palmotea

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by palmotea 9mo ago
> The term "agent" with regards to law enforcement substantially predates "agent" in the context of AI. The GP's account was created in 2019, so being born yesterday is not an excuse available to them.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
Yeah, I looked into it, and ICE actually has two distinct components: Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO). Pretty much everyone things ICE == ERO, so you've got stuff like Canadians agita
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> The only value from asking this question is to be entertained, and “fixing” this question makes the answer less entertaining. You're thinking like a user. The people doing the patching are thinking like a founder trying to maintai
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> There are only 15 countries worldwide with a higher defence budget than Canada so the budget is hardly tiny... Canada is pretty big: it's the second-largest country by land-area. Surely there must be certain defense expenditures t
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> LTO tape exists and should last 30 to 50 years in good storage conditions. Except tape is now rare-bird datacenter thing. Super expensive, and hard to find drives. The nice thing about discs is they're a mass market consumer mediu
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I think the AI-coding skill that is likely to remain useful is the ability (and discipline) to review and genuinely understand the code produced by the AI before committing it. > I don't have that skill; I find that if I'm
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> People literate in AI, but inexperienced in all other facts. What could go wrong! It sounds like it's appeal to MBAs, who are people literate in management, but inexperienced in all other areas.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I remember the general consensus on this _not even two years ago_ being that the code should speak for itself and that comments harm more than help. If that was the consensus, it was wrong. There are valuable kinds of comments (whys, w
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Similarly we don't blame automobile manufacturers when someone does something stupid with their automobiles--even "self-driving" ones. I do. If Tesla sells something called "full self-driving," and someone trea
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> This language basically removes accountability and responsibility from the human, who configured an AI agent with the ability to publish content that looks like a blog with zero editorial control – and I haven’t looked deeply but it se
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> 2) They do not see their opponents as people. > Like, that's it. They're either ignorant or they view their opposition as subhuman. I'm going to go a bit off topic, but tech people often just inhale sci-fi, and I thin
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> leading to one of those situations where a bunch of people get fired for no reason and then re-hired again after some time. More likely they get fired for no reason, never rehired, and the people left get burned out trying to hold it a
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> And we are just a system running on carbon-based biology in our physics computer run by whomever. What makes us special, to say that we are different than GPT-5.2? Do you really want to be treated like an old PC (dismembered, strippe
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Contrast eg Norway, where businesses operate inside of a formal 3-way agreement (Trepartssamarbeidet) between the government, employers associations, and trade unions. > It's going to take probably a few rounds of fascism and m
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Capitalist companies are just the modern day evolution of feudal lords with the mandate of maximum value extraction with zero care for the impacts on your fiefdom/market, the tendency to drift to rent seeking, etc. Actually, I&#x2
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> There are plenty of other places to talk politics, religion, or share personal opinions. Work is best kept for work. We could all use a bit more compartmentalization. This idea of "bring your whole self everywhere" is just a
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Maybe I have too much imagination and stretched the rules a bit. But, if superstition is 'any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural', I'd argue that financialization is a con
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> Can you explain what it means for capitalism to "serve money"? That sounds exactly backwards to me; money serves capitalism, that is, it is the breath expelled when people speak the language of prices to understand each other
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I wonder how well Sagan's own "baloney" holds up against his kit. Historians despise the guy for all the stuff he made up about the library of Alexandria, Hypatia, Eratosthenes, etc... People still repeat a lot of that t
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by palmotea 9mo ago
>> capitalism infected by the shareholder-theory-of-value and financialization > For those who aren't inside the club, those are superstitions. Come on, they are not. One is a value system, the other is a technology/pract
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by palmotea 9mo ago
>> when it was really capitalism infected by the shareholder-theory-of-value and fictionalization pursued by really smart and rational people focused on their personal self-interest. > That's one factor, sure. Another factor i
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> The article links to an article about Sagans' prediction of the decline of america. Strangely fitting nowadays. >> I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time — when the United States is a serv
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by palmotea 9mo ago
So, in other words, AI is a mannequin that's more confusing to people than your typical mannequin. It's not a person, it's a mannequin some un-savvy people confuse for a person. > AI, on the other hand, can (now, or in the
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> There could be a world where the muon radiation fallout of WWIV has contaminated all unmined terrestrial mineral sources. All unmined terrestrial mineral sources? I don't know what the heck you're talking about, but that soun
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I can't imagine why someone would want to openly advertise that they're so closed minded. It's not being closed-minded. It's not wanting to get sea-lioned to death by obnoxious people.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> If debt refinancing became illegal or widely impractical due to an interest rate spike, you’d quickly see how much of the productive economy it’s fueling! You're missing the point. Read the article. And no one is saying "don&
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by palmotea 9mo ago
Is Gallup nonpartisan, or does it have connections/affinity to the Republican party? I vaguely recall some of the famous pollsters have political affinities that aren't very clear.
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> I think this illustrates another pernicious effect of excessive inequality: where does it lure talent? The best and brightest, lured from speculation to ads to blockchain to AI to... Or finance. There was a pretty brutal takedown publi
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> last year was the first year I've seen since the release of the original switch where switch/switch 2 was not constantly sold out (usually poached by resellers early in the AM) every time I visit target. There's a full s
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by palmotea 9mo ago
> We also have a dashboard with AI Adoption per developer, that is being used to surveil the teams lagging on the topic. All very depressing. Enforced use means one of two things: 1. The tool sucks, so few will use it unless forced. 2. U

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