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by marshray 2y ago
Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not against statements of the form "this right is valuable because...". But I don't like this idea that fundamental human rights must have practical justifications. For example, I
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In the US constitution it's just stated plainly, without justification.
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The point is that 'rights' do not have to be justified on an economic basis.
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Great. Now substitute "the absence of privacy" and listen to how it sounds.
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Must we justify the right to a speedy trial by the argument that indefinite detention would unfairly limit our ability to obtain an auto loan?
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It helps me visually when looking at a circuit diagram if I can think about the current flowing "down", like most rivers do in the Northern Hemisphere. It's just a vague association in my mind, but it is based in physical rea
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by marshray 2y ago
> Reality is reality regardless of what you perceive. Except that in nearly all nontrivial topics we only see a small sample of reality. So even if we are lucky enough to be starting out with a set of only verifiable, reproducible, true
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by marshray 2y ago
Why worry about the opinion of people who are confused? Without using the words 'conscious', 'sentient', 'AGI', or 'intelligence' what do you think about the future capabilities of LM AI and their imp
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by marshray 2y ago
> Conscious entity... willpower I don't know what that means. Why should they matter? > Self preservation This is no more than a fine-tuning for the task, even with current models. > I worry about dangerous humans with the pow
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by marshray 2y ago
> Nobody has ever caught a human brain producing or storing tokens Do you remember learning how to read and write? What are spelling tests? What if "subjective experience" isn't essential, or is even just a distraction, fo
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by marshray 2y ago
IMO, discussion of website function ought to be always on-topic on HN. My solution is simply to open every website (that I don't specifically want to be logged-in to) in incognito mode, accept all cookies, and close all the windows whe
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by marshray 2y ago
To the other great nominations, I would add: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Right?! It makes me want a time machine just to go back and share it just to see the reaction.
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Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate I shared this with a friend who grew up native in an Arabic-speaking country. After finishing it, he said he'd like to read it again but in the original Arabic. He'd interpreted it as authent
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by marshray 2y ago
Tower of Babylon, man. Just wow.
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I'd lightly edited the first one, but this one is all ChatGPT with an Original Thought Capability Module installed: In the dimly lit newsroom, where cigarette smoke intertwined with the hum of typewriters, grizzled old hack John Mitche
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by marshray 2y ago
John Mitchell, a seasoned veteran in the bustling newsroom of the Daily Ledger, had seen it all. From political scandals to human interest stories, his pen had chronicled the ebb and flow of the world for over three decades. Today, he sat a
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by marshray 2y ago
It's being used in the sense of an autonomous munition here.
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by marshray 2y ago
1. Sure, there may be cases where you already know the source IP or network block. But there are many scenarios where your legitimate users may be traveling, or using a mobile provider that won't guarantee much about the source IP. If
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by marshray 2y ago
Yes, absolutely. I was referring to the part about "still usually done via a normal tuned LC circuit". Sorry for any confusion.
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The CPUs and OSs (other than Windows 11) support operation without any TPM. So either the pin is configurable, or you've wasted a pin that could otherwise be used for decorating the motherboard with RGB LEDs. Also, the pin layout has t
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by marshray 2y ago
Apparently on some motherboards the TPM is on a pluggable module available for ~$15 on Amazon.
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But we do use crystals for generating a stable frequency reference, which is then used in tuning.
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I was mentioned in the media once for an unrelated internet protocol vulnerability and I had people contacting me about their "hacked" internet connections. For a major cable ISP, I can't imagine how many customers walk in to
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by marshray 2y ago
"such as WiFi support, thread scheduling, and suspend modes that are worth a damn." Thread scheduling has existed since NT 3.51. Wifi is largely just another kind of network adapter. XP supported the same suspend-to-RAM and hibern
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by marshray 2y ago
Oh, I guess I'm not touching it then.
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You haven't seen the promotion of the use of LM AI for handling legal documents? It's purported to be a major use case.
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by marshray 2y ago
Indeed. I rarely do these days.
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Did you even read the question?
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by marshray 2y ago
What specifically about the system changes as you cross from "almost exascale" to "definitely exascale" to justify calling it a 'barrier'?

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