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> this AI agent would be in the customer's control I misunderstood. In this case the AI can operate with the same limitations I can. It can save me some time when the interaction already had a good chance of success. But I can'
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Your optimism is based on the assumption that companies will implement a system that will actively work against their current policies. Look at the AI “support” Google or Facebook offer. Is it an empowering experience or a black hole of fru
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So there’s even less accountability?
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> with a really small third edge Doesn't every die have a bunch of edges or even vertices that aren't considered faces despite having a measurable width? As long as it's realistically impossible to land on that edge, I thi
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> it's very hard to imagine interstellar travel being feasible with our current understanding. Even with massive advancements in tech, and getting close to the speed of light, interstellar travel will be a lot of "one way headi
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> This is what ads promised to be ... But the market countered them Not at all, this assessment is either revisionist history or completely misses what OP is asking for and what ads are. When you pay for an article with money you know ex
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Most of the bad paths are usually taken by engineers with little or no experience being audited. After going through the ringer a few times (learn not to answer questions that aren't asked, or that they have a say in what that control
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> Because that was what Windows did Windows Me . Why bring up an operating model from 24 years ago if people got used to a different one now, with SR on by default? 60 days compared to the old 10-90 days doesn't sound too bad for m
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> Actually, no one is capable of 'buying' a law. In this case I have a wonderful bridge to sell you. Of course they can. It's called lobbying and it's literally aimed at convincing representatives to support certain p
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Even without the mixing Amazon will occasionally have a "fire sale" on things sold by themselves or 3rd party stores and every time this happens the recent reviews are that the product was expired, or used, or damaged, etc. Even f
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I know populism is a thing but speed limits aren’t formally set for people’s preference but for safety and environmental reasons. “Most” people choosing to break the law doesn’t change that, and adjusting the law becomes a populist thing. A
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In this video [0] at the 50-51s mark you can see the rocket landing just meters away from what looks like the 4 metal standoffs it took off from. [0] https://www.linkedin.com/embed/feed/update/urn:li:ugcPost:7
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Taking a 1 year old on an 8mi/13km hike in an area where temps go to 109F/43C, with inadequate clothing and only 2.5l of water for 2 adults, the child, and the dog is insane.
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> Nobody in real life thinks humans and machines are the same thing Maybe you've been following a different conversation, or jumping to conclusions is just more convenient. This isn't about "legal status of AI" but ab
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> A human with a great memory This kind of argument keeps popping up usually to justify why training LLMs on protected material is fair, and why their output is fair. It's always used in a super selective way, never accounting for c
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It shows just the symbols of the elements (W, Se, Mo) and the number 2, not the compounds. The "W", "S", "M", and "2" characters are in the correct place on a QWERTY keyboard, and they appended the ne
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> In experiment 1, a 4:1 challenge-to-contact ratio resulted in 100% transmission among direct-contact mice, with all mice succumbing to the infection. In experiment 2, a 1:1 ratio yielded 50% transmission, with all challenged mice also
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The next era of MAD won't be with bigger bombs but with bio-weapons. Easier to disseminate, potentially deadlier than an entire arsenal of nukes, and maybe even more selective if it can be designed to be targeted or only one side has t
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There's probably a lot of politics behind this judgement that shaped it. But to a certain degree it's fair. Why would social media companies only make money from what users do on their platform but be spared any accountability? Ev
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Maybe they even saw handing over to a provider all repair responsibilities as a major advantage. No need to have this capability in the crew with the associated logistics, and the accountability is also outsourced. This comes at a cost but
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Maybe but not a guarantee. Losing funding usually means the people familiar with the mission are going away, it's possible that some of the needed ground equipment also gets decommissioned. Bringing it all back once it's gone is p
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> reminiscent of the Aqua days Maybe early Aqua. We're still in the Aqua days, if you don't count yesterday's Liquid Glass announcement. :)
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> This is one of the reasons I think the mad king thinks that he can bully the rest of the world - because he can, by proxy, bully the rest of the world. He has even bigger levers to pull unfortunately. Sanctions are this giant hammer th
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> plenty of Gendarmeries who are soldiers first Fair enough, but Wikipedia confirms that they all have civilian law enforcement and police duties so clearly their training, tactics, and experience revolve heavily around dealing with civi
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> A Gendarmerie is literally a military force with law enforcement duties The second part is a huge differentiator from "normal" military. A police force even if administratively under the military has one crucial differentiato
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Aren't these 2 complementary things? Goals tell you what you need to achieve, constraints tell you what road to take or rather avoid taking, to get there. You need to set goals if you don't want to wander around for a while on the
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> In BFE Texas or Utah or whatever the rails are like glass because crossing 300mi of nothing Europe is densely populated, you'll rarely see 300mi of nothing. High speed rail is still common. Only realistically limited by cost, not
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> this justifies concepts like Trump's tariffs based on trade deficits It doesn't have to. Thinking you want to spend locally and building options isn't a problem - you can just invest in local capacity to deliver, build i
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> The guarantee here is that the human isn't obligated to intervene for a moment. Ah, understood. So the guarantee is that the driver is not legally responsible for anything that happens in those 10s. I always took that as a guarant
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> If there isn't a guaranteed minimum time When dealing with unpredictable real life events there are no guarantees, unless we're considering the many carveouts to that definition from a legal perspective. A blind car (fluke we

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