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by danaris 11mo ago
It sounds like what you're talking about is fairly ordinary political maneuvering of an already-extant official group? Like, the fact that it's a "council" means that they're already meeting regularly and talking to
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by danaris 11mo ago
It's tempting to believe in that kind of a conspiracy—the kind where there's a single person or group pulling the strings, a single entity to blame, and possibly to eliminate, in order to solve many of the world's woes—but th
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by danaris 11mo ago
> like there is an inherent flaw with the x6-64 ISA that means a chip that provides it can never be competitive with ARM on power consumption. It doesn't matter if there's an inherent, fundamental flaw in the ISA, if Intel ca
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by danaris 11mo ago
> Nobody prefires with perfect robotic consistency. Then all you need to do to fool this anticheat is to add some randomness to the cheat.
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by danaris 11mo ago
Microsoft is also moving more and more away from hardware exclusivity. Even their Xbox Game Pass service is now not tied to the console. More broadly, AAA gaming as a whole is also moving away from hardware exclusivity. Third-party develope
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by danaris 11mo ago
Option-minus gives the en-dash; option-shift-minus gives the em-dash.
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by danaris 11mo ago
Sadly, that's not true—for instance, I was trying to run the Shadowrun Returns series the other day, and while it launches, it will hang indefinitely when you try to actually start a game. (M4 Max) I previously played through Returns,
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by danaris 11mo ago
> This is not relevant, humans are also nondeterministic. I mean, I suppose one can technically say that, but, as I was very clearly describing, humans both err in predictable ways, and can be taught not to err. Humans are not nondetermi
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by danaris 11mo ago
Part of the reason this one is news is that there's really zero excuse for it being done "on the cheap": HBO can afford the very best, and their reputation kiiiind of depends on it.
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by danaris 11mo ago
> When they don't have the tools to exercise that capability, it's a distinction without any practical impact. It has huge practical impact. If a human doesn't currently have the tools to exercise the capability, you can
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by danaris 11mo ago
> Wildly varies depending on the human. Sure. And the situation. But the difference is, all humans are capable of it , whether or not they have the tools to exercise that capability in any given situation. No LLM is capable of it*. * Wh
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by danaris 11mo ago
...And under pressure, those barriers will fail, too. It is not possible , at least with any of the current generations of LLMs, to construct a chatbot that will always follow your corporate policies.
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by danaris 11mo ago
...and an LLM is a tiny speck of plastic somewhere, because it's not actually an "intelligent mind", artificial or otherwise.
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by danaris 11mo ago
And these are the examples people bring up eeeeevery time they want to claim that we must listen to the cranks and the nutjobs! Think of all the amazing, important science we would be missing if we didn't!!! But that's poor logi
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by danaris 11mo ago
> Strong disagree, the true villains have always been those attempting to convince you that human ingenuity and invention is bad. Those don't exist. Effectively nobody actually believes that, or is trying to convince anyone else of
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by danaris 11mo ago
But the "heroes" of Atlas Shrugged are, in fact, the villains of our modern world.
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by danaris 11mo ago
What condescension? Can you point to prominent examples of it from a nontrivial number of major figures in the actual sciences ? (As in, not in pop science, nor media figures merely reporting on science.) Personally, I've never seen t
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by danaris 11mo ago
That seems like a radical reading of the text. It is impossible for every citizen to fully understand every scientific issue . Part of living in a society—in fact, one of the primary purposes of living in a society—is having differen
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by danaris 11mo ago
Everyone has the right to question scientific findings. If they actually have scientific expertise to back it up. Dropping that qualifier means you have to answer, forever , to every crank with an axe to grind, and treat them as if their
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by danaris 11mo ago
I think that's underselling the importance of massive media consolidation and deregulation since the Reagan years in bringing us to where we are today. If we still had a half-dozen major largely reliable news outlets that may have had
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by danaris 11mo ago
> because their fundamental view of the world is not left/right, it's authority/antiauthority Except that (given the vagaries of the English language) that sounds like they would be "anti-authoritarian", but they
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by danaris 11mo ago
Oh, it closed? That's too bad! We visited it when we were in Hakone in 2017—it was a remarkable experience finding it in Japan!
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by danaris 11mo ago
Poe's Law applies. There are far, far too many people who genuinely think disabled people should just disappear or die for it to be "safe" to be facetious about that without a clear sarcasm indicator.
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by danaris 11mo ago
In other words "disabled people can suck it, because I don't care about their lives or experiences"? We often fall short, but as a society we do try to make sure we're accommodating disabled people when we make big cha
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by danaris 11mo ago
But at least, in that scenario, the process is unblocked . The other way, you've blocked the process until every subcommittee of the committee assigned to fix the process has delivered their Final Report Draft 8 FINAL (1) (13) (1).doc
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by danaris 11mo ago
"Go outside more" is absolutely a nonstarter in the places that most need this: northern latitudes in the winter. Not only is "outside" often so cold that you need to cover enough of your skin that the sunlight would b
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by danaris 11mo ago
In smaller companies, sure. But one of the big problems with our industry today (not unique to tech—it's a problem across all sectors) is massive consolidation. For a company like Google or Amazon, do you really think a gradual but sig
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by danaris 11mo ago
And just when was the last time you saw CEO of a company as big as Microsoft "caught lying to shareholders" about anything actually face any punishment? CEOs of big public companies lie to their shareholders all the time . It wou
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by danaris 11mo ago
... if the bubble hasn't already popped by then.
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by danaris 11mo ago
And, more importantly, a given human can, and usually will, learn from their mistakes and do better in a reasonably consistent pattern. And when humans do make mistakes, they're also in patterns that are fairly predictable and easy

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