bediger4000

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by bediger4000 5d ago
See that's the thing: bad faith requests for presence in the marketplace of ideas almost always more the discourse towards authoritarian views, reactionary and racist views. Smashing it metaphorically means that monarchists and authori
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by bediger4000 5d ago
In the past, I would have agreed with you. But I've seen that argument used in bad faith so many times since 2000, I've come to see it as an excuse to introduce bad ideas and move the overton window. Every oligarch seems to be in
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by bediger4000 7d ago
Politico's publisher got his wife an advisory job in Melania Trump's office ca 2020. What happened to Politico to earn such a stern punishment (access withdrawal)?
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by bediger4000 8d ago
I imagine Steven Hydra was taken.
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by bediger4000 9d ago
Steven Haddock, a marine biologist who studies ctenophores Interesting case of nominative determinism.
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by bediger4000 10d ago
This is actually a good point. Where are the weird discoveries? Something like "super regular expressions", some patterns that are just as simple but way more expressive. Where is a better axiomatization of arithmetic than Peano&#
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by bediger4000 10d ago
LA Times is own by an oligarch Patrick Soon-Shiong. Soon-Shiong directly prevented LA Times from endorsing Harris in 2024. Given that breach of trust why should we believe this article? Maybe Soon-Shiong has directed LA Times to write thi
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by bediger4000 13d ago
Besides not making sense, this title is editorialized.
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by bediger4000 13d ago
I hereby Triple Dog Dare him to let that swarm loose. It would be a huge improvement over the wasteland of social media.
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by bediger4000 13d ago
Extremely important points made in this post. The title even matches the thesis of the post. In light of the title and thesis, how does "intellectual property" like patents and especially copyright fit in? Basically copyright is a
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by bediger4000 13d ago
Nothing is the hard part. AI has very large working memory, no 5+-2 issues, no cognitive boases. AI has ingested every word of text in the world, it has all the design patterns and syntaxes in its weights. It's the worst it will ever b
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by bediger4000 14d ago
So they have the ability to track people who object to their dominance. The first category of work any surveillance technology is put to is surveilling those who publicly don't like that technology.
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by bediger4000 14d ago
Good thing this isn't done in the US - we'd be cracking down on the police themselves
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by bediger4000 14d ago
https://bruceediger.com
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by bediger4000 14d ago
Walnut Creek sold a Sprite CD-ROM back in the day. I got Sprite to boot on a Sun SPARCStation IPC. It was kind of unstable. I really wanted to try process migration and the log structured file system.
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by bediger4000 14d ago
30% in the next 5 years, with the caveat that the event will involve stupidity, not a basilisk, or paperclip maximization or transcendance. That shit will never happen. It'll be because LLM-genwrated code is kind of crap, and everythin
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by bediger4000 14d ago
Retirement. Read paleontology papers, build some kits, learn to bake bread, learn to use a slide rule efficiently. Write some programs for learning purposes.
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Two Rounds of Whole Genome Duplication in the Ancestral Vertebrate(journals.plos.org)
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by bediger4000 15d ago
I got to the part about policing helps, then bailed out. I don't believe that based on every interaction I've had with police has been bad. Had a car stolen, first words out of the cop were "oh, you're never getting that
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by bediger4000 16d ago
"Age gating" of History has gone on longer than The Internet. My middle school US history class ca. 1975 totally ignored the reality of antebellum chattel slavery. I didn't hear about the sexual abuse side of it until maybe 2
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by bediger4000 16d ago
Not the old "liberal bias" gambit again. Conservatives shouted "liberal bias" so loudly and so long that virtually all US adults believe it, in the face of evidence like NYT, WaPo and LA Times owners openly meddling in n
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by bediger4000 16d ago
So what? We allow people and corporations to lie under almost all circumstances, including most ads and press releases. Get them under oath, if they still deny spying, that would be a minor news item.
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by bediger4000 16d ago
The definition of bread and circuses, the kind of thing that conservatives used to warn everyone about voting for, and warn against policies that just gave money away. Remember Mitt Romney's 47% dumbass remark? In larger context it was
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by bediger4000 17d ago
Dances around Trump as a single cause for every inflationary cause except for the AI build out. The dance is weird enough because one guy is the cause, but not factoring Trump in to the raise/hold/lower interest rate question is
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by bediger4000 19d ago
Defending the country is Washington’s most fundamental responsibility. The article just says this without making a case for it. Sure, federal spending used to be nearly all devoted to defense, but the 21st century is not 1860, or 1940 or
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by bediger4000 19d ago
LLMs are actively reducing head count, and they're the worst they'll ever be. This strikes me as an HR person reassuring other HR people they'll still be needed next year.
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by bediger4000 19d ago
I'm skeptical. The desktop metaphor has proved so useful we no longer physically deal with items like manila folders, floppy disks, etc. A disembodied "AI" might not understand any of the skeuomorphisms of that metaphor.
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by bediger4000 19d ago
Section 3, How economists defend advertising and why it isn't enough is interesting. For a while, I had casual access to economics academics. When I asked how economists treated advertising, they either looked baffled, or said it bas
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by bediger4000 19d ago
Democratic candidate Amy Acton. Given Qanon and Alex Jones claiming Democrats are literally demonic, that seems relevant here.
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by bediger4000 19d ago
Self-evidently wrong: there are still billionaires.

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