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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Such as what? And is it worth the downsides of mass surveillance?
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Revealing what is in those documents might threaten US power projection in the world, but it would not threaten US national security in any significant way. That is, it might hurt the US' ability to shape the world as it desires, but i
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The Atlantic and Pacific oceans and the US nuclear triad mean that there is nothing in those documents that could pose any significant threat to US national security. The NSA might in fact be occasionally helping to stop relatively small-sc
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>They tend to be small according to Google’s definitions of test size. Small tests are fast and deterministic, allowing developers to run them frequently as part of their workflow and get immediate feedback. Yes, but for companies that
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Ask HN: Why focus on unit tests over end-to-end tests?
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I dislike how much for Tolkien being good means the same thing as obeying the right authority. However, I think that his work does not really suffer much from this because he does not try to rub his moral attitude into the reader in the way
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I think it's worth pointing out that the 2008 financial crisis came on the heels of another event that had already done much to discredit elites and elite-adjacent "experts": the Iraq War. More specifically, the discrediting
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>The project begins in the programmer’s mind with the beauty of a crystal. The knowledge I am to represent in code seems lovely in its structuredness. For a time, the world is a calm, mathematical place. […] Yes, I understand. Yes, it ca
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
One of the world's most censorious states considers doing more censoring...
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"So what do you do for work?" "Well you see, right now we are in the middle of one of the biggest jumps forward in AI technology in human history. I get paid to deliberately make the AI stupider so that it's harder for i
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I am mostly a novice to the field of LLMs, but as a layman who has a basic but admittedly very rough understanding of how they work algorithmically, I have a hunch that the same thing that makes these LLMs powerful AIs that have interesting
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>It’s not just farmers. You also need drivers, clerks, mechanics, accountants, etc. Also the regulatory apparatus which does a pretty good job of ensuring that food doesn't have dangerous chemicals or pathogens in it, and the law en
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The title of the article should be "People with higher intelligence scores take longer to solve complex problems". Let's say that I define being very intelligent as being able to rapidly solve hard problems. I think this is a
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The thing is, it is more complex than that. Reddit's authoritarianism is an important part of why some of those other social networks you listed became what they are in the first place and/or why they were created to begin with. T
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Well, sounds like we do not really disagree much. You mainly just object to my use of the word "woke" because you read it in its original meaning, which is fair. Feel free to just replace "woke" by "dogmatic authori
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>Using it as a slur, as originally done by Trump, places you into a very specific camp that is certainly nowhere near moderate. It really does not, and you thinking that it does is a good example of the kind of dogmatic "if you are
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I am using "woke" to mean "progressive but in a dogmatic and authoritarian way". Yes, I am using it in a derogatory way. That is because I dislike dogmatic authoritarians. I do not use the word to describe progressives w
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
We can argue about what "woke" means in overall politics, but there certainly is a power block of Reddit mods who can fairly be described using that term. Many of them are the kind of people who are so deluded that they think Redd
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The 1990s gamer in me gets a kick out of seeing John Carmack and Tim Sweeney talk to each other.
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
>Successful tech entrepreneurs at first mostly stayed out of politics. Around 2010, they were generally associated with the left, as Bill Gates began to be involved in areas like climate change and education reform. Then came the Great A
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Most of Uber's leaders, I imagine, probably would not relish the idea of walking through those same areas at night.
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I used to have a prejudice against YouTube comments, but having paid more attention to them lately I am realizing that in my experience, YouTube comments are not any lower quality than Reddit comments on average.
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
In the brief war between the Spez regime and the mod putschists, the regime has achieved complete and crushing victory. The shattered remnants of the putschist forces are retreating across the battlefield. Many are turning over their weapon
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
It's not that I like Reddit the company, it's that I dislike the mods even more than I dislike Reddit the company. If they were actually working for the benefit of their communities as I understand it, I would probably feel differ
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Time will tell whether a significant number of users have simply left the site, like you have. I am going to register a prediction: I think that the number of people who use Reddit will be almost indistinguishable after the lockdowns compar
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
One of the big arguments in favor of the blackout is that it is supposedly a democratic expression of the will of the communities. But most of the more than 2000 comments on this thread are not only against the blackout, they go further and
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
People who hate mods tend to be people who value a more anonymous style of social media communication than persistent usernames and/or people have been censored so much before that they have been forced to make new accounts.
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
The problem is that among the kind of people who are willing to be Reddit mods, insane authoritarians are hugely over-represented. Sure, I can find some small subreddits where sane people are mods. That does not mean that I cannot express m
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
I think that such polls tend to vastly over-represent the small subsets of those communities who care enough about the issue to vote. Voting is very rare in subreddits so I imagine that probably most users of those subreddits did not even r
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by hax0ron3 3y ago
Poor mods, upset that Reddit is making it slightly more difficult for them to censor everyone who disagrees with them.

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