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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> Indeed, the [Internet Accountability Project] and [the Free and Fair Markets Initiative], who were these huge fake grassroots non-profits designed to hold Google and Amazon to account [by opposing Section 230] barely seem to exist any
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> While the gametic definition is simple in theory, it is difficult to use in practice, as many scientists do not (and cannot) directly observe gamete size in their system due to invasive techniques that often confer mortality. This phra
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> an improved synthetic simulacrum of self awareness in the coming years, suffering and all That seems relevant to building The Existifier. [0] [0] https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/existence
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An important distinction, because I worry about this circular-reasoning loop: 1. "LLMs have empathy since they write empathetic things." 2. "How do you know its their own empathy?" 3. "LLMs are authors, just like
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
> > [Trump has] a personal distribution network to announce what he hates every day to his followers > Do you not remember the two-minutes-hate where they screamed at Emmanuel Goldstein? Apparently not. Oh hey, what's that up
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Or any rate it's mischaracterizing and confusing (A) "we miss having lots of good paying manufacturing jobs" with (B) "America needs to manufacture and export more widgets." It doesn't matter what the trade pol
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> Leftist overreactions is what brought Trump back in power. "Ugh! Now look at the bad thing you made me do ! It's entirely your fault, this all happened because you kept on warning me it was a bad thing and that I should st
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
What is this "lever" you claim already existed and then got "removed", precisely?
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Donald Trump: Billionaire in one of the top government roles of one the most powerful countries in the world; puts enormous banners of his own face over buildings; runs a personal distribution network to announce what he hates every day to
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> Does the US have a trade imbalance that causes problems, particularly in our manufacturing sector? I have a trade imbalance with the local grocery store: I buy lots of vegetables, but they don't buy mine. My employer has a trade i
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> This is such an important project that I think I will setup a recurring monthly donation. ACLU, EFF, LibreOffice... Anyone have more suggestions for general purpose cyber-liberties?
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Compare to: "You told me The Illuminati [worldwide ancient conspiracy] was a myth, but behold, I have proof of The Illuminati [card game] right here my hands! CHECKMATE, SKEPTICS!" * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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And then war-crime/murder the helpless survivors with a "double tap" strike. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/what-the-law-says-abou...
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It also assumes the people will somehow develop the skill to verify whether the LLM-result is "good". That's not guaranteed to happen and it's not a new problem, since it happens when managers are unable to detect prob
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Looking forward? He never stopped. It's been 10+ years of narcissistic scapegoating, even for times when he was President, even while Republicans controlled congress, and even over trade-deals, policies, and laws that he took-credit f
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by Terr_ 1mo ago
You full-stopped too soon: It may happen everywhere, but it doesn't happen the same way everywhere or for the same reasons. LLMs will create different kinds of corruption than humans, because the underlying mechanisms are different. Ou
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Hold up, we've got to remember our recursive acronyms here: "WINE Is Not a Eucharist".
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> Then they continue to amplify that badness over time Also, with "self-bias", models are also likely to grow new content into spots that match their subtle fingerprints from the past. That might come at the expense of whatever
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Futurama had a good comedy PSA on this from, gosh, 25 years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uE96qUlJ_4
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Hypothetical damages only make sense if he was charged with a lesser crime of "attempted" X... however I don't see that modifier in the news reporting. My concern is that the prosecution is trying to mix-and-match the severit
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That might be detectable if they signed content contains focal-length metadata... but even then, some foresight and a collection of lenses would hide it.
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> Despite the decoy camera being worth, at most, several dollars worth of plastic filament, Evan Meyer was charged with three felonies: attempted larceny/grand theft, criminal mischief of property damage worth more than $1,000, and
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> This is an incredibly effective way That seems at-odds with the article's aside that: > The operation is reminiscent of Amazon “package sting” operations that several police departments attempted several years ago, in which emp
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> They live by the Rule of Law. I feel that description is a bit too strident for the underlying stochastically-creative writing exercise going on. > "Is this a chain of command, or a chain of credulity?" > "There&#x
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So at least somebody is figuring out how much torment the human mind can handle in the Torment Nexus...
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I guess it being on HN does tweak the sensor calibration a bit.
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A few hundred comments on this are available from 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583
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I had assumed parent-poster was making a sincere but humorous point, as opposed to sarcastically dismissing the risks of a change in management, but I suppose it's ambiguous.
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> the populace starts to believe US Social Security Numbers are a useful analogy: The designers knew they weren't something anyone could securely depend on, and told people not to do it... but companies did it anyway, for their ow
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> And attentive readers will know the difference between a text produced by someone who cared about the outcome and one produced by someone who did not. Likewise, I can also tell the difference between a glass of fresh water and a glass

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