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by qlte 5d ago
Look, I'm glad archive.is exists as a resource for preserving paywalled news but it wasn't the one world government that made him DDOS some random guy and tamper with archived content. It was completely counter-productive too, sev
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by qlte 5d ago
ARPAnet definitely wasn't built " by " the military. "For" the military is close enough, although "defense research" would probably be more accurate than "military" given that initial users were
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by qlte 6d ago
Revealed preference is a very real and useful phenomenon. But it seems to be increasingly overapplied as a convenient cop-out in scenarios where it's unclear any authentic preference is being revealed (e.g. due to confounding factors o
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by qlte 7d ago
Not if the billionaire who has been funding the endowment for their university's math department wakss up one morning to read a three sentence Claude summary of this thread, and says "hmm... sounds like what we really need is a C
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by qlte 7d ago
> With passkeys you're just SOL. No more so than if you lose access to the device that's required for Google/Apple MFA prompts, neither of which use SMS and depend on a proprietary approval flow. If you lose your p
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by qlte 7d ago
> lack of backups if a device is lost/broken That's not accurate. Bitwarden syncs passkeys across all my devices including both mobile/desktop (iOS/Android/MacOS/Windows/Fedora) using Chrome/Edge&
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by qlte 7d ago
KeePassXC supports passkeys
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by qlte 7d ago
They are 100% immune to credentials phishing. You literally cannot authenticate to an impersonator site based on cryptographic guarantees. And yes, I know the happy path of password managers uses host-based autofill which does add some fric
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by qlte 7d ago
Yes, at this point I have probably saved literal hours in time added up by being able to skip MFA prompts on sites/apps I use regularly via a passkey login flow. It was becoming ridiculous how often I'd hit a "verify who you
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by qlte 7d ago
You can add multiple passkeys in the vast majority of websites that support them. There's nothing in the spec that prevents or discourages allowing multiple credentials. I do it on every site I care about so I can fallback to the OS pa
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by qlte 7d ago
You're not limited to a single passkey by the spec or 99% of sites that support them. The limit is arbitrary and typically when a limit exists it's no fewer than 3 (very rarely 1, but I've only seen that once that I can recal
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by qlte 7d ago
I don't have any issues using Bitwarden as the default password manager on any of my devices, except the occasional Android/Google issue with apps where it opens the Chrome passkey store and doesn't prompt for Bitwarden. But
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by qlte 7d ago
Google and Samsung have a closer relationship than ever these days, with cross-branded Google features even featured in advertisements for the last couple Galaxy models which would have been unthinkable back in 2012 or so. They have their p
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by qlte 7d ago
That is definitely not how I remember the feature phone era. The OS was an afterthought seemingly whipped together a couple months before the device hit the shelves and nothing was ever consistent even across recent models from the same m
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by qlte 7d ago
It looks for Claude.md first so I don't understand what you think the problem is with the standard name as a fallback.
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Anthropic Shifts Planned IPO to November(wsj.com)
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by qlte 8d ago
An economy driven only by spending on bare essentials would be worse than Great Depression level malaise and stagnation. Where are you imagining growth would come from?
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by qlte 8d ago
No, that has the opposite effect: it's very, very common to see LWers write about having a bad time in school in late adolescence and how later finding like minded people online was powerful community bonding. Eliezer himself first blo
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by qlte 8d ago
Thank you, but I didn't actually need that spelled out. I simply accepted that a community with a thought leader who failed to recognize what to me was a self-evident lack of scientific rigor just wasn't for me.
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by qlte 8d ago
Come on, you can't get more unfalsifiable than "anything that disagrees with my idiosyncratic wordview is from an autonomous AI botnet".
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by qlte 8d ago
It appears you're using a motte and bailey to expand P(doom) to include all the non-Skynet reasons regular people hate SV.
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by qlte 8d ago
Yeah, it's laughable to think that somewhere in the DoD a map labeled like "Iran: Huge Undefended Drone Warehouses" has just been sitting around unused because Hegseth/Trump keep vetoing it on account of potential civili
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by qlte 8d ago
A while back I saw LessWrong recommended on HN in a list of similar communities that included lobsters.rs, etc. I thought the design of the site looked really nice so browsed with a open mind (I didn't make the rationalism/LW&#x2F
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by qlte 8d ago
> I somewhat expected my post would generate this type of attack It may not have been your intention but your post had a combination of a somewhat smug, lecturing tone and patting oneself on the back which is a bit off-putting. A
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by qlte 9d ago
There's plenty of precedent for specific industries self-regulating in the US, typically motivated by the shared view that it would be less disruptive than heavy handed federal regulation. Applying game theory problems like prisoner&#x
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by qlte 9d ago
Exactly, despite the rosy image Anthropic carefully cultivated early on as the "responsible" alternative who would keep OpenAI honest, they pushed the frontier further, faster and harder than any other company. If we want to make
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by qlte 9d ago
Huh? The oil price shock in 2022 and resulting SPR drawdown had nothing to do with oil leases. Prices almost doubled worldwide in the span of a week after Russia invaded Ukraine. Look at any chart of petroleum products and it's clearly
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by qlte 9d ago
Yes it's seemingly the go-to rebuttal, I've lost count of how many times I've seen it with barely any variation. Not sure if it's a product of LessWrong or Slate Star Codex or something. I kinda suspect it might be LW, g
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by qlte 9d ago
This argument would be difficult to reconcile if we didn't have billions of examples of humans forming memories plus modern evolutionary biology to trivially demonstrate such cases are rare pathologies but still human beings.
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by qlte 10d ago
I heard similar anecdotes about Insta ads being the rare example of showing products that were relevant and useful, sold by a "small" business (the appearance of one at least). That seemed to peak around 2022... So I may be wrong

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