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by dsign 2y ago
The right to privacy is in quite a few constitutions. The reason nobody wants to stomp Chat Control for good is because of how it has been framed: it’s to protect the children. Parents are fiercely protective, and I suspect that for a major
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by dsign 2y ago
I'm pretty sure you will eat some, yes. However, irrigation and the rice's own metabolism will remove some pesticide. And rice grains have a peel which is later removed, often after a drying process at somewhat high temperatures,
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by dsign 2y ago
Our current obsession with super-intelligence reminds me the great oxidation event a few billion years ago. Super-photosynthesis was finally achieved, and then there was a great extinction. If you believe that super-intelligence is unavoida
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by dsign 2y ago
>> Even in tech niches like this, cryptoanarchist ideas get routinely derided as useless and scams. I agree. The tendency to over-criticize and deride is part of the self-inflicted helplessness. Every attempt to improve things gets a
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by dsign 2y ago
> I’ll probably start communicating with my friends over phone more either way... Talking to people is great. I write science fiction for a hobby. In my stories, when two people want to have a private conversation to discuss some economi
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by dsign 2y ago
Domestic incumbents (social networks or messenger apps) would need to jump through the same hoops. So, I would say that, as a whole, the goal is to get people to self-sensor and to fear the establishment. If the EU wished more competition b
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by dsign 2y ago
I doubt that child pornography is even the true reason behind these laws. If anything, that problem is at its lowest now in the entire human history, at least in Europe. And the form of "violence" these laws are trying to limit ha
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by dsign 2y ago
>> The public, as a group I don't know, my local journalists paid with public money seem to be able to follow a lot of domestic trivia. They are much less capable of following matters of national interest, like how the country&#x
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by dsign 2y ago
Thanks! I see myself using the library soon :-)
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by dsign 2y ago
Really interesting library! In the docs, could you describe in a bit more detail which kind of JSON errors it tolerates? And which models currently work best with your parsing approach?
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by dsign 2y ago
The science is cool, but I wonder if a specialized popular science magazine of yester-year would do a better job at presenting it? "We made a high-precision accelerometer that uses lasers and quantum effects; let me tell you everything
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by dsign 2y ago
Can I use this to make music? A little bit on a tangent, a technique called Linear Predictive Coding, which was developed by telecoms in the sixties and seventies, has a calculated bandwidth of 2.5 kbit/s. The sound quality is not any
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by dsign 2y ago
I knew that good morals and modesty would save us someday. It is clear now that human artists will remain gainfully employed by producing high quality erotic art. /s.
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We are talking SV here, and that's very different from my European experience. I've known of founders in Scandinavia who walked out from startups that weren't doing so bad and that could have gone for another round of invest
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by dsign 2y ago
> Weird Nerds should not be forced into people management positions Let's forget the Weird Nerds for a minute and look at the following situation: a person W is technically savvy enough to have accomplished a big chunk of project X
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by dsign 2y ago
It used to be so during the golden age of personal computers or if you run Linux and have tweaked it so. But modern-day operating systems will bend the nature of reality itself if they have to, in order to restart and install updates, or to
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by dsign 2y ago
Wasn’t there some recent news about imposing tariff on electric car imports? The EU may argue that’s because Chinese cars are made with more CO2 emissions than EU cars (which is an argument that will force honest politicians to look at the
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by dsign 2y ago
With the right really difficult to get right knowledge and intervention vectors, biological organisms can be hacked all you want. To me, it’s not a question of “if” but of “how expensive”, “when” and “maybe making a silicon-based sucesor sp
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by dsign 2y ago
In some places, the mask of this being a child-pornography problem is falling down already, see [^1]. The Swedish Social Democrats, which is the biggest political party in Sweden, wants for everybody to use their IDs to comment in social me
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by dsign 2y ago
I wish you were right and that ship would be sunk, by the grace of Sam Altman the bloody arrogant idiot. There are burning issues that AI could tackle, unsolved problems that cost billions of lives and whose solution require non-human infor
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by dsign 2y ago
Mental decline with age is a thing, and in my personal experience, it starts right at the boundary of the forties. All said, if I had as little as 200k in my bank account, I would start investing less time on getting more money and more tim
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by dsign 2y ago
Social engineering has been along for ... well, since we ended prehistory. The convergence to monotheism with very specific demographic outlooks and group self-identification ("we are the chosen people, the others are not") is ear
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by dsign 2y ago
> At the same time, I feel like most everybody feels that they themself are a good, kind, caring person. FWIW, take my data-point: no.
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For a couple of years I've been expecting that ML models would be able to 'accelerate' bio-molecular simulations, using physics-based simulations as ground truth. But this seems to be a step beyond that.
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At some level, I feel like the guy is an extremist with his opposition to OpenAI and AI in general. But it could be that he is on the right, that we are slowly creating a successor species, and that we are not reacting with enough force bec
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by dsign 2y ago
> M4 makes the new iPad Pro an outrageously powerful device for artificial intelligence. Isn’t there a ToS prohibition about “custom coding” in iOS? Like, the only way you can ever use that hardware directly is for developers who go thro
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by dsign 2y ago
Here's my "reply-guy" comment of the day: if you are posting about where you buy your wall decoration and you get negative feedback, well, maybe it's not worth to tell strangers where you buy wall decoration. But sometim
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by dsign 2y ago
I learned something here. But reading the archaic English examples, I wonder if previous writers (the first ones to bring the 'nonplussed' term to English) had a proper plague of editors and language sticklers pouring through thei
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by dsign 2y ago
AWS has my name and my credit card number. But they have never asked for a photocopy of my passport, my history of international travel, which nationalities I have and so on. Something tells me that for the goal of this law to be achieved,
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by dsign 2y ago
I'm going to nominally disagree with you, my genes are in total control and I must. Free will is a matter of definition, and certain definitions, no matter how hard we try, can't be formulated as easily as one does in, say, Euclid

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