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by cortic 3y ago
Posted this three years ago, but its still relevant: My nothing to hide argument; Nothing to hide is an incomplete sentence. Nothing to hide from who? Surely you want to hide your children from abusers and predators? Don't you want to
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by cortic 3y ago
The freedom to buy remotely without an unelected body controlling your purchases. Generous investments in energy infrastructure, much of it in renewables. Investment in GPU technology and infrastructure. Even the bad stuff like crime, in
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by cortic 3y ago
Over the years i have run into OS problems that require format-reinstall, which used to take days to get normality back. So i moved everything i could to portable software on a USB pen drive, browser, email, graphics, 3d, text editors, PIM
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by cortic 3y ago
Sure, I'm working on a much smaller data pen. I also backup my pen drive to the cloud at 7mbps upload, 2g takes 40 minutes.
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by cortic 3y ago
Wonder what the hard-drive footprint this takes now, my version; 60.9.1(32-bit) takes 126MB and i consider that bloated for what it is. At the Thunderbird 60.9 release mark; Pegasus footprint was 30MB, Opera Mail was 38MB, Sylpheed was 28M
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by cortic 3y ago
LLM kill and eat information and energy, some de-compile. Some grow intellectually toward flowing electrons. predators depend on herbivores depend on plants which 'hopes' someone is paying for the lights to stay on. Your point m
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by cortic 3y ago
>Higher intensity physical activity was associated with greater improvements in symptoms. Haven't read the whole study, but i assume people with fewer symptoms of X are able and motivated to exercise more because they have fewer s
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by cortic 3y ago
And the prediction engine, trying to predict what other humans will do; Creates predictive models we call personas . Eventually we turn this inward to create a personal persona we perceive as consciousness. I frankly don't like thi
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by cortic 4y ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-65173200 https://metro.co.uk/2023/01/19/nearly-50-people-died-from-co... "..was this a result of sound government planning, or good
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by cortic 4y ago
I remember those times too, though I've never had any cars stolen by car thieves. I have lost 4 cars to the tech. That is 4 times the security system bricked my car in a variety of different ways; I suppose the big difference between
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by cortic 4y ago
*buy and sell
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by cortic 4y ago
>Cryptocurrencies add nothing useful to society I wonder what kind of society Nvidia wants? Crypto (some of it) offers a freedom to buy and spend that is not corporately regulated. Some crypto brings huge investment in energy productio
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by cortic 4y ago
As an ex-customer, I'd avoid namecheap. They are expensive and have given me no end of trouble. I currently use porkbun and namesilo with very few issues so far (about 3 years). You will need to unlock your domain and get an author
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by cortic 4y ago
validation.com was the site (still anonymously registered domain) they were sending me to, and they confirmed from a support ticket that the email request was sent by them, you can see on the site an example of the credit card cam show they
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by cortic 4y ago
NameCheap have been training their customers to be vulnerable to this for years. When your account gets suspended (in my case for using VPN to login) they send you an email telling you to go to a privately registered domain (not referenced
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by cortic 4y ago
I can't find the original article, but from Wikipedia( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_vein_thrombosis ) [inflammation has been identified as playing a clear causal role] and studies( https://pubmed.ncb
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by cortic 4y ago
I read somewhere that banning smoking on planes lead to a lot of deep vein thrombosis cases, as they didn't need to swap the air out as much leading to higher c02 levels. But stupid shortsightedness aside; it was crazy, they needed to
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by cortic 4y ago
Well, someone has to.
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by cortic 4y ago
I am perceptive, thanks.
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by cortic 4y ago
Humans evolved playing as a teaching (data set input) strategy. We took playing and trees and made games around climbing, we took playing and puzzling things and made puzzle games, we took computers and puzzle games and made video games;
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by cortic 4y ago
I don't see any difference between ants and humans within the context of eating. Even preparing food is similar. And i don't see any difference in human and AI within the context of creating art. If you are trying to conflate tho
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by cortic 4y ago
So do humans.
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by cortic 4y ago
If course it will, probably faster than humans, we (both human and AI) don't create new ideas, we take existing ideas and smash them together internally to create something we think is novel.. The size of the data sets is not so differ
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by cortic 4y ago
>None of human art exists outside the extremely complex [perceive data]>[internalize]>[algorithm]>[output]> That's just a description of what the AI is doing with a tacked on group interaction that AI will do when more A
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by cortic 4y ago
I don't seen any fundamental difference between AI creating art and humans creating art. Both of these things absorb huge data sets and spit out something similar but different to the data sets they absorbed. Both can apply their &#
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by cortic 4y ago
We are actually running out of places in our history to fit a great filter. Most of the events in our evolution seem probable, even inevitable. In fact the only place IMO that's really left is the emergence of the first self replicat
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by cortic 4y ago
I'm admittedly pretty cynical about these things, but i think blocking adult content by default is mostly to help pedophiles and predators. The internet is a dangerous place for kids, why else would you want to make it look safer, w
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by cortic 4y ago
We could be using the influence trade gives us to pressure them to change.. I mean your argument doesn't solve anything more than sticking our collective fingers in our ears and humming loudly. Though honestly, in areas of free speech
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by cortic 4y ago
I think at best you could argue the people who wrote the law didn't actually know what seized means, which is more worrying. But i would say that taking public keys doesn't fulfill the "removes property from an individual&#
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by cortic 4y ago
So when i read that a suspect was seized by police; They might have just recovered a picture of the person..? But then the real person can't change addresses as they would be charged with escaping from police custody.. Doesn't s

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