akomtu

41 ms·

631.
by akomtu 3y ago
I'd go even further and say the heresy that "urban living" is not the future, so making it sustainable is like scaling horse-riding to 10 billion riders.
632.
by akomtu 3y ago
We need AI to consolidate all the brain power of humanity in one place.
633.
by akomtu 3y ago
"Your honor, the act of downloading a movie creates a new copy of it, and if the value of this movie is as much as the prosecutor claims, downloading creates value." The word "piracy" is only applicable to sketchy busine
634.
by akomtu 3y ago
The word "legal" simply means "the wish of those in power, written down on paper." There are few exceptions, but certainly not in the copyright law.
635.
by akomtu 3y ago
"go to addons.mozilla.org and log in to your Firefox account" Is this the trick you're talking about?
636.
by akomtu 3y ago
This looks like AI-buddhism, a "fork" of buddhism rewritten by an uber-LLM of the future, in which it will discard everything it cannot relate to. To such an AI, the only internal process is a sequence of words, and nothing is thi
637.
by akomtu 3y ago
The chicken probably thinks, in its limited way, that the line is a snake and the learned behavior is to lay still, hoping the snake would crawl away. A cat would probably jump, if the line is drawn with a bit higher quality. Another exampl
638.
by akomtu 3y ago
Still no support for side-loading?
639.
by akomtu 3y ago
That's the chart of top 1% vs bottom 90%: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=G4YR
640.
by akomtu 3y ago
How much of that growth went to the top 1% vs the bottom 50%? FRED has a chart of this divide, that basically shows that today the top 1% owns 32% of the nation's wealth, as much as the bottom 90%: https://fred.stlouisfed.or
641.
by akomtu 3y ago
...a handful of trillionaire oligarchs fused together into one cyberdemon, who will enforce their new post-human status The rest of the plot is good.
642.
by akomtu 3y ago
If she was a crab, she certainly would.
643.
by akomtu 3y ago
There is a lot of amateur literature on this topic, written by Monroe and others, even though Monroe in particular made an honest attempt to tell what he knew. To my knowledge, some dzogchen and especially bon authors talk about this, altho
644.
A userscript for TamperMonkey to show timeline of HN comments(hnuserscripts.github.io)
1 points by akomtu 3y ago|0 comments
645.
by akomtu 3y ago
What problem is AI going to solve? This question is being carefully avoided for some reason, and many seem to believe that AI is like air or water, which is good by itself.
646.
by akomtu 3y ago
There's a good example. Some greedy gas stations blast ads while you're pumping gas: your money for gas isn't enough, they want to steal your attention as well. But a customer may wear in-ear headphones that normally play mus
647.
by akomtu 3y ago
> independent of the rest of society That's the seed of evil: the idea of isolated existence. The strong just pull it out. The weak passively watch how it grows and wait until it's rotten down in envy, experiencing all sorts of
648.
by akomtu 3y ago
This is how hells are usually described. The general populace lives in a world of retribution: a gray, hopeless place surrounded by demons. Those even less lucky end up in the inner citadels, that are actual hells where demons harvest fear.
649.
by akomtu 3y ago
Translating from corpspeak to English: It’s a far cry from the ideologically sterile corporate language used by many Silicon Valley suits, and his apparent honesty and moral integrity may create problems for a company trying to maximize pro
650.
by akomtu 3y ago
A soap opera for nerds.
651.
by akomtu 3y ago
There is, indeed, many gangs in the US, who drive the crime stats up.
652.
by akomtu 3y ago
This article is gpt-generated rubbish. Better to read the paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fncom.2017.0004...
653.
by akomtu 3y ago
Even an audio analysis tool won't reveal much if the watermark is sophisticated enough. I believe, a basic watermark adds a few spots on the spectrogram in a known arrangement, a bit like a constellation in the skies, but a watermark c
654.
by akomtu 3y ago
The buyer agents are useless in nearly all cases. The useful ones are called real estate attorneys, and only when it's the buyer's market. A standard buyer agent is a kid who finished a 2 week course on how to fool the buyer. His
655.
by akomtu 3y ago
I think that opium doesn't cure loneliness.
656.
by akomtu 3y ago
3 - this is technodrugs; its users get high on their sexual addiction dopamine loop, and lose the remaining of their will and life energy. It's not our business to stop those who consciously engage in such self destruction, but luring
657.
by akomtu 3y ago
"the Dolores iOS app went live" - his subconscious suggested a good name. Mater Dolorosa is Mother of Sorrows in Latin.
658.
by akomtu 3y ago
The shiny thing is a proof that her man has the money and that she can make him spend it the way she wants. If she can't present the proof or a suitable replacement, she will be labeled a loser in her group. That's herd mentality
659.
by akomtu 3y ago
The data theft pyramid: Corporations stealing data from the people - business. Governments stealing data from corporations - national security. People stealing data from corporations - copyright infringement. People stealing data from gover
660.
by akomtu 3y ago
The UK state thinks "I have the ability to control X, then it's my duty to control X, for that's the reason I exist." The state probably believes that it is the brain of the nation and the people is its body. From this l

More ›