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by Terr_ 4mo ago
It could be clearer and shorter, but I don't think its Billy-Madison-quote-level bad. I read it as: 1. Tries a title where "the law" could refer to both legal-statue and also metaphysical limits. (But, disappointingly, does
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
From a didactic perspective, it would cool if the result-screen illustrated how some voting-reform would have solved the sneaky win... but I guess that's not practical, since it'd rely on additional data which would detract from t
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I really like the framing in this piece: LLMs are fundamentally document-generators, and keeping that in mind helps protect against our own human cognitive-illusions. When we read any story, we instinctively start imagining characters, simu
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> putting your TOTP/MFA in your password manager I suppose the inverse would be starting with a device that offers TOTP/MFA, and then making your password-manager/vault somehow available on that same device. In either case
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
It strikes me that the larger a company becomes (geographically, types of goods and services, etc.), the harder it is for employees to have any opinions or beliefs which are safely distant from employer meddling.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Strictly speaking, that Presidential race was not enough, since Trump alone would have been far-more survivable. A mere repeat of 2016-2020 would have been shameful and humiliating, but not the same kind of diplomatic self-implosion. What
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> This is such a dumb thing to try to play semantic games about. [...] Wow, you're pretty obnoxious. As the saying goes: "Don't start nothin', won't be nothin'."
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Hmm, if we're being really pedantic and go a step further, it becomes incorrect take: The text says parasit oids , which resemble parasites but probably aren't. Much like how "asteroid samples" means rocks instead
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Your comment is supercilious and confidently-incorrect. The most-charitable interpretation is that you have been misinformed ever since the last election from some preliminary estimate of incomplete counts. 1. Of all ballots, only 49.7961%
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> Is the reputational risk of pirating [worse than] destructively scanning Yes, actually: The blame or bad-reputation for that waste goes to US copyright law and its inanities.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Voters, but a minority of them.* Then kept in office by a minority (43%) of Republican Senate legislators. * Yes, that is the correct term. In each election >50% chose "Not Trump".
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The outside (or ‘edge’) of the occlupanid is often smooth, but many species sport palps, or tabs. These have unguessable purposes for mating, locomotion, defense, take your pick. I propose that these palps or tabs are remnants of the r
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
True, "Industrial Policy" [0] is much bigger over in China, and has been for a long time. Although that might become "was" given the recent shift in US politics, where the Republican party of big-government has been heav
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> My 2016 car has the old version of Android auto. I don't know if an AAWireless adapter might operate in a way that could bridge that compatibility gap, but it might be worth a shot if you can borrow one to try it out. I've be
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
An "accountability sink" [0] where a major feature of the system or machien is to try to disclaim any responsibility and cast blame into the void. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unaccountability_Machine
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The wild tech optimism of the 1990s and 2000s Anecdotally, my optimist and disappointment has a lot less to do with flaws in the technology, versus outcomes that rested on the social / political / power-dynamic side of things
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The real solution would be the ability to block AI-generated adverts To speak from a cynical step further along the spectrum (e.g. "aacktually the real real problem is...") I submit that "voting with your eyeballs&quot
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
IMO it also depends on having a working alternative for when the fuzzy automated system fails to work... except that's the stuff companies want to eliminate in order to (theoretically) save money.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> There are laws and regulations. There is also legal risk and reputation. One of the big companies, Meta, already decided to go ahead and grab terabytes of pirated books to feed their LLM. [0] Therefore I would not give them (or similar
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
There's also the problem of deaths right after detention. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/26/nx-s1-5727692/the-mayor-of-bu...
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
IANAL, but: 1. It seems the plaintiff is the Southern Environmental Law Center, which makes a lot more sense when the issue is violations of environmental law. The NAACP is supporting, and I can imagine that there are some consistent overla
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Ugh, what violation of local law can't be excused by specious "national security" claims? > resulting in a corresponding increase in three major air pollutants: Sometimes I wonder how valuable it would be to go to vulner
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Tangentially, that reminds me of how a Windows update created c:\inetpub on everybody's non-server computers, to "increase protection" for unspecified reasons. https://www.pcworld.com/article/2684062&#x2F
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> One session is titled “Bring Back Nuclear.” Another will focus on “Disinformation and Deepfakes.” Participants will hear about “Contrarian AI Takes,” “Three Predictions for Iran” and “Democracy Under Surveillance.” > One session is
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Think of chaos theory, or at least the pop-science version of it. You brush aside a butterfly today, and the fated hurricane doesn't happen next week. However if insect-wingbeats and weather-systems used two independent PRNGs, you coul
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Right: Look at the ways Google has persistently taken away user-control and autonomy on the OS level. Why would we expect the same company to exhibit a completely opposite philosophy as they add LLM features?
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Even worse, it's a document generator in a jar, which is an additional separation-step from what we consider reality or awareness.
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> the lowest common denominator LLMs are going to be like asbestos. A legitimate and irreplaceable tool for certain narrow tasks, but it's going to be be stuffed in a ton of astonishingly-unwise places to make a buck, and the rest o
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
IMO local-vs-cloud may be a misleading dichotomy, versus: 1. Individual dev machines 2. Shared local server 3. Shared server in corporate cloud 4. Third-party LLM SaaS provider Even if you don't want your laptop me
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> corruption necessarily envolves the government False. [0] If the bank teller demands a bribe to let you withdraw from your account, that's corruption, even though they aren't working for the government. > Corruption is the

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