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by ben_w 3mo ago
Everyone's somewhere in the grey zone, even the beatified within Catholicism are imperfect mere mortals by Catholic standards. Philanthropy is always hard to place exactly. When you're a normal person, it's just how much mone
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> Nobody's driving to central London anyway - journey times are measured by public transport. And even if they were driving, the journey times by car are completely dictated by traffic. The average weekday speed in central London is
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> Layoffs would be a poor indicator that recursive self-improvement had occurred as you need people with knowledge around domain/layer the work is done on. This is why I keep saying we can't all agree even on a single letter of
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> I feel like there has been a ton of noise about this, but frankly, no one has actually defined what AGI means. I feel like the goal post is constantly shifting. I'd say LLMs have shown us the opposite problem: there were many diff
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Most of them sure (even if they don't, most at least outwardly present as so), but Musk seems to be a bit not even that these days: Elon Musk Yeah, I mean, yes, pretty much. Let's, let's enjoy the ride. I think my philo
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Conveniently, I've put together an isochrone map generator: https://benwheatley.github.io/Isochrone/web/?region=london&c... The origin point selected here is roughly Mermaid House, on the north side betwe
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> In what world would we expect this kind of email directly lead to calling emergency services? Go through the examples I gave you (plus some more below, they're easy to find) and explain why these are not counter-examples to your s
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by ben_w 3mo ago
It is when someone who has no say, has a say.
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You're not the sender in this scenario, you're the receiver. Noting that the sender is being weird during what appears to be an emergency is a choice that some people do make, but as per my other list of examples, people in actua
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by ben_w 3mo ago
While true when minimum is set too high, the level it is set to generally takes this into account so that "too high" is not reached over the entire jobs market.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Then you're making the opposite mistake (but still a mistake) as all officers going in with lethal force during a swatting. • https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna12208992 • https://newsinfo.inquirer.net&#x2F
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If there is a fire and a risk to life, you don't want any delay.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
While true, insufficient. Demonstrations of failure: every cult, all propaganda, indoctrination (both military and dictatorial), authority bias, Asch conformity experiments, and the fraction of the population more susceptible to hypnosis.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I think it is possible, but in the form of instructions always lead to an LLM creating computer program which is allowed to then process data, never directly running on that data. I'm (tentatively) with TeMPOraL's sibling comment
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by ben_w 3mo ago
"The Second Renaissance" in The Animatrix justifies it rather better. However, honestly, what happened to humans in The Matrix universe is a kindness: humanity may not know the real world, but the people still get to live out thei
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by ben_w 3mo ago
"Domestic servant" is much broader than slavery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_worker#Varieties_of_d... Everything from baby monitors to roombas (and the lawn equivalents) to frozen pizzas to self-dr
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by ben_w 3mo ago
When this first started happening, and OpenAI's release notes for 4 did cover trying to make it *not* discuss this, a weirdly large number of people responded ~"so what, they're only telling you things you can find with a goo
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I'd say that's more "look at me I'm an edgy teen who wants to be taken seriously" than fever tripping culture wars; where this kind of thing would become the latter is where the owner of that username thinks modern
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by ben_w 3mo ago
> So theoretically, Russia could begin converting their nuclear warheads to heat-generation units that could be used for all sorts of purposes. They already did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megatons_to_Megawatts_Pr
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Agreed. I think it's time that "please let 1800 analytics firms monitor your every browsing habit in exchange for this content" was seen in the same light as "please let 1800 private foreign espionage and propaganda agen
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Depends how many people, but don't forget that: 1) people like me exist: I don't live in the USA, yet it is possible for me to buy things which are made in the USA 2) fiat money is only created or deleted by laws the government co
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I'm amazed it took this long for us to get male junk filters.
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> At least there's a real aerospace company in there. The companies pivoting will have no value when the market corrects, but affordable aerospace launches will keep on keeping on. Perhaps, but the size of the launch market is still
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by ben_w 3mo ago
If I was going to attempt that, instead of a complex repair bot, I'd be asking if the combination of a Raspberry Pi Pico, minimal sensors/comms, small ion drive, and PV can be made smaller than whatever the tracking radar's w
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I can't be bothered to look up the name of the logical fallacy you just made, there's several different options given the vagueness of that reply and how upthread there is: > Actually, the natural endpoint is the model ignores
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I am aware of its use. The point is: I *am* aware, even if the creator doesn't say so. 5 years is an eternity with the current rate of change of AI. Its development is already turning into an international geopolitical issue, even thou
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In a very real sense, food was solved by the first two industrial revolutions, which between them supplied enough artificial muscle power to move most of us out of farming, and enough understanding of biology to bring us industrial-scale fe
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Option A is insufficient, as cookies are a mere implementation detail about how tracking is done, and the tracking is the concern.
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by ben_w 3mo ago
I urge caution when examining statistics, as even with the best will in the world… well, the Datasaurus dozen was created for good reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datasaurus_dozen Tesla have been claiming the sta
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by ben_w 3mo ago
Weapons-grade uranium is easy to blend down into lower grades. Once you've got all the safety protocols you need because nobody wants to risk the theft of the weapon part, the down-blending process is just "break apart the metal a

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