EU could implement this is to mandate only using identity providers can guarantee they will not revoke people's identities, and the only way to make that guarantee watertight is to mandate only identity providers based with
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by PontifexMinimus 6mo ago
> A human's value under a capitalist system is equal to their ability to create goods and services. And AI cannot make this ability smaller in any way. Yes they can. Your ability to produce goods and services depends on the infrastr
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by PontifexMinimus 6mo ago
The work at PARC in creating Smalltalk-80 was pretty impressive, IMO.
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by PontifexMinimus 6mo ago
AI is different. It promises to be able to do everything humans can, but better and more cheaply. When AIs can do every human job cheaper than the subsistence cost of employing a human, humans will be economically obsolete and worthless. Th
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by PontifexMinimus 6mo ago
I agree. My first reaction was "what the fuck's an 'M'?"
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by PontifexMinimus 7mo ago
> try using obscure CPUs Better still invent a CPU instruction set, and get it to write an emulator for that instruction set in C. Then invent a C-like HLL and get it to write a compiler from your HLL to your instruction set.
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by PontifexMinimus 7mo ago
Not constitutionally, at any rate.
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by PontifexMinimus 8mo ago
> In Holland I see a lot of defeatist attitude The naysayer defeatist attitude is also very strong in the UK.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
Clearly the Israeli government don't think that. But many times in history governments have done dumb thnings that backfired.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
Nor do I, but the university administration might see things differently to us.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
aka enshitification
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
Indeed the blurb is absurd and very off-putting. It's not a big deal that "It clocks in at under 25MB with just 15 million parameters", because text to speech is a long-solved problem, in fact the Texas Speak and Spell from 1
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
This is a very sensible proposal, however it falls flat when considering that many students who have paid for a university "education" feel entitled to a degree at the end of it, regardless of how much effort they've put in a
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
No, because of their own behaviour. Israel might well lose the support of the USA and Europe, and if that happened the continued existence of their state would be far from certain.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
What about using ssh and a SOCKS5 proxy? I would be surprised if the UK government blocked that.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
The difference is that Bitcoin was an overhyped solution looking for a problem. Whereas AI is as big as life, eukaryotes, multi-cellularity, human intelligence, agriculture and the industrial revolution. It will certainly change everything
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
> It's a Google thing. Google will sometimes show inaccurate information and there is usually no way to correct it. Surely there is a way to correct it: getting the issue on the front page of HN.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
It's like they remembered their 1984 advert, and decided they wanted to be the baddy in it.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
Nor me.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
This is a very sensible proposal, that would guarantee essential tools, and would cost a very small fraction of the respective countries economies.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
Which is in any case a better test of the core of coding, which is about figuring out algorithms and data structures, not writing glue code to connect various APIs together.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
You can buy beer in halfs, but people more usually buy a pint.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
In Britain the standard glass size is 568 ml, i.e. a pint.
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by PontifexMinimus 1y ago
Note that a 568 ml pint of beer of 5% strength is by this definition 2 drinks. 4 pints over a week is basically nothing, and if they are saying it causes ill health, I don't believe them. When I was a student I drank 10 times that amou
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
When i try this I get: > Sorry! Fandom isn't allowing BreezeWiki to show pages right now. Personally I think it should be illegal for webshites to use any legal or technical means to block people from deshitifying their webshites.
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
> It's also possible for a roof mounting system to cost more than the panels in materials and labor and time. Probably. The fix would be for the panels to be an intrinsic part of the roof, meaning they don't have to be separate
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
If true, it's got its grammar wrong: >At its core, Titans merge two powerful mechanisms: Should be "merges", since "Titans" as used here is a singular proper noun.
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
Maybe Trump will legalise internet-based copying. After all, the main people hurt would be Hollywood, which is run by people supporting the Democrats. And it would be popular with many voters (not an issue for Trump but it is for Republican
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by PontifexMinimus 2y ago
I (for one) prefer video chats to phone calls. There is a reason why "face to face communication" is a phrase.

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