ratelimitsteve

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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
>If nuclear energy can’t arise from abstract relationships, why would consciousness or anything else? because consciousness is a function of intangible relationships and energy is not.
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
I will indeed hold that, and it was my point to go to against post you were replying to and bolster your position. They try to make a point about modeling but they back it up by talking about virtually modeling real, physical processes. If
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
This. There are plenty of people who believe to the bottoms of their hearts that inanimate things have a consciousness. If consciousness is the belief of consciousness, then those things are conscious. But for each person who believes they
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
I'd argue that if it encrypts and decrypts, then you've built an enigma machine, not modeled it.
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
Well, this certainly makes arguing against AI's consciousness much easier. I'm happy assuming that conclusion and then logicking my way back to the premise, though it's obv philosophically unsound.
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
I came to the opposite conclusion using similar logic. If software is just bits being fed into the machine then there is no limit to the number of bits or the complexity of their arrangement beyond the feed rate of the machine. The bits tha
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
Corporations are only people when it comes to rights and profits. When it comes to responsibilities they revert to being nebulous entities whose behaviors are emergent phenomena that no one can actually be held accountable for. Or, to borro
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
What's really interesting is when you look at how much good they could do without ever actually affecting their lifestyle at all. What actually is $100 million to a trillionaire? What could he do with 1,000,000,000,000 that he can&#x27
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
This. Software hypothetically can permit unlimited complexity. There are only so many ways you can try to build a bridge such that it won't collapse. There are an infinite number of ways that a set of instructions can reach a desired s
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
We built houses before we had nailguns but now that we have them they're pretty essential to building a house.
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
just because AI is really good at being wrong doesn't mean that people aren't themselves capable of being wrong manually. Do I think someone may have consulted AI? Almost certainly, in fact I'd guess that there's an inte
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
well, coffee seems to be the only thing left that isn't riddled with parasites and broken glass so it works out about even
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by ratelimitsteve 1mo ago
I'm such a sucker for terminal games, especially the idea that you can exploit screen refreshes for rudimentary animation. There used to be a game called Paintball Net that was a top-down, real time paintball match simulator. It had a
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
a week of wfh from a company that's equipped to support remote work anyway and only wants in-office 25% of the time hardly qualifies as "insane overreaction". I'd says it's probably more along the lines of "a s
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
well, let's see what actually gets done. or even started.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
IDK what I would do if I was working and couldn't hear my coworker loudly "spontaneously collaborating" on the phone with the contractor installing his kitchen floor. At least I have an hour commute each way, $25/day in
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
It's possible that they just took the state of contract negotiations as an implicit threat of a strike without waiting for the union to explicitly announce the threat.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
The part where they blatantly lied to the patient's family, saying they found their loved one's body at a Dollar General down the road, then in the parking lot, then finally admitting that they were on the roof after gaining acces
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
the best decoy is a cheap burner phone that you only use for travel purposes
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I've worked with Cellebrite, the industry standard in IT forensics for unlocking and imaging phones. It just runs a series of known exploits. PIN lock, data encryption and regular updates will beat it most of the time.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
tfw face when I leave my phone on the table and go to the restaurant bathroom only to return to a brand new squeaky clean factory reset
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
>What is the difference between giving them a password which wipes the phone and giving them a password which opens a blank phone? They don't get any indication that there was data there to be deleted, and you don't just factor
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I mean, you could ship your real phone to w/e destination ahead of you and bring a $50 burner to the border. If you're a person of interest this won't work because they can monitor you and the destination but if you're a
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
simple assault or disorderly conduct
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
don't stand next to the reflecting pool, you'll get arrested because the president is embarrassed by his own incompetence
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
you can indict a ham sandwich if you don't try to convince a grand jury that a mustard stain is terrorism. the grand jury found that throwing a sandwich at someone doesn't rise to the level of assault. what dude did was never cont
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
The state will try again until they get the result that they have determined is correct.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
oh I know, i'm just here to make sure I collect my fair share of downvotes-without-replies in exchange for stating basic facts that aren't in contention. baselessly flagging posts is another thing they do to prevent discussion con
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
when the paramedics came to rescue the child they shot, they shot the paramedics
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
>The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehic

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