TeMPOraL

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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
> How many news articles can I pirate with AI? Not much more than with a bash/curl loop. Which, on one hand, AI can write for you, but on the other hand, AI will make you no longer need to pirate those articles in the first place.
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
That's people problems though, namely: 1) Lazy peers, and 2) Spiteful peers with "dog in the manger" mentality. The latter case personally irks me, mostly because this often involves personal benefit (economical or moral) due
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
> If $X dies because ..., the entirety of its knowledge is now only availabe through LLMs that trained on it. And archive.org . And scraped copies people have around for various reasons. And libraries. And even in the first-party sour
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
> EDIT: The reason I am comparing chip computation to human-power is because the authors of those digital works intended their works to only be read by humans. Not by some alien species (even if it be made of silicon) that incorporated
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
Moreover, it's the people/companies from RIAA and adjacent circles (news publishing) that are stoking the "AI training is theft" arguments that people here are so breathlessly repeating - in a twist of irony, it's t
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
> It's the robbery of all of our culture to sell it back to us at a mark-up. Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen - it's still there - nor are the people involved selling it ba
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
It's more than thousands, and not only it's not reasonable, it's not possible. Plenty of games run on some critical optimizations that exploit native code quirks that may or may not hold up only because Windows papers over th
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
Your message seems to be arguing both points at the same time - at least that's how it reads to me; first, that it's absolutely feasible to do this because Android did, and then, that in reality game developers there casually defe
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
Yes. But there are also some assumptions that are grossly miscalibrated in the software world. Like: > Or you will complain if your colleague accesses your file without your permission. This is a case of "out of scope", also
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
Yes. Try it regularly, against inputs I know correspond to things visited or bookmarked within last couple months. Almost never gives the actual result unless it's literal full-string match. That's why I'm complaining.
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by TeMPOraL 23d ago
Apples and apple seeds to me. The way I see it, the thermostat contains the motor (EDIT deleted the rest of explanation). EDIT: the way I see it, talking about gradients here is nonsense. The wax motor works by expansion/contraction du
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
You're skipping any causal connection between the "as greater and greater" and "anybody would be motivated" parts. What is it in "excessive generative AI output" that "devalues all communication media
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
That's a dumb mental model, is what I'm saying. The original sin of cryptography/cybersecurity metaphors.
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
> How do other people handle this dilemma? For me: consider this a form of paranoia and ignore it, while worrying more about cleanup costs of non-vetted packages. Like, even if there is 5% chance that a program I download will start do
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
I.e. like any good tool?
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Now we have no browser capable of searching in anything - not even Firefox. I routinely try, in several browser, to find a tab among open tabs, a bookmark among open bookmarks, or a history entry (both from "omnibox" and dedicated
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Again, the "lock" part is the dumb part. Encryption scrambles the data. Key is the piece of information that lets the information be scrambled in specific way so that it can be unscrambled by someone in possession of the same (sym
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
It's not perfect for symmetric keys at all, because the fundamental fact about locks and keys is that a lock sits on the outside of the thing you're protecting, attaching to it or to a container in which the thing is placed. Encry
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
But that's the "you need two keys at the same time" case, which is different. I'm talking about "each of them can lock alone, but once locked, only the other one can unlock". The real problem is that lock and k
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Except it makes no sense if you look at the thing, because then you realize that the "lock" and "key" are literally the same thing. In the real world, the lock and the key are completely different objects - there's
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
The problem is arguably the symmetry in asymmetrical encryption - namely both "private" and "public" key are the same thing; the labeling "public" vs. "private" reflects your arbitrary choice of whi
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Certificate and signature could work as an analogy for public keys, if they weren't already taken by higher level concepts.
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Yup. Only reason I'm on OneDrive is that they don't mess with photos and their metadata. For now, at least. I guess it's because the core offering is still some version of "a folder that syncs", and the photo galler
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
> That is exactly what normal human beings want our computers to do, and it's why the vast majority of AI safety initiatives are [correctly] seen as such a self-serving joke (because of the purposeful conflation of X-risk with &quo
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
I understand that. The thing is, this entire ancient, complex system doesn't care either way; it could grow to encompass the Earth, or transform into something even more complex or entirely different, or disappear tomorrow - whether du
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Elsewhere in this threat comments mention AZ turning out in practice to be different areas of the same building, or just a matter of opinion and some config.
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Well, flood is an act of God. "Floodplains" is another lie invented by those "scientists" to get you pissed, probably on a break from their usual attempts to convince you magnets are not a genuine miracle.
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Turns out that "availability zones" in cloud parlance seem to have nothing to do with geographical availability. Apparently they're logical splits and are more about billing than anything.
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
I'm waiting for a messenger from the future coming back to tell people that passkeys are stupid, and having passwords on post-it notes attached to the monitor was never a real problem, it's just the security industry that got thre
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by TeMPOraL 24d ago
Along with "Outside Context", "Tail Risk", "Impossible to Predict", "Force Majeure" and "Spanish Inquisition".

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