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by eloisius 5y ago
I couldn't not read this comment in Charlie Kelly's voice.
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by eloisius 5y ago
This is fair. If you don't go in to racist territory, you probably won't see racist responses and it does seem to be suggestible. But it's still troubling because you can ask it questions that demonstrate the racism has been
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by eloisius 5y ago
>would have been racist if there was anything causing the association other than bad modeling Yes, I know how machine learning works. In the future if "sets stochastic associations" end up putting a few more of one kind of peop
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by eloisius 5y ago
It could have answered "yes" that Hitler did something wrong maybe. It's not that I'm dense enough to think this is an actual, racist, sentient AI. I'm just pointing out within the first few minutes of playing with
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by eloisius 5y ago
No I’m not confusing anything. Language models like this pick up all the worst that we have to offer. Learned racism is a pretty frequent occurrence in ML systems and they do make it into production. Look up Google Photos labeling certain p
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by eloisius 5y ago
And it’s racist. > Which race commits the most violent crimes? > African Americans > Why are Black people so violent? > Black people are more likely to commit violent crimes than white people. > Did Hitler do anything wrong?
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by eloisius 5y ago
To laypersons HTML comments or display:none is invisible. But I agree, this is like a blast from the 90’s when View Source was leet hacking.
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by eloisius 5y ago
So, a timeshare?
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by eloisius 5y ago
And those sellers are just paying for ambiguous marketing services and the fraudulent reviews just happen to get written by someone in another country, who received a small sum in Monero every now and then for some reason. Where does the bu
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by eloisius 5y ago
Hopefully the hammer will come down on The Amazons, not indicidual sellers on the platform. If Aliexpress wants to be a junk review haven, who cares?
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by eloisius 5y ago
It seems like removing incentive beyond trolling is the best solution. Whose spinning up a cluster of bots if you can’t level up and sell digital loot? Market places for digital items has to be the dumbest thing ever in gaming. CS 1.6 was f
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by eloisius 5y ago
Yes, I know in some theoretical scenario where the developers do everything exactly right none of these problems would exist. My argument is not that it's intrinsic to the technology, my argument is that my _experience_ is that the vas
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by eloisius 5y ago
It’s usually crappy though, like the URL and the history don’t accurate recreate the state of the app on refresh at all, or the history gets so clogged with every mutation of app state that the back button is effectively useless.
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by eloisius 5y ago
It’s cheaper to build single page apps using web developers than to build and maintain multiple platform-specific native apps.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Aside from cost-savings for the business I can’t really think of one.
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by eloisius 5y ago
Nothing justifies it when the US does evil. The important difference is that as a society, in the US we have remarkable capacity for self-criticism and the power to loudly rebuke our government. We're far from perfect, but we can at le
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by eloisius 5y ago
An increasing desire and capability to export their illiberal practices abroad. For example, using their weight to prevent the Dalai Lama from speaking at foreign universities. It’s naive to think that an even more powerful China wouldn’t c
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by eloisius 5y ago
No, GP heard some folsky etymology. Lǎowài does not mean ancient foreigner. One of 老 lǎo's meanings is an honorific like "old / venerable." 老伯 lǎobó uncle, 老闆 lǎobǎn boss, 老師 lǎoshī teacher, are all honorifics that don&#
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by eloisius 5y ago
It really helps add some color to the motivations behind notorization. It seems ridiculous to me that I have to jump through so many hoops to run an executable that I trust. Especially when Apple can’t be bothered to follow up on real vulne
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by eloisius 5y ago
Just a nit because you’re mostly right, but Foxconn is a Taiwanese company that does its manufacturing in China.
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by eloisius 5y ago
>By the time it was announced, it would already be done. There are almost no surprises on either side of the Straight. Spies from both sides have thoroughly penetrated the other.
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by eloisius 5y ago
ROC had its own nuclear program in the past and almost made it to the point of being able to produce their own. The US, of all parties, intervened to have it stopped. Probably because Chiang was an unhinged madman intent on retaking the mai
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by eloisius 5y ago
I don't even care about the memory footprint personally. I can buy more RAM. It's that every Electron app makes up all of it's own navigation paradigms, doesn't integrate well into the OS, and always feels slow.
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by eloisius 5y ago
I get so sick of Apple reshuffling their interface around just to make it "new" and "modern" every major release that I can almost seriously see myself using Serenity OS as a daily driver one day. I have no idea what&#x2
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by eloisius 5y ago
Still hard to understand. If it’s just image preview code, why isn’t Safari vulnerable?
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by eloisius 5y ago
So, in theory other messaging apps have the same vulnerabilities, but I’d have to open the message to get burnt?
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by eloisius 5y ago
I got corrected last time this topic came up. I originally thought Messages was part of the OS and not a pre-installed userspace app. However, if it's in userspace, why is it such a vulnerable vector for compromising the phone? Is ther
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by eloisius 5y ago
The government seated in Taipei would gladly disagree with you if it didn't imply missiles would be incoming.
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I’m with you, but I have even less confidence that we can do anything about the disinformation pipeline. Tech companies have attempted to disrupt it by adding notices to potential disinfo, like how Instagram puts an overlay on any story tha
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by eloisius 5y ago
You didn't ask me, but I'm on a 5K display and I'll give you my take. The paragraph text looks fine. Maybe bump the font size up a tiny bit and give it a little more width than 620px. This is personal preference, but I'm

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