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by burrows 4y ago
> Exposing a vulnerability in a public forum is the fastest way to patch said vulnerability. Unjustified empirical claim. And even if it were true, it would still be insufficient for justifying public disclosure, classic is-ought. Also,
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by burrows 4y ago
This is just some rationalization that security nerds like to regurgitate on each other.
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by burrows 4y ago
Responsibility is a ghost. Like God, Love, Honor, etc. You’re not actually talking about anything.
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by burrows 4y ago
The deepfaked ones actually speak.
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by burrows 4y ago
You keep saying “we” and “us”. Who the fuck are you talking about? Speak for yourself.
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by burrows 4y ago
What activity are you designating with the name “philosophy”?
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by burrows 4y ago
Are you suggesting that some people hold the normative position, “One ought prefer situations with more possibilities to those with fewer, ceteris paribus.” But isn’t that just some hidden metaphysical structure? That is, it’s unavailable
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by burrows 4y ago
> Arguably nothing is free, and nothing will ever be free, as long as private organizations want to make a profit. For things to be free, I think a slave workforce will be necessary. But even then there is a cost to feeding and housing
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by burrows 4y ago
A tangential but related thought. I’ve heard people say things like, “The world is math”, but it never seemed particularly coherent to me. Sometimes I’d assume they meant, “Inference systems with mathematical languages make useful predicti
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by burrows 4y ago
What are “foundations”? Inference rules, axioms, language?
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by burrows 4y ago
Do you use “math” and “deductive reasoning” to refer to distinct activities?
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by burrows 4y ago
Does the word “civilized” have any content here? Or are you just saying, “guns are illegal in countries where guns are illegal.”
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by burrows 4y ago
> Is this a joke? This string of symbols is extremely ambiguous and confusing for me. Do you consider it equivalent to, “The largest committer on the project will say that the project is a joke when I ask him if it is a joke.” “Destiny h
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by burrows 4y ago
> Intuitively it makes sense to me that more complex systems collapse faster because potentially they have more points and modes of failure. For me, the word “complex” complicates the assertion without adding much value. I prefer, “Syste
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by burrows 4y ago
A car can last a long time without the cup holders. And you can use the cup holders as ash trays.
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by burrows 4y ago
> Ah, it sounds like you may need to study a little history if you’re curious about these terms. I am a mind in thrall to delusion. > Sex bias means a cultural bias or prejudice based on someone’s sex. Using the word “prejudice” to de
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by burrows 4y ago
> The question you need to be asking is the opposite: how can you demonstrate that bias has been eliminated? Sex bias was absolute and baked into law 100 years ago, and it has been slowly getting eliminated, but there has not been any po
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by burrows 4y ago
This is people self-reporting about unexperienced hypothetical situations?
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by burrows 4y ago
Searching LinkedIn will show me that “there’s nothing gender or sex related to doing the job of QA”?
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by burrows 4y ago
> Since there’s nothing gender or sex related to doing the job of QA, How do you know this to be true? > cultural bias What definition are you using for this term?
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by burrows 4y ago
NP
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by burrows 4y ago
But are scientists able to guess with high accuracy whether an arbitrary situation will be a measurement or not?
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by burrows 4y ago
> If you want a truly secure mailbox, it would be far better to use Google than Proton and just PGP encrypt anything truly sensitive. You know this? How?
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by burrows 4y ago
And you’re using what definition of “intent”?
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by burrows 4y ago
Who guarantees the sun keeps running?
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by burrows 5y ago
They will lose their jobs and will have to find new sources of incomes.
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by burrows 5y ago
How are you able to appreciate people in a specific capacity without feeling like you need to become buds with them? How do you avoid forming many negative opinions about a person just because you don’t see them as socially interesting?
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by burrows 5y ago
Why should other companies do that?
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by burrows 5y ago
Does “bad” have some technical definition here? Or are you just expressing dislike for the Russian regime and its actions?
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by burrows 5y ago
> It's not controversial to acknowledge that lots of historical attempts to measure intelligence have been pretty biased in favor of English speaking white men. Do you have some specific examples of this purported bias? > Unfortu

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