int_19h

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by int_19h 9mo ago
> If some one were to say to you - you can have 10,000 more iPhones to play with but your friends would get 100,000 iPhones, would you reject the deal? I'd think about how many elections he can buy with those iPhones, for starters.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
There's nothing wrong with generative AI as a technology. The problem is that it's in the hands of sociopaths. But that is a general problem with our socioeconomic system, not with AI.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Especially when they make money off the free work of all the people who contributed to those training sets. There really needs to be some kind of "commons tax" for that kind of thing.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Speaking as someone who thinks the Chinese Room argument is an obvious case of begging the question, GP isn't about that. They're not saying that LLMs don't have world models - they're saying that those world models are
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Those companies were each sitting ~$50-100B in cash even before the AI boom.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Yes, but that majority doesn't need cloud gaming precisely because those games run just fine on their phone - there's no benefit in putting them in the cloud, that was supposed to be for fancy stuff where you need a beefy GPU for
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by int_19h 9mo ago
What products and what models have you tried?
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Never mind that; how about sentient (AI) protons?
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Speaking of hard SF with imagination, Hal Clement's "Mission of Gravity" is a good example.
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Early SF would be a couple decades before Lem.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
The Three Body Problem is not even close to hard science fiction.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
I remember Musk being much more popular hereabouts and in my IRL circles 10 years ago. That things moved from that to outright vilification is entirely due to how he behaved since then.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
AI is the best thing that happened to desktop Linux!
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Heinlein's political views are not exactly a secret among people who care for his books.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Hackers is weird in that the tech part of it is so obviously fake, but then you have the hacker culture part that goes to the point of actually quoting a large part of the "Hacker's Manifesto" in the movie.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
The problem is that it doesn't actually include the referenced file in the context. The model will only see what's in it if it deigns to read it, but that's not a given in all circumstances where it might need to. I use this
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by int_19h 9mo ago
> Are you that convinced, from your moral high ground where you judge Microsoft employees and ICE agents, that you'll be on the right side of history? Yes. It really isn't difficult to figure out who the bad guys are, at the mo
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by int_19h 9mo ago
It is a standard in a sense that they will all read it (although last I checked you still need to adjust the default config with Gemini). But feature support varies between different tooling. For example, only Claude supports @including oth
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by int_19h 9mo ago
How many Ukrainians are you willing to let Russians kill in return for cheap gas?
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by int_19h 9mo ago
"The mistake has proceeded from not attending with due care to the mischiefs that may be occasioned by obstructing the progress of government at certain critical seasons. When the concurrence of a large number is required by the Consti
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by int_19h 9mo ago
It's not an either-or. In mixed-member proportional system, you still get a representative specifically for your district who can thus argue for its interests. But you also get some people elected on party lists so that the representat
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by int_19h 9mo ago
The problem is that the side that organizes always wins over the side that does not. And it's very difficult to ban political organization (which is ultimately what parties are) in a way that is actually enforceable. The American found
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Forgiveness is warranted when people express genuine remorse and strive to not repeat the same action again. Anyone who voted for Trump in 2024 had his first term as a shining example of what the man is. This goes doubly for people who vote
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by int_19h 9mo ago
The original American political system is based, first and foremost, on the notion that political parties are bad and shouldn't exist. Of course, it never really worked out that way. We're simply at the end of that very long line.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
From the business perspective, endemic corruption is preferable. Generally speaking, on societies like that, you know exactly how much you need to pay to which people to get things moving, so it can be budgeted for predictably.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Doing things puts you on the hook when those things fail. Politically it's much better to keep the limit in place so that you can make virtue signalling votes that are guaranteed to fail. That way you're seen as "doing someth
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by int_19h 9mo ago
> That implies that it’s guaranteed you will pass, which is false. It is not a "may issue" situation. You're guaranteed to pass so long as you are not in any specifically defined disqualifying categories, which are the sam
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by int_19h 9mo ago
It's not just Flock positioning themselves that way. It's that they have broad support from American police and other law enforcement agencies. My state (WA) is currently trying to pass a bill that places considerable restrictions
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by int_19h 9mo ago
This is America. Just shoot them.
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by int_19h 9mo ago
Well, some people who call themselves antifa also use slogans like "liberals get the bullet, too". The right's play wasn't to invent antifa from the whole close, but to imply that those kinds of views are universal or

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