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by nkrisc 5mo ago
Or “You Don’t Need to Play Video Games”. I enjoy playing video games but I recognize them for what they are: a luxury past-time that is not necessary for life and one that would probably leave most of us better off if they all disappeared t
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This homogenization is merely a continuation of a trend since the beginning of human history. Tribes homogenize into villages, villages into cities, cities into states, states into nations, and now we’re witnessing nations beginning to homo
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It’s humorous in its own right. It’s almost as if they’re on safari or visiting another planet. They arrive in a caravan of coach buses, disembark, walk around in a crowd lead by a guide, take their pictures in front of whatever the attract
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by nkrisc 5mo ago
An exercise like this sounds like it would be a rounding error in any country's national security or intelligence budgets. And now with AI you could probably automate the initial screening of devices for promising candidates for furthe
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I haven’t seen the Gmail web UI in perhaps 15 years or so. I’ve been using it with various email clients and it works just fine. The issues the author describes are issues with Gmail’s web interface, not with the email service itself.
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Then you’ll end up with a forum of only bots because they’ll spoof it and real people won’t put up with the hassle.
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It is a suggestion because it need not follow arbitrary instructions. If I ask Google’s new search AI to output ten million tokens it refuses to follow that instruction on the basis of it contradicting other instructions and enforced limita
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The AI part does seem relevant because it enabled incredibly low-effort “social” engineering. For what it’s worth I don’t think you can call this social engineering since there was no human on the other end, even though it appears similar.
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Interesting but I fail to see how that’s relevant to a discussion about man made weapons.
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That’s different. This is a suggestion. If the LLM follows such suggestions then that’s between the LLM and whoever deployed it. Not really any different than if you had an idiot employee who did whatever anyone told them. I can’t imagine u
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How do you “trick” a CPU? Malware deceives people, not a CPU.
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Often when you see a vague reference like that it’s typically because the donor requested anonymity. It’s more common with individual donors though. Sometimes anonymity is a condition of the gift.
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Isn’t that what anyone does who is selling a solution to a problem that already exists?
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It will be interesting (and scary) to see weapons technology developed in near real time for the conflict that is actually happening, as opposed to the one you thought would happen 15 years ago.
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If you were just using something kind of remote sensing technology to determine where people were in the building, but you didn’t know the layout, you couldn’t be sure. I’ve seen examples of using WiFi or other radio frequencies to spatiall
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You just store the last highest Y value as you iterate near to far?
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It’s not virtue signaling if they’re actually doing something, it’s virtue action. They’re acting according to their virtues.
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I can totally imagine the sales pitch to police departments: before you bust down the door of the local journalist who criticized you, look up their home floor plan and review 360 camera footage of each room, so you can get to their laptop
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People have regularly done things in the past that they can no longer do in the present. I don’t know what they were like in the past but a blog post like this would concern me if I was hiring.
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> I think if a person like this is struggling to find work, but the donkeys who code my government's dysfunctional websites are all fully employed, it suggests the software industry is in very big trouble. Based solely on this blog
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It reads very manic.
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The charter schools will do fine because they will attract wealthy students from all over who can afford to travel farther for a better school. So these charter schools will monopolize public funding for educating the wealthiest students, w
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Because it’s not a real choice. As household income decreases, the odds the child goes to the nearest school (regardless of how good it is) increases. Are you providing after school child care options or transportation to their school of c
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The thing is, I’d actually rather play a game that is basically a virtual modeling hobby than a deep city simulation. I think Cities Skylines scratched that itch for a lot of people.
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Unfortunately many products that “make people happy” are nothing more than plastic trash pollution. How many resources have been used and how much damage done to ship plastic trash across oceans, that doesn’t even do anything? > why do y
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Likely true, and I’m sure many companies go unpunished despite engaging in it, but that doesn’t make it a good idea, and probably the kind of thing that could ruin a small business if they did get caught up in it.
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There’s a reason interviewers in the US won’t (or shouldn’t) even ask if the candidate has a spouse. If they ask something about that specifically, and the answer indicates some kind of protected status (a man says “my husband” or reveal wh
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If they’re specifically asking about personal things like that then those are very inappropriate interview questions.
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Do you really need AI for that? Seems like the thing any existing engineering team could do if it was prioritized.
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I’ve never met anyone in real life who enjoys a screen strapped to their face. No one I know ever talks about VR headsets as anything other than a novelty thing you do at the mall. The only place I’ve ever seen anyone say positive things ab

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