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by p-e-w 3y ago
I meant see my reply to the sibling comment of your comment, which raises the same point. Group rights and individual rights are not the same thing.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
See above.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Both of those are examples of group rights, not individual rights. That is, rights have been expanded for subsets of the population, not for everyone. That's a very important distinction to make, though I grant you that pretending this
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> An imperfect system, but still worth protecting as it improves. It's not improving though. Quite the opposite. For the past two decades, individual rights in Western democracies have consistently been eroded, under both right- and
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Government can provide incentives to people without enforcing that everybody follows those incentives. But the only way it can do that is by coercing other people. For example, if the incentives are monetary, the government must first
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The social system we live in cannot tolerate mass unemployment, so I have no doubt that those "lost" jobs will be immediately replaced by newly invented jobs, just to keep the whole thing going just a little longer. I'm quite
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> People like the money they make more than the hassle of doing the job You're framing this like a choice, when for most people doing such jobs it absolutely isn't.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Don't worry – those "complex" tasks will be done by machines also, just 3-5 years down the line. It's all over, folks.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> In software development we are still trying to figure out how to write a CRUD app that doesn't implode in the most entertaining ways. What utter nonsense. Shame on you for shitting on what I do. > Those cathedrals were built af
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The internet tends to lock things in. More generally, a globally connected civilization locks things in, once they are sufficiently widespread. Barring an apocalypse, our present is eternity. I'm always amused when I read science
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> We could at least get everyone here to use Firefox. That would accomplish nothing. > But the important thing is checking in automatically as a Firefox user in the logs of every other site online. No, that's not important. HN us
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> do you think that wealthy westerners should pay for, say, pensions or services in Africa? If they have business interests in Africa, absolutely. The world's biggest corporations are profiting massively from having access to the
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> and vague populist "we'll just tax X" won't fix it The richest people and biggest corporations own such an unimaginably large amount of wealth that taxing them would fix just about anything. In 2017, Apple's c
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> lost my primo.af domain name to the Taliban I had no idea it used to be possible to register Afghan domain names from outside of Afghanistan.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
So in other words, "cognitive behavioral manipulation" won't actually be banned. It will only be banned if conditions A, B, C, D, E, and F are also met. Otherwise, it's full steam ahead, for example for the purposes of a
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> People come in different shapes and forms. And there's a common term for all of them: People. According to the above quote, "people" in general have the right to receive protection. So why mention those groups separate
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Strange language in the press release (emphasis added): > Unacceptable risk AI systems are systems considered a threat to people and will be banned. They include: > - Cognitive behavioural manipulation of people or specific vulnerabl
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> you've just been caught hiding inconvenient forum threads too FWIW, I do believe them when they say this wasn't intentional. Considering how the Internet operates, they would be incredibly stupid to do something like that on
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The difference is that you can still use sequential IDs internally, while exposing hashed IDs to the outside. This protects your database from collisions under all circumstances, while in the absolute worst case, a single user might experie
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Unfortunately, many libraries don't implement it yet.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> They can have privacy/security issues (you could guess things by the values of ids of stuff). Push them through a secure hash function, and that problem is solved too (assuming you can keep the base counter private).
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Unless the RNG itself is the problem, there's no reason not to. All kinds of civilization-ending catastrophes are vastly more likely than a collision in a space of size 2^122.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
If you want unique identifiers, use version 4 (random) UUIDs. Problem solved. The probability of a collision is roughly the same as the probability of a fully grown dinosaur spontaneously manifesting in your bedroom due to quantum fluctuati
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> but this is exhibit A on why one needs to use home assistant and build your infrastructure/services for your home based on things you control Alternatively, you could simply not have a "smart home" in the first place, sa
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that some countries don't give protection to typefaces. Does that mean that if you take a commercial font file and strip the bytecode, retaining only the glyph shapes, you can do as you wish with the res
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Title of the original video: "Amazon accuses customer of racism & shuts down their smart home" So there is 1. surveillance/control techno-fascism 2. US-centric political zeitgeist 3. useless cloud garbage all rolled into
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Reading this really helps illustrate why and how a font is considered a computer program and thus eligible for copyright protection. Copyright protects all creative works, with very few exceptions. Whether or not a font is a computer p
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Whoa, what? That's a much bigger red flag than the downtime itself.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Meanwhile, Western AI companies are making their products submit to the political orthodoxy of the day even without any government mandates. China has much to learn about social control from the West. The illusion of freedom combined with i
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Is there a name for the cognitive bias, pervasive in the psychological sciences, that causes people to focus on (supposed) human deficiencies and cognitive biases to the exclusion of almost all other phenomena?

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