nmeagent

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by nmeagent 5mo ago
Are the livelihoods of the original creators still there?
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by nmeagent 5mo ago
> We didnt go extinct from the nuke Yet. We've come very close (see e.g. Daniel Ellsberg's The Doomsday Machine or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls ). A catastrophic mistake or miscalcula
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by nmeagent 5mo ago
Well, that AI mouse pointer idea is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in quite awhile. Hard pass, do not want, do not trust anyone involved.
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by nmeagent 5mo ago
I always thought it would be low-grade hilarious to record a fairly long video of the unboxing and assembly of a ridiculously elaborate in-case LED setup, only to reveal with a straight face and at the absolute last minute that the case in
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by nmeagent 5mo ago
I've run into a few restaurant sites whose ordering pages just do not work properly (or at all) in Firefox. Also webgl2 performance is unfortunately still much better in Chrome vs Firefox; as an example, FoundryVTT (virtual tabletop s
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by nmeagent 5mo ago
> I wonder how long these sorts of games will play before the law applies itself. Perhaps roughly as long as the law turns a blind eye to AI corps flagrantly violating the attribution requirements of software licenses that apply to their
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by nmeagent 6mo ago
> Now my company... Which company is that? Do let us know so I can make sure to never be your customer.
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by nmeagent 6mo ago
> As will everyone Nope. Not for me, not ever.
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by nmeagent 6mo ago
"Man, you guys really need to get inside sometimes and touch Linoleum..."
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by nmeagent 7mo ago
I find it surprising how many non-technical friends and family constantly anthropomorphize LLMs, regularly bringing up instances where they "asked AI" about this or that and it "told them" whatever. I'm tired of tr
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by nmeagent 7mo ago
And probably a lot of uncool sci-fi like stuff, e.g. The Machine Stops.
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by nmeagent 7mo ago
I don't understand why anyone would want to work for a firm that will not allow their employees to do their entire job properly, but will instead insist that they delegate a large portion of it via natural language of all things to som
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by nmeagent 7mo ago
So when you bring this up with your coworkers, do they tell you just what to do with or where to put your value judgments of their hobbies?
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by nmeagent 8mo ago
Forget legal , they want any action to not be obstructed by guardrails.
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by nmeagent 8mo ago
> That freedom must be balanced against the interests of the rest of society to avoid risk from certain kinds of harm which can easily proliferate in an environment where any program can run with the full authority of the owner and malwa
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by nmeagent 8mo ago
Either this is masterful satire or I should be asking you how the weather is in St. Petersburg, eh tovarisch? (no offense to the poor folks who live there and aren't paid to troll Internet fora).
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by nmeagent 8mo ago
> There's an immigration checkpoint near my house. I've had to present my ID. It took all of 5 minutes and then I moved on with my life. There's a very real possibility now that if you have the wrong physical attributes, e
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by nmeagent 9mo ago
Warrick apparently retracted that accusation after closer examination, FYI.
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by nmeagent 10mo ago
"You must sign in to view this post." No.
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by nmeagent 10mo ago
I was going to look into this once, but instead I opted to go into Tosche station to pick up some power converters and unfortunately never quite got around to it.
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by nmeagent 10mo ago
> I just asked AI Please stop doing this. If someone wants to read LLM-generated hooey of some variety, they can submit a prompt somewhere and read the resulting text themselves.
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by nmeagent 11mo ago
Beware of "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride." Some people don't survive that ride. Sometimes that ride lasts many years.
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by nmeagent 11mo ago
No. They shouldn't be able to do this within 100 miles of a border either, since that's not a reasonable distance for the border exception to apply by any sane reasoning. The rights of roughly 2/3 of the US population don&#
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by nmeagent 11mo ago
Do you think that corporate erosion of (or outright hostility to) privacy is somehow a compelling reason to deny rights to those of us who make different choices in an attempt to protect them? Just because some people decided to buy a smar
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by nmeagent 11mo ago
In keeping with the grand traditions of corporate communications, perhaps we should all jump on a call to explore these issues in an unaccountable and likely adversarial way.
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by nmeagent 11mo ago
IME an n vs. m written discussion in a public forum can be clearer, more productive, and a hell of a lot more accountable than some potential n vs. 1 adversarial corporate firing-squad 'discussion' intended to reinforce whatever p
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by nmeagent 11mo ago
Consider a world where a sizeable fraction of the population has and uses such a device, such that its presence is assumed and ultimately mandated by authoritarian law enforcement entities, surveillance capitalist firms, and so on. Can you
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by nmeagent 1y ago
You'd better carefully check the flight path of every longer distance route then, otherwise you may find yourself unexpectedly crossing the airspace of countries like Russia (e.g. IME Newark to Hong Kong flew over the polar region and
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by nmeagent 1y ago
Not all state machines are deterministic.
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by nmeagent 2y ago
Yes, Google's AI chatbot confidently claimed yesterday that US passports have a fingerprinting requirement, which is absolutely not true. These things can't be trusted to emit even basic facts without somehow screwing it up and i

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