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by fl0ps 4y ago
U.S. state politicians are called out as complicit in attempting to roll back or revise child labor laws to allow minors as young as 14 to work in extremely dangerous jobs such as meat packing and coal mining due to labor shortage from adul
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by fl0ps 4y ago
<yawn> Surprise! LLMs that are (some portion of) the sum of human textual output can assemble morally bad as well as morally good things. To me this is like pointing out that horrific things are on the internet, and accessible to peop
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by fl0ps 4y ago
I haven't seen the show nor the segment in question, but won't this only serve to amplify the popularity of the show instead of mute it?
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by fl0ps 4y ago
"While we're at 23 people today (including me), I expect 100 people in our social scene living nearby in one year. (And one day, I expect 1000 people)." This sounds like collecting casual "facebook friends" rather t
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by fl0ps 4y ago
Not trying to rain on your parade, but how to do you contend to deal with the phenomenon noted by Sam Altman? "for some reason, a lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than hiring. Don't do this! T
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by fl0ps 4y ago
Already happened: https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ice-seven-al...
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by fl0ps 4y ago
Years ago when I was much younger I worked with o-scopes on a regular basis. I remember being quite surprised one day when I tried putting my thumb on a probe tip and happened to have my other hand somewhat near the power cord. You can quit
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by fl0ps 4y ago
How big does a large balloon have to be to contain a nuke payload/emp/etc. that can do significant damage because it's assumed to be just taking pictures? Would we be able to respond quickly enough if something was just let
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by fl0ps 4y ago
I commend the effort and like the direction but the Alexa-pill on top of it's head as well as the... interestingly placed... floor camera make the appearance weird to me personally. Especially since IR cameras can see through materials
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by fl0ps 4y ago
Thank you! The title of the post made me think it was on something entirely different.
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by fl0ps 4y ago
This is a great resource. I was recently surprised by the different ways to note boards/moves/pieces when trying to get ChatGPT to play a game of chess with me. Bonus points: Ask it to invent Fairy Chess deviant moves [ https:&#x2
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by fl0ps 4y ago
I think more than "dead weight", Musk was trying to get rid of what he deemed a culture problem. Using the dead weight as an excuse he did multiple rounds of purges, with "useful" (productive+culture matching) engineers
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by fl0ps 4y ago
"Is there anything that humans could realistically achieve that robots could not at a fraction of the cost?" Partly being funny, but: * On-the-spot judgement calls to abort/rescope/redirect mission as is useful * On-th
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by fl0ps 4y ago
Love this bit: "Software engineers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession..." (emphasis mine) I can imagine the hilarity that will ensue when that 70-something-still-employed Cobol mai
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by fl0ps 4y ago
I will need to retroactively edit the memories of a bunch of 40 and 50-somethings... Where are the Memory Police when you need 'em? (Good book, btw)
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by fl0ps 4y ago
Some parts of this book could be read/shown to a 5-year-old. We're talking simple battery-to-switch-to-lightbulb wiring diagrams, colored in red when the wires/bulbs have power (quite a nice touch when showing this to those n
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by fl0ps 4y ago
And just checking, facebook has a "13 Reasons Why" group which mentions suicide in the side panel. It suggests that this policy is not uniformly applied.
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Facebook suspended my account without warning because I mentioned a placename
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