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by knodi123 1y ago
> the USA has had DARPA monitoring stuff like this since before OpenAI existed Is there a source for this other than "trust me bro"? DARPA isn't a spy agency, it's a research organization. > governments won't
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by knodi123 1y ago
* or governments fail to look far enough ahead, due to a bunch of small-minded short-sighted greedy petty fools. Seriously, our government just announced it's slashing half a billion dollars in vaccine research because "vaccines a
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by knodi123 1y ago
That's remarkably short-sighted. First of all, no, millions of them don't walk the earth - the "A" stands for artificial. And secondly, most of us mere humans don't have the ability to design a next generation tha
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by knodi123 1y ago
One of two things: 1. The will of its creator, or 2. Its own will. In the case of the former, hey! We might get lucky! Perhaps the person who controls the first super-powered AI will be a benign despot. That sure would be nice. Or maybe
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by knodi123 1y ago
You must not be a programmer, or you'd understand that NULL !== 0 ;-) But my overarching point is that $329,000,000 is an absurd and arbitrary number, so for my purposes, either value NULL or 0 would make my case.
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by knodi123 1y ago
to me? an infinite amount! So trying to measure it in dollar terms is already a pointless exercise. If you want to see the hole in this argument, try looking at it from the other side- How can you arrive at the conclusion that a life is
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by knodi123 1y ago
This (OP) project is inspired by neovide, a recent neovim gui. And iterm2's animated cursor is a brand new feature, also inspired by neovide. Honestly, iterm2 is way too nice a piece of software considering the price. A real labor
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by knodi123 1y ago
I have {{popular job title in tech}}@gmail.com , and let me tell you.... yikes. Actually it's not that bad, I just tweak my enormous blacklist keyword filter once a month or so. For some reason, 99% of the junk is from India, which m
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by knodi123 1y ago
Did I miss the vote we had on broadband speed goals, or whether we should publish prices? Get outta here with that. Most of Trump's outrageous policies are incredibly unpopular, even among his base. He's just enacting the wildl
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by knodi123 1y ago
Should have given tiny doses of HN to the server every day, increasing the dose over time, until it built an immunity to hordes of traffic.
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by knodi123 1y ago
But it was a spinthariscope. If the resin blocked all the alpha particles, then they wouldn't produce the visible flashes in the screen. It seems more likely that the radioactive substance would be embedded in the surface of the res
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by knodi123 1y ago
not stupid at all! the idea is that practicing conscious breathing techniques can have effects on your stress levels and cognition and such. it's not that you're learning how to breathe, but rather how to breathe for a des
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by knodi123 1y ago
> “The Master Key,” where a boy wise beyond his years rejects powers too advanced for humanity to adapt. For those stumbling by- that's a 1901 novel by L. Frank Baum, who also wrote The Wizard Of Oz! Here's a synopsis: https
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by knodi123 1y ago
> It will power scams on an unimaginable scale It already is. https://futurism.com/slop-farmer-ai-social-media And all the other things you predicted. They're underway _now_ . > Maybe if there are more of me, t
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by knodi123 1y ago
Assuming he can get his hands on the tokens and then convert them to local currency. Not impossible, but it's worth noting that he still hasn't managed.
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by knodi123 2y ago
The scary thing is that the robots will only continue to improve, and large numbers of them can be controlled by a small number (1?) of people, with other robots to handle logistics and support. So scenarios like "rogue leader ignores
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by knodi123 2y ago
Man, look at all those keywords I remember from college. I wish I got to use fancy well-known algorithms. Instead all I'm doing is building UI components and REST APIs to present elasticsearch results. All the fun stuff is buried in
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by knodi123 2y ago
> The most surprising thing to me is that it was actually delivered. Seems you can really buy anything from the internet. Not surprising to me. Unrefined nuclear material really isn't particularly rare, or dangerous. You could cre
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by knodi123 2y ago
I take your point, but I believe "freedom to quit and go elsewhere" is also a critical distinction...
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by knodi123 2y ago
I'm someone else, but I can vouch that most of my doordash driver names are female, and most of my delivery people are male.
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by knodi123 2y ago
I would guess based on personal visual observation that at least 50% of doordash drivers are not the person listed on the account. Although over maybe 100 orders, I've only had 2 real problems.
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by knodi123 2y ago
> and for the few that reach the surface the probability that an ejected rock could exit Earth's atmosphere is even lower. Ah, but the case I was replying to was about rocks making the trip back in the era when earth and mars both
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by knodi123 2y ago
yeah, but- dust and stray ions. nothing that could protect a bacteria from the extraordinary heat and energy of an explosion that launches it from the surface into space in a single titanic shove.
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by knodi123 2y ago
yes, but since a fish could not survive hopping between planets, it would be cool (revealing) on the order of "aliens exist and they were manually spreading fish around the solar system".
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by knodi123 2y ago
how could bacteria survive the sheer energy involved in that initial impact? There's the famous story of the manhole cover in los alamos that was launched into orbit by an underground nuclear test- but in reality that manhole cover wa
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by knodi123 2y ago
:facepalm: I can't believe I had to download an app for that because the feature is buried in SETTINGS (!!!!). What an obtuse choice. Thanks for the tip though, I hate that my white noise app has a rotating ad banner.
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by knodi123 2y ago
I know what you meant, but that phrasing reminds me of the gag from Anchorman, "60% of the time, it works every time."
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by knodi123 2y ago
> sentencing guidelines for a first-time offender First time offender?!?!? Applying that term to a guy who spent years traveling around the world under multiple fake IDs while using state-level security on his hardware and racking up la
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by knodi123 2y ago
> this won't work well if the bounce interval is close to the expected actuation speed lol, or you could do what my TV does- say "to hell with user experience" and use an interrupt timer anyway. If I hold down my volume-u
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by knodi123 2y ago
I had to ask chatgpt to summarize a couple of papers on the topic. The "theory of informatons" is a conceptual framework introduced by Antoine Acke to explain gravitational interactions through the emission of hypothetical entitie

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