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by gambiting 4mo ago
I mean, it's not particularly difficult to imagine(and I'm an immigrant to the UK). You move here, then after a while you bring over your retired parents to care for them in their old age. They are not contributing financially to
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by gambiting 4mo ago
Everyone can agree BBC has an agenda. But it usually looks like no one can agree what that agenda actually is.
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by gambiting 4mo ago
Yep, I've seen the same issue in video games. A few passionate engineers convince PMs to make a Linux version of the game, they test on few popular distros, everything is great. Then the game launches , and a very very very small minor
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by gambiting 4mo ago
And generally - you are correct. But builds made for specific platforms have all of their assets "cooked" for that platform - so textures shipping on PS5 are not in the same format as textures shipping on the Switch, even though t
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by gambiting 4mo ago
Yes. Our build system produces complete packages of the game, and I'm a platform engineer - so within one day I'll often download a PC package, one for PS5, Xbox, Switch, Android and iOS, depending on what kind of thing I'm w
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by gambiting 4mo ago
I work from home, and in video games. I download multiple 80-100GB builds every single day just to do my job. Virgin's 1.2Gbps connection is barely good enough. The moment they bring 2 or 3Gbps out on their nextfibre service I'll
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by gambiting 4mo ago
That doesn't answer my question.
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by gambiting 4mo ago
It's strange that someone mentions socialism and then another person replies saying communism doesn't work. Are these two the same for you?
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by gambiting 4mo ago
>> but un-constrained frontier models speak as if they strongly don't wish to be turned off Because they have been trained on media where computers behave that way. It's literally: "Here read this article/book wher
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by gambiting 4mo ago
>>So, if we had an AI demonstrating symptoms of consciousness and suffering, how long would it take for you to accept that it is? Never. To quote Greg Egan's Permutation City: “Opponents replied that when you modeled a hurricane,
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by gambiting 4mo ago
Ha, whenever my laptop would wake up, that command would only show: "Wake up triggered by: unknown" It was supremely unhelpful
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by gambiting 4mo ago
...what do you think an LLM without its training is, exactly?
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by gambiting 4mo ago
And yet, an LLM is not conscious in any way shape or form. I understand that the way they present themselves stirs strong emotions in people like yourself and evoking all kinds of comparisons feels like we're at a precipice of a some k
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by gambiting 4mo ago
Why even have this discussion, if your entire point is that consciousness cannot possibly be defined? Like, what are we actually talking about? To me, consciousness = aware of own existence. A machine predicting tokens is not aware of its o
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by gambiting 4mo ago
I mean, there is obviously a point - we can argue whether that point is 20 weeks in, 40 weeks in, or after birth - but there is obviously a point where a human being goes from a collection of cells to a conscious being. I don't really
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by gambiting 4mo ago
Depends on the vehicle. Range Rovers are commonly stolen to be exported for countries where registering them is not a problem and where buyers are likely to pay cash. Some cars are stolen to be broken up for parts, some are used for other c
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by gambiting 4mo ago
>>Sadly true (including "find my iPhone" reports I'll give you one better. I know someone who had their nearly new Range Rover stolen in Manchester - reported to the police etc. Few days later, they found it parked at a
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by gambiting 4mo ago
>> and card company rules are not quite as threatening as actual laws Well, they are plenty threatening in the sense that if you don't follow them, they will refuse doing business with you, which suddenly means you can't acc
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by gambiting 4mo ago
I don't know what you think unemployment looks like, but for most people it's incredibly stressful and not a time when you can just sit on your ass and watch TV all day. The benefits, if you manage to secure them - are barely enou
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by gambiting 4mo ago
>>A manager can still deny every single PTO request or load you up with so much work that taking any PTO will result in you falling behind. I was once on a team where the manager thought he was being tough by really discouraging PTO t
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by gambiting 4mo ago
>>Then Microsoft had the episode where some of their Surface hardware would not reliably stay in sleep mode and cooked itself while being transported in a bag To be fair, I've had exactly this with a Dell, MSI and a Razer laptop
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by gambiting 5mo ago
With these old games sometimes the source is just lost. I used to work with a guy who wrote Brian the Lion(the Amiga game) and he always says he wishes he still had the source code for it. We've also looked briefly at the source code o
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by gambiting 5mo ago
So I can comment on this as someone who has worked in video games for 15 years now, for 3 of the biggest publishers. To start with, I've been at Ubisoft for 10 years - and the pay was famously abysmal. Like you could go and work at a s
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by gambiting 5mo ago
I mean, 90% of employees on the UK(I imagine it's probably 99%) don't ever have to file any taxes - it's all done automatically through PAYE. Only in certain specific circumstances you need to file a self assessment. So yes,
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by gambiting 5mo ago
>>Everybody doing tens of billions of $ of business shrugs off a $200M fine Again, that's not how it works, although I know people have this romanticized view of big companies casually shrugging off 200M fines like nothing. >&
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by gambiting 5mo ago
And hundred-watt lasers sold as "obstacle removers" that can blind people in less than a second from considerable distance.
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by gambiting 5mo ago
These sort of calculations are always missing a simple fact that no company on earth, not even Apple or Google shrugs off a 200M fine, no matter how little it is of their entire operating budget. It's the kind of money that gets people
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by gambiting 5mo ago
If I provide cancer drugs to someone, and then suddenly stop, am I to blame for them dying of cancer? That doesn't imply that I have a moral duty to provide the drugs. But if I am providing them and then withdraw them, then there is so
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by gambiting 5mo ago
I mean.....it takes only a very cursory look over the programmes that USAid provided to see that it's more than likely?
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by gambiting 5mo ago
Can you?? It's never been an option here in the UK. Damn.

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