namaria

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by namaria 2y ago
The red one. It has more RAM!
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by namaria 2y ago
You might be projecting your understanding of history on the practitioners.
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by namaria 2y ago
It was more a mesh of overland routes that connected western China to Iranian highlands, steppe routes and from there over to the Black sea and Mesopotamia. This was not a direct trade route but rather a series of interconnections. Intensit
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by namaria 2y ago
And we evidently have a fantastic software landscape with very few buggy products/features being introduced, superb security and transparent interoperability across diverse software domains nowadays.
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by namaria 2y ago
Our existence and the universe being knowable is all intertwined. A reverse entropy universe or a random one would preclude any meaningful learning, thus also the evolution of intelligence and technological civilization as well.
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by namaria 2y ago
Yes this sort of thing makes public cloud unreliable for mission critical systems
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by namaria 2y ago
Funny you should make claims about my skills when you have exactly zero data about my abilities or performance. Evaluating my skills based on how I evaluated someone else's skills when they tell me about their abilities with and withou
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by namaria 2y ago
Claiming LLMs are a massive boost for coding productivity is becoming a red flag that the claimant has a tenuous grasp on the skills necessary. Yeah if you have to look up everything all the time and you can't tell the AI slop isn&#x27
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by namaria 2y ago
They tried brute forcing it, now it's back to programming it directly.
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by namaria 2y ago
> The newspaper’s CEO said this was part of a plan to be “bold and disruptive.” Too bad they went ghoulish instead
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by namaria 2y ago
Nah. The families of the people killed in avoidable crashed of the 737 max after Boeing misrepresented training requirements and hid data about new mission critical automated systems. Those include pilots accused of Boeing of incompetence t
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by namaria 2y ago
The unspoken truth of 'cybersecurity' (even the name is part of this pattern) is that bolt on complexity will always reduce safety. Computer security is not that hard. What is hard is selling complexity as a vector for vendor lock
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by namaria 2y ago
Regulation
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by namaria 2y ago
> So the levels aren't the problem, it's the rapidity? Not what I said. You argued it has been hotter before and it wasn't a problem. I had to explain to you that temperatures haven't changed this fast before, which i
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by namaria 2y ago
Previous temperature changes occurred over millennia, not a century and a half. Human civilization and agriculture depend on a very narrow range of conditions.
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by namaria 2y ago
Anthropogenic global warming has been proposed and modeled since the late XVIII century. The window to reasonably doubt it has been closed since at least the 1980s when Exxon put it on paper they knew about it and wanted to suppress awarene
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by namaria 2y ago
China is autocratic but it's not communist or 'non-capitalist' by any stretch of the imagination.
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by namaria 2y ago
Post a couple of videos about ancient aliens inventing civilization and time travel while you're at it
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by namaria 2y ago
We are collectively in full on denial about the consequences of climate change. Only directly accountable organizations like militaries and insurers are actually acting on the data. People are still buying cheap stuff from overseas, traveli
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by namaria 2y ago
There's no need to call what he says bullshit or esoteric. Maybe he's wrong, most of the time he's not precise enough to be wrong. I read his words as a sort of existential poetry.
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by namaria 2y ago
What are you suggesting, exactly, Ralph Waldo Emerson has to cope with literature consumption wise?
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by namaria 2y ago
> The rest of the world does not fluoridate their water Several countries do, in fact, fluoridate their water: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country
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by namaria 2y ago
McKenna would argue that's how apes became humans
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by namaria 2y ago
The Cybernetic Hypothesis https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635900927/the-cybernetic-hypoth... The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty https://direct.mit.edu/books/monograph/3504/The-StackOn-S
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by namaria 2y ago
Don't play sophistry. It's debasing for both of us.
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by namaria 2y ago
> Regarding the podcast, could you clarify why you see it as a red flag? The false claims at the start. Why should I trust any content after that? There is no buzz, this is a virtually unknown product. Making fake factual claims so easil
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by namaria 2y ago
Yeah the thing is, nature can't do it with 4 kg 100 watt human brains. Nature can do it with planetary ecosystems running on supernova detritus bathed in just the right amount of star light. It took hundreds of millions of years just o
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by namaria 2y ago
I strongly disagree. Chat gpt seems to be a great argument against that.
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by namaria 2y ago
I'm aware, I follow it closely. It's still not viable tho. I'll be thrilled if it ever becomes viable.
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by namaria 2y ago
That's assuming 'real AI' is even possible. On a different note, there's an argument dating back to Hobbes' Leviathan that the State and corporations are in fact a form of AI.

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