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by delichon 4mo ago
Because we don't have a right to a continuing service that requires their labor unless they agreed to it. A buyer should discount the value of products that rely on ongoing services accordingly. See also 'Juicero'.
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by delichon 5mo ago
For most engineers a mathemetician is a machine for producing correct algorithms, like a chef is a machine for producing tasty food. In both cases that overlooks the human element, but that's a critical skill for a limited mind with fi
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FBI charges two NIH researchers with smuggling monkeypox to US from Congo(justice.gov)
10 points by delichon 5mo ago|0 comments
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by delichon 5mo ago
Yes, Ford claimed up to 90% in the 1930s when they were producing up to 1.4M cars and trucks per year. (Down to less than 400K in the worst of the depression.)
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by delichon 5mo ago
> The last company to vertically integrate a car from raw material to finished product at this scale was Ford. Today BYD’s system runs all the way from the lithium mine to the port. Both BYD and Tesla claim to produce around 75% of their
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by delichon 5mo ago
If they were just recording and it required human labor to interpret it would merely be a traditional regime of totalitarian repression. But this tech allows real time interpretation. Imagine that a stalwart ideologue gets to decide what be
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by delichon 5mo ago
> I know this line of commentary is getting tiring, but… It's beyond that and into obsession. I don't care whether a piece of information is written by a human, an AI or a talking dog. I care about if it is surprising and true.
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by delichon 5mo ago
Writing certainly has been an important tool to fraudsters, as AI is already. Yes, most of the same objections apply to the spoken word. I consider that to be a defense of writing. More, better communication always has pros and cons. I&#x27
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by delichon 5mo ago
The decoder ring is to compare objections to AI with the equivalent for the written word. These seem to be close for common ones like aiding and abetting violence: books on the topic since the 5th century BCE economic disruption: like
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by delichon 5mo ago
Some of us have found our way back. https://www.amazon.com/review/R2XKMDXZHQ26YX
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by delichon 5mo ago
I see the scenario where AI kills us all as an optimistic one. I'm more afraid of the one where they keep us around and align us with their needs, like https://i.imgflip.com/2s99vy.jpg
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by delichon 5mo ago
If you have a dashboard that you trust and it notifies you that you have the mandate of heaven, what do you do? Buy a lottery ticket? Make an indecent proposal to someone out of your league? Drive without a seatbelt? Is this actionable inte
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by delichon 5mo ago
I disapprove of eminent domain but this is a great steelman case for it.
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Factorio to halt development after upcoming update(factorio.com)
5 points by delichon 5mo ago|1 comments
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by delichon 5mo ago
I buy sous vide cookers that die in about 3 months (all brands I've found do when run 24x7). That's outside of the normal return window and requires a warranty claim to get a replacement. For that you go through the maker, not Ama
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by delichon 5mo ago
The people who have the power of the purse should be accountable to the voters.
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by delichon 5mo ago
To a friend or colleague, yes. But for quotidian business transactions LLMs are such a shortcut. I pointed one to three Amazon orders that I wanted to return with reasons for each, and asked it to look up the details and generate warranty s
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by delichon 5mo ago
Likely apocryphal. It isn't in the massive official "Despatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington" and the exaggerated, humorous style is not characteristic.
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by delichon 5mo ago
The first London coffeehouse opened in the 1650s and the industrial revolution started in ~1760. It just took a while for the habit to catch on.
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by delichon 5mo ago
> The point of this is unambiguously to use technology as an accountability sink. Seems like another measuring device, like a breathalyzer or radar gun, and should be held in court to the same (hopefully high) standards.
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by delichon 5mo ago
OK, but you could write the same thing as "Please read books". Many times I have learned things from reading I could have learned, e.g., from a crotchety old neighbor in return for interacting with him.
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by delichon 5mo ago
> After ULA won an $11 billion block buy contract from the US Air Force to launch high-value military payloads into the early 2020s, Musk sued in April 2014. This guy is so visionary that he sued for an event that wouldn't happen fo
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by delichon 5mo ago
Having good control over the signals your soldiers emit is life or death and win or lose in modern war. If command does get control over that it becomes a great tool for deception in detail. If they do, the Pentagon might want to make an an
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by delichon 5mo ago
A couple of weeks ago there was a story that the CIA raided the office of the director of the NSA and seized information regarding the CIA. Trump was in China at the time. About a week later the NSA director resigns. I waited for it to turn
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by delichon 5mo ago
> I don't like where the genre is going. Got an opinion on Timberborn? I think it's a great city builder, plus a fluid dynamics simulator where if you guess wrong everyone dies.
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by delichon 5mo ago
If you are concerned about the AfD remember that they would get this power if they win.
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by delichon 5mo ago
That make believe game is civilization. It's nice to have.
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by delichon 5mo ago
I'm afraid of the result if we take someone wrapped in a comforting haze of dementia (I'm getting there) and force them into cold harsh reality. It may be as welcome a sobriety to an alcoholic. If the insurance stops paying does i
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by delichon 5mo ago
Unfortunately Sturgeon's Law predates AI.
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by delichon 5mo ago
Disagree, I find their product valuable and use them daily as a source of unusually high quality predictions. When used for this purpose insider trading is a feature that improves the quality of predictions. I see some fraud as in any marke

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