emtel

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by emtel 2y ago
Your duty as a parent is to your own children first. Not to other people’s children or to the state.
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by emtel 2y ago
In common usage we don’t think lawful violence as violence. We don’t say that it’s violent for police to arrest bank robbers. Therefore prohibitions on violence are commonly understood to apply only to unlawful violence. No one is confused
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by emtel 2y ago
They aren’t applied inconsistently. Distinguishing between lawful and unlawful forms of violence is a perfectly consistent way to go about it.
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by emtel 2y ago
Search SRE were huge dicks about it. I felt bad for the Orkut SREs.
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by emtel 2y ago
Even granting all that you say is true, it would be trivial for there to be bias in such an apparently rigorous process. All that is required is selective application of the rules.
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by emtel 2y ago
You’re presuming that the debate has to be carried out according to utilitarian rules (do benefits of free speech outweigh harms caused by certain speech). But why should it be?
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by emtel 2y ago
The attitude within SRE toward Orkut (the product) was one of disdain if not contempt. A healthy culture does not treat rapidly growing products this way.
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by emtel 2y ago
This culture was, imo, directly responsible for google's failure to launch a facebook competitor early enough for it to matter. The Orkut project was basically banned from being launched or marketed as an official google product becaus
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by emtel 2y ago
But how do they do that?
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by emtel 2y ago
What? That’s not true. Turing machines themselves do not have undefined behavior.
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by emtel 2y ago
It is darkly amusing to me that it took the FDA well over a decade to conclude what was immediately obvious to anyone who has ever tried phenylephrine: that it is not worth taking
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by emtel 2y ago
I meant for coding. Typically I have to think for a bit before I decide what code I want to write.
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by emtel 2y ago
Steve Yegge wrote about this ages ago: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/09/programmings-dirties... People always like to say "thinking, not typing, is the bottleneck". This is a totally wrong way to
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by emtel 2y ago
Aside from fossil water, all of our fresh water comes from desalinated sea water, transported inland by clouds - which shows that there is no brine problem as long as the brine is dispersed widely enough in the sea. “How widely” is enough i
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by emtel 2y ago
What are you talking about? Would facebook allow an account that posted some else's realtime location? No, probably not. Does facebook claim to adhere to free speech absolutism? No. What principle are they applying inconsistently here?
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by emtel 2y ago
As far as I can tell the level of analysis being applied here is "Zuck is bad, therefore tracking his plane is good, therefore banning anyone who tracks his plane is bad."
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by emtel 2y ago
> it is perfectly possible, I dare say plausible, that there exists a class of non-intelligent systems that no physically realizable intelligence can control I am not sure what this means. It's almost certain that no physically real
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by emtel 2y ago
I think this is a very bad refutation, but the point of my post is not to advance a particular argument, but to sort out what types of arguments have any hope of settling the matter at all.
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by emtel 2y ago
So many arguments along these lines run afoul of a very simple rule: You can't make predictions about the future by playing word games! An AI system can only be dangerous or not dangerous based on what physical events happen in the rea
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by emtel 2y ago
This is cool, but couldn't you generate the correction transformation simply from knowing the lens geometry? I assume this is what my phone is doing when I take wide-angle pictures (which don't have any visible distortion)
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by emtel 2y ago
for actual information: https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/04/court-allows-texas-to-enf... First paragraph: > The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to temporarily block a Texas law that requires pornographic websi
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by emtel 3y ago
Jeff Dean joined in 99, although perhaps his impact was so great as to be retro-causal.
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by emtel 3y ago
No it wasn’t! The Turing test is not “can at least one be fooled”, it’s “can an expert judge distinguish between a human and an AI”. Please read Turing’s paper, it’s very readable and is quite clear on this point
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by emtel 3y ago
I am surprised no one is mentioning "His Master's Voice" - in my opinion, one of Lem's best (and certainly his most terrifying) novels.
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by emtel 3y ago
Disagree - a model may have capabilities that it only deploys in certain circumstances. In particular, if you train on the whole internet, you probably learn what both stupid and smart outputs look like. But you probably also learn that the
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by emtel 3y ago
Time of year is not the issue. As soon as the system is in equilibrium, the contribution of AC is just the waste heat of the energy consumed. This is just thermodynamics / conservation of energy
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by emtel 3y ago
All electricity used in a city ends up as waste heat - AC is no different. If AC is using (as claimed in the article) 10% of a city's electricity, then it is responsible for 10% of the waste heat in that city. There could be a short te
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by emtel 3y ago
I think it comes down to this: - If your code has a bug, you will be better off without duplication, so that the bug must only be fixed once. - If you will have to change the behavior of your code for product reasons, duplication is often b
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by emtel 3y ago
I was lucky to attend the ignobel award ceremony the year that the peace prize was awarded to the creator of the Stalin World amusement park. This was also roughly the same time period that the annals of improbable research founded the Luxu
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by emtel 3y ago
I didn't say "the basics of superconductor theory" I said "the basic facts about superconductors", and I stand by my claim that those facts are enough to form an opinion about LK99 that is "above the noise floo

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