danaris

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by danaris 1mo ago
1. Intentionality does not preclude a mistake. The makeup of the Senate gives outsized power to rural states with very few people in them, and in practice is a huge giveaway to the right wing. 2. The House's size is also capped, and
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by danaris 1mo ago
I'm not sure exactly what you think that will accomplish...? Companies have to follow the laws of the countries they operate in , not just the countries their physical headquarters are in. That's why, for instance, Apple has to f
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by danaris 1mo ago
To the best of my knowledge (which, admittedly, is far from comprehensive), that kind of attack on a model shouldn't actually be possible in a deterministic fashion. If you can't stop them from sometimes telling customers things l
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by danaris 1mo ago
> And then you say, loudly and publicly, "all the source code of our software is public, and our binaries use binary transparency so it's not possible for us to build a binary that doesn't match the source, and people will
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by danaris 1mo ago
By this logic, we should never try to escape our abusers or resist our oppressors: we should just capitulate now, give them everything they want, and that way they won't escalate to (more) violence. In a nutshell, this is bullshit. Boo
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by danaris 2mo ago
Water treatment plant? That sounds like an excellent place for an ethics team—though it would, in practice, be nearly synonymous with an environmental impact team. A bar? Too small an organization; if they had an ethics team I'd just t
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by danaris 2mo ago
The trend will reverse once we have enough people in positions of power both able to recognise and willing to admit that remote work is, for at least 75% of office jobs, at least as good as onsite work. (Not "without tradeoffs", j
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by danaris 2mo ago
> the coming revolution of autonomous driving ...is going to take another 20-30 years, if it arrives at all. It's become very clear in the years since the promise of "self-driving cars in six months!" failed to materialise
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by danaris 2mo ago
Indeed: and the most common good that is largely non-fungible is media. Sure, if all I'm looking for is "entertainment", I can watch Star Wars or play Final Fantasy or read The Lord of the Rings. And for some people who enjoy
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by danaris 2mo ago
> Let the consumers decide what is best for them. Both business models should be allowed. Yeah! And let's make sure the customers have the choice of whether flour should have asbestos in it! And whether watches should have radium di
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by danaris 2mo ago
> how little accountability there is left within the field. I don't think it's limited to the tech field: it's stronger here, due to the proximity with the tech giants who are enabling Trump's bullshit, but he and all
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by danaris 2mo ago
You know what the best way is to ensure that your children don't become second-class citizens because they're an ethnic minority? Treat the ethnic minorities well today. Lay the foundation for an inclusive, multicultural socie
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by danaris 2mo ago
Why would you say that? On the contrary; it seems to me that caring about its authorship even though the product may be outwardly indistinguishable from something a human could have made shows that human authorship is , in fact, precise
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by danaris 2mo ago
It's not—the point is that many people that were claiming climate change is a hoax have shifted, now that it's much plainer that climate change is real, to saying it's too late to do anything about it so we shouldn't t
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by danaris 2mo ago
No, it's to care for its people . And in order to do that, it needs money. Money it raises by taxation.
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by danaris 2mo ago
...Really? After you said > Once we got seatbelts, airbags and similar in cars, there's literally no reason for a new model to drop now you claim it's all about the 2010 Toyota? And this: > an entire new model to be designed
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by danaris 2mo ago
You must be unaware of all the recent safety improvements in cars: things like anti-lock brakes, collision avoidance, and traction control have saved countless lives, and they're being improved on even today. "The things cars had
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by danaris 2mo ago
From what I saw, it's been leapfrogging for the past few weeks. Even if Apple is currently behind them, I don't think it's particularly fair to say it's "fallen to" them.
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by danaris 2mo ago
Sorry, this is just plain facts, and anyone who doesn't understand that at this point is clearly trying to avoid cognitive dissonance. Or they have their heads terminally in the sand.
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by danaris 2mo ago
The underlying problem in most cases of drug addiction is poverty, or lack of human connection and meaningful work. Yes, addiction has a physiological component in many cases...but people who are happy and fulfilled in their lives have a mu
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by danaris 2mo ago
> UBI (doesn't work) [citation needed] All the research says it will work. All the trials say it will work. The only things I've seen that say it won't work are "economists" who believe in trickle-down economics,
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by danaris 2mo ago
"Let the customer verify if the flour has asbestos in it, and decide if they trust it." "Let the customer verify if the car airbags were installed properly, and decide if they trust it. "Let the customer verify if the pl
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by danaris 2mo ago
And if the training stops, the existing LLM models will fairly quickly decay in usefulness. There's no free steady-state of high-quality current models for this; it's either keep investing forever or deal with models that stoppe
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by danaris 2mo ago
Or , and here's a thought...maybe you set the tone. Whether you meant it to or not, your post sounded snide and arrogant.
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by danaris 2mo ago
> LLMs are writing as well as humans for people who think writing words is the goal. Only if what you mean by this is "for people who think padding a word count is the goal". LLMs absolutely do not write well , by human stan
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by danaris 2mo ago
Necessities aren't always immediate necessities. Air is a necessity. If you don't have it, you'll die within a few minutes. Water is a necessity. If you don't have it, you'll die within a day or two. Food is a nec
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by danaris 2mo ago
You're not done growing until you're dead . The studies that found that your brain develops until you're 25 didn't study anyone older than 25 . More recent studies have found that your brain continues developing over y
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by danaris 2mo ago
> and a button to refuse everything should be easy to access. Part of the problem with this is the website operators who maliciously interpret this to mean "also refuse the cookie that says what I selected", so you have to sele
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by danaris 2mo ago
Or you can have the backend at the first URL detect which action should be taken based on which button was pressed, and act accordingly—even up to passing control off entirely to a different route/method.
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by danaris 2mo ago
> There are still fortune 500 companies with internal bans on AI. And there probably always will be. When the choices are "hand all of our highly sensitive internal data over to one of several other companies, all of which have ques

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