myrmidon

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by myrmidon 3mo ago
> AI psychosis. No need to be so dramatic, might just be a bit of an early midlife crisis thing. I liked the post, some interesting takes.
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
I concur. It's interesting that this seems so difficult to get rid of; despite actively trying to overlook the taste of LLM writing, it still grates , and this does not happen to me in the same way even with communication from half-il
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
The regulation crucially results in your recruits not dying for no good reason during training just because some random piece of trash equipment predictably failed. Preventing that is much more important than the exact dollar efficiency of
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
Yeah, but you can always buy a slightly smaller bird, strap the warhead directly to it, and fly that into your target 100+ miles away. Guided missiles specifically are insanely pricey by comparison to the warhead alone; just for the poss
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
First: microwaves are only safe if you don't mess with them, a bunch of people get killed by tinkering with their high-voltage transformers (at least 35 US deaths from one specific usecase alone in the last decade, see https:/&#x
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
The modern (UA) take is to strap the warhead directly on the thing, make it just as big as needed and directly fly everything into the target. If you insist on firing guided missiles at ground targets from a drone that returns to base you&#
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
If you onshore production via tariffs while having low unemployment, you are basically forcing your population to build basic stuff despite them having better things to do. This is somewhat justifiable with vital sectors like agriculture,
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
It's gramatically correct, spend is a noun here (but you expected a verb). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spend#Noun
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
"won" is a very strong word for a country that sits economically somewhere between South Sudan and Congo, with a primary "enemy" that started out similarly and is now easily 20 times richer. Self-sufficiency and exclusio
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
Just like a medieval barber surgeon.
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
Even if 10% of population were actively criminal pedos (which is waaaay too high), its pretty safe to assume that the majority of even their online footprint would be ordinary images/messages. So a quota of 0.1% or even less material
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
Mencken just has the best quotes. Here's a few of my favorites: > The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are fir
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
> Corruption is, of course, universal. So is crime. But it's all about prevalence. And not just because corruption has some "indirect taxation" effect, but also because low corruption/trust is a big enabler for a soci
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
> People talk about China having demographic issues too, but they're a dictatorship, they can make it shift if they care to. China has a significantly bigger problem with demographics than the EU does, it is just on a slightly lon
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
I'm unsure what exactly you mean by sigmoid stacking. I'd argue that a lot of important technologies (like circuit design!) started at basically zero in the last century, and the progress was actually exponential for a significan
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
Again, you are assuming that frontier models will stay meaningfully ahead long-term. Export controls/bans are pointless if this is not the case. There is ton of strong indicators that they will not stay ahead: Assuming that technol
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
This is pure speculation at this point tbh. You could just as well read the european approach as a bet that frontier models will be unable to keep a significant edge over open competition (and thus not worth throwing subsidies at, because a
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
Heuristic detection is iffy IMO, because while this might look trivial now (=> before cheaters optimize for it) false positives could easily ruin the user experience after a few rounds of cat & mouse: Even if you manage to keep sensi
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
Baiting alone is not a reliable long-term solution, because it both interferes with competitive games (a lot) and because it requires you to basically stay on top of a captcha escalation (especially once cheaters limit themselves to "r
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
There is a lot of regional variation, mainly between the south and the rest of the country. 8am to 8pm monday to saturday is typical for Bavaria (Munich, Nuremberg).
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
By people paying for houses they actually want to live in? Real estate as "investment" is not helping anything here; it hurts home availability, first because prospective homeowners have to compete with capital that just wants t
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by myrmidon 3mo ago
There are. LGBT+furries seem significantly overrepresented in embedded software/emulation (more so than in compsci), so this makes sense for the target audience.
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Do you think Rowling has more political effect in the UK than UK politicians, or are you talking global influence here? My own somewhat cynical take is basically the Planck-principle: Actual progress mostly happens one grave at a time... I
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
I can see how being personally affected would change the outlook on things like this. It just seems to me that often people that are politically still "somewhat close" (Rowling) catch more flak than politicians that associate &quo
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Regarding spelling: As an unbiased foreigner, many American variants seem superior to me (color, defense, program, meter) with british just being weird (and/or tainted by the french). Regarding Rowling: It seems to me that she gets mor
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
An interesting proposition. Not sure if the outcome would be good, though; one result could be that "tech-related stocks" just stop being traded directly by bigger players, and people instead trade assets that hold such stocks (
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
If you can afford to outright buy a customer to secure future demand for your product, does that not imply that this customer is "too small" to matter all that much? Because you could've just used the capital you spent on acq
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Might be intended to preemptively deflect criticism of "reinventing the wheel"/solving subproblems in a non-standard/convoluted way. I'd expect an engineering project with "no prior experience" to take wei
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
> But I'm also not going to stop to make sure my money as far as I can control it does not go into the pockets of millionaires who single handedly decided to bankroll 70% of the funding of a party that runs on ethnic hate. My view i
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
The question is not rhetorical. A lot of people in this thread advocate for hurting Berntssons career for the political views he expressed with his donation. I personally believe that a lot of those people did not think through the conse

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