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by cess11 5mo ago
In the nineties usian professor of philosophy Rick Roderick produced a series of lectures for The Teaching Company called The Self Under Siege. Perhaps they might change your view that this is a recent development. https://rickro
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by cess11 5mo ago
That'd probably be nice. A capitalist, or as in this case, fascist, state might figure out all sorts of interesting things from mass surveillance, such as who might be disloyal, who is eligible for eugenic culling, who might be fun to
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by cess11 5mo ago
I like the arrays, they make it feel like a bit of a low level language and there are some weird tricks one can do with them. As for class property behaviour, I kind of get nervous if my properties or the constructor don't enforce defa
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by cess11 5mo ago
I would consider bonds and treasuries a stronger signal than any lack of "post-AI" political vision. China's security establishment has gone public with the view that their purpose is no longer to find answers to the question
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by cess11 5mo ago
The other year the US was beaten by a starved little country on the edge of the Arabian Peninsula, and recently by a somewhat large country by the Persian Gulf. Currently their only real ally is getting beaten by FPV drones handled by a gue
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by cess11 5mo ago
I'll quote it then: 2. It should provide anonymity to b oth providers and consumers of informa- tion
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by cess11 5mo ago
Fine. Page 6, which is Chapter 2, under the heading Aims, there is a numbered list. What is the second item in this list?
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by cess11 5mo ago
What is the US president, if not the king-pin:est of drug kin-pins? https://www.amazon.com/Fort-Bragg-Cartel-Trafficking-Special...
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by cess11 5mo ago
This has nothing to do with contrarianism, but all to do with the foundations of right-wing and fascist psychology, and more precisely, hierarchy. Things like this allow you to prove for one that your leader is above you, and that you are l
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by cess11 5mo ago
Why are usians still allowing homelessness?
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by cess11 5mo ago
I kind of see "focus" in the FAQ and "goals" in this thread as interchangeable. It would surprise me if this would not be a common interpretation of these texts alone among the readers here. As for the general reputation
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by cess11 5mo ago
"Anonymity: While the previous version was designed with a focus on anonymity, the current version does not offer built-in anonymity but allows for a choice of anonymizing systems to be layered on top." https://freenet.
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by cess11 5mo ago
Right, this is true. However, when I make this point I try to be as succinct as possible to leave as little cognitive wiggle room for the reader as I can. "It's just a database", up to roughly the sentence above, is short, qu
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by cess11 5mo ago
Why? The creator of ELIZA tried that, it didn't work then, why would it now? We've had code generation tools for decades, abstracting over code generation has been a solved problem for a long time, and as it happens, this is not i
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by cess11 5mo ago
At best, just a little more than half the electorate voted in that election so I'm not sure what you mean by "popular vote". For an electorate to have agency it has to be informed, egalitarian and politically organised. None
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by cess11 5mo ago
"solves real problems and nothing bad happens most of the time." Like Wordpress plugins previously that'll work for now but we're now on the trajectory of relearning that same lesson, because people are automating discov
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by cess11 5mo ago
Pretty much anything you could use Linux for, except high performance stuff since the ARM SoC they've chosen is somewhat limited. I look at it as a platform for solutions to technical problems, where either or both the solution and the
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by cess11 5mo ago
Mine is mostly just lying around but sometimes I find some use for it. This winter I bought some remote controlled electricity sockets that at first didn't seem to work so then I got the Flipper and started recording radio to figure ou
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by cess11 5mo ago
"I wouldnt watch a WW2 Zombie movie if the nazi zombies were wearing viking armor driving an Abrams tank either." OK, so you didn't watch Kung Fury? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fury
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by cess11 5mo ago
In the article they spend a lot of time explaining how they surveil and supposedly evaluate interactions with LLM bots, so I gather that's what they care about rather than inherent skill and personality of the candidate. I've been
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by cess11 5mo ago
'We are extracting free labour from employment candidates, it is great for us'. Why not go a step further, and add a fee to become a candidate? Or perhaps just to skirt the queue and get to the front of the line? Edit: Then there&
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by cess11 5mo ago
Yes, absolutely.
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by cess11 5mo ago
Name some then. What "agency"? Participation in US elections is junk level, politicians openly and routinely 'redistrict' and suppress voting, and the median US citizen is revulsed by the prospect of egalitarian organisi
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by cess11 5mo ago
Well, I guess that's an effective way to deflect responsibility for the harms they cause from the people actually in control of their software and databases, onto 'shareholders'.
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by cess11 5mo ago
Perhaps they're decommissioning search in favor of LLM:s.
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by cess11 5mo ago
"How is it different from a person believing whatever they read on the Internet?" Because a person is alive while the LLM is a floating point number database with a questionable degree of determinism.
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by cess11 5mo ago
"If they did they would elect different leaders." Like who? Notable candidacies are predicated on million dollar budgets, and pretty much everyone who runs on justice and gets into an office in the US then neuters themselves. It&#
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It's not "productivity" that sucks them in, it's the feeling of being seen by an apparently nice and subservient person.
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by cess11 5mo ago
Right, nobody is arguing for the negative consequences we've had from nuclear reactors, except perhaps atom bombs, but they happened anyway. I know of exactly zero leading politicians that I'd entrust with nuclear waste. Can you n
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by cess11 5mo ago
2008: https://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/2008-09-20-year-long... 2024: https://www.neimagazine.com/decommissioning-waste-management... 2026: https://interestingengineering.com&#x2F

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