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by ballenf 4y ago
So without intent it would only be manslaughter not murder. That will be very comforting as we slowly asphyxiate from the airlock being kept locked. Or when Ring decides it's too unsafe to let you leave the house when you need to get t
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by ballenf 4y ago
Maybe the best course of action is establish your terms on that basis -- "if you hire us for a particular project or problem, we will not exclude solutions/responses that highlight or challenge underlying systemic causes outside t
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by ballenf 4y ago
This is addressed in the paper. They say a straight line is faster, but much lower odds of success. Overall a worse strategy for survival.
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by ballenf 4y ago
But once you move to 3-dimensions, with a 3-sided coin that isn't true any more.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Always amazed at the order of magnitude jumps in that chart. Why are mammograms 20x stronger than chest x-rays? Who would guess how much safer the nuclear energy stuff is than so many common activities? And brick/stone house doses are
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by ballenf 4y ago
Isn't it only a strategy if you've established that they are capable of movement in direct line? Otherwise the most you could say is natural selection selected for shell shape that produces random walks. I.e., it's a strategy
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by ballenf 4y ago
It would be nice when the dust settles to have a single bad actor to blame instead of systemic negligence, decades of inadequate maintenance or the like. Hopefully the investigation findings will reflect willingness to assign clear blame wh
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by ballenf 4y ago
Isn't it contradictory to "care" about how privacy objectors use Go, while denigrating those people by suppressing their voices?
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by ballenf 4y ago
Funny, that’s how a lot of us already feel and why we don’t argue online. The scary part for me is when they stop letting you reset the bot’s memory of you. Or when the bots start sharing your “profile” across different bots. You know, to s
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by ballenf 4y ago
The XOR node behaves differently when partially connected than other nodes. XOR seems to only work when both inputs are connected. Other gates like NOT output power if the input is missing OR off.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Perhaps a more interesting question is "how much better do we understand what characteristics AGI will have due to ChatGPT?" We don't really understand what intelligence means -- in humans or our creations -- but ChatGPT give
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by ballenf 4y ago
It's even less serious stuff than this that has me thinking kids' involvement in those leagues isn't net-positive. But I'm sure there are more positive experiences than negative. And I'd probably think differently i
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by ballenf 4y ago
Could they make these out of a stiff silicone? Seems more doable than with a traditional prop.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Isn’t listing stolen laptops on eBay the exact thing purported to be the problem? If thieves can just list on eBay and tell user to take the receipt to Apple…
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by ballenf 4y ago
Video purchases, Audible library, Kindle library. Order history, wish lists.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Kind of ironic also that law and order was the place to get your start in acting in NY. There are so many famous actors that had an early role in the show.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Maybe we could send up a few dozen telescope micro- or mini-satellites and let citizen astronomers share time on them.
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by ballenf 4y ago
I thought I hated sodium yellow until LEDs became ubiquitous. They feel much harder to subconsciously tune out and draw my attention away from the road when driving much more than the old style. Maybe that effect will fade with time, but it
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by ballenf 4y ago
> the best moment to invest is during a crisis Are we at the beginning, middle or end of it? Investing broadly at the beginning of a crisis that has the signs of being deep is less advised.
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by ballenf 4y ago
I've often wondered if opening windows while AC is running and outside temp is below inside temp is less efficient than keeping them closed. My thought is I should keep them closed due to extra load on the AC to dehumidify the outside
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by ballenf 4y ago
Double down efforts to survey users and potential users. Keep making the product better. Consider the pirate option as a competitor. Don’t demonize your user base, but don’t be afraid to go after any institution you know is using pirated ve
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by ballenf 4y ago
As seamless language translation becomes ever more integrated into our communications, it will matter less and less what languages, much less measurement system people use.
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by ballenf 4y ago
How are 3-5 'anti-tech'? 3. Tech shouldn't imply or require privacy compromises. 4. Piracy tools often drive innovation and technological progress. (Not to mention would we have subscription music services or even Netflix&#x2
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by ballenf 4y ago
I have some large trees that produce a meaningful quantity of moles of oxygen and I've gotten wind that some of those particles are taking a circuitous route into the combustion engines of these drones. Hate to admit it, but that'
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by ballenf 4y ago
Basically agree, but what we're increasingly facing in the US is growing barriers to entry to compete with behemoths in the form of an increasingly complex tax and regulatory structure which just isn't compatible with free market
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by ballenf 4y ago
Which is why I'm always surprised by the makeup of the coalition of voters that support strict zoning. Personally, I don't understand how zoning isn't seen an impairment of property value requiring ongoing payments from the g
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by ballenf 4y ago
When Deep Blue conquered chess and AI models everything from Go to Poker, humans had brief existential crises of nature. These tools are forcing an existential reckoning in humans that is very healthy. AI is forcing humans to mature and com
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by ballenf 4y ago
The scary thing with any of these disclosures is the thought that state intelligence would be stupid to not spend a lot more resources than these ethical hackers did to discover the same.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Super useful for mock data generation and testing.
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by ballenf 4y ago
Giving users the permissions would simply be a training exercise in "I have to say 'yes' or TikTok breaks". Like how Android worked a few years ago with the other permissions.

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