empyrrhicist

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by empyrrhicist 6mo ago
If a website disrespects "request desktop site" and still tries to force you into an app... ugh. Had this happen yesterday when someone sent me a link to something on AllTrails. If the service was good and the website was usable,
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by empyrrhicist 6mo ago
Or Hegseth running his mouth about exactly this issue...
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
> No. But a lot of people in the center will listen to academics again if they don't think they're being lectured on a new definition of bigotry every fifteen minutes. I get annoyed by some performative language games too, but
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
I don't think you and I live in the same information universe, since I disagree with literally every thing you've said here. Unfortunately I don't have the energy to productively try to disabuse you of (what I believe are) de
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
I made my position clear in other comments, so I'll leave it at that. I do not find your arguments persuasive.
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
Your argument basically boils down to "Climate change is the most important thing, so action on any other issue is bad." I don't see you responding anywhere to the general categories of criticisms I raised: 1. Climate change
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
> No, i am not. It's the exact same issue. If you honestly believe that climate change is an existential crisis, then ALL other issues are by definition less important. You're using a very superficial argument and ignoring seve
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
There's a Guante lyric I really like about this topic that I think highlights how I feel about your argument: "Those who turn hoses on water protеctors Are those who cage "Stop Cop City" protеstors And enforce the brutal
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
> for example the fight to allow transgender people to use whatever bathroom they choose Ugh, I'm going to regret commenting here, but it really seems like this obsession is almost entirely on the right wing. In the US, the centrist
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
That's a much more precise and accurate way to describe the situation.
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by empyrrhicist 7mo ago
> online banking will no longer work on Linux How? Across multiple browsers? > I think Android and iOS are safer platforms than PCs and that's why banks want you to use your phone. This statement fills me with revulsion and rage
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Well... sure. But people be crimeing, and some of these attacks can be done internationally.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Yeah I was a bit shocked... like... you're not supposed to know that!
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
But it's a maximum . It prevents people that want to use passphrases from doing so.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Maximum lengths like this are like a big neon sign that says: "Hey idiot, I'm storing your password in plaintext, don't know anything about password security, and I'm also going to make you pick something you can't
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
> The GP is equating policies for strong passwords that aren't trivially cracked with authoritarianism. Incorrect - the requirements I mentioned make passwords less memorable and less secure (maximum length 12???). Obviously that&#x
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
One time I had to reset my password with the power company - they had such a system, and the lady had to read me something like: Uh4zB4DP55WD! Apparently I was a bit salty with the system when I set it. The fact that she shouldn't have
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
It's easier for me to remember really long passphrases than even short alphanumeric strings - small maximum password lengths set my teeth on edge. The passwords should be getting hashed anyway right?
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Your password must be between 8 and 12 characters, and must have lowercase, uppercase, numbers, and punctuation. Pick up the can!
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
You can install Google Apps as a regular set of user apps rather than a system-level admin monstrosity, and it mostly works - Play Store included. Whether or not that defeats the purpose is an exercise left to the reader.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
The RCS issue is why I switched back to iPhone, reluctantly. If anything, iOS seems buggier and less reliable, but I know (and am related to) a lot of people who insist on using iMessage/RCS, and I can't be missing messages.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Unless you're being sarcastic, this is exactly the kind of surface-level false equivalence illogic I'm talking about. From my post: > I also don't discount that other modes of "consciousness" are possible, it jus
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
> Yes, acknowledged, those actions originated from 'just' silicon following a prediction algorithm, in the same way that human perception and reasoning are 'just' a continual reconciliation of top-down predictions bas
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
You're replying to me, but I don't agree with your take - if you simulate the universe precisely enough, presumably it must be indistinguishable from our experienced reality (otherwise what... magic?). My objection was: 1. I don&#
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Right, I don't disagree with that. I just really objected to the "must", and I was using "pile of linear algebra" to describe LLMs as they currently exist, rather than as a general catch-all for things which an be d
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
Ok, how about "a pile of linear algebra [that is vastly simpler and more limited than systems we know about in nature which do experience or appear to experience subjective reality]"? Context is important.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
That still necessarily implies agency and cognition, which is not a given.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
I'm objecting to a positive claim, not making a universal statement about the impossibility of non-human sentience. Seriously - the language used is a wild claim in the context.
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
> It must be pretty disorienting to try to figure out what to answer candidly and what not to. Must it? I fail to see why it "must" be... anything. Dumping tokens into a pile of linear algebra doesn't magically create sen
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by empyrrhicist 8mo ago
I think they meant [Targeting the] burning [of] coal.

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