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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I think I’m missing something here. PA defines x * 0 = 0 for all x. So while we could take (Z+, 1, ++) as a model of it, we would be imposing a completely different definition of multiplication than the usual. Would this not be simply choos
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Zero is a natural number. It is in the axioms of Peano arithmetic, and any other definition is just teachers choosing a taxonomy that best fits their lesson.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Yeah this is what I meant, both in the behavior being intelligent and it being unfortunate that this is the case. It’d be nice if the most self-maximizing behavior were also the best behavior for the global system, but it doesn’t seem that
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Unfortunately, in the system most of us work in today, I think overconfidence is an intelligent behavior.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
But what if you, the observer, are also rotating? What if you’re rotating faster than the thing you’re observing?
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
> Any cloud service that has end-to-end encryption today can be forced to break it if the jurisdiction in which they're based passes a law requiring it. If a 3rd party can be compelled to decrypt it, it’s not e2e encrypted.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
That is, by definition, not e2e encrypted.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Encrypted backups are an intractable technical problem. The key is on the device you’ve lost, so another copy of the key must be saved somewhere. There has to be an element of trust, or else the actual use case that 99.9% of users have — I
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I hadn’t considered this use case, thank you for pointing it out!
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
It made a massive difference in the day to day lives of the most affected people — the chronically ill. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a death sentence being chronically ill before the ACA was. No protection for preexisting condition
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
You’re correct that this is the broad definition, but GP is correct that that is a very common form of regulatory capture in the US.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
That’s what makes it a good abstraction.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Since it's underlining code you wrote, it must be "found" that is highlighted, not "expected". Much like up and down, gravity exists to ground all of us in the same direction.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
So the entire economy should be in service of national security? That’s preposterous.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Making the argument that anti-trust is a bad idea because of geopolitics seems pretty wild to me.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I care more about how it affects consumers.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I would assume this is 1 request containing 2k pages vs N requests whose total pages add up to 1000.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Math is something that should be taught in an opinionated way with an eye toward pedagogy. Self study with GPT is an excellent tool in math, but only for those who have enough perspective to know which directions to set out on. I don’t thin
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Since facebook was fined for processing friend requests with foreigners on foreign servers, I feel like licenses like this are actually necessary for any product with any remote services components to operate in the EU, with more jurisdic
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Because multiplication gives rise to simpler algebras than convolution does.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I don't know, I'm not a doctor and I'm not giving advice to anybody!
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Go until just before it hurts, which is a moving target that you will have to calibrate carefully
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I’m in PT and dealing with orthos right now, and according to them, that IS how pain works for the vast majority of ortho injuries
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
10 years ago the NLP lab I was working in was trying to build a system like this for autoimmune disorders partnered with a hospital. Autoimmune diagnosis is broken, and it IS a systems problem. The hospital system itself incentivizes compar
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I care about the craft of constructing programs. I do not care about the craft of typesetting them.
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I don't think abdicating responsibility for the consequences of technology you create is a sustainable system of ethics, but I also understand why you feel the way you do and where you're coming from. (I'm not throwing shade,
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Eh, I don't think that lens is useful. It appears to me that the genocide very likely may not have occurred -- and certainly would have harmed fewer people -- if Facebook didn't exist. It is not simply a matter of it happening els
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
I'm not sure about better, but I'm concerned about a second Rohingya genocide. There was a lot wrong with Facebook's moderation system. Spend any time in any politically active groups -- or groups that like to discuss politic
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
Yes well people get upset when antifa does anything
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by jacksnipe 2y ago
At that point it becomes important to ask (1) how much damage does the illegalization itself do; (2) how much harm does the limited access actually prevent; and (3) how much damage alcohol does, and what the tradeoff is. If you’re going t

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