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by advael 2y ago
Proof? So you're telling me you don't understand what a "principle" is basically. I define autonomy exactly how I said it. Adults should be able to do with their own bodies as they see fit, including consenting to any an
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by advael 2y ago
Seems reading comprehension isn't your strong suit. By definition, rape of any kind fails the "consenting adults" criterion pretty trivially. I draw the line exactly where I said I do, and the whole "the worst crimes I c
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by advael 2y ago
Yea apparently it was so important to the government of Britain to dictate which consenting adults can fuck each other that they would force hormones and essentially permanent probation on a literal world-changing scientist and undeniable w
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by advael 2y ago
They told me that the last four times I tried it, years apart each time. At this point this is feeling like the full self-driving car all over again. But honestly, as I've thought about it over the years, even if it works for most peop
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by advael 2y ago
Jokes I think there are three fundamental categories of cheating threat models that actually matter: State poisoning, Information leakage, and Input automation State poisoning means your game was poorly written, period. Either that's a
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by advael 2y ago
In my experience most of the point of VR seems to be giving the user a big headache
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by advael 2y ago
O no, the poor megacorporations will have a harder time getting loans from kleptocrats if we close off some of their avenues for predatory behavior! If the US government had anything resembling a center-left party (Like even something milqu
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by advael 2y ago
I am not sure what point you're trying to make with this collection of non-sequiturs and false statements -The vast overwhelming majority of games are now effectively cross-platform. Work done mostly by valve benefits the entire ecosys
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by advael 2y ago
I think a considerable amount of the anti-remote push is also on managers from GenX as well, and I think we've considerably obviated much of the incentive to retire for the top end of decision-makers since their fortunes are increasing
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by advael 2y ago
Weird I haven't had a graphics issue since like the 8000 series of cards for like, the normal driving graphics right off the card use case. Optimus is definitely a little fucky with multiple GPUs and sometimes new CUDA versions break l
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by advael 2y ago
A typo in this case, but appreciated nonetheless The warlords gathering with deserts in their eyes may never get their just deserts even if their habit of eating just desserts leaves them obese For while we may get told every other day we l
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by advael 2y ago
I mean there's a world of difference between "Perhaps millions of people, given motivation and a bit of luck, can pull off a thing" and "A super rich guy can pull off a thing" This is the whole reason people talk ab
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by advael 2y ago
I agree, and it's frustrating that there's so much fixation on this "single text prompt to [other thing]" use case in how people are building these things out. I think that drives a lot of the "slop" feel of th
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by advael 2y ago
There is no issue with a company that someone's not gonna show up and say "Well of course they don't care about anything but profits" which in an environment where governments are systematically willing to backstop risky
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by advael 2y ago
Whether this is a breach or, as others have suggested, the LLM bullshitting you - for which I guess the politically correct term is still "hallucination" - it's bizarre to me that these tech companies who really should know b
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by advael 2y ago
This is really a clear place for robust regulation. No company has a genuine incentive to ever give up proprietary designs in the current environment, even for devices they no longer sell or support. Places that do are going against the gra
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by advael 2y ago
Bad mechanism design. Publication bias is bad even in academia, but within a corporate context there are overwhelming incentives to bury research that shows harms. Making safety requirements that work, for anything, requires independent aud
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by advael 2y ago
I've said it before and I'll say it again. The corporate veil needs to be not only eliminated, but reversed If a corporation is a collection of people driven by a charter, and that corporation commits a crime, the people who drove
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by advael 2y ago
I think "but using the tool takes time and effort" is a good but not perfect criticism of a tool that purports to reduce time and effort spent. As many asinine CEOs are making outsized claims about generic "productivity"
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by advael 2y ago
I agree with everything in this article. However, software developers may be craftspeople, but an infinitessimally small fraction of them are treated like craftspeople by the businesses that employ them The reason software engineers want to
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by advael 2y ago
Startups work this way because they are operating in an economy dominated by financial fraud and enormous monopolistic incumbents. Without the need to impress investors who expect endless unrealistic projections of growth supported by unsus
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by advael 2y ago
I think if you can make the vectorization methods more customizable and transparent, this could be a research accelerant too, since as a lot of AI R&D on new domains or datasets has "make a good embedding" as a first step. It&
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by advael 2y ago
I think Apple and many other tech companies are still trying to brand themselves as mavericks who are upending a stuffy establishment, a mythology which is exemplified well by ads like this. I think the gaucheness of it was very intentional
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by advael 2y ago
Man it's crazy how most executives' jobs can be done with a script on a spreadsheet these days. "Our goal is for revenue to exceed costs" is truly the awe-inspiring vision of the future I've come to expect of tech l
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by advael 2y ago
Both are acting with monopolistic power in numerous areas and both should be scrutinized. Just because one argument against monopoly power is that incumbents can sometimes rest on their laurels and fail to innovate doesn't make this th
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by advael 2y ago
I agree with you that both of these things, and more, are important to encourage in society. In fact, I'd even say that literacy has more components than that, like for example understanding the importance of precision in language, lik
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by advael 2y ago
I think Russel, like many scientists, feels the need to dangle "the next big idea" as a tantalizing reason to allow more idleness. I do think that in an important sense, he is right and you are wrong, that "pressure to delive
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by advael 2y ago
Right, regulatory agencies should absolutely resolve false advertising disputes, and the FDA is well-positioned to assess claims about medicinal efficacy. I don't think it should be able to prevent people from voluntarily accessing exp
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by advael 2y ago
I'm not even sure how you want this to work. Like in your ideal model, does this mean you can't go buy bleach?
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by advael 2y ago
These aren't black markets, and they're frankly not regulation failures either. Regulatory bodies serve an important role in creating a standard people can rely on for claims that things work as medicine. They should not serve the

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