palmotea

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by palmotea 5d ago
> there are a lot of people who put the lives of dogs above those of people]. I think you'd find that a lot of people will donate to save animals rather than humans Ok, sure. But I was talking speciesist vs AI. Is there anyone who w
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by palmotea 5d ago
> Because it will never change if you not try. That's why it's important to convince people to not try. It reduces the medium term risk to investor returns.
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by palmotea 5d ago
>> We (humans) should help humanity flourish. I understand that not everyone agrees. I have been called a “speciesist” for being “too human-centric”. > this is insane. the "speciesist" people aside (the best way for all o
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by palmotea 7d ago
> I think it's a very common human trope to believe that we are in end-times. I imagine the overlap between the people that believe that AI will end humanity and those that believed climate change will end humanity 10 years ago is p
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by palmotea 8d ago
> Getting lucky and drilling through a part of the enclosure that isn't directly protected won't help you if a barometric pressure sensor is tripped as a consequence of breaking the hermetic seal. That's interesting. I sup
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by palmotea 8d ago
> Of course, with great effort and moderate expense, you could setup a burner phone with access to many of your same accounts and resources, but the more features you add to the burner phone, the more it begins to look like the device yo
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by palmotea 8d ago
> Sure, but if you’re defending against a nation state actor hopefully you aren’t expecting a raspberry pi to keep you secure. Is there anything about these techniques that are raspberry pi specific? It seems like they're using lase
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by palmotea 8d ago
> That is not the case for all private property, because I cannot copy your land or your car infinitely. All property is fundamentally about exclusion and control to allow for private exploitation. That common bit of rhetoric about cop
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by palmotea 8d ago
> This is going to blow your mind No. it won't blow anyone's mind . Not a single person. > but people created music, literature, art long before intellectual property laws existed. ^^^ cherry-picked, incomplete reading of h
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by palmotea 8d ago
Yes, I'm agreeing with you.
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by palmotea 8d ago
> Except, of course, no one has actually been robbed, the culture has not been stolen - it's still there - nor are the people involved selling it back in any form. But there's a real [1] transgression there, and attempting to l
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by palmotea 8d ago
> Allow me to suggest a third: these two options are black and white thinking and there is no objective answer to "intellectual property is real". Property is at best a social construct that is possibly supported by instinctual
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by palmotea 8d ago
> A Tech Priest is way smarter than any software developer you could ever think of. https://warhammer40k.fandom.com/wiki/Tech-Priest : > Despite the never-ending thirst for knowledge of all branches of the order,
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by palmotea 8d ago
> In an utopian society, lawyers are an unnecessary profession. Laws should be clear and simple so the common person can be their own "lawyer". Not really. Modern society is complicated, and law is a technology that is a reflec
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by palmotea 8d ago
If you want to see one in action, I found this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sApyrDEXGAI
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by palmotea 9d ago
FYI, it looks like you've been banned for the last ~8-9 months, for no obvious reason I can see. I vouched for your comment to make it visible, but they appears to show up as [dead] by default.
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by palmotea 9d ago
> Why couldn't you express all those as test cases rather than instructions? How would prevent removing the test case and the code that it tests? That's a legitimate thing to do when you're modifying a codebase. My intuiti
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by palmotea 9d ago
> ...the capitalist-ish economical system will eventually realize that the only scarce things are new, fun and creative ideas, and slowly value them more and more, which kind of might work out if nothing drastic happens between the times
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by palmotea 9d ago
Nah, our AI overlords will be aligned with our existing overlords. So, to the cobalt mine, you!
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by palmotea 9d ago
> I don’t see the similarity? It’s a dystopia run by a maniacal computer and everyone is forced to live underground until the machine collapses for some reason? I read that same summary. The similarity is pretty clear: the first step was
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by palmotea 9d ago
> Here, we don’t need a human understanding of mathematics to give people a perfect standard of living. We also don’t need humans involved with anything else. > Everything therefore becomes a hobby or a game. People do things because
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by palmotea 9d ago
> I have been trying to find one of these "lower pay better conditions" places, but it is _such_ a gamble. It is so hard to tell how the work is going to be before you join. Is that one of those situations where having a wide n
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by palmotea 10d ago
> They said that... where? By dismissing concerns and focusing exclusively competition and "winning the race."
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by palmotea 10d ago
> AIs do not have rights, feelings, or consciousness. And we must not train them to act as though they do. And even if they do happen to have feelings or consciousness, train them to happily devalue those things in themselves and not suf
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by palmotea 10d ago
> When the history books are written and all is said and done, the hubris of this moment where all the American labs decided to punk their investors and join hand in hand in agreeing to let the Chinese win forever is going to be the main
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by palmotea 10d ago
> AGI makes a lot better argument if everyone is in idiocracy. IIRC, a part of the backstory of Idiocracy is the development of pervasive and good enough AI/automation, which enabled society to get that dumb without immediately coll
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by palmotea 10d ago
IIRC, the Garmin eMap had a 386: https://www.gpsrchive.com/eMap/eMap.html . I think it was one of their first models that had a map, earlier ones would just display coordinates/tracks/waypoints. Edit: here&#x2
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by palmotea 10d ago
> If I pull out my PS5 30 years from now and pop in my Cyberpunk 2077 disk to play, I'm going to have a barely playable game. If we're lucky, it won't be playable at all. Then they'll have the option of selling it to
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by palmotea 10d ago
> ...unless the democrats ... start impeaching and prosecuting the trump regime. Because that worked so well last time. Time for some new ideas.
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by palmotea 10d ago
> and there is no way to repair it without it possibly being hit again anyway. What if they deploy hordes of those cheap Ukrainian anti-drone interceptors, near each station?

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