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by danaris 7mo ago
> LLMs have the exact same transformative impact on humanity. But this is begging the question. Yes, we can see that the internet was radically transformative. But you are arguing that this somehow proves that LLMs are too, when there&#x
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by danaris 7mo ago
Or variates?
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by danaris 7mo ago
If you want to buy books nowadays, and care about quality (or about not having your money go to fund fascist billionaires), your best bets are bookshop.org for new books, and alibris.com for used books.
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by danaris 7mo ago
Let me turn that around on you: If it's really worth $100k, then why on earth shouldn't OP get that $100k if it's going to be taken away from them?
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by danaris 7mo ago
Which is more unethical: Raising animals compassionately, slaughtering them for meat as painlessly as possible after a healthy, happy life OR Letting people who require meat in their diet to live (there are a number of reasons this may be t
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by danaris 8mo ago
The harvesting of a number of the common foods used to supplement vegetarian and vegan diets—eg, soy, agave, quinoa—are variously destructive to the environment and based on labor practices exploitative enough that they sometimes verge on s
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by danaris 8mo ago
Many, many people disagree with you. It is not at all a logical, ethical, or emotional contradiction to say that we should have humanely-raised livestock whose purpose is to be slaughtered for meat. We can ensure that they are kept in healt
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by danaris 8mo ago
The US most certainly does not, nor ever will need to do anything so horrifying and cruel. That's like saying "ugh, now I need to beat my son every day, or he won't do what I tell him". Sure, if the only tool you thi
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by danaris 8mo ago
Well, it means that thus far trying to build an intelligence has lost out to brute forcing it with more compute. There is nothing particular that suggests this is infinitely scalable.
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by danaris 8mo ago
Oh, I completely agree—but they're so frequently used as a gotcha for why the rise of solar is just trading one "foreign master" for another. "Oh no, solar panels rely on rare earth minerals, so that means you have to
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by danaris 8mo ago
Really? Have you ever heard of "literature"?
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And once enough panels start nearing the end of their lifetime, it's likely that we should be able to recover nearly all the rare earth minerals from them with proper recycling. They don't actually get used up the way, say, fossil
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by danaris 8mo ago
That would be great—for about 0.3% of us, those who both care about privacy and have the knowledge and time to go through those sorts of listings. No; what we need is to ban this data collection entirely .
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by danaris 8mo ago
I don't think the answer to that is to discourage posting US-centric stories about serious political issues. I think the answer is to encourage people from other countries to post theirs, too. We need more understanding of each other
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by danaris 8mo ago
I mean, to some extent, you're not wrong, but if a Democrat were in office right now, we wouldn't be actively fighting the rising tide of solar power. At present, the bare economics of it, without any subsidies, put solar as th
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by danaris 8mo ago
They don't have a "macOS Lite", and if these were running anything less than full macOS, you can be sure Apple would be positioning them as a new product (or part of the iPad line) rather than as a Mac. And maybe, just maybe,
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by danaris 8mo ago
What software being taught in colleges today (outside of highly specialised niches) requires Windows? Stats software is cross-platform or open-source. Art programs are cross-platform or open-source. Office suites are cross-platform or bro
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by danaris 8mo ago
I think it would be very reasonable for copyright to return to its original terms: 14 years, with an optional renewal for another 14. The vast majority of works make the vast majority of their money during that time frame. Indeed, for
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by danaris 8mo ago
First of all, your timeline is off: A Game of Thrones was published in 1996, and the Game of Thrones series premiered in 2011. Second of all, even if you were correct, that would only apply to the first book, not the subsequent ones, which
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by danaris 8mo ago
"Israeli-American dual citizens" Making a big deal out of Israelis—especially wealthy ones—having dual citizenship is a classic antisemitic tactic, used to sow the idea that they aren't "real Americans" or their p
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by danaris 8mo ago
Can we not with the blatant antisemitic dogwhistles...?
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by danaris 8mo ago
And why would the people in power be willing to do that?
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by danaris 8mo ago
> I do wonder what happens when everyone is using agents for this, though. Unless one is very cavalier with one's definition of "everyone", this is not going to happen. There will always be a very significant cohort of p
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AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack(gizmodo.com)
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by danaris 8mo ago
Citizens United was just the inevitable outgrowth of Buckley v. Valeo 50 years ago, declaring that money == speech. That was the wellspring of all this shit.
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by danaris 8mo ago
I've seen a lot of very rich people* say it's amazing, it's changing my life, it's going to change your lives (it's going to take away all your jobs so we don't have to pay you anymore), we're about to hit
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by danaris 8mo ago
Unless they sell them to fund their twilight years in a nursing home, which can guzzle down your money like nothing else.
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by danaris 8mo ago
No; what you describe is certainly a phenomenon that exists, but it's not primarily what people talk about when they say that you'll get more conservative when you get older. IME, what they mean is two different things: First, the
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by danaris 8mo ago
I'm in my 40s, and I have only gotten more and more progressive as I've "grown up". You want to know why? Because I've met more marginalized people. When I was 16, I didn't know anyone who was openly queer, and
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by danaris 8mo ago
Voting in ways that genuinely serve their interests, perhaps? Voting in an educated manner? Voting for candidates and policies that will help people overall, rather than those that will hurt people overall, just so that they can hurt Those

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