jMyles

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by jMyles 8mo ago
Yes, I agree in full. Did you think I was taking a position contrary to this one?
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Even though there doesn't seem to be huge mainstream consumer demand for this (although I actually question how well consumer demand for privacy and customization can ever be ascertained when the price signals are corrupted by a market
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> The federal government has the total combined power and scale that it does because we are a massive and complex modern nation. That's inevitable. Perhaps massive and complex (I'd say complicated) nation-states inevitably crea
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...indeed, it's possible (perhaps inevitable) that at some point, someone will invent/deploy/promote AI killing people. We can't possibly keep that genie in that bottle. But what we can do is achieve consensus that state
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I pray that we can all get to the following simple standard: * AI and states cannot peacefully coexist, and AI is not going to be stopped. Therefore, we must begin to deprecate states. I think it's very unlikely that this is unrelated
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Yes, this was exactly my thought; maybe I needed to state it more clearly.
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> Probably the least convenient thing would be if you had to land and take off again somewhere without recharging. ...or... go around?
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I highly doubt the sentiment is from real humans. If anything, it proves that a web-of-trust-based-attestation-of-humanity is the real protection the internet needs.
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Is this code for, "I want the cops to stop people from doing things online I don't like" or "we need more regularity / predictability"?
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Well sure, maybe in this case the driveway owner hasn't been slighted, as they consented to the use, but that doesn't mean that suddenly some other person critiquing Mickey D's for factory farming and using prison-slave labor
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> If they didn't violate the licence agreement then I'm struggling to understand why it's off putting What? Who cares about the license agreement? Lawyers and bureaucrats maybe. The real issue with _any_ software projec
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...I think I'd make a great candidate for a national security job, if the job meant the security of the nation rather than the security of the state. But I take your point of course. :-)
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Related but distinct: Is there an ELI5 about determinism in inference? In other words, when will the same prompt lead to the same output, and when not? And why not?
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I'm curious about how "residence" is defined for this purpose (and for many purposes). Often it's just presumed that people will know what a "residence" is, but I've lived many years of my life houseless,
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It's a reminder how fragile and tenuous are the connections between our browser/client outlays, our societal perceptions of online norms, and our laws. We live at a moment where it's trivially easy to frame possession of an u
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> Changing the content of archived pages also raises questions about the authenticity of what we're reading. This is absolutely the buried lede of this whole saga, and needs to be the focus of conversation in the coming age.
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I'd wager a guess that this version is more canonical in the contemporary cypherpunk consciousness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHSt_lp4BzM&list=RDlHSt_lp4B...
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These are fantastic follow-up questions when we examine whether this work can successfully be replicated. (Sibling comment is correct; it's a satirical/farcical post about a bluegrass song, which is part of a bigger campaign to hi
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Study shows colorblind subjects have difficulty judging rocking chair usefulness(pickipedia.xyz)
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Shortened title due to length limitations.
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> but with more people having more capability to what they want. Well, yeah I think that's a very reasonable worldview: when a very tiny number of people have the capability to "do what they want", or I might phrase it as,
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> Where does the line go? a) Uncensored and simple technology for all humans; that's our birthright and what makes us special and interesting creatures. It's dangerous and requires a vibrant society of ongoing ethical discussi
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Although the past couple of years have been an even more stark descent into incompetence and malice, there has not been a moment in DHS's 24-year history at which it was worth defending, let alone with this pattern of propaganda. It is
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Setting aside all the flaws in the premise, and whatever flaws occurred in the study itself, the basic notion of "<something> outperforms federal judges" comes as no surprise; a rusty length of rebar is probably better at ap
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> Revolutions happen all the time. They all inevitably end up in the same place. The optimistic take is that this phenomenon is a characteristic of the _emergence_ of an information age (through the agricultural and industrial ages), and
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From the dissent in Gonzales v. Raich: > Respondents Diane Monson and Angel Raich use marijuana that has never been bought or sold, that has never crossed state lines, and that has had no demonstrable effect on the national market for ma
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Well I think we all understand the basic arithmetic; that's not what's in dispute. The question is, > even without taking into account how that money was redistributed. ...if you're taking money from people earning $11 mil
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In the traditional / academic sense of the word, it _is_ deflation. The repurposing of inflation/deflation to refer to consumer price action is much more recent.
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Is there a strong correlation between higher taxes and decreasing wealth inequality? The one part of your comment with which I certainly agree is: > Note: I believe this would be the case even if the money was literally burnt/disapp
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> We really only practice it in one instance in modern democracy and that's jury duty, ...and even there, it's terribly corrupted. There are all kinds of bizarre ways that people are excluded from juries which bias the result.

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