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by mmooss 7mo ago
Not a bad idea for anyone, if we could find on LLM with reliable and sophistaced ethical output. How about a Gadfly LLM, 'Socretes'. An 'evil demon' LLM called Descartes?
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by mmooss 7mo ago
It's a general principle but too simplistic to contribute to a solution. I believe I should prevent you from starving, willfully or negligently harming (in a serious way), or denying significant education or medical care to your childe
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by mmooss 7mo ago
There were two controllers working (and two more in the building): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/23/nyregion/faa-air-traffic-...
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by mmooss 7mo ago
Governments must have a monopoly on violence. One reason: When a corporation attacks someone, how do they decide who they are attacking? What if they attack the wrong person due to misattribution? What if they do it due to incompetence (str
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by mmooss 7mo ago
The GrapheneOS Mastodon post says, "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account." https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/1162613
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by mmooss 7mo ago
Anything is possible, but the facts make some things more likely, especially combined with the book's later popularity in France.
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by mmooss 7mo ago
Use hundredths of a second on the stopwatch. With a little math, and throwing out invalid results, you can generate a random number in any range < 100. Though I do wonder if the hundredths are true or just for show. Maybe they're ra
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by mmooss 7mo ago
How is it not random?
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by mmooss 7mo ago
At least in some games, such as craps, IIRC casinos require the dice to bounce off the back wall of the rolling area.
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by mmooss 7mo ago
For role-playing game purposes - not for gambling or serious competition or encryption of your super-valuable secrets - there is a question of what sort of randomization is needed: * Truly random outcomes: Doesn't hurt * Psuedo-random
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by mmooss 7mo ago
Cars are subsidized by the very large externalities of fossil fuels that taxpayers cover: Climate change, a large military, wars, use of economic leverage, etc. ICE drivers don't pay anywhere near the real price of gas. Your theories a
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by mmooss 7mo ago
It's interesting Nabakov is thought of as American. Yes, an American citizen beginning age ~46 (in 1945) but born in Russia, wrote in multiple languages, lived much of life in Europe.
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by mmooss 7mo ago
> Writing is a tool, a technology. Like paint, it can be used as a tool, to paint your house, or as a craft and artform, to paint the Rouen Cathedral.
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by mmooss 7mo ago
Ulysses was written in Paris, where James Joyce lived, and was published in Paris by the now legendary Shakespeare & Co. The US and UK banned it for being obscene. When I don't know, I ask and don't judge (and lacking omnisc
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by mmooss 7mo ago
> I was speaking more in general. In other cities, the dense inner cores are overwhelmingly subsidized by the suburbs and/or urban villages ("suburb within a city"). > This can be easily seen if you look at the _persona
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by mmooss 7mo ago
They said earlier that they didn't verify the quotes. I understand them to mean that the LLM outputted text that included quotes. They assumed the output was accurate and found it so appealing, on an emotional level, that they just wen
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by mmooss 7mo ago
> productive citizens in suburbs are forced to subsidize inner-city transit through taxes. Could you say specifically what you mean? People in NYC pay state taxes for things that happen in the suburbs and upstate, and around the country
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by mmooss 7mo ago
> One ride on MTA costs around $20. ? The subway is $3 and the most expensive bus is I think $7.xx [0], and those are without bulk purchase (e.g., monthly passes) or discounts (seniors, etc.). Do you mean something like the Long Island R
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by mmooss 7mo ago
So how does one eat ramen-like dishes in formal contexts?
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by mmooss 7mo ago
> Cities are _expensive_. Especially dense cities like NYC. But much cheaper per capita than everyone owning a car, an acre, traveling long distances for everything, and providing infrastructure etc. for all those people. MTA provides 6.
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by mmooss 7mo ago
> To place one’s mouth against the side of a dish and push food in with the chopsticks. I've seen people eat noodles and broth (e.g., ramen) like that a million times? What am I missing? How do you properly eat noodles and broth?
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by mmooss 7mo ago
Of course I meant, 'within a circle of 3,142 mi circumference'. But no I didn't - how embarassing. I leapt at thinking '1,000 x pi is the operating area of an aircraft carrier - so perfect.'. 785,400 sq miles is mor
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by mmooss 7mo ago
I've seen that option with other major vendors too. It's always worth the extra cost for a business - incidents' internal time to resolution, labor costs, and downtime (which impact user productivity) can drop dramatically. I
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by mmooss 7mo ago
Easy to say from the comfort of my terminal, but some urban advice: Remove the chains and get out; most important is your freedom and safety. They aren't going to risk prison for assault and battery. If they give you trouble, call the
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by mmooss 7mo ago
> Pretty hard to hide from a satellite I'd imagine. At one time I guessed that too, but I've heard navy people explain that it's actually pretty effective. Imagine saying 'pretty hard to hide in North America from a s
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> Gore-Tex is water vapor permeable. So it has a way better ability to shed excess heat without needing to take off a layer. It's a way to shed water: Wearing waterproof, non-breathable layers often is worse than not, because the mo
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by mmooss 8mo ago
First, I didn't say there is no supply effect; I said it's far from impossible for the effect to make a difference. Second, many factors are involved in a complex market; you and I don't know how much effect the supply had in
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by mmooss 8mo ago
It's been affordable for many generations, a destination for opportunity for the poorest people, including immigrants. It's only recently that things have become so absurd. > water on two sides Do you mean Manhattan, one of the
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> Literally impossible Economic theory says some things are theoretically impossible, no literally, but economic theory wouldn't say that here: The local housing market is much more complex than supply and demand, with larger econ
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by mmooss 8mo ago
> some police departments There is one story about one police department. Does the sheriff's department in the OP do that? Does it apply to these particular people? If you don't know, it's ignorant and it's a stereoty

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