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by ajuc 1y ago
There's always regulation. The choice is between self-serving regulation by a few lucky assholes or regulation by society for the society. If you let the tobacco industry self-regulate, smoking ads would still be legal, and there would
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> But let me return to Thiel’s list of possible apocalypses: artificial intelligence, climate change, bioweapons, nuclear war, fertility collapse. The list is unintentionally revealing. Thiel is probably not wrong to say that people are
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by ajuc 1y ago
> In reality there are signaled crosswalks On signaled crosswalks, it obviously only applies when the light is green for pedestrians. Somebody's near the crosswalk and they have green light = you stop. It doesn't matter if they
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by ajuc 1y ago
The algorithm (if followed) does not produce collisions. Pedestrians have the priority, and in many countries (inlcuding Poland where I live) cars have to stop even if nobody's on the pedestrian crossing yet - it's enough that ped
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by ajuc 1y ago
Surely that's not THE determining factor behind American transportation system. Because if it is - seems easy and cheap to fix.
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by ajuc 1y ago
It reminds me of Americans blaming school shootings on video games as if nobody else in the world had them :)
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by ajuc 1y ago
Yes. Wider roads are worse for safety.
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On small village roads with little traffic you don't even need pavements (not to mention bike paths) as long as the road is narrow and winding with good visibility. Cars drive slowly and rarely, it's perfectly fine to walk there.
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by ajuc 1y ago
> Empathy is when you try your best to build an accurate model of someone else’s world in order to better understand them. That's cognitive empathy. What most people ask you for is emotional empathy = experiencing (as opposed to mod
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by ajuc 1y ago
I once asked ChatGPT for a joke about Poles, Jews and Germans. It generated something and blocked me for racism.
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by ajuc 1y ago
I have UC and it's obviously related to stress.
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by ajuc 1y ago
Good code is invisible - either there's no code at all (because the requirements and architecture are well adapted so that code isn't necessary for a particular feature), or the code is so simple and boring that you skip over it w
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by ajuc 1y ago
Russia invades Ukraine. The West puts Russia in economic prison. Russians suffer. US is only a part of the system. Even if you remove US from the picture - EU alone would continue to sanction Russia.
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by ajuc 1y ago
Russia has had billions in oil money banked. It's mostly gone now. It's working all right. These things take decades. Look at North Korea (first few years they grew faster than South Korea, and they had the more wealthy parts). No
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by ajuc 1y ago
When alcoholic husband beats his wife so they put him in prison and the wife starves - is it the fault of the people who put the husband in prison? Or the fault of the husband for beating his wife and the fault of the wife for staying in th
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by ajuc 1y ago
You misunderstand the goal of the sanctions. Sanctions are there to cut off 1-2% of GDP each year from the dictatorships' economies. Over 30 years that turns countries into harmless (to the West) backwater shitholes. The consequences t
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by ajuc 1y ago
You cut off the supplies, and wait 2 weeks. Modern civilization collapses, gangs take over, people ask the army on their knees to return.
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by ajuc 1y ago
Because people in suburbs are subsidized at the cost of and prioritized over everybody else.
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by ajuc 1y ago
Look at Russians right now. The vast majority of them do their jobs, pay their taxes, and consider themselves patriots and good people because they help their families and motherland, and are polite and well-meaning. While their jobs help t
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by ajuc 1y ago
The mutations are like little nudges to throw you off the local maximum. And there's junk DNA where mutations can accumulate over time without being subject to selection before getting enabled at random to see if they give you an advan
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by ajuc 1y ago
Hopefully mirror antibiotics are earlier in the tech tree than mirror life.
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by ajuc 1y ago
One thing I missed the most from KDE was changing the volume by mouse wheel on the sound volume icon in tray. And in general mouse wheel interactions on tray. On windows you have to click the icon before you can interact with it. IIRC on Ma
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by ajuc 1y ago
KDE 3.5 was the best Linux Desktop by far. Then they messed up with 4.0. Good to know it's back at the top.
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by ajuc 1y ago
Fucking pedestrians even more and destroying cities is a big reason self driving cars should never happen.
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by ajuc 1y ago
Species are a leaky abstraction. If species worked 100% of the time - evolution would stop. Evolution and biology works on individuals. Species is just a simplification.
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by ajuc 1y ago
This is a class of errors I never made when I first learned English (mostly by reading/writing). My pronunciation was so bad that I pronounced these words differently. It was a major milestone for me when I made my first its/it&#x
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by ajuc 1y ago
There are whole continents of countries showing how effective gun control is. At this point you've got to be ignoring it on purpose. It's not some statistical difference between almost no violence and no violence. It's night
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It's like with math. You could theoretically only memorize the axioms and rederive everything else on the fly. But in practice, you don't have enough working memory or processing power to do that, so you'd be stuck with the m
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It's not that they are hosted on or connected to critical infrastracture. People and plain human language are the communication channels. A guy working with sensitive data might ask the LLM about something sensitive. Or might use the o
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It's theoretically possible that your model will work OK except for code generation for security-relevant applications it will introduce subtle pre-designed bugs. Or if used for screening CVs it will prioritize PRC agents through some

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