Verdex

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by Verdex 6y ago
"on par with" : at the same level or standard as (someone or something else) Given the definition of that phrase, your admonishment seems misguided at best. I think asking if an alternative implied by the previous comment makes se
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by Verdex 6y ago
The thing is though, that given the choice between effective and totalitarian people like to choose totalitarianism because it's just so much easier to just do whatever they want vs actually thinking about how to build a sustainable sy
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by Verdex 6y ago
Normally I don't get bent out of shape if someone makes their point with poorly chosen words. But seriously: > A bit more totalitarianism is not a bad thing. No, what you want is increased government effectiveness with respect to e
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yes, but I'm worried about the people component of my "people/tool" equation. If management sees that costly fines occur when AI is used, then maybe they'll abandon it and just use people instead. However, if they
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yes, but this can happen just as easily with human actors as it can with non-human actors. I suppose the benefit of a human actor is that you can theoretically fine or jail them if they're found to be malicious or sufficiently incompet
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by Verdex 6y ago
I don't think it's completely reasonable to ban it. Although, I would agree that it's completely reasonable to restrict nearly anything. Although, I do like your comment about scale. If you have a system that's 99% suc
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by Verdex 6y ago
Personally, I think this type of thing falls into what I like to call the "all problems are management problems" category. If a TSA agent deports someone simply because the machine recommended it, then that is a problem. But if
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by Verdex 6y ago
> those who wish to undermine your ideas can attack your implementation rather than the concept. Yeah, it's frustrating when people do this. But if you want to have real solution at the end of the day, then you'll need to hamm
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by Verdex 6y ago
People can read other people's emotions. You can build a mechanical turk program that's effectively the same as having a personal concierge agent with respect to the regulation. Like, if you ban reading people's emotions you
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by Verdex 6y ago
I find this to be an interesting statement. What happens if you're able to evade regulation by making your "AI that interprets human emotions" of really poor quality. "Your honor, we investigated the source code and dis
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, Dunning-Kruger feels like a way for people to rationalize away people who they don't like that project confidence. Oh, it's just Dunning-Kruger, I saw them make a mistake once, so they're not really smart. The Dunning-
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by Verdex 6y ago
I prefer the books but the episodes I saw were all really good. I think I watched to seasson 3.
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by Verdex 6y ago
This is one of the things that I like about the expanse series. When people first start moving out to alien ecosystems, they specifically go into how alien viruses etc are probably not going to be a problem. The metaphor they use is &quot
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by Verdex 6y ago
At college I had a professor who I worked for who grew up in Romania. Apparently the song that kids had back in the day was: "We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us."
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by Verdex 6y ago
It's not really compelling to a jury though. Digital signature verification is just a magical computer saying something that the expert witness fails to explain very well. Meanwhile, the jury can look at 200 bill receipts and see the
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by Verdex 6y ago
> Auditors and reporters should audit the end-result I mean, sure. It's just that it's really hard to know how we got to any given end-result. Hey, we see a guy who is really having problems getting services for his kids from
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by Verdex 6y ago
Yeah, this is true. But I personally like having paper that the corporation printed out versus something that I printed out. Like, technically, you can fake the "receipt" page because it's just some html etc. The only thing
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by Verdex 6y ago
I think it makes accountability easier as well. And this is actually the reason why I don't do online billing as much as possible. A stack of papers going back years showing that the corporate entity you're dealing with confirms
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by Verdex 6y ago
This is really off topic, but I just wanted to highlight how important the simpsons are to communication. Like, "old man yells at cloud" causes me to almost immediately understand your point (at least I feel I understand your poi
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by Verdex 6y ago
I was about to say the same thing. At least social media gives me quite a bit of mental heart burn. Interestingly enough, HN and reddit have both been really useful for me. Both are much more focused AND the people there don't gain a
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by Verdex 6y ago
This seems reasonable to me. Like, if you only have to get along with 120 people, it seems like a problem that an arbitrary person has a pretty good chance of solving. Then everyone else can be the "other". However, I wonder if
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by Verdex 6y ago
Appearently the os can't differentiate between any USB devices. I saw a great video years ago (which I haven't been able to locate for years) that went into detail as to how you can basically make a custom usb device arbitrarily m
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by Verdex 6y ago
This is wrong. As an adult living in a world with other adults, if I want to get paid for my work, then I'm going to setup that interaction ahead of time. If I wanted to con people, then maybe I would put something of value out for any
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by Verdex 6y ago
This is a good point, but I think there are some unfortunate side effects. Once you give away free stuff because you used someone's (open sourced) code, now you have to get the PR people involved. In the future if your devs see some
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by Verdex 6y ago
> Meanwhile getting to say your code is used by Nintendo Switch on your resume Yeah, that's immediately what my mind went to. If my code was used by someone as major as Nintendo, then I wouldn't be making a fuss. But you can
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by Verdex 6y ago
My theory is that in order to replace C/C++ in the systems language space we are going to need several different types of languages. Rust is pretty nice, but the options for allocation and it's ownership type system make it a mism
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by Verdex 6y ago
... I said that. Didnt I? <re-reads own post> Yeah. "I'm sure it will work out short term." That's equivalent to "performed well in their quarterly earnings" right? YouTube has had a strangle hold on
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by Verdex 6y ago
People expecting something that was free to remain that way forever were a bit naive. Getting upset that someone doing something for you for free is now "charging" is unreasonably entitled. However. Ads are a blight. Sure, ther
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by Verdex 6y ago
I hope they let creators decide where the ads go. Because otherwise, this is going to destroy ASMR videos. I can see it now. Person with insomnia listening to someone softly picking a mic with a q-tip about to drift off when all of a sud
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by Verdex 6y ago
I would like the story much better if they had a lower percentage of people falling into the catatonic state. A third of people using the device going catatonic is too many. Two problems. 1) If I created a device that caused a third of pe

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