heresie-dabord

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by heresie-dabord 6d ago
When colluding oligarchs agree on a course of action, the laws will bend or be bent.
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Yoshua Bengio's non-profit LawZero to build safe AI(theglobeandmail.com)
4 points by heresie-dabord 7d ago|0 comments
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by heresie-dabord 13d ago
> Now, if you don't want to sound like a random person on the internet talking about something they don't understand This made me laugh. Thanks for not letting me fall unassisted into such an overpopulated trap. ^_^ > People
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by heresie-dabord 13d ago
> the power resultant from AI Given sufficient human incompetence, the technology doesn't even need to be powerful or efficient (or even work as advertised). It just needs to amplify/scale human incompetence.
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by heresie-dabord 13d ago
From TFA: "AI hardly needs to wipe out humanity in order to be harmful, though. Many experts predict that more powerful models will lead to a coming wave of AI-assisted cyberattacks. The technology is now widely used for disinfor
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by heresie-dabord 18d ago
> Religion is very closely tied to power structures Fixed it for you, Sir.
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by heresie-dabord 21d ago
> People just generally don't give a shit The whole biosphere is over there in the corner, weeping.
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by heresie-dabord 21d ago
> WebKit MiniBrowser compiled with Fil-C Sir, do you happen to have instructions for doing this? We who benefit from your philanthropy salute you.
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by heresie-dabord 21d ago
Oligarchy has completely subverted democracy in the US. In this era, venal actions are official actions. Nothing is even hidden anymore. Racketeering and thuggery are on display even during supposed negotiations. The US is under mob rule. S
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by heresie-dabord 26d ago
Alas, Wittgenstein can only explain it like you are 0.5.
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by heresie-dabord 26d ago
> why is it that for the ozone layer we got together and undid the damage but for climate change we don't? For the ozone layer, it was deemed possible to eliminate (or significantly reduce) certain chemical emissions. For generalise
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by heresie-dabord 26d ago
> You don't want to be the farmer who falls over in his pig sty. This is the real reason for the panic when Dorothy falls into the pig sty at the beginning of the Wizard of Oz. The pigs would crush her and eat her. (But in the movie
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Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America(cnn.com)
50 points by heresie-dabord 27d ago|51 comments
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by heresie-dabord 28d ago
More general statement: "Autocrats encourage fan fiction"
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by heresie-dabord 28d ago
> For things that were intended good, but ended up bad, there's an English idiom: Better is the enemy of good. Old Italian proverb: "il meglio è nemico del bene" Shakespeare, King Lear: "Striving to better, oft we m
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
> the real lesson we need to learn from Battlestar Galactica It's the same lesson that we can learn from Star Trek, Star Wars, and all the other self-aggrandising lore that humanity concocts when gazing lovingly in the mirror. There
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
Key points (from TFA): = = = The image [...] is a 116 kB AVIF with a quality score (SSIMULACRA 2) of 62.8, meaning medium-high quality. To get the same quality, the JPEG XL image would be 134 kB. At a SSIMULACRA 2 score of 80 (ve
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
I recommend the thought-provoking short story, "Unaccompanied Sonata" by Orson Scott Card. It's a story about music craft but it's also a brilliant example of story-telling. Music and writing will change. The markets for
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
Trump and MAGA have destroyed the good relationships and trust that the US had built throughout the world. Canada's Prime Minister wrote [1]: "We have recognised from the beginning that America has changed, and that we will not re
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
> Yes. Actual real people believe that LLMs are actual, thinking, intelligences, perhaps even with consciousness. It's starkly ironic that the species that finds it easy to think (or to be conditioned by market forces to accept) tha
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
> mental health and healthy relationships One cannot think oneself into these states. These things grow like good things in a garden. The world is full of unhappiness that only caring, compassion, and actual effort can fix.
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
Obligatory UNIX fortune: "Computer Science can be thought of as the post-Turing decline in formal methods."
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by heresie-dabord 1mo ago
Stripped of religious rhetoric, political discourse in the US is best understood as the economics of brazen greed.
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by heresie-dabord 2mo ago
> these are memorable events It's a fascinating learning experience. Birds fall silent and the temperature drops quickly. Our species is too inconsiderate of Sol and nature. > bees "see" the sun's polarity, which h
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by heresie-dabord 2mo ago
> Hungary did a 180 [...] Hopefully the US can do a 180 in the midterms. One recent US poll (July 2026) reported that the Democratic Party has close to an 8 point lead over the Repuglican Party. 8 points — that's all! After all the
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by heresie-dabord 2mo ago
To paraphrase Syndrome [0]: When everything is a explosion, then nothing will be an explosion. [0] _ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Incredibles_charac...
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by heresie-dabord 2mo ago
CVE-2026-4I5109 - Your kitchen drawer contains forks, which can maim and/or kill. An attacker with kitchen access could access the drawer. See... CVE-1972-404: The code is written in C. ^_^
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by heresie-dabord 2mo ago
There is grotesque hype for this new category of software. And the skittish AGI debate generates more noise than it's worth. Do use the tool if it offers material/measurable improvement for your use-case, but budget carefully an
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by heresie-dabord 3mo ago
> is there a need for another language? If you know of a language that is perfect for all our needs today and tomorrow, please guide us to it. > What are we missing? Major concerns would be i) trust in the tooling, ii) quality and acc
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by heresie-dabord 3mo ago
Next total eclipse, 2026-08-12. Total: Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Northeastern Portugal Partial: Northern North America, Europe, West Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_...

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