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by philipov 2y ago
I don't want the advertisers who are spying on us to get a second chance to reconsider a more ethical way of doing business. I want their industry driven into the ground and destroyed for the crimes they've already committed. Only
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Yes. There is no such thing as privacy-respecting advertising. If they mess with extensions like Chrome did, they're going to lose their user base. A much higher proportion of us are only using Firefox because it's not connected t
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Is this why I love Factorio so much?
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> You should tell that to every old manager I had. They sound like boreful people. If you find you have become boreful, there's a good chance you may be experiencing burnout or depression, which are nasty diseases, but still ones th
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by philipov 2y ago
Boredom is in the mind, not the task. Things aren't boring, people are. An important type of intelligence is the capacity to find what's interesting about a task that others lack the imagination to see. One needs to be able to cre
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by philipov 2y ago
A really simple answer to the Fermi paradox is that we're the first, or in the first wave, of intelligent species, and it's just too early for the light from the others to have reached us yet. We're not just looking into the
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by philipov 2y ago
So when the rights of two individuals conflict, I guess you'd say the correct way to deal with it is not with a criminal charge, but for me to sue the other person? Do you think the American system would rule in favor of people who cau
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by philipov 2y ago
It's about our attitudes towards time, and the stories we tell about our relationship to it. For example, authoritarian regimes tend to eliminate the future from discourse - the future is not possible because we are beset by enemies an
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One clarification to make - While I haven't read On Freedom, Tim Snyder is a scholar of Ukrainian (and slavic) history who is a major opponent of the far right's agenda. One of his big ideas is the different approach to time promo
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It doesn't have to work in every case, and it doesn't have to be simple, but nevertheless there remains significant disagreement and ambiguity that gets to be decided by the person in power. In the end, it's a false dichotomy
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The distinction between positive and negative freedom always struck me as a deceptive wordgame. The person empowered to write the definitions can make whatever they wish appear as a positive or negative freedom. If we're only intereste
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That's why they say that the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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> And to pump the stock price, they want money going to shareholders (or growth). Paying out dividends hasn't been a major factor in stock picking logic for at least 20 years, and rather than real growth, they'd rather pad th
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More important than cultural differences is timezone differences. Communication and collaboration is harder when you only have a couple hours of overlap between your working day and their working day. Much harder if you have no overlap at a
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by philipov 2y ago
whoosh! (that's the joke)
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> Lots of people removed "master" from git repos. So because a lot of people chose to no longer use "master" in their git repos, it justifies an authoritarian rollback of science and health? No one cares what their
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by philipov 2y ago
Then you agree that what's going on now is wrong, and there's no need to bring up lesser wrongs to distract us from that.
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It's different because it's the federal government. You can't compare it to a bunch of companies deciding to do the same thing because of popular opinion. While both processes have their own mechanism for driving conformity,
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There was never a ban like this on the master-slave terminology. A lot of places started moving away from those terms, but plenty of others just kept the old naming. There was no top-down directive from the federal government like there is
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You seem to misunderstand what the Jones Act does and does not do. Our current predicament is not caused by the Jones Act.
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If you want to use Arch, you can already do so.
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It's as if the person who wrote it, their entire understanding of AI is based solely on depictions from science fiction.
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It seems to me the key phrase in that definition is "that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment" - If your code doesn't change its own operation without needing to be redeployed, it's not AI under this definition. If
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Their lobbying to outlaw open models is the biggest threat posed by AI, and their crowing about alignment and existential threats is cover fire for their real objective: total market control.
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They missed a chance to name the research program Mussel Training
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First they came for the trade-unionists, but you said nothing because you are not a trade unionist.
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This is why I don't update things anymore. Even if they claim to have security updates. That well has been poisoned. The updates themselves are a security threat.
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https://xkcd.com/538/
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What's the connection between malignant AI use and declining fertility?
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> changed his name to match the artist and served his sentence by painting and signing a mural If you kill Santa Claus, you must become Santa Claus!

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