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by XorNot 3mo ago
The real question is whether a hardware platform today would be good enough. The model is software on a server or in the cloud, so the real question is are there any show stoppers from the hardware for going faster?
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Okay but I cannot stress this enough: no one cares. It's international politics. The rules are optional, and written on the back of whoever agrees to enforce them. If you're going to run around declaring AI is a strategic advantag
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by XorNot 3mo ago
The hand wringing over whether internationally located AI labs are "stealing" output from American ones is the funniest thing in a while. It's international politics with people talking about AI success as a matter of nationa
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by XorNot 3mo ago
See that detail of "near them"? Yeah it's a crucial one. For some reason data center companies keep wanting to build data centers near existing utilities, near existing roads and transport infrastructure, and near existing
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by XorNot 3mo ago
After just not wearing a watch because I have a smart phone in my pocket all the time I'm out which has, amongst other functions, a lock on it and I can actually interact with one handed...I will continue simply not wearing an utterly
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Which does not change the fact that the pandemic was a peacetime crisis where it was possible but not practical to keep most systems running if needed. Coronavirus wasn't bullseyeing vaccine shipments in the Pacific or taking down air
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by XorNot 3mo ago
> .. what were you doing in 2020? Waiting several years for widespread vaccine availability, and practicing good hygiene and social distancing. Viruses aren't so good at seizing and holding territory.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Vaccines aren't something you need urgently in a crisis. A wartime effort has to keep supplies moving daily, or the front collapses. Whereas the need for vaccines is heavily deferred - your population is already vaccinated in peacetime
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Because like, every basic war machine is made from it? Like how is this a question? There's been two world wars and access to or stockpiling of steel has been a critical strategic factor in both. Most consumable military assets are mad
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Sending death threats has never been legal. The statical lie with the UK numbers is the vast majority of cases are about the use of messaging services in domestic violence cases.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
It has never been easy to create separate users on Linux, certainly not for tasks where you need to switch between contexts. Docker was amongst the biggest steps forward on this in a long time.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Except it's fundamentally not equitable: regular people can't easily relocate, and use electricity to heat and cool their homes, cook food, and have lighting. A data center can easily outbid them on the electricity market and dr
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by XorNot 3mo ago
In theory yes. But in practice if an AI made sweeping changes to typography then what are the odds any effort at all went into the rest?
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by XorNot 3mo ago
There was a virtual machine KVM escape found like 2 weeks ago. Nothing is a security boundary anymore.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
I'd like the Oauth authentication setting to work in the latest version. But that might just be me. I'd also like it to be possible to enter a U2F pin number when using Oauth because then I could actually use it with my company Yu
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by XorNot 3mo ago
AIs aren't people. I can demand whatever I want from them. The entire premise of building machines that can provide intelligence is that they can be arbitraryly rigorous and do far more work then is reasonable or practical to demand of
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Which is funny because a huge number of people post this in responses to online asynchronous messages, on public forums, when they could also do literally anything else - like close the browser tab.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
LMGTFY for you was infuriating because it was 100% of the top Google responses to specific searches.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
But it's not a separate system, it's just a separate algorithm - it's software. "No target" by AI but "target" by the "engage light sources" recognizer is still successful targeting. "No tar
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Yes but you're trying to identify people. A military system is being launched at an area to destroy a target that is presumed to be trying to hide (hence AI). Absolutely nothing stops a secondary, much simpler identifier system of &quo
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Also pre-emptively accepting defeat is by definition self-defeating. You don't know it won't work if it's not actually tried and as noted there's no particular reason to think it can't work.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
The sheer optimism of posting this as an American right now...
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Ukraine is keeping Russia where it is at a tremendous expenditure of people and treasure. Their success in the conflict is not guaranteed.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
It feels like the longtermist believers got involved in this (those are the people obsessed with garage-engineered designer viruses who have a very tenuous grasp on how biology research actually works).
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Fiber optic are currently so cheap that they are being used in expendable, single use applications in the Russia/Ukraine war in spools of 50+km. You're talking about achieving highly marginal gains in product quality at the expens
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by XorNot 3mo ago
There just isn't that much demand for space. Space is cool to nerds like me, but what do I really need from it? I've got all the navigation satellites I could want (which I don't pay for) and the best satellite imagery I us
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by XorNot 3mo ago
> For example, what happens when we get to the point where we need to use the scientific method to test if the gene editing was successful and didn't cause negative outcomes for the child's entire existence perhaps? Well that w
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by XorNot 3mo ago
Blizzard managed to so thoroughly destroy itself that I'm not sure the comparison is fair. It's a ghost of what it once was in gaming.
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by XorNot 3mo ago
The level which means you keep doing it is the right level. For me that's 20 minutes a day on a rowing machine plus some body weight strength exercises. Which is about a YouTube video long and as a result I basically only watch YouTube
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by XorNot 3mo ago
> allow everybody to achieve the minimum of cardiovascular and strength exercises Aren't you just asking the same question? I certainly prefer sitting then doing exercise, I just also don't like the consequences of doing none.

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