danaris

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by danaris 6d ago
"Revealed preferences" are bullshit. What's really true is that people are, 99% of the time, not actually given that choice. For "revealed preferences theory" to work, the people involved would need to consistent
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by danaris 7d ago
Would you mind elaborating, for those of us who don't live and breathe this stuff?
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Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?(schneier.com)
2 points by danaris 8d ago|0 comments
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by danaris 8d ago
Sure I did. I addressed it above. And I'm not using "political" any more broadly than conservatives or self-proclaimed centrists do when they say they don't want anything "political" in their games, TV shows, m
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by danaris 9d ago
Part of the problem, as always, is what types of people and activities are defined as "political". Particularly in an office or other "respectable" setting, you've got people who are white, and people who are po
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by danaris 9d ago
> I do think the bottom quintile should not be a "for life" sentence, and to the extent that I'm correct I've shared some paths for them to escape that. Skimming through your posts in this conversation, I really don&#
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by danaris 9d ago
And the response to that complaint is: So you're not actually complaining about politics in sci-fi. You're complaining about bad writing in sci-fi.
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by danaris 9d ago
Have you ever watched Star Trek? Either the Original Series or The Next Generation? Because apolitical they were not . Like, emphatically. Sometimes they were subtle, other times they were pretty heavy-handed. Sci-fi has never, ever , bee
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by danaris 10d ago
> I hope you're right, but it would be unusual for humanity to care so much for such economically useless people. This is ahistorical, and plays into eugenicist propaganda. Humans have been expending valuable resources caring for &q
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by danaris 10d ago
And you think this should be considered normal ? You think that this high a percentage of people should expect to be sharing a room not by choice, for the rest of their lives?
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by danaris 10d ago
But there's evidence that just having that inequality (not an absolute amount of wealth, but vastly more wealth than normal people) does, indeed, distort human perception and mindset in a way that leads to...well, where we are to
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by danaris 11d ago
That's because you have that set in your Finder Settings. With the Finder open, go to Settings > Advanced, and change the drop-down at the bottom to "Search the Current Folder". This is something I do on the first run of
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by danaris 11d ago
Ah, but hitting enter now takes you to the top result! Therefore it has to search as you type, so there's something to activate as soon as you hit enter! /s ...I've been seeing this search style in more and more places rece
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by danaris 12d ago
> Not really, not at this scale, or this price and convenience. Not at this scale and price and convenience. We can absolutely do so for higher prices . And with solar panels becoming more efficient, cheaper, and more ubiquitous with
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by danaris 12d ago
You have fallen for propaganda. I recently moved to Ireland (an EU country). When I wanted to get set up with a new GP, I was offered an appointment the same week. I wasn't ready to actually go in yet, so I asked for one the following
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by danaris 13d ago
...how do you set a breakpoint in someone else's devtool console?
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by danaris 13d ago
Ah, you have fallen for the bullshit that is "revealed preferences theory", a dependent of "free market theory". The reason it's bullshit is that we don't have a free market . There are constraints and asymmet
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by danaris 13d ago
Why? That's easy. They believe the sci-fi, rather than the reality. They've bought their own hype, and abandoned their critical thinking skills. They're the guy saying to the computer "Say you're alive", and th
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by danaris 14d ago
Some really important and informative stuff in here—I certainly had no idea just what the nature of the prompts and tooling that produced the HuggingFace exploit were. This shows fairly clearly that (as I already suspected) this was not, re
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LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)
79 points by danaris 14d ago|42 comments
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by danaris 15d ago
"Superintelligence" is a vaguely-defined term that refers exclusively to things that do not currently exist, and we have no plausible path to, nor even a guarantee that it is even possible to create one. So sure! This fictional th
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by danaris 17d ago
There are a couple of different formulations of the Basilisk I've heard: I agree with you that the version that says the AI will create a simulation of you to torture for eternity makes no sense as an actual incentive for you to help
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by danaris 17d ago
With Roko's Basilisk, if you believe in it, the most rational thing to do is to put forth every effort to bring it into being. Because if you don't, then you will be one of its targets when it does, inevitably, come into being.
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by danaris 18d ago
Various courts have already invalidated clauses of click-through agreements that no reasonable person would expect to find in such an agreement. Terms of service are not an absolute "I'm rubber you're glue" type shield a
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by danaris 20d ago
The water can be a closed system. But that's more expensive to operate. So most of them don't do it. Show me actual statistics that a supermajority of new and proposed datacenters either are currently using (for new), or plan to
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by danaris 20d ago
You don't seem to understand how renewables actually work. The idea that you need so many batteries to store enough energy to last the entire winter indicates that you don't comprehend how good solar panels are in 2026. (...Or
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by danaris 21d ago
> The main problem of renewables is that it is intermittent and that fact remains to be solved. It is solved. Grid-scale batteries are being mass-produced today. It will continue to get even better , but it is reasonably well solved eve
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by danaris 22d ago
Exactly. And the dangerous mindset tends to be worse than just "more money quickly": it's far too commonly "if this can't become the next Facebook/iPhone/ChatGPT, it's not worth doing." The only
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by danaris 22d ago
I think we're running into (or at least pretty close to) a Two Guys Fallacy here: There's still a strong libertarian streak in HN posters, in a variety of ways. However, there are also (mostly) different posters who have more vo
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by danaris 24d ago
And much of that assistance is not a guarantee: they'll have to jump through a number of hoops to get it, and making a single mistake on a single form, or having one non-liquid asset that's too valuable on paper, may mean they g

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