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by roenxi 5mo ago
> but until they get EUV working industrially (and reasonable timelines are at least 2-4 years for that) Does this not count as soon? How often do you buy new computers? That seems pretty soon. I remember a year or few ago being told it&
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Are you sure? That seems like the sort of thing people might just not do. It can't take that many brain cells for an uncomfortably warm person to work out that more blankets make you more hotter -> less blankets makes you less hotte
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by roenxi 5mo ago
This reminds me a bit of dating advice given by an attractive person, except it is work performance advice given by a (probably) unusually intelligent and socially capable person. It is true that most corporations are riddled with less-comp
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No, I mean real resources as in tangible ones. Although in this case I'd also be interested in redirected labour even though that isn't really a tangible asset. Like if you were explaining to someone who didn't speak english
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If you think about it in terms of game theory that is actually a fair approach - you have an ally, you propose a best-case path forward for the alliance where both members are strong. If the ally don't want to take that path then you e
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> At the same time it’s also an opportunity to get rid of an outdated constitution and have another go, with the benefit of 250 more years of experience. Which experiences? The US constitution was written with approximately 2,500 years o
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And in terms of real resources - who do you expect to have less and what do you expect them to have less of? Because "excess profit" is an economic concept, not a real thing.
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by roenxi 5mo ago
> I.e. that the rich should pay more than the poor How else could it work? The poor don't have enough money to tax them. That's why they're poor. Schemes where the rich don't get taxed are systems that tend towards th
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by roenxi 5mo ago
There is no consensus on what is "fair" to tax, you can find people arguing from 0% to 100%. And if we're talking about measures of fairness. A much better measure is something like trying to maximise the median living standa
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by roenxi 5mo ago
> I think it’s legit, actual intelligence, not just “artificial” intelligence. That may be a hot take but it’s just my perception. You might be redefining words here; there isn't a form of intelligence that isn't actual intelli
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by roenxi 5mo ago
But they are making a profit. Otherwise they'd have to stop providing stuff, because they'd be broke.
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> Before you had one big influencer, usually the state, manipulating the news of your country. The alternative players were more trustworthy, because they had to if they wanted to keep credibility. There isn't much in the way of evi
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by roenxi 5mo ago
But to just inject a little optimism - the problem was substantially bigger before the internet. Previously it was possible to coordinate the astroturfing across the entire media landscape. Nowadays it is much harder because anyone can get
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by roenxi 5mo ago
I decided against quoting from https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/platforms/srud - current Debian project lead - because it looked like a short out of context quote would misrepresent him and also maybe a fast
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> Concretely, this means that no takeover of the company is possible without the Foundation’s approval. Even if Boris were to pass away, even if an irresistible investor came knocking, control of Infomaniak remains in the hands of a stru
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by roenxi 5mo ago
That doesn't really respond to the question though - there is a quite reasonable argument that the Chinese room as a system 'understands' things. The issue that is hit immediately is we don't have a definition or test of
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by roenxi 5mo ago
The only people with higher expectations of the AI boom than the optimists are the pessimists. The forecasting I've seen [0] is that AI will be in a position to vibe-code things like Photoshop with some human assistance by around 2027-
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by roenxi 5mo ago
It is making an empirically-meaningful claim - it is observing what LLMs do in a neatly pithy way. It isn't a hypothesis though, because it doesn't try to explain anything. > Yet I don’t go around calling LLMs stochastic parrot
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by roenxi 5mo ago
There is also the reverse - is it ethical not to have children? Maybe the hypothetical children want to exist.
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It isn't possible to have "just probabilistic" (maybe a philosophical exception could be made for a uniform random distribution or whatever provides the little dose of randomness required to get nondeterministic results). Pro
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Shadowbans are actually a bit more than that - your comments are invisible unless someone with a high karma threshold puts a little effort in to mark them as reasonable. People can't actually see most of your comments. I'd recomme
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by roenxi 5mo ago
The minimum standard for a "sex offence" in the UK seems to include [0] "Sharing or threatening to share intimate photograph or film" and "Sending etc photograph or film of genitals". Which (1) don't do ei
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by roenxi 5mo ago
So, in a moment of clarification, your official position on this one is going to be that the 2 majors are at high risk of being knocked into 3rd/4th place by the greens, and this isn't a reflection on their failures of governance
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by roenxi 5mo ago
> I mean, this sentence is self contradictory, no? By benchmarks, the Chinese models are ahead of where the proprietary US models were ... something like 6 or 12 months ago. And all the benchmarks are a bit fuzzy anyway on whether a smal
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Just wandering in to this as a relative political bystander, but as I look at the polling out of the UK [0] I see that the party currently leading is some group called "REF" and I gather they did pretty well in the latest round of
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by roenxi 5mo ago
I expect Java would be easy-mode for the AI, they already do quite well reconstructing C++ from ghidra output in my experience from when I wanted to know what damage formula some game was using. As a reminder; your account has been shadow-b
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Also, the revenue curve probably looks like well behaved exponential growth when Anthropic plots it out. Given that they're making speculative claims in a fast-changing environment anyway, I personally would probably cope if they inclu
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> I'm reminded of a comic about global warming, "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?": https://climateactionreserve.org/blog/2012/08/31/environment ...
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by roenxi 5mo ago
But you didn't build my house, and if I literally get angry with you because I think you should abandon your legal shenanigans, admit to being a builder and take on legal liability for the flaws in my house that would confuse you bec
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by roenxi 5mo ago
Although it is worth pointing out that something changed - prior to around 2010 the US had a financially dominant position and the internet was small. So it was feasible to totally ignore opinion in places like Latin America, Africa and the

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