john-radio

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by john-radio 3y ago
A paper not containing predictions is not the same thing as its having no predictive power!
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by john-radio 3y ago
My assumption was that they simply have a contract with openai.
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by john-radio 3y ago
I know that's X's story, but why do you consider it "far, far more likely" for that to be true?
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by john-radio 3y ago
> what other unknown, better coordinated, better funded, interest groups might be doing this sort of thing on a massive scale. There is no better-coordinated or -funded lobbying group than the military-industrial complex, which is, of co
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by john-radio 3y ago
Yeah, I think the root comment of this thread is talking out of his ass. Third-party trackers are not needed, and wouldn't make sense to use, to discern browser market share; browsers self-report their identity and operating system unl
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by john-radio 3y ago
This comment is the slippery slope fallacy because the person responding to you has rightly pointed out that not every situation that's described as a "groupthink bubble" actually is one; sometimes it's just people not w
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by john-radio 3y ago
> I personally know FANG engineers with half a dozen years of high-profile work who had to spend weeks training coding golf and algo&data structures trivia before passing the first round of interviews, all because these trivia games
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by john-radio 3y ago
You've crystalized for me what I've always liked about this story, it implies that for some (horrifying?) reason the aliens are totally familiar with non-sentient meat.
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by john-radio 3y ago
> I assume the author doesn't have the resources to fight Firaxis in court over this anyway. Bigger corporations than Firaxis have made that same assumption and lost. There was a great story recently about an Adelaide woman who repr
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by john-radio 3y ago
> or just letting attrition nibble down their numbers without having to announce layoffs. When you say it like that it sounds mean, but it's a pretty civilized way to handle downsizing if you ask me.
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by john-radio 3y ago
It's spectacularly well written, an engrossing read for sure.
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by john-radio 3y ago
How dare you tease us with that pornographic hypothetical?
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by john-radio 3y ago
I'd take that bet, given that Stallman is in fact still alive
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by john-radio 3y ago
It's not just a matter of buying one, if I recall correctly. There were a lot of customs issues with its non-obvious vehicle classification.
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by john-radio 3y ago
> The field of philosophy is already ripe with ideas from hundreds of years ago that an artificial intelligence can use against people in debates of free will, self-determination and the nature of existence. This isn’t the battle to pick
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by john-radio 3y ago
That helps, thanks! Not a good look for Sotomayor there either.
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by john-radio 3y ago
I'm not sure where you live, but try googling about the terms "free camping" or "dispersed camping" for your area. There are lots of natural areas (edit: in a lot of places) where you don't need a special permi
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by john-radio 3y ago
That link doesn't seem to support your claim at all? It only says that Sotomayor and Kagan were the subject of inquiries to universities as part of this investigation into the entire Supreme Court, not that they are accused of any wro
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by john-radio 3y ago
I've never read anything more out-to-lunch than this in my life. Clarence Thomas is a signatory of this code of conduct; in what way has he avoided impropriety and even the appearance of impropriety while accepting hundreds of thousa
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by john-radio 3y ago
I don't know whether Einstein meant "the intelligent few are more intelligent than the masses, collectively" or "individually," but it's not fair for you to say that one reading is "loose metaphor" wh
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by john-radio 3y ago
> Perhaps it is possible for applications that have small set of requirements. Well, for existing applications it is extremely difficult, not because Elixir lacks many important features that C# delivers (although I'm sure it does
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by john-radio 3y ago
Sure, but using ideas for the examples that are in fact bad ideas would strengthen his argument.
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by john-radio 3y ago
A lot of people have stories where they got no respect in their 20s at all, and then they made change X and into their 30s they started getting a lot more respect. But another huge factor in all this is that 20-year-olds just get pushed aro
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by john-radio 3y ago
> Raking in absurd sums to tweak linters or buttons may not be the worst thing in the world, if it also didn’t lead these bored people to dream of becoming architecture astronauts by introducing absurdly complex tools to solve imaginary
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by john-radio 3y ago
Honest question, really - what do you actually like about it? I get that it's an amazing technological feat; it must be really wild to see your car just Knight Rider itself along. But... It's not like you can actually focus on oth
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by john-radio 3y ago
Wow, if that happens I can really see myself getting an iPhone. Haven't used one for must be 8 years now, but the disrespect from Google towards the open internet has been pretty galling, and the voice commands and speech to text are a
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by john-radio 3y ago
Your questions are really apt. At the end of the day, scammers like this are predators (and of course, the ones featured in these videos are just the tip of the iceberg; scamming rich westerners is a billion-dollar industry) but they are al
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by john-radio 3y ago
I'm guessing they attempted to outsource the work of dealing with Kit's "customer support" to one of their more malleable blackmail/extortion/scam victims.
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by john-radio 3y ago
> Maybe an SEO professional would get attacked by a gigantic, prehistoric-looking reptile right there in front of me. Props to the author for having the ability to bang out her damn essay without getting bogged down in every little rabbi
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by john-radio 3y ago
The post that you're responding to doesn't make any claim about the law; it expresses that the defense that an AI company might be "unable to comply" with a command to remove user data is not an honest one.

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