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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
Saying something is intellectually lazy is not an argument. It's just intellectually lazy. Just because you refuse to take China's unrestrained development of autokill bots seriously doesn't mean they won't do it, it jus
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History Rhymes: Large Language Models Off to a Bad Start?(michaeljburry.substack.com)
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
> you could make an automated system that just signs postcards and, if you give it enough access, it could wipe out the human race. I mean this sincerely. You really ought to stop reading Bostrom and Yudkowsky. It is very hard to take th
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
> This is LITERALLY the plot line of Terminator. Literally. No, it's not. Skynet was a recursively self improving ASI. You are conflating an autokill bot and, apparently, an ASI that can embody and replicate itself. > If giving t
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
Yes, I think Russia's invasion of Ukraine is quite clearly a binary Russia=bad, Ukraine=good. Same for the impending Chinese invasion of Taiwan. Perhaps you could explain the nuances under which Russia was the good guy? Better yet, ma
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
Fully automated kill bots are coming, whether any of us like it or not. The question is, which militaries will have them, and which militaries will be sitting ducks? China is pursuing autonomous weapons at full speed. Personally, I think it
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
If we were able to give the Ukrainians fully automated kill bots, and those kill bots enabled Ukraine to swiftly expel the Russians from their territories, would that not be a good thing? Or would you rather the meat grinder continue to des
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
This amounts to an anecdote and an opinion. What are the actual engagement numbers? I suspect Facebook is doing just fine. My own anecdotes are that Facebook Groups tend to be the nexus of legacy social features and that Marketplace has ove
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
My biggest gripe with the reckless, internet-scale scraping done by the LLM corps is that it’s making scraping harder for the small time dirtbag scrapers like me.
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
> Unfortunately, it's also run by a severe weirdo. Marlinspike, Acton, or someone else? Why does this matter?
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
Economies of scale were realized in the tv, but not the house. Maybe bc they aren’t realizable in housing, maybe bc regulation, maybe bc of the nimby veto, etc.
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by next_xibalba 8mo ago
It wouldn’t be HN without a commenter shoehorning the topic of a thread into proof of their pet problem. See also any topic even remotely tangential to city planning.
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
So they don’t effectively block communication to and from the device? Or they don’t block all RF? Because the former seems to qualify as working, while the latter seems irrelevant. Or the only sometimes block communication to/from the
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
I read somewhere that LLM chat apps are optimized to return something useful, not correct or comprehensive (where useful is defined as the user accepts it). I found this explanation to be a useful (ha!) way to explain to friends and family
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
> attempted to compensate using prefabulated amulite in the magneto-reluctance housing, but this only exacerbated the side-fumbling in the hyperboloid waveform generators Wrote my PhD dissertation on this. It would've been in the li
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
> Texas A&M > There may be some disenfranchised barbarians out in the wilderness that do. But likely only due to their extremely tenuous grasp of the fundamentals of English. Primarily they communicate through grunts and hand sign
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
I live 45 minutes from A&M. I’ll repeat myself. No one in Texas calls it tu. ;) There may be some disenfranchised barbarians out in the wilderness that do. But likely only due to their extremely tenuous grasp of the fundamentals of En
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
This belief is how UC San Diego ends up with 900 freshman below high school math proficiency. And thus college becomes a remedial education institution. https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissi
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
No one in Texas calls it “TU”. Rather, UT.
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
Just build more homes. JUST BUILD MORE HOMES.
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
Yes but are those the marginal buyers and sellers that drive price movements? Most people in index funds are probably not flitting in and out of index positions at anything approaching even medium frequency.
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
To wit, the vast majority of them have: - easy access to clean water - sufficient calories - safe shelter - education (presumably they can read and write if they’re on Reddit) - internet access - free time (can’t be writing nasty comments o
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
That is a much less sensational, less "on trend" story than "Nefarious AI company convinces user to commit murder-suicide". But I agree. Each of these cases that I have dug further into seem to be idiosyncratic and not m
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by next_xibalba 9mo ago
This article reads like opinions and vibes without a solid grounding in data. For example: "Look how much faster you can find Save or Share in the right variant..." But each variant took me the same amount of time. Or so I think.
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by next_xibalba 10mo ago
> can be experienced through other means. So… how? DMT?
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by next_xibalba 10mo ago
They usually go through a major, government driven consolidation phase to establish a handful of national champions. I would bet we’ll see the same in EVs. This ensures scale by which they can dominate the global industry-an explicit target
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Stranger Things Creator: Turn Off TV's Garbage Settings(instagram.com)
3 points by next_xibalba 10mo ago|1 comments
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Why?
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by next_xibalba 10mo ago
I’ve never been on a public bus and thought, “this is great!”. Crowded, dirty, and almost always there is someone on drugs or experiencing psychosis. I’ll stick to my car.
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by next_xibalba 10mo ago
This, I think, is the real answer why this is happening. The motivation behind these huge fines on large U.S. tech companies by EU countries is actually "we need revenue", not "we must protect our users". I would expect

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