axus

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by axus 5d ago
Article says that there's no human intention or design directing the output we get, but I don't think that's completely right. It's not human, but the algorithm is like the Human Instrumentality Project: an amalgamation
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by axus 5d ago
Your comment shouldn't be downvoted for misunderstanding the hypothetical; you give a correct answer why "people" would choose ZuckOff. The question was why "you" (an individual from the Hacker News audience) would
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by axus 8d ago
Wow, exfiltrating data has never been easier!
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by axus 8d ago
Passkeys match a very unique situation where I don't want to store anyone's email address, don't want them to type anything, generally want to store as little information as possible. Also don't want it to be easy for p
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by axus 9d ago
If the government forced transfer of ownership %, instead of forcing a sale, it would be not as bad?
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by axus 9d ago
And if the shop owner is Jewish, it would be anti-semitism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws I consider a boycott threat a non-violent threat; legal but an exercise of power that has moral dimensions.
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by axus 10d ago
Totally not what you're talking about, but I've lost a ring while taking off wet gloves. Fortunately someone had explained to me this was a common way to lose a ring, and I checked the gloves before the ring dropped out.
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by axus 12d ago
Dumb for the US: if US were currently MITM with certs copied by its agencies, US won't be able to do that for Iranian / Russian certs.
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by axus 12d ago
A minivan has both high seating and tons of cargo space, after you remove the middle seats and fold the back ones.
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by axus 12d ago
COVID was the last time our global CO2 output decreased, hope it sticks this time.
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by axus 12d ago
AI is autonomous in the same way a gas leak is autonomous
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by axus 16d ago
If you have children, at least one of them may become fascinated with retro hardware, and play with all of this stuff, reinstalling OS and connecting old drives. Once they grow past that phase, THEN you can bring everything to the e-Waste
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by axus 16d ago
Sentience / consciousness is the awareness and self-awareness I feel when I wake up each day, until I fall asleep.
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by axus 16d ago
I love how World of Warcraft "gear tier" jargon has expanded into the rest of the world. Pre-Y2K, the pseudo-formal usage of "tier-N" wasn't widespread in the US.
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by axus 16d ago
According to history, there will be a period of intense warfare.
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by axus 18d ago
You think the politicians are going to say "The career employees made some convincing arguments about why this is impractical / immoral, guess we'll give up our unregulated power/omniscience"? Or, they will raise th
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by axus 22d ago
The music industry had more political power in 2001 than it does now.
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by axus 22d ago
I would have guessed vehicle as predicting ethics more than bank balance. Dumb Toyota and minivan more trustworthy than a Porsche, Dodge Charger, or Cyber Truck.
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by axus 22d ago
Write it in your mother language, and then ask the AI to translate it; and post both
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by axus 24d ago
Can you use your bank account to buy crypto currency? Liability shifting is one feature of crypto.
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by axus 24d ago
Hopefully energy used will become less important. CO2 emissions seem like the biggest threat to our long term health. Microplastics also matter, a bit. How much plastic is escaping into the environment from the recycling process vs. landf
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by axus 24d ago
When you remove decision-making, there is still responsibility for negligence
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by axus 25d ago
I felt the television industry and gaming industries were in fact ruined by those trends. Or at least ruined in the same sense that global warming ruins our environment.
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by axus 25d ago
They have required unique phone numbers for accounts I've tried lately, or parent's phone numbers. Facebook is worse though, they are quick to ban an account/phone number.
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by axus 25d ago
Doesn't Mozilla foundation have millions of dollars, including paid for by Google? "Linux" is better capitalized, "Wikipedia" is sort of open source, what else ranks above Mozilla? Firefox works everywhere I point
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by axus 26d ago
I feel like the number is higher for software work where I'm at, and lower for every other profession. Scary when you think that your doctor is in it for the money
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by axus 26d ago
"For the rest of the week of Burning Man, a phone booth is standing on the dusty street corner of 3:30 and Celba, in front of the Temple of the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Black Rock City, Nevada for anyone to use."
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by axus 29d ago
If you don't like Cyclospora , don't buy lettuce infected with it. Similar regulatory problems, at least with the lettuce the diarrhea is temporary.
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by axus 29d ago
At least it's formatted readably and they took the time to ask the AI to make it less AI-like. The tone is annoying but I try to focus on the message and not how it's communicated. You'd think making AI do the annoying integ
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by axus 1mo ago
I think the legitimate answer was groundwater contamination, but that should be solved for other things we bury. I'm on board for non-biodegradable plastic trash sequestration

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