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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
It depends which people. For a very large contingent “slop” describes ALL GenAI output and is a more of a moral commentary on the use of the technology than an assessment of its qualitative features (it is, really, a statement that the use
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Very few “democracies”—a term that is more strained the more the structure of the political system structurally disenfranchises rather than represents views in the electorate—are as winner-take-all as the US, combining a strong Presidential
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> In legal tradition, if there's not a law you broke, you can't be prosecuted for it. That’s incorrect. If there is not a law the prosecutor or plaintiff can point to and say you broke, you can’t be prosecuted. We wouldn’t ne
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Legal responsibility can be in forms (e.g., civil tort liability) other than criminal.
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
In the scale of mental states in crime, negligence of any kind is several steps below knowing/intentional; you can't be liable for an intentional crime because of mere negligence of any degree. You could be liable for the (civil)
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Titles tend to be terse, HN—by the guidelines—prefers original titles, Kleppman isn’t (AFAIK) an HN user, and the piece is ~20 years old—when a lot more of the audience wouldn't have missed the reference.
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Aspirin had (though this is increasingly dated) unique cultural currency as a headache medicine for quite a while after it stopped being the overwhelmingly dominant first-line OTC remedy.
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> AFAIU per international law either war crimes or crimes against humanity do not by themselves mean there is a genocide Correct, and I didn't say that they did. I said that even if enumerated acts of genocide in the convention, com
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> So how would they keep out whoever they decided was undesirable? Were there bylaws about skin color? Originally? More than just HOA bylaws: HOA’s originally were implemented as part of a belt-and-suspenders approach along with racial c
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> If some act is in pursuit of a legitimate war goal then that typically negates it being considered an act of genocide from my understanding of international law. Even if there was a dual-intent exception for acts that would be within t
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Not just “a minister”, but the Minister of National Security. I mean, yeah, the “you can’t judge the intent of Israel’s security policy by Ben-Gvir” would maybe hold some water if he was, say, Minister of Tourism (though if a Tourism minist
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Israel has openly , multiple times over decades, stated policy objectives that meet the purpose definition of genocide, and committed every single act enumerated in the Genocide Convention as constituting Genocide when committed with a gen
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
It comes from the fact that lots of the charges they bill (both of the patient share billed to insured patients and of all costs billed to uninsured patients) end up written down or off because they are uncollectable. The margin built into
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
No one is comflating war with genocide, but people need to stop pretending that the existence of a war contradicts the existence of a genocide.
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> The democratically elected government of the Palestinians in Gaza There's no such thing: the separate authority in Gaza was produced by Israeli military isolation of the separate parts of Palestine nominally administered by the PA
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> There should be a class action lawsuit against the manufacturers of this stuff There is, though it was completely thrown out by the trial court and recently only partially revived on appeal. https://www.courthousenews.com&#x
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring, and most people think it is deceptive. The thing that will work is actually curing cancer . Other than the fact I doubt that will happen, if it did,
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
No, they aren't, for training AI, at least not based on anything but pure speculation. The recent trial court decision that keeps being pointed to to support that: (1) Found that for training AI , digitizing and copying works was fair
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> Do these self hosted models avoid "protecting the user" or protecting big businesses? In other words can I just ask it any question and if it has the answer, I will get an answer rather than telling me it can't answer th
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
The churches that have "masses" have them daily already.
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> LLMs collapse and start outputting garbage after a number of tokens if you do not sample and just pick the "best token" each time. LLMs are likely to get stuck even with sampling if asked to generate tokens on their own lon
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Because it is cheaper to have different behavior for internal use, special (e.g., government) customers, etc. if they are differentiated by things like system prompts and external guardrails than if they are different model versions with th
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
“It's also unclear wherever the subscription price is the real cost, or the API.” There is no “real cost” other than the cost actually charged.
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
That's inaccurate in two ways: (1) The behavior that is approximately what you describe is not "fundamental" (though it may not be something you can disable on some hosted providers), it is an option that is not fundamental (
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> Human intelligence does not separate training and inference. Well, systems governed by LLMs only are said to do that because we only call what happens off-line "training", and online capacity development "in-context lear
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
So, let’s not paint them as < term meaning lacking the combination of knowledge and skill to do a job effectively > when they are in fact < term meaning particularly lacking wisdom, experience, and/or judgement > Are you su
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
Its not a solution ever, because it takes as its premise that the problem is solved and then goes on to suggest something else on top of it (the purpose of which is unclear.)
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
The shift to NEM3 moves from providing an extra unqualified subsidy for solar generation by reimbursing distributed generation at near retail rates to reduce the subsidy and tie it to installing storage, which is what the grid needs far m
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
> People would be responsible only if they had the right to enact and endorse laws directly. This is really basic stuff, should be understood by everyone older that 7. Authority and responsibility inherently and unalterably lie with the
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by dragonwriter 1mo ago
"Businesses don't want to have to spend time clarifying the libre/gratis distinction every time they use a a concise shorthand to describe licensing" is a very different claim than the upthread one that the actual terms

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