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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I had the same idea last year. But it's difficult. To encode knowledge in CycL required intensive training, mostly in how their KB encoded very abstract concepts and "obvious" knowledge. They used to boast about how they had
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I played with OpenCyc once. It was quite hard to use because you had to learn things like CycL and I couldn't get their natural language processing module to work. The knowledge base was impressively huge but it also took a lot of work
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Cyc was ahead of its time in a couple of ways: 1. Recognizing that AI was a scale problem. 2. Understanding that common sense was the core problem to solve. Although you say Cyc couldn't do common sense reasoning, wasn't that actu
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Hmm, I don't interpret it like that. He doesn't seem to be arguing that 100% of all people need religion. That's clearly not true and never has been. There were people pointing out the Bible was nonsense in the 1600s, and get
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Changing your name is a pretty involved legal process exactly because identity is so widely used by other people, so it generates a lot of work to alter it. And governments in some parts of the world regulate what names you can use, and may
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Because CMOs typically don't formally write to business partners, "I'd like to confirm in writing that we'd spend lots of money with you but the ADL is bullying us"? I mean, sure, it's possible that these conve
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
They didn't? Machine translation has been steadily improving for many years. It's not like yesterday computers couldn't translate and today they can. All translators must have known this day would finally arrive.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I thought he did say he was hearing it from advertisers?
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
They explain that in their report: > CTS has previously written about the phenomenon of “stochastic harassment” on Twitter, or how influential accounts act as nodes for harassment even when not explicitly directing their followers to har
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
How would it be simple to substantiate that? He'll be hearing this from advertisers probably via back channels or in verbal conversation only. To understand what the ADL is doing would require discovery, which requires a lawsuit.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Obvious strategy for price segmentation: it runs full macOS but can only install/run apps from the app store, and has no Terminal.app. At a stroke that partitions the market so developers and admin UNIX lover types can't buy them.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
By definition, identity is something that other people use to refer to you. You can invent all the personal identities you like if you just use them when referring to yourself. The moment what other people do comes into question then it&#x2
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> He is anti-choice ... he would not implement a federal ban As Americans have a lot of freedom to choose which state they live in, I don't see how this can possibly be described as "anti-choice". Being anti-choice would m
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes, very good. If we go hard sci-fi and talk about actually running out of stars in the universe, then I can just counter with some claim that by then we'll all have become inter-dimensional beings, or we'll never exhaust the sta
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Thanks for trying so hard here. It's quite depressing how many people here don't seem able to deconflate "I don't believe police can be trusted with this power" from "it is mathematically impossible to give it
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
> That one is indeed impossible due to the laws of information theory ... it is a humanity problem So, is this impossible due to human nature or the "laws of information theory"? Which is it? And if the latter what "law&
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I don't think there's much to respond to here, but for some reason both your posts had been flag killed. I don't think this argument is much good and frankly your posts are a little bit offensive, but that shouldn't resu
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Be careful here - the economist's position about a finite world was something the physicist picked. The economist agreed to it early on, probably to try and seem agreeable, but it's not a reasonable concession to make. Space exist
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I think this sub-thread is getting a bit confused. Firstly, nothing I've proposed demands unhackable organizations. That appears to be a requirement you invented. No security system presumes that! The so-called E2E encryption systems a
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Governments know that the police sometimes go rogue and don't care. It can be cleaned up when they do. Tech firms also know that programmers can make mistakes whilst implementing complex cryptography, or even be corrupted, yet this is
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Not the government's problem to solve, and tech firms can easily solve that by changing how their encryption works (e.g. using secure enclaves, or remote attestation).
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
That definition is insufficient to capture a secure system. It's not enough for a system to do this. You have to actually know / be able to prove it's doing this. It's worth repeating this because tech firms have made th
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
There is no key that gets handed out all over the place. Numerous people are trying to explain that on this thread. Even a purely textbook cryptography setup would involve the private keys being generated inside an HSM and never leaving it.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I think you're arguing at cross-purposes with me. Nobody has argued that bouncing virtual tokens around creates wealth. That's the "wealth is money" fallacy that I just criticized. Wealth as used by economists just means
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
Yes, obviously normal government agencies get hacked all the time, I was referring to places like the NSA. And I know about the Shadow Brokers. Not personal information.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
I'm not asking for anything. I'm pointing out what's possible. As for the last sentence, we don't know what their internal procedures are so we don't know what's harder.
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
This is a Type 1 argument and not even a good one because the effort required isn't even placed on those being regulated. Police can store keys inside HSMs. Tech firms can give training and develop software stacks to ensure secure work
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
This is cryptography 101. Asymmetric crypto lets you encrypt a message using a public key without having the private key to decrypt it. Remember that the encryption is being done client side by apps these networks control. E2E is therefore
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by nvm0n2 3y ago
WhatsApp already degraded their crypto to achieve their own political ends (they restrict forwarding in order to slow down the propagation of "rumors", which in a textbook e2e crypto scheme wouldn't be possible) [1]. So &quot

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