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by cmsj 11mo ago
Yes, but you'll have to trust that they haven't been issued a secret government order to implement a backdoor. Not all of those companies will loudly object in the way Apple does.
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by cmsj 11mo ago
> The best they can do is raise a flag Depending on where you live, this may well result in the vulnerable person being placed under professional supervision that actively prevents them from dying. That's a fair bit more valuable th
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by cmsj 11mo ago
That sounds like a pretty risky and irresponsible sort of study to conduct. It would also likely be extremely complicate to actually get a reliable result, given that people with suicidal ideations are not monolithic. You'd need to do
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by cmsj 1y ago
Americans are still largely following the mission of their ancestors ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by cmsj 1y ago
I would argue completely the opposite, and that we actually have a very clear set of descriptors available to us, each of which is a subset of the following ones: * Free Software - meets FSF's four freedoms * Open Source - meets OSI&#x
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by cmsj 1y ago
Surely the goal is to ensure that there is no erosion of FOSS as a concept? The existence and growth of FOSS is something that has happened as a result of considerable advocacy, and while its broad success has become somewhat self-sustainin
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by cmsj 1y ago
statistically, maybe.
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by cmsj 1y ago
I do.
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by cmsj 1y ago
I was just thinking yesterday that we could use a new Hunter S Thompson, cataloguing the absurd times we live in.
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by cmsj 1y ago
Thank goodness you took the time to let us all know this....
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by cmsj 1y ago
It might be more correct to say that interest rates are relatively normal, historically. Post-2008 we had a long period of abnormally low interest rates.
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by cmsj 1y ago
AGI isn't going to come from Transformer LLMs. They are Statistical Turks.
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by cmsj 1y ago
I find that level of pedantry and hand-holding, to be extremely tedious and I frequently find myself just thinking fuck it, I'll write it myself and get what I want the first time.
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by cmsj 1y ago
It correlates with how much stuff you can pack into a small device.
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by cmsj 1y ago
I wear a £20 titanium wedding ring from Amazon. The symbolic significance is what we imbue in it, not what it itself is.
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by cmsj 1y ago
I dunno man, Apple's PCB designs are incredibly space efficient. Compare the sandwich PCB of a modern iPhone against the main board of something like a Samsung Galaxy. Apple is sweating out every cubic millimetre it can, while Samsung
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by cmsj 1y ago
Every time I casually chuck my iPhone onto a surface instead of gingerly placing it down with reverence and care, I think about those epoxy rims doing the job they're there to do.
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by cmsj 1y ago
On the one hand, freedom of speech is great. On the other hand, you have whatever the fuck is going on in America these days, and that is not great. So... I dunno, neither option is good.
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by cmsj 1y ago
I'm honestly increasingly skeptical of any third party dependencies as I age through my career. Before I'll agree to depend on a build tool, package or library, I either need to be convinced that: 1) It has a good chance of a
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by cmsj 1y ago
A license violation is still a license violation even if the software in question is ethically dubious.
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by cmsj 1y ago
Certainly not all accounts. Certainly not from those of us who were there when the fun early days turned into the painful “Mark berates people in public” days. Certainly not those who were there in the more recent era where stack ranking st
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by cmsj 1y ago
I am not a lawyer or a doctor or a counsellor. I will gladly claim that an LLM should not replace any of those professions. It may be able to assist those professionals, but that is as far as I am willing to go, because I am not blinded b
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by cmsj 1y ago
The fact that you (correctly) called it a text generator, should tell you everything you need to know about why it can't replace a skilled human who takes the time to genuinely understand and empathise with you.
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by cmsj 1y ago
Ultimately what therapists do is lead you through an exploration of yourself, in which you actually do all of the work. I 100% do not doubt the usefulness of therapy for those who are suffering in some way, but I feel like the idea that &qu
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by cmsj 1y ago
Congrats, you have trapped yourself in an ideological bubble where nobody can ever tell you that AI is a bad fit for a given application. Try this on for size: I am not a therapist, but I will happily tell you that a statistical word genera
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by cmsj 1y ago
I have made one post ever to LinkedIn and it was something I said as a joke in a 1-1 that I realised was perfect LinkedIn fodder. It did some pretty good numbers, and made me respect that site even less than I already did.
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by cmsj 1y ago
I'll happily say that LLMs aren't intelligent, and I'll give you a testable version of it. An LLM cannot be placed in a simulated universe, with an internally consistent physics system of which it knows nothing, and go from i
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by cmsj 1y ago
When we say "the kind of things which humans do by thinking", we should really consider that in the long arc of history. We've bootstrapped ourselves from figuring out that flint is sharp when it breaks, to being able to do a
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by cmsj 1y ago
That's a future paid for by the effort of creating current frameworks, and it's a stagnant future where every "sophisticated system" is just re-hashing the last human frameworks ever created.
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by cmsj 1y ago
There is one very specific risk worth mentioning: AI code is a potentially existential crisis for Open Source. An ecosystem that depends on copyright can't exist if its codebase is overrun by un-copyrightable code.

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