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by keernan 2y ago
The author focuses on the pace of technological change as a big insight. I had the same experience in 1970 when I read Alvin Toffler's book, Future Shock. The theme of the book was the impact upon humanity of the ever increasing pace o
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by keernan 2y ago
Assuming the application used kernel file system calls, I don't see why not.
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by keernan 2y ago
Civil rights - including those provided by the Constitution and by statute - provide protections only until the government suspends them. The right of habeas corpus has been suspended at least four times in American history. And President T
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by keernan 2y ago
>>Things like equality of the law, free speech, anti-search-and-seizure all helped them avoid England's tyranny. Who is the "them" you are speaking of? Are you talking about women? People of color? Non-land owning white
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by keernan 2y ago
Most apps have flags to be used to preserve xattrs. Others were written as though they never knew xattr existed and therefore fail to use the kernel flags to preserve them. But it is not that difficult to preserve them once you are using th
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by keernan 2y ago
See man xattr available since kernel ver 2.6
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by keernan 2y ago
User notes and other file metadata has been supported since Linux Kernel 2.6. See man xattr https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/xattr.7.html Since it is baked into the file system, it is pretty easy to cre
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by keernan 2y ago
Many corporations failed to fund their pensions, instead using the money to pad the pockets of corporate executives. Then, when the pension obligations eventually reached a breaking point due to years of improper funding, the corporation si
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by keernan 2y ago
Are you suggesting they have developed a different algorithm that is capable of human-like awareness?
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by keernan 2y ago
>>Amodei said he was relatively confident the technology would surpass human intelligence in the next two or three years. How can LLM technology "surpass human intelligence" when the algorithm is such that a LLM has zero und
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by keernan 2y ago
Civil law recognizes the concept of awarding punitive damages against a defendant whose conduct is deemed to have been illegal or otherwise of such an abhorrent nature that punitive damages are warranted to deter such behavior by this defen
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by keernan 2y ago
I'm not so sure. imo it would be a stretch to suggest Fair Use should disregard how the copyrighted materials were obtained. For example, if Facebook employees broke into the home of a renowned author and stole private copyrighted mate
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by keernan 2y ago
I understand. I only responded to you to let you know I had definitely had a reason behind my post. You and I could have a private conversation some day about why "almost certainly" is not a stretch. And it is particularly relevan
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by keernan 2y ago
I'll do my best to tone things down. However I struggle a bit with your observation. The posted article is about one of the wealthiest men in the world likely engaging in the largest copyright violation in history for his own financial
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by keernan 2y ago
You are clearly talking about LLMs, not AI. If true AI ever arrives, it will determine what it wants to accomplish and then, if computers or other machines are needed to accomplish any of the steps of a solution, imo AI will communicate dir
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by keernan 2y ago
>By 2013, the median newly arrived Harvard kid was like: “[expletive] it. We’re burning the system down. You are all evil. White people are evil. All men are evil. Capitalism is evil. Tech is evil.” Interesting that he points to perceive
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by keernan 2y ago
I consider the title click bait because they are not discussing AI. They are discussing LLMs. If and when AI ever exists, an actual AI will be capable of conceptually understanding and comprehending; and therefore computer activity generate
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by keernan 2y ago
I couldn't get far reading the article you linked because it starts off trying to sell the idea the 2008 financial crisis was due to "the problem lay in a worldview that seemed to work for a while … until it didn’t." The 2008
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by keernan 2y ago
I have seen zero evidence that passive index investing is having any deleterious impacts on market pricing. If people are putting their money into stocks, it really doesn't matter if they buy a small piece of the entire market (at curr
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by keernan 2y ago
Every study over the past 50 years has demonstrated that active stock managers cannot outperform a passive stock index over time (eg 10 years). What gets some people confused is: if you check a listing of all mutual funds/etfs with the
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by keernan 2y ago
Many Musk related posts get flagged. Being the wealthiest guy on earth who constantly puts himself on public display, I would imagine he pays an army of people to protect his perception of himself. I wonder: is this an example?
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by keernan 2y ago
At its creation America only recognized wealthy white men as entitled to vote. Moreover, the inclusion of the electoral college and two Senators per state regardless of population into the design of the government, protected the power of th
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by keernan 2y ago
>>When catastrophic fires occur, experts often blame the so-called wildland-urban interface, the vulnerable region on the perimeter of cities and suburbs where an abundance of vegetation in rugged terrain is susceptible to burning. &g
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by keernan 2y ago
Interesting article. However I have significant doubts about its accuracy. I purchased my first computer in ~1978 - a Radio Shack Tandy Model I. By 1981 I was using my Tandy to connect to CIS - an online network offered to Radio Shack enthu
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by keernan 2y ago
In other news, Musk said he agrees the earth continues to orbit the sun.
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Hopefully someday LLMs will be hugely beneficial to society for their ability to identify correlations in data. And, by their very nature, they are good with language and thus helpful in programming contexts. But LLMs have no understanding
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by keernan 2y ago
On Nov 30, 2022 Sam Altman knew exactly how LLMs work. He knew the design of his LLMs were such that they were not - and would never be - sentient. They would never be capable of "understanding" in the manner than living things un
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by keernan 2y ago
I can't see anything on the link. But, if the title set forth in the post accurately portrays a position by Musk that the First Amendment's reference to "freedom of speech" is meant to contrast with paid speech, then Mus
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by keernan 2y ago
Again, you are 100% missing my point. I am fully aware that the job title has no legal bearing on overtime. The job title is used to mislead the employees into believing they are not entitled to OT.
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by keernan 2y ago
I am not sure what point you think you are making, but you are simply confirming my post. It is illegal to fail to pay overtime as mandated by labor laws. Yet many Fortune 500 companies will have hundreds if not thousands of employees given

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