lukifer

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by lukifer 3y ago
> prologue with the woman talking for 90+ seconds There are multiple cuts, and the one I grew up with (I think a VHS recording from cable) instead has a longer introduction [0], with detailed exposition while panning over paintings of it
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by lukifer 3y ago
Not OP, but I'll give my answer. The unification of different media types in iTunes is a feature, not a bug. (I clung to Retroactive as long as I could; I forget what made me cry uncle.) For actual music, Music.app has been okay , bug
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by lukifer 3y ago
This is going to vary wildly by game experience; many board game veterans learn shorthands for mechanics, and learn rule-learning as its own meta-skill, picking up even complicated games in 10 minutes. That said, there are countless games w
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by lukifer 3y ago
100%, thanks for the link!
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by lukifer 3y ago
That's a good point. It was famously the preferred policy of Milton Friedman (presumably as a cheaper alternative to the welfare state, back when the Overton window was still more FDR than Reagan). A negative income tax might need to b
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by lukifer 3y ago
Shares at least some overlap with a "ritual of common knowledge": https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1116212.Rational_Ritual
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by lukifer 3y ago
I broadly agree with you, I favor UBI for similar reasons, though I'd maybe frame it less as "very good vs. less good", vs. just acknowledging the enormous overhead costs of means-testing, to say nothing of the consequences w
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by lukifer 3y ago
The problem isn't that there isn't a common-sense distinction between the extremes; it's attempting to define the crossover point (presumably for the purposes of a "bright line" rule in law/policy/norms).
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by lukifer 3y ago
Let’s at least grant the benefit of the doubt, that the poster knew to salt the hash. We can take it as given that incompetence makes for poor anonymization. Your example of “transactions in Chicago” is much more salient; there’s clearly a
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by lukifer 3y ago
At some point, someone produced an actually working TNG comm badge as a Bluetooth phone accessory, apparently it's still for sale: https://shop.startrek.com/products/star-trek-the-next-genera... Though from the re
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by lukifer 3y ago
It's staggering to me that Apple has not improved on the UI for "try again" or "keep trying", whether the fault is with Siri itself, or just network conditions. It seems like (relatively) low-hanging fruit, compared
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by lukifer 3y ago
> it looks like you're in a phone conversation with somebody Even though everyone's seen AirPods by now, in those rare occasions when I'm on the phone in public, I feel compelled to have my phone out and vaguely talking at
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by lukifer 3y ago
A good analogy might be a shareholder corporation: each one began as a tool of human agency, and yet a sufficiently mature corporation has a de-facto agency of its own, transcending any one shareholder, employee, or board member. The more A
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by lukifer 3y ago
My suspicion is that at least some of that revenue is moated by social stigma: that a customer is only partially paying for the service received, and is mostly compensating for impacts to reputation and/or lost income in the future (ef
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by lukifer 3y ago
It may the case that she has a strong enough personal brand, that her experience has been different than many of the horror stories. An analogy comes to mind of an NFL player vs an NCAA player: in both cases, the career might be short-lived
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by lukifer 3y ago
Lieutenant Jadzia Dax: As the 34th Rule of Acquisition states, "Peace is good for business". Quark: That's the 35th Rule. Lieutenant Jadzia Dax : Oh, you're right. What's the 34th? Quark: "War is good for busin
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by lukifer 3y ago
The engineer’s three virtues: Laziness, Impatience, Hubris https://wiki.c2.com/?LazinessImpatienceHubris
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by lukifer 3y ago
Are you referring to the Munk debate with Taibbi or something else?
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by lukifer 3y ago
Corporations are arguably a form of AI, executing on top of human agents and the code of law: https://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2013/02/hostile-ai-youre... The difference is that machine learning technology can
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by lukifer 3y ago
Robert Miles is a much more effective communicator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLKbhY0ji0
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by lukifer 3y ago
The more salient term isn't "capitalism", but rather "capitalization". Most investment is done by converting anticipated future value (modulo some degree of risk), and encapsulating it into an asset price, which is
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by lukifer 3y ago
To anyone who says we can just flip the off switch on AIs who go rogue: where exactly is the off switch to capitalism, or corporations, or global supply chains, or industrialized agriculture, or social media, or the State? AIs aren't a
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by lukifer 3y ago
Negotiations aren’t based on pretty words; they’re based on leverage (BATNA). If both parties saw a win-win on API costs which can sustain 3PAs, we wouldn’t be in this situation. Once negotiation goes “hardball”, demonstrating leverage thro
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by lukifer 3y ago
As discussed ITA, that case was later overturned; and it’s worth remembering that its origin was as an analogy to justify criminalizing pamphleteering against the draft [0] (one could not imagine a more salient example of “political speech”
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by lukifer 3y ago
In a commune, there isn't a state which can secretly surveil in the first place, making the issue a moot point.
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by lukifer 3y ago
I think human-level intelligence is a useful metric in its own right, but it's not as though humans necessarily hit some arbitrary "general" threshold either (none of us can do tasks that are trivial for computers, like remem
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by lukifer 3y ago
I agree there's a strong element of misplaced anthropomorphism. But the issue isn't even that LLMs are (themselves) a threat to humanity, or that we have any reason to think they are "conscious" (in a human, or even anim
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by lukifer 3y ago
The goalpost keeps moving on what is sufficiently "general" to meet a hypothetical AGI definition. At one point the distinction was more meaningful: AIs were always highly domain-specific (eg, playing chess). Now the same transfor
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by lukifer 3y ago
Here’s the solution I built for that, with a combination of on-device voice control, and a Bluetooth remote: https://github.com/lukifer/voicetunes Something I’d still like to add is a USB OTG emulation of iOS/Andr
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by lukifer 3y ago
It’s a compound, multi-layered phenomenon. I won’t recall this perfectly, but psychologist Gregg Henrique [0] breaks it down into something like: - qualia: experiencing the taste of chocolate or the color of red (arguably the hardest part o

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