attila-lendvai

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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
but sometimes that is not worth it... IOW, it optimizes only to a couple of variables. it's important not to lose sight of the ultimate goal: to get the machine to do what we want with the least amount of total human attention througho
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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
educational institutions became pretty much obsolete with the advent of the internet (i.e. marginalized the cost of the flow of information). what we need (if anything besides reputation tracking), is (maybe) a separate institution for test
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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
this assumes that "the government" is "us" and not "them"...
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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
or more generally than just ads: make you believe stuff that makes you act in ways that is detrimental to you, but benefitial to them (whoever sits in the center and can control and shape the LLM). i.e. the Nudge Unit on steroids... care mu
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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
age strongly influences a lot of variables that are important to an employer. race doesn't. they are not in the same category.
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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
re anarchocapitalism: it doesn't imply lack of organization, nor how the organazitional structure gets formed. its essence is a perspective on the legitimate use of force, on what principles should govern the use of force. and your quo
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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
aka guilty until proven innocent.
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by attila-lendvai 9mo ago
it's not about rooted or not, but rather who controls what OS you run. and that's enormous power for those who want to centralize power into their hands.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
Pluribus is not worth it, if you wondered.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
no, statistucally not. but yeah, a warning is warranted.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
a gift? isn't that the result of all your past efforts? i mean, if you want it, then do it. if not, then there's nothing to be sad about. IOW, "I am I, and you are you. I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this w
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
i started typing no caps at least a decade ago (and i'm 50). the reason was mostly that when i edited a sentence i had to mess around with caps, plus speed and pinky strain. learning about Lojban and its punctuation probably also swaye
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
same with russian fox fur breeders. i don't remember the numbers, but after a surprisingly small number of generations the foxes turned into cat-like pets.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
...and way more centralized and powerful.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
check out https://ethswarm.org it's only the storage infra, though. but it stores content, nodes, and messages in the same DHT.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
i think you cannot spam someone's screen in nostr. they just unsubscribe from your key, if they ever were subscribed. DoS on the infra is a different question, though.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
i'm booted from facebook. does that really mean that i have no "real-life social rank" anymore? in fact, the further mainstream social networks evolve, the more social rank it started to bring not to be there, and/or hav
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
has been the case for Hungarian ID cards for a decade now, but it was never really used, except maybe by burorats in gov offices to access their systems. but no one understands it, including the people who need to issue new signing keys. it
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
the extra curve with spam is that it must be made economically expensive for the spammer. spam is more of a DoS attack than just content i'm not interested in.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
PGP can also sign clear text messages.
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by attila-lendvai 10mo ago
signing and encryption are separate operations also in PGP. and yes, one of the hardest parts of this domain is the implementation of the web of trust (key management).
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
you don't need to call eval for the usual config file setup, only read. (but you often get something much better when config files are plain lisp code; i.e. they are eval'ed, assuming that the threat model allows it)
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
the silent assumption in both of your perspectives is that the current monetary system is an even playing field when it comes to this context (corporations and their programmers)
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
this assumes that greatness is a single dimension, and namely, popularity.
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
yes. and as a long time lisper, i don't think that it's the macros. i think lisp's magic is a lot more cultural than most people think. i.e. how lispnicks implement lisps and the ecosystem around it. how easy it is to walk th
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
does OP mean simply the identity of the message? idempotency means something else to me.
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
that in itself could be healthy user bias (if a healthier subset was taking up the vaccine). did they control for that?
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
plus that would also mean less incentives to upload personal data to their servers...
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
to share your location with trusted people when e.g. you are in a dangerous situation. or to set up a timed SOS signal if you don't disarm it within a given deadline.
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by attila-lendvai 11mo ago
i'm a long time lisper, but i don't think this is justified. implementing prolog/backtracking on top of lisp is certainly possible and not even too hard (see e.g. https://github.com/nikodemus/screamer ) a

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