manholio

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by manholio 4y ago
> How is usage of a private company's private server resources any different? If you push that argument to the extreme, why should anyone be allowed to publish anything in our county? They can always go someplace else and speak th
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by manholio 4y ago
True in the absolute, but irrelevant. Censorship is always contextual, in practice censors fall short of the 1984ish "ideal" of total domination of the individual. This dichotomy (free speech for all, but no one is required to off
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by manholio 4y ago
Like in the NI case, it's conceivable that only the most rudimentary artificial intellects will fall pray to this self hacking. Trully intelligent agents will be capable of introspection and self-defined goals and rewards. You know, ju
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by manholio 4y ago
In social media, moderation of this style is practically equivalent to censorship because the visibility of the content is determined algorithmically: if the algo decides to "hide" your posts they become invisible (or much less vi
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by manholio 4y ago
There is also a giant fallacy in this advice that you "gain an extra 2 hours". no, you start working 2 hours earlier, but you will be just as beat in the evenings, and still unable to do more than slouch on the couch and watch Net
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by manholio 4y ago
Post war interventionism included energy utilities, which in many cases were rebuilt from the ground up, but also transport, rail in particular, telecommunication, extractive and heavy industries - and it happened in economies with a much s
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by manholio 4y ago
You are, yes and yes.
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by manholio 4y ago
I'm unconvinced that the power of those load guarantees can be in any way compared to the massive post war interventionism that, at least in Europe&UK saw large scale nationalizations in key areas. Sure, a green loan guarantee spur
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by manholio 4y ago
I'm not claiming the problem is identical to pre-existing problems in the copyright space, just that it's sufficiently similar not to pose a significant challenge for legal scholars, IMHO. Existing copyright laws not only forbid v
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by manholio 4y ago
> The internet has happened, and it works on credit card-style numbers. and that's a usability disaster. the entire experience is atrocious, you have to enter and secure multiple pieces of numeric data. it's a system begging to
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by manholio 4y ago
What I really need is an location aware task list, that allows me to easily setup recurring or one-off tasks and reminds me to do it whenever I'm at a location where they make sense. Basically, the "Getting Things done" metho
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by manholio 4y ago
Obfuscation is not a valid defense against copyright infringement. If my database contains full encrypted copies of unlicensed works and I distribute keys to my customers for parts of those works, no forensic auditor will ever prove the ful
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by manholio 4y ago
Sure, if you build your own model, train it on copyrighted works, then use it to create art; or if you use someone else's model which properly license its copyrighted sources, and use that to create art. In both cases your output is a
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by manholio 4y ago
As a general rule, the fair use thumbnails enjoy is very limited, only in certain jurisdictions, and only for very specific use-cases. An universal art-production machine that can compete in the market place with the original artist - and i
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by manholio 4y ago
Because machines are not humans, and shouldn't enjoy the benefits of fair use. Copyright law exists to balance the interests of the people that make up the society, not some abstract caricatural embodiment in algorithmic form.
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by manholio 4y ago
It doesn't really matter: the AI model is a compressed representation of copyrighted works processed by a generic, non-artistic algorithm specifically engineered to extract the artistic features of such works. Conceptually, it's v
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by manholio 4y ago
> No amount of algorithms can improve human behavior on any platform Humans aren't yet computers, so algorithms are (obviously) not directly relevant to them. But in the general sense, that clam is wrong. Human behavior is amenable
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by manholio 4y ago
this is a very interesting take. Is it a sample of personal research or is it based on some external source? I have this exact view that "everything is politics". For profit businesses are just a particular case of a top down auth
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by manholio 4y ago
> Reddit, instead, mainly targeted cruelty and child exploitation for moderation. Not a redditor, I see? Reddit crushed almost all right wing related subs, most famously r/The_Donald, and the entire gender critical / TERF &#x2
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by manholio 4y ago
Typically, applications where bandwidth is sufficiently limited to warrant AI heavy lossy compression are also application with tight latency and computational constraints. Not to disparage these results, but the area of very low bitrate co
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by manholio 4y ago
I would go even further and say we need a massive conversion program of existing ICE cars into electrics instead of scrapping a billion perfectly usable cars. The body, the steering system, suspension, wheels, passenger area, brakes and ele
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by manholio 4y ago
Sounds like a very boring game. The two races are basically distinct, just like the human race is distinct from geology. For all we know, Earth's geology might be sentient already.
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by manholio 4y ago
> Your eyes focus "into" the VR scene, not at the screens one inch from your eye. 3D head gear like Oculus have optical systems that move the physical screens virtually to a much greater (and comfortable) distance - most people
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by manholio 4y ago
As I said above, true holographic digital screens could make 3D seamless and ubiquitous. At current computing trends, that appears at least a number of decades away from consumer gear.
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by manholio 4y ago
I think stereoscopic viewing is fundamentally a bad idea that holds little promise - it's not really 3D, but a parlor trick that gives confusing depth information, the eye must focus at the screen even if the scene is very close or ver
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by manholio 4y ago
VR is just the most recent incarnation of the "3D vision" gimmick every generation will rediscovered and then abandon. We had multiple waves of this fad, starting with the stereoscopic novelty postcards of the 19th century, the ma
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by manholio 4y ago
There is nothing fundamental preventing advertisers to create unblockable ads that are served from the same domain as the website and embedded in the pages. It's more convoluted and needs to setup a back-channel to the website, but it&
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by manholio 4y ago
> soon enough the vast majority of mass will be catapulted from the lunar surface Other than naturally falling asteroids, to date we have managed to acquire about 400Kg of moon rock at a price point of roughly $200bln in today's mon
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by manholio 4y ago
You don't seem to resonate witn the basic premise of this discussion: the mass of the structure must stil be lifted into orbit in the form of raw materials, printer fillament, etc. We were debating the finer points of wheter the high c
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by manholio 4y ago
> My point was that 3d printing lightweight plastic structural parts where they are needed, will be to space based solar power, what mixing concrete on a construction site is when compared to having everything transported to the site via

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