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by dsign 3mo ago
So, we are giving up privacy in all our electronic communications because a bunch of companies can’t stop running algorithms to drive up engagement? From the article above, it seems Snapchat messaging would work just fine if kids had to tou
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by dsign 3mo ago
> I keep telling people about such things and I am looked at as nerdy, geeky or boring. Hm, yeah, we have our work cut out for ourselves. Politicians can't do nerdy nor geeky, but it's their job to talk in a way that moves peop
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by dsign 3mo ago
What are the updates for, I wonder? Video games, like all forms of art, are about stirring emotions. I don't own, nor have never owned an Xbox. But when I think of the device the first thing that comes to mind is "Microsoft"
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by dsign 3mo ago
I can't say anything about the "centuries" part, but the rest sort of checks. In those old soviet countries there was no such thing as "customer service", the politburo didn't get around inventing it and every
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by dsign 3mo ago
I wouldn't mind reading that and having a good chuckle while processing an MR, as long as the comment had been crafted by a person. But now I think writing in grunts is gonna become the thing. "pete? you good boy? we won't hi
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by dsign 3mo ago
> but after 5-10 generations of a combination of artificial and natural conception you could end up with meaningful loss of fitness Yes, if we end up in some corner-case dystopia where evolution and natural selection continue to be in ch
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by dsign 3mo ago
Slightly tangential on Swedish society, there are similarities between USA and Sweden. There's a large segment of society that is white and very blond, and there's a largish segment which is not. Along that same line there are all
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by dsign 3mo ago
> There's something incredibly peaceful about being in the hands of an expert you trust. You don't have to worry anymore and can let them guide you through the process. > AI can absolutely shatter that feeling in an uncomfor
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by dsign 3mo ago
My experience with questions to LLM is that they mimic reddit a lot: ask them an apparently simple thing that is not possible, and they will bend backwards to tell you it's possible and give you tons of convoluted possible solutions. A
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by dsign 4mo ago
Nonsense. Everybody knows Cthulhu.
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by dsign 4mo ago
> the model itself has become a commodity Indeed. So the winner is going to be whoever can also commoditize the rest, i.e. hardware and energy costs. In the long run, whoever has the factories to make chips, windmills and solar panels is
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by dsign 4mo ago
> Verification data stays between you, Persona, and Anthropic, except where we're legally required to respond to valid legal processes. That, in conventional meaning, means an ongoing judicial investigation. But "valid legal pr
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by dsign 4mo ago
It has been said in this thread that we shouldn't scan healthy people because false positives. That's a good point. But I also think we are still looking at the small picture: catch diseases. The slightly bigger picture is to prev
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by dsign 4mo ago
Not to detract of any of the other reasons given so far for people disliking 'AI' in the brand messaging, there's the additional "snob factor" that the average consumer will reject (perhaps because it's cultura
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by dsign 4mo ago
And so war begins :p ! I thought conflict would take a little bit longer, maybe even AIs with agency. More seriously though, I wonder if the future is about low-intensity conflict between humans and AIs, punctuated by high-intensity escalat
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by dsign 4mo ago
The root of the problem is that AI-as-a-service is corked, because companies providing it have a hell of an incentive to use all that data to out-compete their competitors, and they can do so in secret. To say nothing of salivating law-enfo
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by dsign 4mo ago
Yes, but using five type checkers on Python is the equivalent of buying a Nissan Leaf and trying to turn it into a Lamborghini by adding an internal combustion engine which is only supposed to produce a nice roar but no thrust.
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by dsign 4mo ago
The way I see it, AI is going to change the world radically. It could be for the worse, the better, or a mix of both, but in my mind there's no doubt. We are only five or six years into the leap LLMs represent. For reference, radio wav
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by dsign 4mo ago
If you are going to be super-strict with type-checking, wouldn’t it be best to switch to a statically typed language and get the performance gains as well?
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by dsign 4mo ago
Not to subtract from anything you said, but something that could help us, in the aggregate, as a society, is to frame things differently. Today, most people say "human biology is a thing of wonder" "Humans are built for longe
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by dsign 4mo ago
> There will always be a reason why people die, and it will never feel like we're doing enough. That's the best of humanity: love for fellow human beings, and a desire to preserve life. And seeing that we live in an inconceivab
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by dsign 4mo ago
I have a habit of reading obituaries and of getting a small reprieve when the cause of death is not cancer. I have the feeling that, for something that kills one in four people, we should be doing more as a society, and not leave the proble
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by dsign 4mo ago
> but even the successes are difficult. Yeah, it feels like we need a phase transition in the speed and practicality of the process. But I don't believe we need a single concrete lab tech. Years ago when I did research, my impressi
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by dsign 4mo ago
>> While you write very dismissive and pseudo philosophical Even with the "pseudo" in front, I'm very sorry any of my writing sounds philosophical; I didn't intend that sort of confusion :-). The "dismissive&q
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by dsign 4mo ago
I very much respect Espressif products, specially because how good their documentation is. I wish though somebody would package an ESP board with 256 Mb of RAM or more... From what I've seen, that amount of RAM seems to be exclusive Li
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by dsign 4mo ago
Oh, this was a fun read and one that kids should have in school before they turn ten. Because we are not taking things seriously. If ClosedAI or DeepDisTrust or Posthropic come up with something that quacks like a sentient being, our built-
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by dsign 4mo ago
I wonder what would make this better (for some use cases at least) than venerable FreeRTOS? Or Zephyr? Or any of the other many, many RTOSes? In particular, the ESP32 comes with top notch documentation and SDKs that will make beginners at l
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by dsign 4mo ago
In books, movies and videogames people spend a considerable amount of time in the sewers. In fact, I’m pretty sure they spend more time in the sewers that in standup meetings. Reality mirrors fiction. Speaking of which, some getting acquain
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by dsign 4mo ago
I've been in some of these in a different capital city. It's worth it, the visits have informed be what kind of person I'm. It's a subtle feeling of waste, seeing the people queue to the elevator, and then going all the
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by dsign 4mo ago
> and just do what I want to do all day, stress free, for the rest of my life... In a saner society, jobs would be the measure of how we are mutually useful and bound to each other, and UBI would be there so that people are not coerced w

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