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by p-e-w 1mo ago
You can buy them without training, but that doesn’t mean you should be allowed to use them in a research setting on strangers without training.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
The website looks great to me, clean and simple, perfect for a project like this. “Not looking like it was made by AI” isn’t something I value for itself in a website, any more than “not looking like it was made with injection molding” is s
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> In 2006, when he was a professor at the MIT Media Lab, Ariely conducted experiments including administering electric shocks with a research assistant who had no human–subject training. […] Ariely confirmed this and said that he wasn&#x
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> Is there some way to change incentives to get people to try and replicate? Sure. Pay them to do it.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> Our view of the universe we live in changes over time as we get more information about it. But that’s not what happened here. The definition was changed. We didn’t learn anything new about Pluto that made us say “ah, we thought Pluto
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Uranus has been observed since antiquity, but wasn’t recognized as a planet.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
We’re on an Internet forum, so that framing is logical when discussing here.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
The pursuit is performative and pretentious, in much the same way as body culture on Instagram. It’s about collecting achievements in an imaginary social game, and then bragging about it, while insisting that it’s not like that at all but s
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Oh, the list wasn’t meant to be exhaustive. I also didn’t mention Homotopy Type Theory, Stoicism, and urban beekeeping.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Yes, an article explaining online tracking proves the claim that “privacy doesn’t exist”. I guess it is true for certain people who no longer distinguish between their life and browsing the web…
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
So do I. According to today’s prevalent tech/science culture, “everyone” should - write their own network stack, compiler, text editor, operating system - learn 3-5 foreign languages - travel extensively - learn how computers work from
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
I doubt it. It seems far more likely that such code will be written just once by LLMs, but in a way that allows its claimed guarantees to be formally verified (e.g. in Lean). At that point there’s no need to JIT an implementation each time.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
That’s tinfoil hat nonsense. Of course there is privacy, otherwise those agencies wouldn’t be constantly lobbying for more invasive surveillance powers. What would be the point of that, if they could already read everything?
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Vatican, Liechtenstein.
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
No high-income country has shown serious interest in joining the EU in decades. Norway is a hyper-privileged nation that already has several relevant treaties with the EU and has very little to gain by submitting to a system where the Balka
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
> Many people will call it "just the normal right thing to do". It’s absolutely not a normal thing to do for entities that want to use the “we are just infrastructure, our users are responsible for their actions” excuse. In fac
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
If you select who you provide services to based on their ideology, you can’t shrug and say “I’m just an infrastructure provider, same as the electrical grid” when it turns out that some of those individuals committed crimes using the stuff
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by p-e-w 1mo ago
Then they are an activist group, not an “infrastructure provider” as claimed elsewhere in this thread, and holding them responsible for what their members do with the accounts they give them seems entirely fair.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
Are you willing to take responsibility for accusations you make based on snake oil technology? That is, if you claim that something posted by someone else is written by AI, and that turns out to not be the case, do you accept that others ha
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
> Then I check with Pangram and yep. It is completely AI written. “AI detectors” do NOT work reliably. Even humans who are ever-so-certain about being able to identify AI usage constantly embarrass themselves when that claimed ability is
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
There’s zero liability in a company stating publicly that they support Anna’s Archive. Zero. Free speech protections cover much more egregious statements than that.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
I’m pretty sure it’s just an unintentional name collision. The vast majority of people are unaware of this name’s connotation in Nostradamus, unless they happen to have read or watched some pop culture work that references it.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
I used to be interested in the prophecies of Nostradamus a lifetime ago. You may be surprised to learn that “Hister” is a name mentioned in those prophecies that is commonly claimed by believers to refer to the future Adolf Hitler. Academic
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
Luck is just as important even with perfect economic equality. It’s just that economic luck gets replaced by luck of genetics, luck of immaterial circumstances, etc. I have always found the assumption strange that one is somehow preferable
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
For the vast majority of higher-level jobs you need certifications, not knowledge. There are very few jobs that you can get by simply demonstrating that you know something. The reason people pay $100k for a year of college education most ce
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
> Adverse childhood experiences are significantly associated with both impulsivity and future earning potential. But that’s just another correlation without a proof of causation. There’s no clear definition of what causation is. You can
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
I can’t believe that in the multipolar world of 2026, where hundreds of conflicting world views coexist, where universalism is being disproven on a daily basis, it’s still possible to read things like “there is agreement on what the right t
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
They are thrown away, which has been happening since forever, and nobody ever gave a fuck until AI got involved.
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
This would be more convincing if there was any agreement on what the right thing supposedly is. The major lesson I myself learned as I got older is that “you should do the right thing” is a rephrasing of “you should do what I want you to
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by p-e-w 2mo ago
It’s just another lie of the type these threads tend to be filled with nowadays. Of course they aren’t buying “all copies”, and that wouldn’t even be possible in most cases since such books are usually flea market/attic material and mo

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