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by gryfft 2y ago
> I read a sci-fi story in the 90s or so that mentioned the measurement of flops/cubic meter of space in our solar system as a way of thinking about how smart the environment was You may be thinking of Accelerando , distributed as
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by gryfft 2y ago
"It's actually really good for me, it's just bad for almost every cell in my body"
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Years ago I made up a script that would incrementally output from random files in a given directory at configurable speeds. Then I'd run a few instances of the script in a bunch of tmux panes so I could make my second monitor look eter
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by gryfft 2y ago
It's been mentioned elsewhere recently but this presents an accessibility nightmare for screenreaders and similar assistive technologies.
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There will be a period of transition, but society is simply not going to function the way older generations came to take for granted. The reckoning is here. Power secures itself.
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Bell Labs popping up yet another place you wouldn't have thought, but should have.
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by gryfft 2y ago
> It's tempting to take it as an autopilot but the results are much better if you treat it as a copilot. As the son of a pilot, this sentence is really funny to me. A real-world pilot would switch the places of 'copilot' a
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by gryfft 2y ago
Not every valid recognition of a real problem has to come with a 13-page point-by-point proposal for a fix.
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> And its new founding team thinks AI could be the secret to pulling it off. Here's the sentence I went in looking for, really all I wanted to know. I feel so weary.
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by gryfft 2y ago
> They went through a stage of disbelief, but now they’re in a phase where they’re sure everything will be fine and Trump will get it fixed. Ah, straight from denial into that other stage, more denial
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by gryfft 2y ago
Distribution of CSAM of any kind, artificial or not, normalizes the exploitatation of children. It's not "just free speech" by a long shot no matter how you frame it. What gives me the willies is how incredibly easy this ma
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by gryfft 2y ago
I'm sure they'll be repurposed into something profitable. Perhaps by leasing out mineral rights, or by carving out some of the choicest spots as highest-end residential real estate. No longer will America's resources be allow
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by gryfft 2y ago
IBM acquired SoftLayer in 2013 and the bluewashing didn't reach a fever pitch until 2019 or so. Also, the pandemic slowed things down at an already dinosauric company. IBM is over a hundred years old. I have faith that it will get arou
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by gryfft 2y ago
Atlassian?
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Give it time.
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Their "house"? Their ""insurance policy""? Do you know what a billionaire *is* ?
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by gryfft 2y ago
This is a joke or metaphor, right? No one can actually get Google customer support on the phone.
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by gryfft 2y ago
I'm sorry that I didn't get the chance to reply to your original comment before the downvote brigade chilled your speech. If I recall correctly, your question was an interesting jumping off point for a discussion about the differe
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by gryfft 2y ago
An argument from Justine Tunney's LC implementation [1]: > Programs written in the binary lambda calculus are outrageously small. For example, its metacircular evaluator is 232 bits. [...] Something like this could have practical a
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by gryfft 2y ago
> We need an entirely new approach where labor is not the basis of survival if we are to realise the humanitarian potential of universal automation. I think there might be a modest proposal or two floating around out there that would nea
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by gryfft 2y ago
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by gryfft 2y ago
Story can be safely ignored based on the first two words of the headline
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That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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by gryfft 2y ago
Brings back memories of bricking the family PC way back before I knew what a bootloader or filesystem was. Good times.
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by gryfft 2y ago
> The concept of surprise is very cool See also, foundationally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
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by gryfft 2y ago
The penny-- er, satoshi-- finally drops, eh? Even the true believers are starting to wake up.
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by gryfft 2y ago
Heh, fun headline to apply Betteridge's law to. > However, on average across OECD countries, 18% of adults do not even have the most basic levels of proficiency in any of the domains. This is painful but unsurprising.
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by gryfft 2y ago
Equating the Dark Enlightenment with the original article, I see. I wonder how long before The Art Of The Deal is required reading in 7th grade classrooms.
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Requiescat in pace.
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To learn more about the Western perceptions of the branding you have chosen, I recommend reading this English language wikipedia article. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika The negative association isn't minor

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