_Algernon_

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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
>There's a reason all the major browsers are kind of on-board with this, just like there's a reason it never got updated much beyond XSLT 1. If XSLT would be proposed today, adding it to browsers would be a complete non-starter
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Rolling weighted dice repeatedly to generate words isn't factually accurate. More at 11.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Unless you're arguing that people should kill themselves to save their 100W of power, the future energy use of every alive human is already committed and doesn't matter. Not to mention that the energy should also include all the e
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
I'm thinking of exactly what I said[^1] :) [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Careless_People
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
You should read Careless People if this boggles your mind.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
There are steps to submit it manually: https://github.com/MarginaliaSearch/submit-site-to-marginali...
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
They don't disappear just because Google no longer surfaces them. May I suggest marginalia search for your small web needs? https://marginalia-search.com/
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
>We can live without bateria if we add with some food supplements. Citation needed. I would strongly doubt that this is true, because microbes also play a very important role in eg. immune defense. Remove all the mutualitic microbes from
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
>Executives at Nokia and BlackBerry saw the first iPhone, with its lack of a physical keyboard, as an impractical toy for media consumption This also is how most people use their smart phone today. They were right. Perhaps they just didn
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Move fast and break things
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
I mean the main reason is that robots.txt is pointless these days. When it was introduced, the web was largely collaborative project within the academic realm. A system based on the honor system worked for the most part. These days the web
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Add a multiplier so that doing the activity is discouraged, not just neutral in terms of expected value.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
The (non-compliant) cookie banner covering half the screen kinda ruins the mood.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
They didn't poach employees. They made a better offer — in other words competed — in the labor market. Employees aren't animals in the forest where the king has the sole right to hunt them for sport.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Similes don't exist in Europe?
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
I thought McKinsey's reason to be was that they sold justification for unpopular decisions management already wants to make.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Any non-defensive war is a choice. In otherwords every war the US has fought since the war for independence has been a choice (yes, this includes the WWs).
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
He writes scare-mongering books about AI doomerism such as If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies . I short, another variant of commercializing the human fear response.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
All your arguments are technical. It's the social layer that is the problem. >Any well designed privacy system does not rely on the server components doing the right thing. This is more expensive than just throwing everything into a
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Removing the ability to install a custom OS is just as big of an erosion of rights if not bigger. The war on general purpose computing is still going strong, if this is suddenly considered the lesser evil.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
What stops the under age user from setting isAdult = 1?
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
>It's easy to demonstrate (3) for an age verification system - practical experience will amply demonstrate it to everyone. No. Absence of evidence that I am not anonymous does not constitute evidence that I am anonymous. Verifia
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Add to that 3) Verifiable to a lay person that the system truly has those properties, with no possibility of suddenly being altered to no longer have those properties without it exceedingly obvious. This whole concept runs into similar is
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
The random article button uses algorithms to decide what content to show to the user.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
The country that had prosecution of political opponents during the Red Scare and patriot act is better ? The US is the country that started all this privacy invading BS and is still way ahead on that front. After all Chat Control hasn&#x27
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Moving to most of those countries would instantly at least 5x (Colombia would be 30x!) my chance of getting murdered (and I assume increase my risk of being the victim of other violent crimes similarly). Not to mention that suggesting El Sa
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Genuinely curious where you would suggest going. The US isn't better and has been doing this shit since the patriot act.
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
When (rational) people make decisions they weigh the possible rewards of success against the possible costs of failure. We are in a situation where the costs are virtually zero ("oh no, we have to try again in 6 months!") while th
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
Yes. This is in essence the same taxonomy used in A Modern Approach .
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by _Algernon_ 1y ago
I'm responding to this claim: >Agent originally meant an ai that made decisions to optimize some utility function. That's not what agents originally referred to, and I don't understand how your circling back to LLMs is rel

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