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by _ugfj 3y ago
Hello from an AI safety ninny. I have posted these two concerns multiple times and no one posted any counters to them. 1. There was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ where they argued for 2028 and on will be AI el
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by _ugfj 3y ago
However, the dangers here are immense. There was https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoVJKj8lcNQ where they argued for 2028 being an AI election where the person with most computing power wins. Propaganda produced by humans on
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Nowhere near that, the largest problem will be when the misinformation will be manufactured on an unprecedented scale by these LLM. In the US alone some 300 000 people died from homemade artisan anti vaxx propaganda, it's very scary to
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by _ugfj 3y ago
There's a small but loud crowd which insists on using Linux as their daily driver on modern laptops despite this makes very little sense. https://xkcd.com/619/ is just as true today as it was near fifteen years ag
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by _ugfj 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/605/
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by _ugfj 3y ago
The current large language model neural networks have successfully exploited a zero day on human cognition. The output closely resembles high quality writings and as such our psyche will consider it quality too. (See Kahneman's Thinkin
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By everything you mean an extremely narrow slice of hardware and software works -- which admittedly are widely used and can give the false sense of "everything". But https://xkcd.com/619/ is just as true toda
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by _ugfj 3y ago
> The undocumented C9 opcode is identical to the documented CB, far return instruction. I remember this. Once ... gosh, it's hard to believe how long ago that was now, but once I knew the entire Z80 opcode table off head. I could
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by _ugfj 3y ago
"yes, i produce automated plagiarism which can only function on the backs of exploited Kenyan workers, encodes and furthers every systemic bias imaginable and endangers society -- but at least I am paid well" That's getting c
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Read carefully this is only for the unvaccinated.
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I thought buttbuttination taught everyone how incredibly stupid this is 25-30 years or so ago already? But no. Just a few years ago I tried to enter an answer into a Hungarian Q&A site recommending to take the Algeciras-Tangier ferry an
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by _ugfj 3y ago
Those who are more vulnerable are watching as the world left us hanging dry. There was no reason to end mask mandates. None. Except a few loudmouths the entire world have caved to. We have seen how cheap DIY filter boxes are. There is no re
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by _ugfj 4y ago
I guess most people forgot fast that Spotify platformed a major antivaxxer? I cancelled them immediately and can't even imagine subscribing to them any time. It was just a year ago...
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by _ugfj 4y ago
> Humans are still a lot better at writing something nonsensical that people will accept easily because of the way it's written. Some are but not many. And then there's the amount. That's the crux of the matter. Have you s
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by _ugfj 4y ago
This is one of my pet peeves here. We put labels on neurodivergent people and I am not at all convinced these labels actually correspond to anything except their brain works differently than normal (if there is a normal, even). Problem is,
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by _ugfj 4y ago
NowPublic, while being a citizenship journalism site had a Katrina missing persons board which was much, much more popular than the site itself ever was.
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Based on leaked texts and his answers to personalities like catturd, he is in a right wing filter bubble and truly believes there was a censorship problem with Twitter. In a leaked text he was outright asked whether he could buy Twitter aft
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by _ugfj 4y ago
They absolutely are. You can see for example there are a few of these GaN PSUs in stock in Asia and US is expected to get stock on Monday. https://smallformfactor.net/forum/ has lots of satisfied buyers and a month ago
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by _ugfj 4y ago
Many a times a workstation ATX board is necessary only because you want tons of RAM. All the card space is essentially wasted PCB. Since Threadrippers until very recently didn't support RDIMM, you could only put 256GB in them -- but ev
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by _ugfj 4y ago
Not "mainstream left"? I guess the right, what was once the far right but today is just the right is indeed not "mainstream left". Make no mistake where he stands: he was one of the largest donors of Trump, served on his
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by _ugfj 4y ago
Potentially you are challenging one of the world's largest governments to find a way to stop it. I dunno what they can or what they will do but imagine this scenario: they sanction it in a way that you are guilty of money laundering if
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by _ugfj 4y ago
Mmmmmm a kernel call translator. Microsoft attempted to do it with WSL. Then abandoned the idea and went with a VM called WSL v2. I have no solid proof but I believe at least one of the factors were https://github.com/micros
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by _ugfj 4y ago
That's still nowhere near https://www.i-pex.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/2_E.... this. And they come in less than 1/100 of an inch(!) thickness, look at the OD table https:/&#x2F
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by _ugfj 5y ago
What can I say? In 1985, my parents went on an organized tour to Munich (it's not like they could've went on their own) and bought a deeply discounted Speccy and smuggled it -- it's not like we could've afforded a comput
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by _ugfj 5y ago
Obligatory https://twitter.com/qrs/status/1395784294451265536 > Smart contracts should be considered self-funded bug-bounty platforms.
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Yes, that was the line. So everything was called socialist this and socialist that.
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I have spent weeks and months even on and off since 2009 in Hungary. Last visit, albeit just two days long, ended today, actually. I am well versed in the neofeudalism that Orban has wrought. And yet, look at my dates -- Orban is a symptom
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by _ugfj 5y ago
I grew up in Hungary where the socialist leadership (it is a very interesting fact how much they avoided the word communism and used socialism everywhere but I digress) was hell bent on continuously raising the standard of living because Ja
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This book is lovely. It made me reflect on our current state of affairs. Covid was and still is a test of the value systems of the so called "Western" or "first world" societies. We have failed this test through and thro
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by _ugfj 5y ago
Reading this I am a little green with envy about how lucky Americans got (and also a little queasy about how they squandered their luck to be become a failed society but I digress). My birth country has been ravaged by two world wars and th

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