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by alwa 1y ago
Is that laundering or just retail drug sales?
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by alwa 1y ago
Psychologists seek therapy too, sometimes. Much as barbers go to others to cut their own hair. That said I can’t imagine psychology as a discipline has had time to develop a particularly full understanding of LLMs in a clinical context.
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by alwa 1y ago
Why not? It’s loosely regulated and people will follow their vet just as they’d follow their hairdresser, no?
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by alwa 1y ago
In my experience, the mother tends to be fairly mortified herself—and, generally being closer to the screamer than anyone else is, would certainly make it stop if she could. Screaming children test my patience too, but I’m really not sure s
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by alwa 1y ago
And, from the sound of it, the developer confused truth with beauty. Sometimes we’d prefer to see the sky the way we wish it were rather than the way it is. That’s an aesthetic call, not a “who can do the math” call. “Good news, I accuratel
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by alwa 1y ago
The screen is the “how,” not the “what.” An item is designed to function with the parts it has. A unit designed without a screen is doing the job another way—say, with a row of LEDs or something. I care whether I can find out what the air q
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by alwa 1y ago
Like you, I find the more I talk to people about what I’m doing (without going beyond their level of interest), the less they’re spooked. Especially when I’m prepared to talk about how I’ve thought seriously about safety. Whereas the more p
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by alwa 1y ago
It was such a breath of fresh air in the beginning, when it was simple, elegant, and focused. Shame they had to cram it to the gills with half-considered cruft.
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by alwa 1y ago
That bothered me for a while about a dryer I use. Eventually, it clicked for me that it based its estimates on a best guess at the material and quantity you’d be drying in that cycle; but it (correctly, in my view) actually timed the cycl
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by alwa 1y ago
They can also select which citizens to send based on their ties. Much as a bank might size up collateral for a loan.
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by alwa 1y ago
The front stoop/street/sidewalk where everybody hangs out? The public square? The park? The market—not to buy or sell necessarily, but because everybody’s there? The library? The public pool/baths? The house of worship in wal
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by alwa 1y ago
Night-vision optics come to mind: prone to noise and visual artifacts, and especially strange under certain edge conditions. Some of their specs tend to be strictly inferior to a Mark I Eyeball—narrow FOV, limited focusing power, whatever e
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by alwa 1y ago
…supposing the pixels are the limiting factor, and that you’re interested in viewing an 18x24” image from 3 feet away. If the optics that captured the image are such that its sharpest feature spans multiple pixels, TFA provides some handy r
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by alwa 1y ago
> “West Yorkshire Police denied any involvement in blocking the footage. X declined to comment, but its AI chatbot, Grok, indicated the clip had been restricted under the Online Safety Act due to violent content.” I’m not involved with
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by alwa 1y ago
Fair, fair. I'm over-accustomed to markets where standards and expectations are tilted far in the "caveat emptor" direction—where people are still working on big things like "don't use poison to make your turmeric l
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by alwa 1y ago
And, at least if I'm your manager, zealously defend the sanctity of your recovery time afterward.
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by alwa 1y ago
The latter. I mean, I feel like a disproportionate number of folks who hang around here have that kind of disposition. That just turns out to be the kind of person who likes to be around me, and I around them. It’s something I wish I had be
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by alwa 1y ago
I read gp’s formulation differently: “if you’re working 17 hours a day, you’d better stop soon unless you’re doing it for the love of doing it.” In that sense it seems like you and gp might agree that it’s bad for you and for your coworkers
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by alwa 1y ago
If anyone tried to demand that I work that way, I’d say absolutely not. But when I sink my teeth into something interesting and important (to me) for a few weeks’ or months’ nonstop sprint, I’d say no to anyone trying to rein me in, too! Sp
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Emerson, AI, and the Force (Neal Stephenson on education in the LLM era)(nealstephenson.substack.com)
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by alwa 1y ago
Well. Certainly for people in the room here. One imagines regulators know that too, and will draw the line accordingly… that they may grudgingly tolerate validation systems that allow some degree of individual fraud, but stomp on the first
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by alwa 1y ago
Fairly-priced insurance for this sort of thing is available for much closer to its actuarial value—that is to say, much cheaper than at the rental car counter. So cheap, in fact, that in the US, surprisingly many consumer credit cards tos
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by alwa 1y ago
Lest there remained any question as to whether one should do business with Hertz... Remember when they were a prestige brand?
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by alwa 1y ago
At the same time they seem pragmatic about putting their mark on standards. It seems to me like we’re at a confluence: a regulatory tipping point where there really is pressure to bring laws to bear on online harms affecting kids; and a soc
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by alwa 1y ago
And we could call this way… zero-knowledge proof! :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof I bet we could even get a major phone OS vendor to support such a thing… https://blog.google/pro
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by alwa 1y ago
Where should we turn to be more promptly and fully informed about questions like these?
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by alwa 1y ago
Isn’t that exactly how it works? You agree on a post-quantum algorithm… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography Then you update the protocol… https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin&#x2F
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by alwa 1y ago
Yes—startling, but not catastrophic. I first used something like that at age 6. It probably COULD cut flesh if you really tried, but it would take some determination, and just the specter of damage was enough to keep me on good behavior. I
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by alwa 1y ago
I do not. I’m skeptical of the idea that there’s such a thing as a “bad guy” in the first place. Although I’ve met some pretty mean SOBs. It does seem like one framing that comes up a lot when people try to explain why they support capital
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by alwa 1y ago
I mean, honestly, I personally might think about consenting! Especially if they explained what about my physiology they’d want to educate people with. I can see how it would be easier to skip that conversation and those years (hopefully) wa

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