hackyhacky

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by hackyhacky 5d ago
> The hospital example is pretty much the same. Being "in the hospital" is analogous to being "in school", No. To be "in hospital" or to go "to hospital" means that you are a patient . To be &quot
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by hackyhacky 6d ago
We frequently use definite articles with plurals. It simply identifies a bounded or known set. * I understand all languages. -- unbounded set, applies to every language, everywhere * I understand all the languages. -- bounded set, applies
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by hackyhacky 6d ago
I have no idea why I shouldn't write "all the cases". What are you trying to say?
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by hackyhacky 6d ago
> Whether Hungarian qualifies as Finno-Ugric is up for debate, Is it up for debate? What is the argument against including Hungarian in Finno-Ugric? I mean, the "Ugric" part of Finno-Ugric is in reference to Hungarian.
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by hackyhacky 6d ago
> [I learned it] "at school" - I learned it at school, I'm not specifying which school > [I learned it] "at the school" - I learned it at school, the one that was referenced That's not the distinction tha
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by hackyhacky 6d ago
> since Slavic languages lack articles apart from Sorbian As far as I know (and as confirmed by Wikipedia [1]), Sorbian does not have articles. Maybe you are thinking of Bulgarian, which does have articles (although the definite article
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by hackyhacky 8d ago
That's fine, but a blog doesn't seem technically more demanding or interesting than a to-do list
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by hackyhacky 8d ago
> Diplodocus, Long Thought Exclusively American, Turns Up in Spain Another example of quality American production moving overseas. Globalization will be the end of us
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by hackyhacky 9d ago
Is it more fashionable to build an AI harness?
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by hackyhacky 11d ago
The police officer is not standing on the street corner, observing public events. They are searching a privately-held database of sensitive information whose use is governed by certain restrictions, which are being violated by the police of
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by hackyhacky 11d ago
The details don't matter. If you use a machine to commit murder, then you have committed murder, not the machine. The user is responsible, and the article's phrasing is an attempt to obscure that fact.
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by hackyhacky 11d ago
Pardon, but I think that someone who carries a gun (and is allowed to use it) as part of their work uniform requires stronger, not weaker ethical guidelines than someone who pushes code.
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by hackyhacky 11d ago
I work in a field where privacy of customer information is protected by law and we all take this very seriously. So, no, I would not do this, and I think that police (who have vastly much more power over people's lives than I do) shoul
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by hackyhacky 12d ago
> The Israeli Effective Altruist firm Irregular caused unsecured AI models to hack real targets. Why are we saying it this way? They did not "cause AI to hack." This phrasing in analogous to saying "caused the bullet to fi
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
> You are not smarter than your dog in dog behavior. That's true, which is my point: intelligence is not a scalar value. LLMs are intelligent from us in different ways, as a result of not being human, despite having access to a re
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
> What mechanism would an AI have today to simultaneously kill every single human being? Lull us into a sense of complacent idleness over the course of centuries by slowly taking on more responsibility for maintaining human civilization,
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
> If it's smarter than you, it can foresee everything you can, and come up with plans better than I can. I'm smarter than my dog, yet I am frequently unable to foresee my dog's actions. Serious response: we have no idea wh
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
The political, rather than legal, justification for unrestricted gun ownership in the US is that an armed citizenry is able to resist a tyrannical government. Regardless of your opinion on that argument, I don't think it applies well a
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
If the trigger has already been pulled, then we're off the hook. That genie ain't going back in the bottle! Pop the champagne and order 3 more data centers, pronto.
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
> if you know of an industry that’s properly progressive and countercultural and could conceivably pay at least survival wages * Be a hallucinogenic therapy shaman. * Start a cult. * Work as one of those paid protesters that they always
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. — Lao Tzu
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by hackyhacky 13d ago
OK, I'll bite. What, in your opinion is happening? What should we be doing instead?
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by hackyhacky 16d ago
You the real MVP
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
> Nobody except you is talking about history. You're kind of missing the point of my comment. You said, in essence, that it's impossible to learn about Communism unless you've experienced it personally. > China and Nor
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
Formally specified: there exists some human woman, in whose hand this will fit.
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
I read it. It's definitely a rebuttal.
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
> which in turn means it was intended to be the last. That's a bold and misguided assertion of authorial intent. Since you're a fan of the scientific method: you can please cite sources in support of your claim?
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
Is the purpose of school to make you do things that you'll enjoy?
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
> Teaching it to young minds who have not experienced the difference between the realities of communism and the rest is a vanity at best. So, we shouldn't learn about history until we experience it ourselves? Seems like that would e
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by hackyhacky 17d ago
> Problem is that book is based on so many things that we know are untrue about humans Which parts specifically of Animal Farm are untrue? Greed, hypocrisy, cruelty, avarice? Or the talking animals?

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