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by overfeed 5d ago
I will not use any more of my time arguing with Claude via a meat puppet.
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by overfeed 5d ago
Your Claude may have been hallucinating - solar panels have no microcontrollers or microprocessors, and hence have no need for firmware. Battery Charge controllers -- that are downstream of panels do have firmware, but even if a booby-tra
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by overfeed 8d ago
You can find the pressure through destructive trial-and-error if money is no object - which it isn't for governments when the target hardware is juicy.
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by overfeed 8d ago
> I want to take a step back and observe that you're saying expensive specialists will continue to be required if two parties want to make an agreement. A lot of contract-lawyering involves getting ahead of when things go south and
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by overfeed 9d ago
> The future we are looking at with the help of AI is full of abundance. Why would you think that, when the gains of productivity increases haven't been distributed uniformly during the past several decades? What could disrupt the c
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by overfeed 9d ago
> I suspect that geopolitics will leave US/China GPUs with largely non overlpping customer bases That's not what's happening in the auto-industry, Chinese EVs are easily outselling American ones. Why would GPUs be any diff
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by overfeed 10d ago
Even the cheapest commodity encryption chips have had this capability for well over a decade now, Unlike Apple, Flock are not a hardware pioneer, not by a long shot. The Android documentation has an example of how to use hardware keys, and
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by overfeed 10d ago
Linux 3.x has a lot of CVEs filed against its Bluetooth implementation.
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by overfeed 10d ago
There are levels to defending against physical attacks, and Flock half-assed theirs by leaving the encryption key right on the file system, according to the reporting. Those more serious about security — like Apple — store keys in an "
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by overfeed 10d ago
Getting persistent access to Flock's internal network is a high-priority item for every US adversary, who doesn't want free intel collection on the movements of persons of interest? Knowing who the FBI and local cops are monitorin
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by overfeed 10d ago
I could have been more clear in my writing, but I was adding to your point of things that trap the left. The "Sir/Ma'am" was addressing a hypothetical left-ish "moderate" who gets trapped into criticizing other
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by overfeed 10d ago
> The left gets trapped... Nevermind the wedge driven when moderates who think of themselves as being on the left agree with the idea that past weak attempts to nudge things leftward "went too far", or that there actually is an
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by overfeed 10d ago
What in the enlightened centrism?! All 3 branches of government are controlled by conservatives, as is the fourth estate.
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by overfeed 11d ago
> Right now, the vast majority of office jobs are bullshit jobs, because the director who holds the budget is incentivized to maximize headcount This may have been briefly true during the Zero-Interest regime. The economy isn't doin
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by overfeed 11d ago
> Meanwhile, actual humans go fuck off to raise their kids while being paid by AI finance and HR departments I was able to suspend my disbelief until this line. Unless Capitalism has been upended by 2029, AI companies will continue to ha
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by overfeed 11d ago
> She does have a track record of achieving things she probably did not attend: e.g. ensuring total Chinese dominance of US household robotics. Why should the FTC consider the policy of another sovereign when investigating domestic anti-
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by overfeed 11d ago
on the other hand, Rust is memory safe!
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by overfeed 11d ago
> humans on call for robots isn't the future I want. Disposable reverse-centaurs are the key to unlocking trillions in shareholder value, you may not want it, but capital demands it on the basis of getting returns on the supersized
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by overfeed 12d ago
> But if you are a professional who expects to earn a living salary on these things, your intellect will suddenly be outcompeted by orders of magnitude Which organizations do the most math research? What are their budgets, droves and cu
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by overfeed 12d ago
> Note that China itself is a protectionist economy. So in some sense protectionism is recognizing that China has a pretty good industrial policy and copying it. China's protectionism is emplaced to support long-term goals. Amodei&#
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by overfeed 12d ago
> This kind of argument is always dangerous, because it essentially resorts to moving goalposts. Nope, introspecting motivation is useful. There have been similar posts made about people using bots in PvP competitive online gaming: some
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by overfeed 12d ago
...and in warhammer 40k, the warp enables faster-than-light travel; one can only read that as optimistic sci-fi by ignoring the subtext - scratch that - ignoring the text.
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by overfeed 13d ago
Anthropic carried out a multitude of "copyright attacks" on open source repositories, and the broader internet.
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by overfeed 14d ago
> then language alone wouldn't be enough to encode and embody reasoning capabilities I disagree, language is the product of, not the mechanism for thought. People who lose their faculty of speech (or haven't gained them) have
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by overfeed 14d ago
> if we transcribe your brain into a simulation and give it a tickrate, you will be just autocomplete too. The underlying mechanisms for producing language are very different, in the same way birds and airplanes have different mechanisms
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by overfeed 14d ago
> AI is now capable of constructions so complex that no human or human team can unpack Can you give an example of this?
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by overfeed 14d ago
> I'm not sure if you've tried to use Wordpress for a simple site. I did recently and it was a horrendous experience. As someone who made a number of bespoke backends, WordPress wins on turnkey host-support, ease of content-aut
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by overfeed 15d ago
TBF, I hadn't heard of the guy before this thread either, but I don't hang out in the unexpected-scaling-demand-with-no-infra-team circles, which appears to he the target market.
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by overfeed 15d ago
> OP never took jets 101. Neither have I. So what? So you,me and OP will likely miss a lot of nuance when discussing jets - after all, reality has a lot of detail. Stating the existence of blindspots is not condescension, having blin
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by overfeed 15d ago
> Your bet is wrong sadly E-ink devices place no demand on fine-motor skills the way turning a page does. I'll stand by by bet. I'm not defensive about the fact that the experience of reading vs listening are different - I ch

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