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by antonvs 24d ago
There’s also an element of it which is total misdirection. We should be paying at least as much attention to the people who want to use AI to consolidate their wealth and power, and how they’re trying to do that. They’re a clear and present
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by antonvs 24d ago
Was there a sign saying “beware of the leopard”?
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by antonvs 24d ago
Full lifecycle management of async tasks is a pretty important aspect - one might even say dimension - of the problem.
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by antonvs 25d ago
It’s shared context for anyone familiar with the field.
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by antonvs 25d ago
The first major computer-assisted proof, of the four-color map theorem in 1976, was an example of this. It created a lot of controversy at the time. It used proof by exhaustion, i.e. essentially analyzing every possible relevant case, somet
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by antonvs 25d ago
It’s a cute statement, but it doesn’t really match reality. Programs written by humans can generally be debugged by humans. Could AI write programs that humans can’t understand or debug? Probably, but that’s not what Kernighan was describin
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by antonvs 26d ago
> He sees it as being an extremely empty type of intelligence though. My instinctive reaction to claims like this is, is it really any different from humans? Why? Current LLMs have a lot of limitations. The pretraining without the abilit
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by antonvs 26d ago
The point is not the body count. The point is the attempted perpetration of genocide, by people who have been the target of genocide in recent history. As I said, it's mystifying that the conclusion from being targeted for genocide is
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by antonvs 26d ago
Australians are mostly the descendants of British colonists (and prisoners) - the most successful colonizers in history - so the answer is what you might expect.
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by antonvs 26d ago
Tailwind exists because no mortal is able to successfully center a div using CSS.
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by antonvs 26d ago
You want me to preemptively fix your basic reading comprehension and logical inference issues?
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by antonvs 27d ago
> Most of what people call morality is just their own feelings or interest or some attempt to protect their ego, it's basically just an expression of narcissism. Oh good grief. Hot take of the month right there. All you're doin
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by antonvs 27d ago
The psychopathic tell is dismissing political activism as "trying to derive meaning." It's right up there with the idea that moral or ethical claims are "performative". These kinds of claims generally come from peop
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by antonvs 27d ago
> TIL an intelligence agency spying on a foreign adversary is human rights abuse. It is when it's an intelligence agency for a country that's actively committing genocide. Answer a question for me: is the lesson you took from t
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by antonvs 27d ago
> They put their energy into their families instead of trying to derive meaning from political activism. It's useful that psychopaths always tell on themselves like this.
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by antonvs 27d ago
> the foreign born employees did not care at all, they were just there to work. There's survivor bias in that observation. There are plenty of "foreign born employees" who choose not to work for companies that explicitly v
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by antonvs 27d ago
> unitedstateians We're going to need a better name for them. Trumpistanians perhaps?
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by antonvs 27d ago
Re your asterisk, the justified true belief (JTB) criteria are considered necessary, but no longer considered sufficient as a definition of knowledge. Because of that, JTB is often treated as a useful first approximation. It's easy to
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by antonvs 27d ago
> Like, what’s the Opus “tic”? The article's description gives some idea, but I presume you saw that: "the 'just two more things' tic, which prevented Opus from ever converging on being ready to do real work—it always
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by antonvs 27d ago
Happily Trump’s actions probably help global cooperation for all countries that’s aren’t the US.
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by antonvs 27d ago
I doubt that was a factor at all. As you say, voting for this wouldn’t change the maps a navy uses anyway. Besides, navies aren’t normally using world maps, they use maps for specific regions. The vote was because the US is an intransigent
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by antonvs 27d ago
Because it’s focusing purely on how big continents “look” without even mentioning the issue of actual size. That is not, in any credible sense, “carefully neutral”.
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by antonvs 27d ago
The standard Dymaxion projection centers on the North Pole, which doesn’t address the whole issue of favoring the northern hemisphere.
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by antonvs 27d ago
> Firstly, you seem to be conflating "know your customer"/anti-money-laundering stuff with "please explain why you're wiring this money because we don't want you to get scammed" Do you have any way to b
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by antonvs 27d ago
No, a conspiracy would require that they all got together in secret to plan to vote that way. Which is hardly necessary in a case like this.
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by antonvs 27d ago
> WordPress powers a large portion of the Internet. Unfortunately.
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by antonvs 27d ago
> Fraudsters would tell you to answer the question by saying "I don't wish to share that information." Fraudsters breathe air, therefore we should criminalize breathing air? You need to think just a teensy bit harder about
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by antonvs 28d ago
The whole point is it wasn't "hindsight". They took obviously wrong, easily refuted positions on some very important issues, like climate change and political choice, and abused their platform to promote that nonsense. Impres
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by antonvs 28d ago
"Think" is a strong word for all that cope.
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by antonvs 28d ago
> Never understood why the outrage of flock in particular is so big online. A big reason is because there's virtually no oversight, and it's managed by a single private corporation nationwide. Neither of those things are true i

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