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by danaris 1y ago
Oh, I think golf courses shouldn't exist. They're awful in a number of ways. You want to play golf? VR or minigolf. But (as I pointed out elsewhere in this discussion [0]) why should I have to mention everything that uses water
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by danaris 1y ago
...Which actually works out to trading one kind of stress for another. It's a false choice. This is a systemic problem, and we cannot fix it with individualized solutions. For the vast majority of people, the only way to actually get a
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...or, depending on your particular version of Roko's Basilisk (in particular, versions that assume AGI will not be achieved in "your" lifetime), it will punish not you, yourself, but a myriad of simulations of you. Won&#x2
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by danaris 1y ago
Yes, it is worthwhile to ask how much value we get. And a whole bunch of us are saying we don't see the value in all these datacenters being built and run at full power to do training and inference 24/7, but you just keep ignori
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by danaris 1y ago
But if I say "I object to AI because <list of harms> and its water use", why would you assume that I don't also object to alfalfa farming in Arizona? Similarly, if I say "I object to the genocide in Gaza", w
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by danaris 1y ago
No—but there's been enough talk among Republicans suggesting that they intend to prevent or rig further elections to raise doubt about whether we're going to get free and fair elections in 2028.
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by danaris 1y ago
The "everyone else" is not meant to be read literally . Many people are well-paid, or even overpaid. CEOs, for instance. It's just that most people , in most common professions, are underpaid. It only makes sense to talk ab
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by danaris 1y ago
It takes a lot of luck to be able to live in the Bay Area in the first place, and a lot of luck to be able to "co-run two tech companies in Silicon Valley". If you think this is something anyone can Just Do if they decide to d
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by danaris 1y ago
But FFmpeg does not have the resources to fix these at the speed Google is finding them. It's just not possible. So Google is dedicating resources to finding these bugs and feeding them to bad actors. Bad actors who might, hypotheti
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Then they can damn well pay for fixing them too .
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Here's the question: Why is Google deliberately running an AI process to find these bugs if they're just going to dump them all on the FFmpeg team to fix? They have the option to pay someone to fix them. They also have the option
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by danaris 1y ago
I believe the Doctrine of First Sale does apply to software (including games), as long as they're not encumbered by DRM. (And the only reason it doesn't apply there is the DMCA, which makes circumventing that DRM illegal.) (And
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by danaris 1y ago
> I’m not convinced we can legislate morality. I've never understood this argument in the least. We legislate morality all the time . Slightly less so these days, with the reduction of laws against things like same-sex marriage, mi
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by danaris 1y ago
"In this one specific case, convicting this one specific person didn't destroy the whole movement." Well, no; because they haven't gotten together the political will to outlaw AfD itself as a Nazi party. This doesn'
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by danaris 1y ago
> In the 1970s, Jewish lawyers at the ACLU defended the American Nazi Party’s right to march in Skokie. Well, that doesn't mean that a) they were right to do so then, or b) a better understanding can't have been reached since t
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by danaris 1y ago
The problem isn't that ATC is funded by the government; it's that the government has been taken over by people who don't believe government should exist . This is a fundamental failure state that it is impossible for any rea
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AT&T falsely promised "everyone" a free iPhone, ad-industry board rules(arstechnica.com)
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> Amazingly, Republicans were also blamed when the sides were reversed. Because again and again, it is Republicans who show they are uninterested in governance , while Democrats demonstrate their commitment to it—even if they are someti
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by danaris 1y ago
Yeah, it's crazy how one side doesn't want to give in because they're unwilling to countenance a loss of healthcare for millions of Americans, while the other side doesn't want to give in because they're unwilling
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by danaris 1y ago
Any "other entity" would, in practice, be either beholden to the same government, or concerned with profit over safety. Our current crisis is not one we can or should base new structures off of. There is no realistic way to run a
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by danaris 1y ago
> the idea of your prefrontal cortex solidifying around 25 ...which is bunk; the studies that are cited as showing this actually showed changes in the prefrontal cortex up to the oldest people in their study , which was 25-year-olds. Cu
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I work with a small university psychology department, and one of our recently-retired faculty made a several-decade study of charisma, particularly among political leaders. Her primary theory is that it is built out of a combination of for
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It is that, but it also could have been much better than it was if the Democrats had not made so many concessions trying to win Republican votes, before finally giving up and pushing it through without bipartisan support.
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Because of Manchin and Sinema, the people broadly saw the Democratic Party as ineffective and unwilling to actually try to enact their policies. This is a part (far from all, but a real part) of why they turned to someone who claimed to be
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by danaris 1y ago
It seems like you're trying to disprove my point by stating something that's only tangentially related. Yes, there are situations where a business can refuse to do business with me and there's nothing I can do about it. The
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Ah, so as long as you're allowed to ignore any laws that actually prohibit the thing you're talking about (because you have to actually prove that they were broken!), you can say that no laws prohibit the thing you're talki
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I assure you, they still do. Artificial Intelligence is a thriving and active discipline of the Computer Science field. It includes things like A* search and expert systems even now, despite current popular parlance shoving LLMs into the
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by danaris 1y ago
> Prove me the contrary: find me a single law that forces any business to have business with any other, regardless of them wanting to or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_anti-discrimination_la... Sorry, bu
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> If Google or any other platform doesn't want you on their platform, nobody can force them to have you. That's just not true. Up till now , no government has (to my knowledge) tried to dictate to a major American platform own
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"Some rich guy has been convinced to invest heavily in $NEWTECH, therefore any article voicing skepticism about $NEWTECH must be biased." This does not follow. Being a wealthy and high-profile investor does not meant that Horowitz

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