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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'd synthesize those as: "There is a lot of chaos with no central plan, but every small piece happens because someone believes they will benefit." In other words, a lot of this depends on what scale/scope is being inspec
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> But of course, the problem with Google is that they already have basically every person on the planet as their customer Yeah, this is partly a story of finance, where companies want to be seen as "growth" companies... even wh
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Also posted to HN today with a couple comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49360140#49363374
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Especially if it has concrete historical examples of technology intended for good and how it was later used for evil, rather than something more generally-philosophical.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I've been calling them film noir internal monologues, within the documents being generated by the LLM which happen to look like movie scripts. In other words, it isn't qualitatively different from character dialogue. "Keep
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I find some of the discomfort and awkwardness of discussing these what-ifs is reduced, at least slightly, when we distinguish between: 1. Restorative justice, where one must fix or heal the problem they caused. 2. Punitive Justice, where on
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> finger [...] dozens of pages of paper printouts I know just the poetry to go with that story: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, N
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> The window purifiers also keep excess CO2 and VOCs out. I assume you mean that the increased air-exchange (purified or not) helps CO2 that originates inside the house to leave promptly? (Equalizing it with the outdoors.) Literally
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
I'm just happy that--at least this time--most of the damage from their own choices is not being externalized onto innocent bystanders. > He later upped that investment to $480,000 so that he could gain entry to a dinner at Trump’s
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> LLM was used to produce a bunch of arguments [...] Doesn’t matter much whether it was a machine or a human (and whether it was “expert” himself or a ghostwriter) Even ignoring the intent-issue, the process used matters because we don&#
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Recycling comment from another submission 17 day ago: > Random thought: If you stick a very small adhesive mirror to the outside window before boarding, then footage "looking down" at the regularly-spaced railroad ties could co
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
(17 days ago, 85 points, 34 comments)
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> The researchers analyzed radiation- and non-radiation-related cancers across occupations. How does that categorization usually work? Is it radiation-related by default whenever there is no obvious risk factor from genes, lifestyle, etc
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> How it is made should be irrelevant in the process. Is that true? Almost all answers have value based on how they were reached, especially when (like this case) there's no trivial and objective verification step. For example, s
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
"Quantity is/has a quality all of/on its own."
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> more addicting than cigarettes [...] also boring and drab That's not actually a contradiction. With addictions, it's extremely common for someone to do $THING not because of any (remotely durable) sense of happiness, but simp
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> TL;DR (too long; didn’t read) was the solution for social media. > AI;DR (AI; didn’t read) is the solution for AI slop. Maybe I'm the odd one out here and didn't plumb the worse-depths of social media, but I feel I need to
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
And everyone makes enough money that something going wrong with their €1600 payment/expectation isn't going to ruin relationships. It might not actually be "buy one-another new cars" territory, it's closer to tha
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Yeah, at the core it suggests each person lends €1600 (~$1850 USD) distributed in an unofficial and impromptu way, hoping to get it all back as a home-improvement good. That has some implications like: 1. You have ~15 friends and you all ha
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> An LLM will not help you kid. Wow, you've developed such a crazy allergy to seeing a colon that you're becoming one. I'd say "have fun" with the solipsistic world where everyone who disagrees with you on the in
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
> Every iPhone and Android device can be cloned in a few minutes with physical access. Misleading: The data can usually be copied quickly and easily is the encrypted version .
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Not a funding issue per se , but Congress also passed a law requiring that the "Epstein files" be released by December 2025. Yet here we are, ~9 months later, and the Republican administration is still violating the law's de
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Comic: "The Science News Cycle" - https://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1174
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Worst for whom, though? The least-worst thing for the company is for the senior engineer to work for free. :p
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I'm getting flashbacks to Proxomitron, a localhost proxy in the HTTP days when it was also much harder/impossible to make browser plugins.
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That's a far cry from, say, developing reversed DNA and reversed DNA polymerase and all the other transformative and/or structural proteins of the cell. It's not just about the food/excretions of the hypothetical cell, b
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The way I see it, advertisers have violated any implicit bargain by adding the spying and surveillance aspect. The traditional billboard or TV-ad is not part of a global system that creates a personal dossier of everything you view, how l
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> Life has evolved and re-evolved thousands if not millions of times. From scratch, on the most basic enzymatic level? Nonsense, there's no evidence for that. > Non-threat. Most of the things that ever existed are dead, yet plent
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Because it's too much of a lift at once. To naturally get a mirror E-Coli you'd need a separate planet and billions of years and lots of luck. It's a mostly-incompatible change to all the machinery all the way down.
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by Terr_ 2mo ago
Or with a different kind of early: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/rise-of-the-machines

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