advael

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by advael 6mo ago
"Security through obscurity" is a term popularized entirely by the long-standing consensus among security researchers and any expert not being paid to say otherwise that this is a bad idea that doesn't work
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by advael 6mo ago
Okay, then why is one of the questions these surveys ask folks about medical diagnosis? Do they mean to imply that advances in this field come from transformer-based chatbots and image generation? Because that framing is used in the "c
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by advael 6mo ago
AI continues to be a stupidly vague term, and the example I keep going back to is present in this article Meaningful advances in medical diagnosis are not coming from chatbot companies. Some are coming from machine learning methods. Perhaps
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by advael 6mo ago
Indeed it is. One can't help but wonder why such a well-known distraction tactic still remains so effective against so many
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by advael 6mo ago
I don't particularly think so. What matters is whether the stuff in the book was true, not whether the author is of unassailable character
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by advael 6mo ago
Can you name a prediction? Most of your claims in the prior paragraph are retroactive causal explanations of phenomena, "just so" stories per se. Most aspects of Thiel's apparent vision of the future that have come true did s
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by advael 6mo ago
Complex systems having meaningfully describable properties doesn't intrinsically make those properties natural laws
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by advael 6mo ago
At this point I can't help but conclude that to a certain class of writers, "economic incentives" are a form of benevolent god who will surely, inevitably make things better in directions they care about, and those who believ
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by advael 6mo ago
If true that would seem to invalidate the entire GPL, but even by that logic, a website (such as chatGPT) distributes javascript that runs the code, and programs like claude code also do so. Again, if you can slip the GPL's requirement
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by advael 6mo ago
I mean, is the case you're making that you can run a SaaS business on GPL-derived code without fulfilling GPL obligations because you're not distributing a binary?
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by advael 6mo ago
Broadly speaking, GPL is a license that has specific provisions about creating derivative software from the licensed work, and just saying "fair use" doesn't exempt you from those provisions. More specifically, an advertised
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by advael 6mo ago
Sure, but that's more a result of policy decisions than an inevitable result of some natural law. Corporate lawlessness has been reined in before and it can be again
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by advael 6mo ago
Yes. Double negative intended for emphasis here, but apologies if it's confusing
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by advael 6mo ago
I think there's no meaningful case by the letter of the law that use of training data that include GPL-licensed software in models that comprise the core component of modern LLMs doesn't obligate every producer of such models to m
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by advael 7mo ago
I think now more than ever it's actually meta-epistemology that's valuable in making decisions. There are significant shifts in the technology landscapes that should make you question your heuristics about costs and tools and effo
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by advael 7mo ago
It's really interesting where we draw the boundary of originality. That there is significant controversy about who originated the particular words of the serenity prayer surprised me, because I've always thought of that prayer as
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by advael 7mo ago
It's possible that this is true generally, but it disproportionately affects legal, peaceful paths to power. Knowledge work is definitely not the only means to secure wealth or power through intelligence, but crucially, it is the one t
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by advael 7mo ago
The essay, if taken seriously, has a logical conclusion that I'm sure a decent number on this website find uncomfortable, but perhaps more importantly, which at least some people who might have disproportionate power to make such decis
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by advael 7mo ago
Sounds as dumb to me as it does every other time someone says it, but to be fair I never really acquired the taste for corporate boot
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by advael 7mo ago
Isolated demands for rigor, really. China does have a lot of incentives to publish misleading statistics. Also, so does everyone else. In most places we bake skepticism of official lines from government and industry alike into our epistemic
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by advael 7mo ago
Seems interesting, but at a glance I can't find a repo or a package manager download for this. Have you made it available anywhere?
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by advael 7mo ago
As I tell all my friends panic-switching as their shit breaks, the best time to switch to linux was ten years ago. The second-best time is now
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by advael 7mo ago
Maybe in another 20 years, ... we will understand
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by advael 7mo ago
Yea except when everything that happens is the fault of "leftists" because they didn't vote for the same candidate, or maybe did but had some critiques of them. Sometimes "leftists" include anyone who has ever vot
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by advael 7mo ago
Hats off for noticing. Not to be taken for granted in an increasingly skimming-oriented world
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by advael 7mo ago
This seems pretty good to me just on the level of trying to read C as someone using C++. Parameter packs and variadic templates are easily the most confusing syntax in C++ and cleaning it up is... very welcome
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by advael 7mo ago
As far as I can tell, "left wing" or "leftist" mostly doesn't refer to any coherent ideology or group of people, so much as acting as a catch-all term for things the ruling class doesn't like or people who they
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by advael 7mo ago
Yea we should simply get more done with less money, why didn't I think of that? Dude's a genius Maybe if we halved his budget he could be twice as productive too. Could you imagine? We could call it financial intermittent fasting
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by advael 7mo ago
I can see you're no fan of nuance. I pointed to what I believe is an important distinction between the general function of unions and that of police unions, this is hardly a claim of unimpeachability. Then when you for some non-sequitu
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by advael 7mo ago
I'm sure there are other things that call themselves unions but don't serve the same function we expect of organizations using that word. I'm not really knowledgeable about either of the things you mention, so I don't kn

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