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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Yet there are whole weeks practically without wind in winter. And most climate models estimate that global warming reduces wind further. Not for the combination of [continent-wide, offshore, the Atlantic coast]. The Atlantic continenta
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If only two people could agree on what that was. Seriously, the only time I see people talking about "common sense" is to criticise its perceived absence. Every example people have given of "common sense", not just to me
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That's just linking to a captcha, not to content
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Those places also have a huge wind resource in the form of the North Sea, for Ireland whatever the other bits of that submerged continental shelf are called, and for Poland the Baltic: https://globalwindatlas.info/en/
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Disagree, it's just that the safe level is around 0.1% of current use (though I don't just mean use of fossil fuels for electricity, I mean *everything*).
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Neither are squirrels, they've also been observed to deceive. "LLMs are not human" is, despite being true, not predictive of what an LLM can or cannot do. But also, if we can't figure out how to stop our own kind from do
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> An LLM isn't human. I don't really understand this thread of "humans do it so of course an AI does". These are things we ourselves are engineering in a way we cannot do with a human being. Why is it not reasonable t
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Social credit? Or money credit? (Genuine question, I'm not American and don't have any desire to move to the US).
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> The problem though is that LLMs write code to represent designs as well, which means you get consistent designs. You end up aligning on a generic mean because of it, which is often why you see these repeated aesthetics. I think this is
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Go through the examples I gave you and explain why these are not counter-examples to your skepticism. Especially Denton and the 911 pizza given you say: > which a person would absolutely NOT call emergency services on Regarding this: &gt
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> But never well enough, it seems. "Never well enough" for stopping teens (and pre-teens) installing access tokens? Has any adolescent in history ever managed to so much as spoof someone else's session cookie * on their ph
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> See, that's why this can't be solved technically. Which "this"? There's multiple things here. I'm suggesting one specific "this" (anonymous age verification) in response to another "this&quo
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Many common names have become much funnier as I have learnt German. Mark sugar mountain, Justin bever, Tony strong, Johnny idiot. And not just people. Intestine city: https://maps.app.goo.gl/fmYCs31DkdFjsXaeA?g_st=ic
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I'm torn. On the one hand, Kirk reprogrammed the simulation. On the other, the beta cannon has Scotty exploiting bugs in the simulation, which I think is a better fit. My favourite is either Sulu or Chekov (I forget which) having the s
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by ben_w 3mo ago
His question upthread is what *you* (or a typical human) would be expected to do, as an illustration of why he thinks it's never possible to fully separate instructions and data. This doesn't proscribe or prescribe "thou shal
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by ben_w 3mo ago
It's not meant to be an exclusive list, he was just the most famous billionaire in the UK (where I grew up) while I was growing up. If I look at e.g. this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World's_Billio
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by ben_w 3mo ago
It cannot work *perfectly*, but unlike most crypto stuff, it doesn't have to (at least, that part doesn't need to). It's a social/political problem, not a technical one. The goal doesn't even need to be to make a co
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> See also why Emmy Noether wasn't given a professorship despite a letter of recommendation from Albert Einstein I thought that was sexism rather than philosophers? This was the same era and place that mostly ignored Bertha Benz. (O
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by ben_w 3mo ago
If that's the worst (or only) thing Iran can do, this is likely a good sign for generally high-quality IT security. If they could e.g. take out any of the US power grids, why wouldn't they have done so already? The current conflic
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by ben_w 3mo ago
People indeed do so. However, that leads to a lot of suspicion that they're paying someone to philanthro-wash whatever they wanted to do anyway. > (Richard Branson is "only" worth about $3B btw) Yes? And?
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I'd be on board with banning micro-targeted ads, and more broadly any use of psychology to induce similar states as regulated exogenous drugs equivalent to the simple language descriptions of US Schedule I, II, and III. However, the is
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by ben_w 3mo ago
One of the boldest chapter one introductions I've ever seen comes to mind: Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died simil
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by ben_w 3mo ago
How do you budget for 216% of your gross revenue? "We lose money on every deal, but we plan to make it up in volume" was one of the infamous quotes from the dot.com bubble.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> So as soon as any one uuid is leaked, it becomes plausible for any child to bypass the gates until the uuid is manually revoked? How? Phones are already locked down pretty hard. Anything like this would need to be in something secured
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> What would be the incentive for meta to deploy that against their own self interests? The normal method is passing laws. That's kinda the point of laws. Zuckerberg may be arrogant as hell, think he can bully governments into bendi
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> How does it prevent fingerprinting if you get access to both logs and try to time it? Even more so if you include already present tracking infrastructure, which as a government you can just request data from. True, but as this problem
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> But then the government knows your location at any point of time and how often you use websites requiring the age check. Not as described. There's no location info in that path, and the signed statement of that UUID passing the ag
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> 6% is the cost of sales tax in some places. That is not considered any kind of correction to bad behavior - it's literally the cost of buying goods in a variety of places. 6% of annual, global sales, as an extra cost from one ju
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Educational content was already a thing well before the internet got everywhere. When I was in primary school, one of the things teachers had us do was debate the pros- and cons- of television. The pro side included educational content. Fir
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by ben_w 3mo ago
In principle, it is possible to make a privacy-preserving age check. Site/app asks "≥18?", device generates a UUID specifically for that [app/domain + device], the device passes that UUID to government database along wit

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