danbruc

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by danbruc 3y ago
Flip the switch is the naive approach because it assumes - or hopes - that you can. It is as naive as saying that if you accidentally touch an electrical wire and get shocked, just let go or flip the switch, problem solved. That is ignorant
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by danbruc 3y ago
You have to think about hypothetical scenarios, if you wait until they are no longer hypothetical, then it might be to late. That doesn't mean you should take every possible hypothetical scenario equally serious, you should of course f
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by danbruc 3y ago
This was a hypothetical question, if there was such an AI, how would it cause harm in the real world? We connected ChatGPT to the internet because as far as we could tell it seemed harmless. What we missed is that it secretly is an evil AI,
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by danbruc 3y ago
How does it takeover a drone? How does it fire a missile? You send new commands through whatever communication link it is using. Why would someone not throw a switch when their child is in hospital? Because they care more about their ch
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by danbruc 3y ago
It just doesn't let you flip the switch, it takes over some military drone and sends a missile your way while you are running towards the switch. Or it bricks the access control mechanism on the doors to the data center it is running i
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by danbruc 3y ago
No idea, I didn't build the thing, just suggesting how it could work. If you want to cover [extended] ASCII, then every first digit could indicate a one or two digit code, one and two also a three digit code. So one possibility would b
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by danbruc 3y ago
You could dial 013 and 010.
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by danbruc 3y ago
He is dialing the ASCII codes, 114 for r, 108 for l, 100 for d, and 33 for !. Or maybe Unicode code points, impossible to tell from this demo.
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by danbruc 3y ago
You are right, I also just figured that out. They did not simply mean above in the sense of higher above the table but taking into account the edge structure, should have though about it in terms of monotone functions.
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by danbruc 3y ago
The interpretation with the cube on the corner seems pretty intuitive - the cube essentially becomes a stack of layers. For every coloring of the cube there is one layer where the transition from white to blue happens, all layers below are
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by danbruc 3y ago
Hyperloop is probably a good example in the context of the article.
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by danbruc 3y ago
My ad hoc response would be that this is a question of maturity. In an unexplored area you have to experiment to find the principles that work. Once you have found them, you should use them, everyone rediscovering them on their own is proba
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by danbruc 3y ago
All plant biomass is equivalent to 45 years of global carbon dioxide emissions at current levels. You have to plant a lot of trees to make a noticeable dent.
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by danbruc 3y ago
How many self made billionaires achieved their position by utterly disregarding both moral and legal dimensions? All of them if you apply strong enough moral values. Nobody can earn a billion by his own work, you can only become a billion
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by danbruc 3y ago
This is due to the fact that the intelligence & character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce some thing valuable for the community. We could have a world without cashiers, y
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by danbruc 3y ago
Will be essentially the same performance. A box filter has to add one pixel entering the kernel and remove one pixel exiting the kernel. This one has one pixel entering and leaving each half of the kernel and then combining the two halfs. S
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by danbruc 3y ago
But would the cost of that structures not be pretty insignificant compared to the cost of the reactors? Or build the support structure for six reactors but initially only one reactor, sell five more when the first one works. In relative ter
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by danbruc 3y ago
This is so pointless, they pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and then they release it back into the atmosphere. They use it to cure concrete the production of which released a comparable amount of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere
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by danbruc 3y ago
And why six? Why not build one and then see?
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by danbruc 3y ago
I was imagining that you provide the proof, for example that none of the files you are sending has a hash that is on a certain list of illegal files. They would not be detecting anything, you would provide a cryptographically verifiable pro
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by danbruc 3y ago
Could you [in theory] do some kind of zero knowledge proof or whatever that the plaintext belonging to a given ciphertext does [not] have a certain property? Here is my encrypted message and the proof that it does not contain some illegal c
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by danbruc 3y ago
Disagree. If it is currently invalid to click the button, disable it, that is what it is for. Disabled buttons should be focusable, that resolves the issue with disabling the focused button in response to a click. How you achieve this in an
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by danbruc 3y ago
See my comment on the sibling comment, I was talking about the trade off between speed and flexibility.
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by danbruc 3y ago
I think there is a tradeoff, you can pick some customizable off the shelf software or some low code platform that fits your initial needs, that will give you speed at the risk of not being flexible enough later. Or you fire up your IDE and
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by danbruc 3y ago
This is no problem for the initial version but businesses and the environment they operate in change, you are in general not going to figure out what you will need ten years down the road. And then it really depends, maybe everything is fin
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by danbruc 3y ago
This is in general hopeless, you will not be able to anticipate where the business moves over the coming years. Does not even have to be the business itself, could also be the regulatory environment or whatnot. When you decide to not write
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by danbruc 3y ago
In principle, at least for business applications, the middle ground is something like low code - data access, UI, user management, authentication, logging, auditing, ... all taken care of already, you make the data model and business logic.
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by danbruc 3y ago
A classical PC master boot record does not actually have 512 byte for code as it also contains the partition table and a signature, you have 446 bytes for code. Not sure what exactly the BIOS validates, you might be able to get away with an
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by danbruc 3y ago
Not sure if this is accurate, but I was once told that the voltage itself is not too bad, it hurts but will not kill you as the currents are too low. But your reaction to the shock has the potential to injure you, cut your hand at sharp edg
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by danbruc 3y ago
That must of course be BB(n) - BB(n - 1) >= BB(n - 1). Also I have to retract the correction from a few comments ago, the currently best lower bound for BB(6, 2) is indeed 10 ⇈ 15, I looked at an outdated source when writing the correct

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