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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I frame it as a document extender trained on other documents. Any "mind" we perceive is an illusion in our heads as we experience a story about a character, and the "intelligence" is reflected at us back out of our colle
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
They don't need to formally solicit feedback to hear that it's a daft idea, especially when the dramatically more-expensive and vulnerable sites can't be placed much closer to the equator. This is likely a performance to sati
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Oh no sir, I am merely a humble boorish villain.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> macrophages Right, and when it comes to "what happens when the macrophage can't destroy what it engulfed", we can probably learn a lot from parallel work studying tattoos, where the ink-particles are similarly "atta
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The idea that they could be trained on private/restricted/copyrighted data and that was ok because there wouldn't be redistributing that data should have been killed 3 years ago. I know, it's kind of mind-boggling.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> A bug which won't be triggered by righteous people but infuriating to those who will surely be left behind after The Rapture™. Or perhaps the righteous versus the sinister .
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
IANAL but I would assume that such an agreement (A) falls under trademark law and (B) is being done to avoid a costly/embarrassing fight, even if it's a fight Thiel might win.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Over many years I've tried to (unsuccessfully) coin the phrase "Design for deletion." The code in front of you works today, but will become unfit for purpose and un-salvageable, and we want to ensure that when that inevitab
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> shouting "SERENITY NOW" at maximum volume. I'm imagining the Silicon Valley scene where the character Gilfoyle has set up a loud death-metal automated noise that plays whenever the price of Bitcoin meets certain conditio
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Suppose a dementia patient with a gun declares that they are ready to shoot the tooth-fairy, which has been stalking them to steal their molars. You might not take their words as a true statement of fact, but the situation going on is s
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
They aren't talking about the EU per se getting a military command layer, they're talking about the problem faced by a group of sovereign entities which mostly overlaps with EU member states. Specifically, the problem of how t
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Since when did the distinction between use-cases stop being relevant?
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
If you're accusing CERT of hypocrisy, what's an example of the second case?
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
In seriousness, probably not, unless US "intellectual property" law gets worse somehow. Short phrases fall under trademarks rather than copyrights, and even then it needs to be something that would cause commercial confusion, and
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I suspect parent-poster simply intended to write OMB [0] instead. Perhaps because both initialisms [1] refer to government groups that sometimes publish important reports about budgets. [0] https://prospect.org/2026/02&
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Convenience link for those who don't want to create a Twitter account to see more. https://xcancel.com/massgravel/status/2074304593303892354 The sites' anti-bot measures seem unhappy with my current comp
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> Exactly how does Microsoft's device identifier get associated with the ngrok session The article has a link to "39-page criminal complaint" PDF, and I'd summarize the prosecution's claims (from sections 21.e, 2
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Except it won't be the glorious--nor even the gloriously bad --merges of sci-fi. Rather, it'll be like how your leisure time and work-hours have "merged" via smartphone messages from your boss, or how keeping tabs on fr
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The after action report Ah, I see you studied on Beta Colony, where they have a very logical approach to such things. /vorkosigan-saga-reference
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
"Humans don't always sum two integers correctly. Getting the correct sum is a red herring! There are lots of other problems with my beehive-based calculator [0], but that is not at the top of the list..." It doesn't matt
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> All presidents rise to power on a message of anti-corruption You mean in China specifically? Otherwise there are some pretty harsh counterexamples to that "all".
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I found this talk [0] and some of the slides suggest that Windows is, at least in some circumstances, packaging web-browsing data into telemetry. To lift examples from the slides, that includes page titles: "CorrelationGuid"
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I would be shocked if Microsoft was not using their own layer of certificate-pinning to stop people from doing that, and/or using another layer of encryption separate from the networking layer.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
TLDR: Microsoft can (at least) correlate your Windows installation to all website domains you visit while using Windows. It's unclear what the mechanism is, but I'd wager their "telemetry" is constantly revealing your in
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I feel this is going into increasingly-unlikely mixes of constraints and needs in order to try to keep a "wouldn't it be cool if" hypothetical-tool dream alive. [0] But OK, let's assume that: The power is out, but you
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Much like with 1984 , I think the promising/terrifying part is that it's not an issue with technology per se , but about a society that has somehow decided to allow Terrible Things to happen. (Often via too much power in too few
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> LLM-in-a-box for emergency For most actual emergency scenarios, a device that focuses on storage of large amounts of prepared normal reference material [0] will be wayyyyy cheaper, more durable, portable, and able to run on batte
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Ahh, but with Naruto v. Slater , animals can't create or hold copyright, so the art posthumously created by the fly would be in public domain. :p
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I find the The Truman Show (1998) very apropos these days [Spoiler Alert] where everything in the protagonist's environment is cynically shaped to make him consume certain products, believe certain things about how the world works, a
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
For a dash of dystopia: Imagine a company starts using that same LLM fuzzy-matching [0] against what you intend to be normal search activity , to detect "bad" queries and "bad" users who will be blocked. Maybe they&#x27

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