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by gwd 3y ago
The thing is, that won't duplicate the original Internet, because the Internet exists. This new filtered internet won't contain all the smart tech people; it will contain all the smart tech people who wanted to join an alternate
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by gwd 3y ago
Sure, just make something that has a barrier to entry that will filter out non-nerds. From what I can tell Ham radio is basically just a chatroom with an entrance exam, for instance. Anything done in a constructed language like Esperanto
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by gwd 3y ago
> This is why you need unions. Most businesses will happily screw over workers whenever they can to maximize profits and the workers are lucky if they get peanuts back when they're swimming in cash. The funny thing is, they might be
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by gwd 3y ago
Can you expand on that? One interpretation of "Zionism" could mean the idea that Israel should be an ethnically and religiously Jewish state that comprises the Biblical land of Israel, and that everyone else should be second-class
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by gwd 3y ago
Indeed; it's possible to love a person or a country, and yet still grieve their faults and wish them to be better. I'd argue that's the only real way to love anyone or anything. On the flip side, human nature being what it i
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by gwd 3y ago
In "So Long and Thanks for All the Fish", there's a forward Douglas Adams wrote for a book by another author which was unfinished. He related two stories: the first about an ancient Greek poet who would spend the morning rec
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by gwd 3y ago
> Searle's main point is that if I have a book that tells me how to respond and I never learn Chinese, then I do not understand Chinese. If you see a flaw in this reasoning, I am very interested. To a degree, I feel like the Chinese
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by gwd 3y ago
I've always disagreed w/ Searle re the Chinese Room. My guess is that Searle never built an adder circuit from logic gates: combining irrational elements together into something rational is the core magic of computer science. If
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by gwd 3y ago
A month or so ago I was doing some analysis on our mailing list traffic. I had a complex SQL query (involving tables mapping variations of email addresses to names, and then names to companies they worked for within specific date ranges),
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by gwd 3y ago
IMHO they kept Schulz doing Peanuts long after he should have retired. I remember in the 90's looking at the current comic strips and thinking, "Why is this so popular? It's not really that funny." But then I found som
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by gwd 3y ago
> Or to put it simply: using copyrighted material to create a model would NOT be considered fair use. The more I think about it, the more something along these lines seems like it might be the right way to think about it. When you play a
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by gwd 3y ago
> I personally have a really hard time finding any meaningful difference or distinction between "AI" and "lossy compression". If you feed a photo of your dog into a JPEG compressor and the result looked like a cat in
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by gwd 3y ago
> You can ask someone to produce a pin-up version of Minnie Mouse, but good luck using it in any commercial activities. The same would automatically apply to LLM output -- there's no need to change the current laws to cover that cas
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by gwd 3y ago
> how do you know if the image that just generated is substantially similar to an existing copyright work? This is already a problem with biological neural nets (i.e. humans). I remember as a teenager writing a simple song on the piano,
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by gwd 3y ago
> if this is a violation you'd see it in courts but it's not because there's no case Not everyone can sue; only people who have standing . Traditionally this would be people who own the copyright -- but on the whole, the
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by gwd 3y ago
> Lawsuits are like nuclear war in this instance. Are they? Because big companies seem to sue each other all the time, even while actively collaborating in other areas. Is Linus suing NVIDIA for blatantly working around technical measu
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by gwd 3y ago
> Through I hope they have a way for registered people to invite someone to join a meeting without a login (through with a bunch of limitations, like them being responsible for the person joining). I just played around with it now; it lo
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by gwd 3y ago
Having just played around with it: It still is; the only difference is that everyone is left "waiting for a moderator" until one person clicks "Log in", and jumps through the hoops to let Jitsi use one of their logins
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by gwd 3y ago
Playing around with it briefly, it looks like the login is only required to create the room. Our project uses Jitsi for a lot of official meetings, primarily because it's open-source. If it required everyone to log in, that would
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by gwd 3y ago
Agreed: "It's not the crime, it's the cover-up" [1]. [1] https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/obstruction-of-justice-it-...
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by gwd 3y ago
Similarities and differences in perspective: "...you were taught in [Jesus]... to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind
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by gwd 3y ago
> he just loved riding the bike and was tired of his bikes getting stolen while running errands around town. ...and that sounds horrible.
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by gwd 3y ago
In the "things you didn't know you know": I'm from Michigan, and I watched the movie "Fargo" a few years ago. In the opening shots of the movie, it is clearly actually very cold: you can tell because the sno
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by gwd 3y ago
That's a kind of funny one, where being more accurate made it worse: if they just had entirely made-up scenery, it probably would have bothered you a lot less!
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by gwd 3y ago
Or perhaps, buy six identical batteries, labeled 1-6; randomly charge them to two different levels (100% and 60%), three each, noting down which was which; then hand them to another set of people, who have only seen the numbers, and bounce
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by gwd 3y ago
> Turning your head isn't faster that alt+tabbing? Turning your head a few degrees, to the location you remember putting one specific window, and which is probably currently in your peripheral vision, is absolutely faster than tabbi
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by gwd 3y ago
I remember reading an essay by Brookes, where he makes the distinction between a "program", which can basically only be used by the one who wrote it (or with their help); a "product", which can be used by anyone; and a &
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by gwd 3y ago
One of the things that's most annoying to me is that you have to walk on eggshells to get it not to interpret what you write as challenging it. I forget the situation I had a while back; I asked it to do something with which I wasn&#x2
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by gwd 3y ago
I mean, if you were hoping to use the API to generate something machine-parse-albe, and that used to work, but it doesn't any more, then sure, that's a sort of regression. But it's not a regression in coding , but a regress
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by gwd 3y ago
> By that I mean, you can't tell if it's returning absolute trash or spot on correct. You use it for things which are 1) hard to write but easy to verify -- like doing drudge-work coding tasks for you, or rewording an email to

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