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drdaeman
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How is it completely bonkers? I think the idea is that those people were put at inherent disadvantage due to unfair treatment of their long gone predecessors. Or at least that’s my understanding of it. The validity of this claim, type and a
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> The type of people that would be embarrassed to not have an opinion on a topic or say "I don't know" Is it really a rationality when folks are sort of out of touch with reality, replacing it with models that lack life&#x
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1y ago
If we're thinking cyberpunk, then the solution should also be in style. Say, if in some hypothetical future it becomes a commonplace way of tracking customers, replacing modern radio beacon tracking tech - how about personal privacy pr
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1y ago
It'll be objectively worse. IPv6 is at least sort of supported by a non-negligible number of devices, software and organizations. This IPv8 would be a whole new protocol, that no one out there supports. The fact that version 8 was alre
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> A lot of behaviors are not evenly distributed. That’s true. But the idea is that feeding it to a system as an input could be considered unethical, as one cannot control their age. Even though there’s a valid correlation. > If you as
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1y ago
I think their point is that a lot of us, upon hearing "group A tend to exhibit more of some negative trait X than some other group B" mentally start to associate A with X and this creates a social stigma - just because how our bra
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> The goal is to reduce the amount of fraud cases. I'm sorry but I fail to see how have you reached this conclusion. Can you please elaborate? The way I understand it, a detection system cannot affect anything about its inputs - you
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Not just kids - it's about one's whole life, including the adulthood, to the very last moments. We tend to change a lot over the courses of our lives, constantly being affected by our surroundings.
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1y ago
I think you took too much of a jump, considering all properties the same, as if the only way to make the system fair is to make it entirely blind to the applicant. We tend to distinguish between ascribed and achieved characteristics. It is
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1y ago
Do you mean LLMs trained in a way they have a special role (i.e. system/user/untrusted/assistant and not just system/user/assistant), where untrusted input is never acted upon, or something else? And if there are mo
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1y ago
The article is a mess, mixing everything up in a single issue, without saying anything about scale or frequency of them happening: - Targeted advertising. - Job prospects and workplace monitoring. - Insurance discrimination. - Abortion-rela
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1y ago
The URL bar at 02:11 in the video looks awful, with all the background shining through making the text hard to read from a distance. This is sort of hidden by the video having 3x zoom, making the text thicker, but unless they tweak the tran
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1y ago
With all due respect, communication of non-trivial ideas is incredibly hard. And if the recipient is not capable of paying sufficient attention or understanding the message in its entirety, it’s not their fault, it’s sender failing to capti
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1y ago
I wonder if the scope of "diagnosis, maintenance, or repair of digital electronic products" is extensive enough to be usable for requesting protocol documentation for purposes of integrating products with systems from different ve
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Any engineering surely works as an analogy - be it mechanical, electrical, chemical or anything else.
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1y ago
> This seems to be reinventing Tailwind I would rather think of this as Python bindings to HTML+Tailwind with a bunch of utility shortcuts. E.g. `DivFullySpaced(…)` is simply a convenience shortcut `Div(cls=("flex","justif
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While I can imagine some edge cases where this approach can be meaningful, isn't that generally counterproductive? Not only one has to be actively aware about all the behaviors they don't document (which is surely not an easy task
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> Flow (2024) "Flow" was a huge disappointment for me. I couldn't get past the animation jerkiness and overall unrealistic look. I have two cats, and cats simply don't move like pictured: while most of the keyframes w
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I don’t know much about those terminals, but the screenshot hints at that (key=zeroes part), and then according to the diagram it waits for USB to flash new secure firmware and keys in case the terminal had to be serviced. This root shell i
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It sort of used to be, although not exactly as a messenger - it was never good for one-to-one private conversations, but as a social network with channels and groups. However, for the last couple years enshittification is in progress - it&#
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Sorry, I don’t get it. Why is it a requirement for a superintelligence (whatever it may be) to be able to create another superintelligence (I assume, of comparable “super-ness”)?
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As I get it (and I’m not a smart or well-educated person, so please correct me if I’m wrong or misinformed or talking nonsense), responsibility is status that arises from the recognition of one’s moral obligations. Companies are at least pa
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Does it mean that no company honestly offers a "we sequence your generic material, send you data back, and completely forget the whole affair afterwards, all genetic data wiped on our side with the only copy left being yours - no strin
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I'm seeing misleading advertising with scummy/dark patterns, spam, failure to disclose important information, plus all the classic stuff like money laundering and bank fraud. Could be just the cost of doing business, if that busin
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Yes, but aren't cultures essentially the same way - people grouped together getting influenced by each other actions and ending up learning from each other (introducing bias into individual agents), doing things together, appreciating
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> With AGI, Knowledge workers will be worth less until they are worthless. The article you've linked fundamentally relies on the assumption that "the tasks can be done better/faster/cheaper by AIs". (Plus, of cou
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If that's the source of author's existential crisis, they may possibly find it interesting to meditate on the idea that there's no thinker behind the thought, and the impermanence of "self". Even if they don't
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1y ago
As someone who used a bunch of good products with less than great firmwares I would like you to ask to please consider not doing this, unless you have a strong, real and well-analyzed reason. Rather, please consider spending your reso
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Thank you. I have watched the video but, sadly, it seems to be on a merely tangentially related subject (some zombie ragdoll movement), that caused an understandable disgust (as explained in the video). Then there was a comment about the de
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> I don’t understand how you can do this and not feel horrible about it. I don't understand why you think one should feel horrible about generating images in some visual styles. What's the problem? Demonstrably, it's not s
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