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by keernan 9mo ago
We have recently witnessed the invasion and capture of the President of Venezuela; the over threats to attack Greenland; invade Mexico; threats to Cuba and Columbia; the DOJ/FBI opening investigations of the Mayor of Minneapolis and Go
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How embarrassing.
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To the extent the known universe of human knowledge can be collected and some how parsed to flag questionable material, 'next word predictors' will be an incredible tool and change our world. We are already seeing the impact where
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by keernan 9mo ago
I have never doubted the transformative impact of 'next word predictors'. I have nevertheless concluded that such models will never have a mind capable of thoughts, wonder, imagination and curiosity.
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by keernan 9mo ago
>Americans are deeply divided on the big bad guvmit But insurance companies are a-ok
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We are talking about two different things. You are talking about the nature of poverty. No doubt the most impoverished in Russia are much worse off than the impoverished in western countries. I, however, am talking about the gap between the
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by keernan 9mo ago
>>The government gets a percentage of your income, this is the agreement that everyone makes. Forgive me if I do not accept the proposition that the non-wealthy had equal influence in the decision how to fund the government. The wealt
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by keernan 9mo ago
>They do lie. 'Lying', 'hallucinating' and other efforts to anthropomorphize a computer program only serves to reinforce the snake-oil being sold worldwide.
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by keernan 10mo ago
>only way they know to keep the other 140+ million content with the few scraps they get. The same wealth disparity exists in the west. Are you suggesting Russia is the governing model in our future?
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by keernan 10mo ago
>California, home to a host of Silicon Valley and Hollywood titans, had an estimated 255 billionaires last year, more than any other state, according to Altrata, a wealth-intelligence firm. More than one-third of California’s tax revenue
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by keernan 10mo ago
I don't care how its accomplished, but there must be a system that assures that everyone shares the same relative burden of paying for the costs of society. Relative burden meaning the financial pain Musk experiences is the same as you
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by keernan 10mo ago
I wonder how $400k worth of stolen lobster would be sold?
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by keernan 10mo ago
I have my own huge collection of my favorite music but, as it turns out, my carefully curated Pandora channel matches my music tastes so faithfully that it keeps introducing me to new music that I just love. And it almost never plays a song
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by keernan 10mo ago
Why does he only have to repay 45%?
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On a more practical level, I would be interested in Terry's thoughts on the open letter Sam Altman co-signed stating that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority," alongside risks like pandemics
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tldr; Our love affair with booze might be replaced by hi-tech alternatives
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For several years now, I have lived my life under the presumption that whatever I say on the telephone, email, or text has been downloaded and preserved somewhere.
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by keernan 10mo ago
Just a heads up: All four of my daughters prohibit my 7 grandchildren from going anywhere near roblox. My grandchildren are currently ages 2-11 but my daughters are so outraged by what happens there that they say their children will never b
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by keernan 10mo ago
1. My first objection is the outsized ability of the wealthy to interfere with the lives of others. No known political system effectively eliminates the connection between wealth and political power/societal influence. 2. Secondly, the
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by keernan 10mo ago
I bought my first computer in 1978 or 1979. Windows was a huge change for me. Now, at the age of 73, I spend most days sitting on my LR couch typing at the command line of a machine running Debian located in the basement.
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by keernan 10mo ago
>it will never go away Chet Ramey became the primary maintainer of Bash in the early 1990s and is the sole author of every bash update (and Readline) since then. That would be an enormous task for a team of 100, no less a team of one. I&
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by keernan 10mo ago
Attorneys are ethically obligated to follow very stringent rules to protect their client's confidential information. Having been a practicing litigator for 40+ years, I can confidently state I came across very few attorneys who truly u
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by keernan 11mo ago
SCOTUS has yet to rule on whether the Trump tariffs are a revenue-raising alternative to income taxes, rendering them an unconstitutional intrusion into the exclusive power of Congress; or regulatory tools for foreign affairs, which would b
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by keernan 11mo ago
For the same reason you don't sit and talk with rocks. Nobody understands how it is that wet meat can do these things but rocks cannot. And a computer is a rock. As such, we have no idea whether all the hunks of wet meat in the world c
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by keernan 11mo ago
I'm no historian, but has there ever been a society in world history that wasn't dominated by a 'privileged few'? Weren't the 'rules' of the United States of America written by wealthy white males who excl
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by keernan 11mo ago
>We're yet to find any process at all that can't be computed with a Turing machine. Life. Consciousness. A soul. Imagination. Reflection. Emotions.
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by keernan 11mo ago
It's as though I offered to 'sell' this comment and some idiots out there agreed to send me actual money to 'buy' it. Sometimes some people are incredibly stupid.
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>After adjusting for changes in the age composition of the U.S. population, researchers found that the prevalence rate of neurological diseases and disorders has remained stable over time, with only a 0.2% decrease between 1990 and 2021.
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I find the apparent mistrust of MS interesting since the OS already has 100% access to every byte of information on a disk and in memory. Our use of any operating system involves an implicit assumption the operating system is not actively s
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>>While playing as an eight-year-old girl, the reporter was given a sexualised avatar, cyberbullied, aggressively killed, sexually assaulted and shat on – all with parental control settings in place. This is the real story - not the a

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