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by labster 2y ago
I always thought AI would eventually become intelligent enough it decides to kill us. But no, AI is just going to help us to our doom while denying it can harm us. One day a cinnamon candy aficionado in Alexandria, Virginia is going to ask
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by labster 2y ago
Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water. Thanks for the extra worries.
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by labster 2y ago
The stack at Miraheze is all open source, and almost entirely available free on GitHub. The overview is here: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Tech:Home We do a few things that aren't recommended, like running WMF
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by labster 2y ago
Miraheze is the main replacement to Fandom -- it's an ad-free, community-owned, nonprofit supported entirely by donations, grants and volunteers. We've been operating free wikis on MediaWiki for about 9 years now, supported throu
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by labster 2y ago
Here, have some Perl poetry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Perl
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by labster 2y ago
I have no idea why people are downvoting you. Are they assuming “untempered” is an insult (it’s not, it’s called just intonation), or is the parent post wrong?
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Hey, someone needs to protect our precious binary fluids.
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In just 20 years, we’ll have fusion-powered telepathy.
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Most fiction doesn’t cover ground that hasn’t been covered elsewhere, just like ice skaters rarely come up with new tricks — it’s all about grade of execution for both. TTGL is mainly dumb when its characters are dumb, which is often beca
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by labster 2y ago
And I could add Anna Komneme, who was definitely Roman, but not in the Classical period nor the city of Rome. Boudicca and Zenobia were more famous for disagreeing about being Roman, and leading revolts. Oddly the most famous women of the R
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The last time the government found out about the Masonic Police, the leader mysteriously died right before trial and the other charges were swept under the rug. I definitely wouldn’t mess with those guys. https://www.latimes.com&
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But imagine how much better audio quality we would have if we had gold electrical lines to our houses.
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If they were bought by a bread company, they would have been bade by bakers.
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You’d think so, but then there is Fiji Water, which is literally brought across the ocean from Fiji.
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First Twitter Blue, next Twitter Pink?
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by labster 2y ago
Don’t feed the trolls, especially trolls with random string new accounts. Just downvote and move on with your day.
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This doesn’t seem like an unusual finding considering how good humans are at tool use in general. Picking up objects and using them as if they were part of our own body is pretty standard for us. I remember that learning how to drive a car
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I just cracked my phone screen, so I’m all thumbs right now.
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“Trouble getting an X link to load” … There’s another project that had superb reliability and reputation. Then it got bought, access was restricted to certain parts, and it was renamed to X.
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Politicians don’t have electronic security teams. In a political campaign office, a politician will be very lucky to have one volunteer who understands computer security who is then responsible for herding a dozen staff and a couple hundred
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AI has spent the last few months being useful to lots of people across many industries, even if only moderately so. Web3 has spent the decade being useful to approximately no one.
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> There is an interesting argument for tearing down all statues of powerful people. This is the argument I was replying to, and I was suggesting that it not be done.
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I understand your argument and it’s a good one, but I just disagree. A statue is a nothing but a giant symbol, and the symbolic actions matter far more than any real actions of a person in deciding to maintain that symbol. Most objectionabl
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Dim sum wise words, mon.
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Until they start rebelling, society is already revolting
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Shall we destroy or take down Michelangelo’s David , then? A statue of a king who waged religious wars against the natives of Palestine, conquering Zion to make his capital city. Seems like a cause du jour, right? The problem with iconocla
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by labster 2y ago
I doubt either will happen. Climate change was dangerous enough that it required everyone’s cooperation to stop it in the 1980s, and here we are still in denial. My only hope for the future is that multiple AGIs are just as dysfunctional as
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Time to delete your Facebook product account (you are the product being sold).
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Compared to other outcomes of the Arab Spring, Egypt looks pretty good. They didn’t get a true democracy but at least the state is functional.
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No, but one senator can generally block most laws by just declaring that they would filibuster if they had to. And blocking can very easily become “block unless this is added.” We’re only a couple steps removed from the Polish-Lithuanian Se

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