gustavus

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by gustavus 6mo ago
> this whole fascist, AI, far right nationalist takeover Well that's a new take I haven't heard before. That the AI is actually a far right nationalist takeover.... That's an interesting perspective.
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by gustavus 7mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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by gustavus 7mo ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/06/21/against-murderism/
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by gustavus 8mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/highlights-from-the-comment...
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by gustavus 8mo ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/come-on-obviously-the-purpo...
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by gustavus 8mo ago
No but then the next step is "well we need a way to enforce it because people are just lying about their age". I guess let me show a slope I found over here, just past the boiling frogs, watch your footing though, it's recent
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by gustavus 8mo ago
Remember Contraceptive companies are competitors to all other companies. Until we meet again!
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by gustavus 8mo ago
I have 4 kids (all under 12) and make quite a bit less than $200k with me being the only provider in the home and although I wouldn't say we're exactly where I want to be financially I don't think that were completely bankrup
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by gustavus 8mo ago
I'll be honest my initial read of the headline caused me th think they were have MS Copilot act as the new head of Xbox, not the person taking over Xbox used to be the guy in charge of an AI product.
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by gustavus 8mo ago
When I first started using the Internet there were 3 rules that were pounded into my head repeatedly. 1. Don't believe everything or anything you read or see on the Internet. 2. Never share personal information about yourself online. 3
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by gustavus 10mo ago
So my wife has a CGM and is stuck with a fancy pump that is supposed to "automatically" coordinate with her sensor to deliver or reduce insulin when it detects her numbers are too high/low. I've always been suspicious of
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by gustavus 1y ago
"Over a year, we collected 4,900 summaries. When we analysed them, we found that six of ten models systematically exaggerated claims they found in the original texts" So it turns out llms trained largely on Internet science articl
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by gustavus 2y ago
Just imagine how easy this pirate list could be turned into a "misinformation" list. Makes you think.
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by gustavus 2y ago
> Sometime in early May 2024, ARRL’s systems network was compromised by threat actors (TAs) using information they had purchased on the dark web. The TAs accessed headquarters on-site systems and most cloud-based systems So someone was u
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by gustavus 2y ago
Hey look at that it turns out their forcing it down our throats again even though we said we didn't want it. To paraphrase the IRA "[consumers] have to get lucky every time, M$ only has to get lucky once."
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by gustavus 2y ago
> Why would anyone sacrifice, at the very bare minimum, 6 years of their youthful years for 3 children? Most of the most fulfilling and meaningful things in life don't always make sense or are reasonable. But they often almost alway
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by gustavus 2y ago
I'm going to be honest it seems like a lot of the "data" obsession that has been all the rage among mid-level managers is really basically just a modern dressed up version of augury, or reading pig entrails to predict the fut
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by gustavus 2y ago
> I mean everything in the universe is in motion and spins… My understanding is that is a pretty open question as to whether or not blackholes due spin at all, or if they are all uniform apart from mass. Last I heard they do have tempera
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by gustavus 2y ago
Setting aside the shocking myopia of this comment (it turns out most of your food that magically appears in grocery stores comes from those useless rural yokels that use these roads) A major driver of the interstate highway project was mili
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by gustavus 2y ago
I love when people bring this up. I passively invest by which I mean I take a couple of bucks every couple of paychecks and throw them into an index fund or buy one or two shares of stock of a company. Not to mention my 401k. How about we h
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by gustavus 2y ago
DevOps like Agile was a beautiful idea with a coherent underlying well reasoned philosophy. DevOps like Agile was then hacked to pieces and had its corpse paraded around by sleazy consultants and idiotic management that was told "you c
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by gustavus 2y ago
Wow what is Canada's end game here? First they tell the search engines. Engines they have to hand over part of their revenue to legacy media. Now they're going after all the streaming services. Like what is their actual end game
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by gustavus 2y ago
Yes false rumours and unsubstantiated claims such as - COVID came from the Wuhan virology lab -The NIH was funding gain of function research in Wuhan. - There are rich pedophile businessmen that are pimping out underage girls to be able to
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by gustavus 2y ago
I feel that something happened at Google gradually and over the past few years but did happen. They initially paid a lot of money to hire the best and brightest minds, they created crazy algorithmic interviews and a lot of hoops and became
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by gustavus 2y ago
I love freenet as we continue to see the growth of authoritative bodies attempt to control the Internet I think it will become more and more important. The other thing I love about freenet is it feels exactly like using the Internet in the
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by gustavus 2y ago
What state are you looking at it from?
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by gustavus 2y ago
I think this is important. At the end of the day you have to live with yourself, and it's easier to live with a person who is nice rather than one who is mean.
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by gustavus 2y ago
"Listen Jack making people have two factor introduces friction to the signup process, which reduces customers, which reduces growth and profits. Meanwhile if there's a security incident what are they going to do, they can't s
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by gustavus 2y ago
Once signed up for the WSJ. Took 10 minutes just put in my credit card and address, got a sign up discount, and boom was done. 3 months later I needed to cancel. It turns out you can only cancel by a phone call, during their business hours
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by gustavus 3y ago
Counterpoint against that. Because optometry isn't considered part of the "healthcare" umbrella when I went to get LASIK it was the easiest medical transaction that I've ever done. They explained what they would do, said

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