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I'm neither endorsing nor advocating for any sides or actions taken, I'm offering what I think is the correct lens to explain this behavior. Most people look at Israel's actions in a Gaza and say wow how could Israel do that.
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see original comment: > Yet there really is little recourse for privacy enthusiasts
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I think its matter of "least common denominator" as in the sum of all fields will surely be unique, but what's the _minimum_ number of fields needed to isolate one user? You can download the JSON from each test and compare th
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FOSS is a flexible term but carries the connotation of community ownership, and therefore independence from for-profit interests. That was an original selling point of FF, and to this day the user base is mainly comprised of individuals (wh
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https://www.amiunique.org/ > your browser shares a surprising amount of information, like your screen resolution, time zone, device model and more. When combined, these details create a “fingerprint” that’s often unique
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To engage with the devils advocate: The problem with the reasoning is, either we already know who's a smart decision maker, in which case the mechanism isn't efficient. or else we don't know, in which case the logic is circul
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quantum dualism is kind of a panpsychic position because it suggests that decoherence is the source - but I otherwise tend to dislike the "everything is conscious" explanations. For one, it's like determinism, meaningless if
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Everyone knows we live in the Information age, not everyone realizes we're also living in an age Psychology - and of the two, we have a much clearer understanding of information and technology. You can argue we're seeing a continu
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I mainly read sections II and XII+, and skimmed others. My question is: does the author ever explain or justify handwaving "substrate dependence" as another abstraction in the representation stack, or is it an extension of "p
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Yeah if code-gen gets to a point similar to image-gen, where a user can prompt a full micro utility, then we will see the dual erosion of more DIY and also lower barrier of entry to the industry. Still most software value today is not about
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by disambiguation 1y ago
Yep all true. Im not really arguing a point so much as thinking out loud - I guess the core idea I'm chewing on is whether LLM assisted development is enough of a paradigm shift that things that were formerly bad ideas become good idea
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Yeah i mean either they can or they cant handle large code contexts. I guess the theory is that a more organized and concise expression of your code base (not necessarily the raw code) is easier for agents to digest.
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Another way to look at it is - why force the agent to grapple with the whole code base when they can rapidly standup many single purpose services instead?
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>. They fall on their face trying to work in sprawling codebases. >However, they are excellent at writing small bespoke programs For programmers I predict a future of a million micro services. Sprawling has always been an undesirable
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by disambiguation 1y ago
Open question to HN: In your opinion, what product or piece of work best represents the high-watermark of AI achievement - LLMs or otherwise? I find articles like this are less viable in the face of real counter example. I see a few comment
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I knew it, I'm surrounded by disagreeable assholes!
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Yeah rhetorical flexibility is probably an important ingredient for an effective social order (not necessarily a moral one) but you have to consider what it takes to embrace an idea. My sense is that ideologies usually emerge bottom up from
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I've never read moldbug but I know people who know people in certain circles - and I can't tell if his ideas genuinely captivate the imagination of the elite, or if he's a kind of Judas goat, because the non-elite are definit
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> The AI Fear & Hype Marketing Flywheel And I suspect the majority of this flywheel is fully manufactured at this point. Dead Internet Theory is nearly complete.
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Its always the new accounts pushing the weirdest narratives.
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I simply do not trust accounts made after 2020, let alone last year.
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by disambiguation 1y ago
Man the redbull is oozing off this post, talk about sipping rocket fuel. I mean a tool is a tool, nothing wrong with that - but most of the resistence stems from AI being shoved down our throats at warp speed. Its already everywhere and I c
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by disambiguation 1y ago
I'm not advocating for p2p, but rather drawing attention to the word "value" and what it means to create it. For example, would netflix as a piece of software hold any value if the company were to suddenly lose all its copyri
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> But really, a lot of the knowledge worker jobs it "replaces" weren't providing real value anyway. I think quotes around "real value" would be appropriate as well. Consider all the great engineering it took to c
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by disambiguation 1y ago
> You don't have to learn to know -- you can reason from ideal priors. This is kind of how math works. There are plenty of mathematical concepts consistent and true yet useless (as in no relation to anything tangible). Although you
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Not exactly tech related, though it shines a light on the fringe cultural pockets facilitated by the internet - without which might not take form otherwise. As for the tragedy itself, it may be the author connecting the dots for us but it a
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I mean it's their blog, the writing is just as much for them as it is for you.
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This is my experience with prompting as well, but I struggle to describe it adequately. Something like the "direction" of the prompt, if it's too open ended you're likely to get mixed results, but if you give it a kind o
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I wonder if it's that simple. In terms of epistemology, not all information falls into pure true and false values. Sometimes the truth is fuzzy. In terms of phenomenology, it's possible to have a uniquely subjective experience suc
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My headcanon is that "boredom" and "fear" are probabilities in a Markov chain - since it's implied the machine society is not all-knowing, they must reconcile uncertainty somehow.

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