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by knodi123 4y ago
lol, touché.
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by knodi123 4y ago
I mean, I'm not a judge, so we'll have to see, but it seems obvious to me that the existence of a wheel implies that sometimes you may need the wheel. And that if there is no wheel, it implies that the manufacturer of the c
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by knodi123 4y ago
In the firework example, you can still sue the person who fired the defective firework, because they should have known that unpredictable behavior was a possibility, and taken steps to prevent that from escalating into some damage. Likewise
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by knodi123 4y ago
my uncle used to say, invest in land, it's the only thing they're not making any more of. he would probably call volcanic islands the exception that proves the rule.
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by knodi123 4y ago
catechism excerpt for people who are having trouble scanning for the relevant part- > We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God.
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by knodi123 4y ago
"Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder" https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsona...
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by knodi123 4y ago
Downloading alpaca weights actually does use a torrent now! But it seems a little.... leechy... to use a fire-and-forget CLI torrent client to grab a dozens of gigabytes file and then quit.
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by knodi123 4y ago
That will be absurdly wasteful of power. My calculator runs using the power of ambient light in a comfortably lit room. There are some things that an LLM is well-suited for, but c'mon. Unless electricity and hardware becomes free, I
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by knodi123 4y ago
Why the heck wouldn't they have the wake-word listener confine itself to human-audible frequency ranges? Seems like that would be a really simple fix with zero loss of real-world functionality....
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by knodi123 4y ago
I'm far more worried about a sentient human using an AI to cause harm for their own ends. AI is nothing but a force multiplier, and as far as outcomes go, there's not much difference to my smoking corpse whether the decision to k
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by knodi123 4y ago
It means being confidently wrong. Like I asked facebook's llama the other day which dog was best, and it said golden retrievers because they are eager to please and don't shed (which makes them suitable for people with dog allerg
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by knodi123 4y ago
a really unlikely typo for ScramJet? I was wondering that myself.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> We're looking at steel partly for durability ... > For load sensors, we're thinking strain gauges and pressure sensors "We're looking"? "We're thinking"? Considering your demo video was a g
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by knodi123 4y ago
> god's work creating sentient life?
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by knodi123 4y ago
I am serious — and don't call me Shirley.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> I think the consensus at this point is that these models are much closer to AGI than anyone thought they could or should be Maybe closer, but not close. For one thing, these things don't even continuously think. Would you call a
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by knodi123 4y ago
Hot Ones introduced me to the Queen Majesty Scotch Bonnet and Ginger sauce. It's amazing, and one of my favorite sauces ever.
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by knodi123 4y ago
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. But I say idiotic bureaucracy.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> except as a cost cutting feature how much does that save?!? I've literally built AM radios by accident .
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by knodi123 4y ago
> Please go to other countries and see how much cleaner, safer, and peaceful they are without accepting the terror of drug crime in public. Nobody thinks drug crime is good. I discussed a solution that would instantly end drug crime, be
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by knodi123 4y ago
The "well historically, yes" was a silly quip, but I was thinking about the story of Saul in the bible, who was despised and endangered due to his career as a tax collector.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> Are tax enforcers an oppressed or marginalized community? Well, historically, yes. But in my dictionary, bigoted means "obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, in particular prejudiced against or an
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by knodi123 4y ago
> your comment reads as if you presume that taxes on income are the only way the provide for "the functioning of a country". Did I say income?
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by knodi123 4y ago
Weird, I thought everyone qualified, although I've certainly never looked into it. Sorry! It's definitely a stupid system, no matter how you slice it.
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by knodi123 4y ago
> So it’s not as simple as “winner takes all.” Yes it is. You just misunderstood what I meant. from https://www.archives.gov/electoral-college/allocation > All States, except for Maine and Nebraska have a winner-
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by knodi123 4y ago
what the hell? did you reply to the wrong person?
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by knodi123 4y ago
> It’s not a win win because you’re spreading the drug use. Am I, though? As the fundamental claim behind your dismissal of all the other benefits, including the massive death tolls, it behooves you to back this one up. > there are
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by knodi123 4y ago
?? Are you suggesting we should damage the economy? Or that we should be cavalier about risking it?
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by knodi123 4y ago
> Why do I have to mail them, on paper no less, the same forms all over again? I mean, you don't.... I haven't mailed a piece of paper to the IRS in about a decade.
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by knodi123 4y ago
Well that's a bigoted attitude. As long as we acknowledge that taxes are necessary for the functioning of a country, I'd rather our tax agency be calm, professional, and boring.

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