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Xelynega
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Xelynega
3y ago
What I'm hearing is that meta/google are threatening the government through public opinion on a piece of legislation that doesn't benefit them... How could anybody side with meta/google?
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It takes about 4 seconds if the plug isn't right beside the car. It takes me at least 3 minutes one way to get to a gas station, then another few minutes to fill up.
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3y ago
Except we know(and have example from cryptocurrency) that the problems with ownership in real life have little to do with cryptography. The reason coca cola doesn't use Pepsi's recipe isnt because mixing the ingredients under heat
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Xelynega
3y ago
> No. Most obfuscation is done to increase the time needed to reverse the source of publicly available programs. So to stop the intended recipient from deciphering the program. "Adversaries" are the strawman used to hurt legiti
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3y ago
Habbo hotel had "programmable logic" that facilitated the scams, gambling, and capitalism. Habbo was not a "glorified chatroom", it was an MMO centered around an in-game currency and acquiring more of it.
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3y ago
I think to portray it otherwise would be to lose the message, and the fact that Wallace commited suicide should give credibility that the thoughts he wrote beforehand were those of an eventually suicidal man. In my opinion, without the immu
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Xelynega
3y ago
Even worse, that would be an abolition of personal property.
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Xelynega
3y ago
Oh no, the whole point of the free market...
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3y ago
Eh, matter is the xkcd#927 of "that protocol". UDMI/DTDL/Watson/matter/ZigBee all try to do "universal device management over a single API", matter is just the latest incarnation. Matter is already 20
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3y ago
I was about to go insane having to view an ad every 3 slides(which sometimes is the same slide). Thanks.
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3y ago
It quite literally is. A non-automated McDonalds extracts money from a certain population(the target market of the McDonald's) and funnels it to the owner, but the owner has to employ people(typically from the same area/market) to
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3y ago
It sounds more like a"job that nobody wants to do" and a "service nobody wants to pay for" that Uber et. all are exploiting labour laws to profit from by providing it in an unsustainable way that governments are afraid t
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3y ago
Isn't that the entire point of the semantic web?
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3y ago
I feel that's a bit different. When skimming or reading a book, even though we don't remember all the information typically a lot of the information is dependent on prior information, so we form a sparse knowledge graph from the e
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3y ago
I think they mean from a user perspective. As a user I can create an account with a provider(be it google or myself), but I can't migrate that account without leaving a forwarding address at the original address. The alternative would
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3y ago
It doesn't matter if it's a bonus or salary, the point was that unions help people get better total compensation.
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Xelynega
4y ago
The idea that "great leaders" exists is in itself a personal belief, isn't it? In my opinion "great leaders" are jobs that need to be done, not specific people. If Musk's personal characteristics make him viabl
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4y ago
I have to disagree. Especially in the case of LLMs where new API services are popping up all over the place, an "ethical" license like agpl that requires the source be shared for web services would would accelerate development of
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Xelynega
4y ago
For precisely the reason you state. They're in the business of making money, not agi, yet all it takes is a carefully-crafted name and people forget about their legal motives and can't stop thinking about Skynet.
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4y ago
I don't think there's enough third world countries to categorize and sanitize a dataset from YouTube. Meta would have to "give internet" to a few more before we can start dreaming that big.
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4y ago
> However, so long as people are using land, buildings structures, designing equipment… the laws of capitalism will apply. Capitalism is the system where someone can claim ownership of land/buildings/ideas(typically due to pri
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4y ago
I don't think we've figured out stuff it's useful for, we've just created tech-demos that are much more digestible. For blockchain/crypto companies their tech demos have required you having a wallet, downloading an
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4y ago
They don't know it doesn't know
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4y ago
Conversely, the idea that concepts like "reasoning" and "knowing" can be approximated by language models seems like a naive result of anthropomorphism. It was created to be a tool to estimate the next token in a series b
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4y ago
They should and I'm not saying to write it in a new language just because it meets the needs a little better. But in a world where the primary motivation for most things is profit, do you think "developer/maintenance costs&qu
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4y ago
The "straw that broke the camels back" analogy is perfect and I should have included. It's my stance that while yes the NEL was the final straw that prompted the case, that straw would have been something eventually. What
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They're not in court for the emergency library. They're in court for the 1-1 CDL lending they did. I'm tired of seeing this "well IA shouldn't have done the emergency library" line. Do you honestly believe the
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Doesn't your argument assume that there are no patterns inherent to language itself that can't be explained by intelligence? As an extreme example, your argument could be used to support the idea that statistical fitting is imposs
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4y ago
Isn't that kind of self-fulfilling? Only choose technologies that are popular for production stacks -> more people using those technologies professionally(implying less using others) -> only choose popular technologies -> etc.
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4y ago
This is giving blockchain/cryptocurrency ptsd. "We are early, it's just not there yet"
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