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by jrm4 1y ago
I legitimately can't tell if this is satire. Anyway, as a Black Christian, I always tell people on both sides -- know what religion is most responsible for slavery in the US? Christianity. And also, know what religion is most responsib
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by jrm4 1y ago
That's super interesting. I'm not why my assumptions are different, perhaps because I'm black and 48 years old?
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by jrm4 1y ago
Copyright infringement is the act of creating/using an copy in an unauthorized way. Remember, we can only target humans. So we're not likely to target your guy; but we ARE likely to target "the guy that definitely fed a compl
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by jrm4 1y ago
Again. GOOD GOOD GOOD. What you have just told me is a FEATURE. Not a BUG. I'm very GOOD with people "not immediately knowing." I like that. It forces them to learn about my people and culture. "Juneteenth" makes yo
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by jrm4 1y ago
And hopefully this puts to rest all the painfully bad , often anthropomorphizing, takes about how what the LLMs do isn't copyright infringement. It's simple. If you put the works into the LLM, it can later make immediately identi
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by jrm4 1y ago
I cannot possibly disagree with this more, "Juneteenth" is far superior. Part of it is that it absolutely invokes AAVE. It forces people to consider and be reminded of Black American culture; "Emancipation Day" whitew
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by jrm4 1y ago
looks like I riled up the Rationalists, huh
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yup, can't stress the word "tool" enough. It's a "tool," it's a not a "magic window into absolute truth." Tools can be good for a job, or bad. Carry on.
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by jrm4 1y ago
My eyes started to glaze over after a bit; so what I'm getting here is there a group that calls themselves "Rationalists," but in just about every externally meaningful sense, they're smelling like -- perhaps not a cult,
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yeah but these feels like "more truth is said in jest etc etc"
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by jrm4 1y ago
As I've said a bunch. AI is a search engine that can also remix its results, often to good effect.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Having played with VR painting? I'm genuinely shocked that it's not a killer app for VR. Feels like it should be BIGGER than it is.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Yeah, but I think it's also a failure of .. "us" to not be savvy enough to understand, and perhaps defend, someone who was outrageously ahead of everything in thinking about software the way he did. Others may be too young fo
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by jrm4 1y ago
You're 100% correct; but it's lately been really fashionable to pile on Stallman on this.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Probably one of the worst articles I've read on the subject. It would be fine if the focus of the article were openly merely "what exactly do the words 'Open-Source' mean and how does it compare to other concepts like &#
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by jrm4 1y ago
I'll keep saying it; all this design stuff is goofy and will continue to be goofy as long as everyone in it keeps confusing "science" with "fashion." Genuinely -- fashion is fine, plaid is in this year, great! Whate
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by jrm4 1y ago
Perhaps I slightly misspoke: The underlying ideas in an academic context are not stupid. The "rush" (feels like to me) to bring them into a law/policy context is.
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by jrm4 1y ago
I really hope OP posted this to make fun of it. This is absolute cope. Apple hasn't innovated much in years and there is nothing special in this whole Vision whatever.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Correct. Which is precisely why I have a problem with this idea as Anthropic is executing it; they might as well say "books and video games are conscious and we should be careful about their feelings."
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by jrm4 1y ago
Nothing at all, if all you're doing is speculating within an academic context. This appears to be more than that; these are steps in the direction of law and policy.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Oh wow. My respect for Anthropic just dropped to zero; I had no idea they were entertaining ideas this stupid. In full agreement with OP; there is just about no justifiable basis to begin to ascribe consciousness to these things in this w
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by jrm4 1y ago
"If an attacker gains root privilieges.." LOLOL lemme stop ya right there chief. I'm screwed anyway? This is ridiculous.
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by jrm4 1y ago
I still genuinely struggle to understand the advantage of UEFI/Secureboot whatever over BIOS. I own a piece of hardware, so I can do what I want to it. Out there, there is software, which I have to figure out how I'm going to trus
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by jrm4 1y ago
House of Leaves, perhaps?
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by jrm4 1y ago
Boom. Nailed exactly what happens, and how you deal with it.
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by jrm4 1y ago
Love the spirit of what you say and I practice it myself, literally. But also, no - Just self-host or it's all your fault is never ever a sufficient answer to the problem. It's exactly the same as when Exxon says "what ar
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by jrm4 1y ago
Having worked with and around a lot of different people and places in IT as an instructor; frankly the funniest thing I've observed is that everyone in IT believes that there is some baseline concept or acronym or something that &quo
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by jrm4 1y ago
Tools define those too, I've seen a few GREAT articles on the subject, but the example was given: There's a dance everyone knows called "the robot." It, of course, didn't exist until after robots were invented becau
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by jrm4 1y ago
They do different things, I hear? I know Wireguard works closer to the kernel, but it's more of a traditional "VPN" otherwise, and you'd have to add "mesh."
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by jrm4 1y ago
On so many levels and for so many reasons I hate how true your second sentence is. For what its worth, we really should figure out how to e.g. bring the idea of "files" BACK.

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