Spivak

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by Spivak 7mo ago
It seems to come down to whether you expect the next law to be taking the enforcement mechanism away from the parent. If the law was, "major operating systems must ship parental controls that actually work" I doubt you would see
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by Spivak 7mo ago
Because the VM isn't there to protect your data, it's to give the AI a space where it can do things that would be annoying or cause breakages on your own machine. It also gives you an easy save/restore mechanism.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
And we're finally here on the national stage. 1. Ban exposing minors to "sexual material." Who would be against that? Surely only weirdos would push to expose kids to sex and pornography. Make sure this gets challenged in cou
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Yeah but the only alternative that's actually better is paid. Google is still best ad supported search engine out there. There's no one obvious to turn to or recommend. The best free alternative to Google right is ironically $pref
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by Spivak 8mo ago
If you present most LLM's with a run_python tool it won't realize that it can access a standard Linux userspace with it even if it's explicitly detailed. But spiritually the same tool called run_shell it will use correctly. G
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by Spivak 8mo ago
In a way its a testament that the safeguards are working for someone because it seems like the internet at large is full of bypasses.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
There was a constellation of political groups who were internally coordinated weren't coordinated with one another because they wanted slightly different outcomes or had different motivations. The absolutely massive success of the coor
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by Spivak 8mo ago
It's not really an ICE vs EV thing, more that "EVs as hip new technology improving leaps and bounds annually" isn't really a thing and they're the car version of air fryers. This is, to me, actually a good because t
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Actually evil, no. Forever changed by their enormous wealth which messes you up mentally in a lots of fun unique ways, changes the nature of every relationship you'll have post wealth, and feeds into your ego and all your latent neuros
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I don't use it but am thinking about it because it's very roughly the agent I built myself but with a community around it so I have to do less work fiddling with it. Please people use protection and run this stuff in its own dedic
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Or rents a printer for one-off designs. Unless you 3d print on the regular it's easier to pay someone to print one-off designs. You get a printer that gets regularly used and services and a knowledgeable operator. Not at all dissimilar
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by Spivak 8mo ago
https://xkcd.com/385/ It's just this but with race this time.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I mean it will be the employers of those programmers and at $5000/dev/month I expect a businesses will start demanding very tangible returns from this spend. And as much as I love the tools I don't think it's generating
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Gotta be honest, when I go to an encyclopedia the last thing I want is what the mathematically average chronically online person knows and thinks about a topic. Because common misconceptions and the "facts" you see parroted on onl
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by Spivak 8mo ago
That's actually pretty smart to address reports in batches to find the intersection of sites users routinely encounter and sites that are AI slop instead of trying to address reports individually as they come in.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Meanwhile I'm considered a high performer at my company and I've been pushing for years to get our company to adopt flat percentage raises and flat dollar amount bonuses very literally against my own financial interest. My company
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by Spivak 8mo ago
The lesson here is to write code that's easy to throw away. The main problem here is commitment where it becomes too hard to change some fundamental aspects of your system. This time it leads to building an ad-hoc database, but another
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by Spivak 8mo ago
There is a balance to be struck to avoid a completely ineffectual congress but I'm not sure a legislative body biased towards action is one you would actually want. Making it easier to kill bills than pass them has a natural stabilizin
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by Spivak 8mo ago
When everything is magic I think we need a new definition of magic or maybe a new term to encapsulate what's being described here. The key feature of magic is that it breaks the normal rules of the universe as you're meant to unde
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Does the existence of did:web make it decentralized? You don't have to use the centralized identity provider at all. And if you own a domain why would you?
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I don't understand why this is grey, this is exactly correct. Depreciation is good actually ignores the realities of why a car's value is tanking in the first place. The only time high depreciation is good for you as a buyer is if
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by Spivak 8mo ago
I mean there is some wisdom to that, most teams separate dev and qa and writers aren't their own editors precisely because it's hard for the author of a thing to spot their own mistakes. When you merge them into one it's usua
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by Spivak 8mo ago
The moment Congress authorizes that the Executive may use discretion then the Executive can effectively levy taxes. They may be wielding a bat owned by someone else, but who swings it is ultimately what's important. Now I'm genera
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by Spivak 8mo ago
Also, at best this says not to host your data on someone else's computer and keep control of it, which is a thing Bluesky explicitly supports and encourages. Will normal people do it, no. But you can.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
It would be easier to buy the "I just like the stock" argument for voter id despite the absence of a concrete problem if… 1. Voter turnout wasn't already shit and we're about add friction for very little practical gain.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
That's a good chunk of immunotherapy, still super useful.
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by Spivak 8mo ago
You're right it's a very obvious thing that you should have to show your government issued ID to verify who you are to a civic function, and that relying on the honor system is something that seems like it could never work because
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by Spivak 8mo ago
You have described the lawmaking process of basically any country. We can't actually write laws to solve real problems because real problems are hard and you can actually tell whether they've been solved or not, but we can write l
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by Spivak 8mo ago
And they probably shouldn't. I think it's a premature optimization to assume LLMs need their own special internet over markdown when they're perfectly capable of reading the HTML just fine. Why maintain two sets of documentat
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by Spivak 8mo ago
You bothered to manage your LE accounts? I only say because when using the other two challenge types with most deployment scenarios you were generating a new account per cert so your account ID was just a string of random numbers.

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