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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> When was the last time a person took responsibility for the bad outcome you got as a direct consequence of following their advice? ... I mean, the LLM certainly isn't going to do that.
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> when conversations reach a certain level of depth or require great focus or introspection.. I mean... if the alternative is an LLM... you realise that the LLM isn't doing any focusing or introspection, right?
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> How is a chatbot supposed to determine when a user fools even themselves about what they have experienced? And even if it _could_, note, from the article: > Overall, the participants deemed sycophantic responses more trustworthy and
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
Why not... do this with a person, instead? Other humans are available. (Seriously, I don't understand this. Plenty of humans will be only too happy to argue with you.)
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> They also included 2,000 prompts based on posts from the Reddit community r/AmITheAsshole, where the consensus of Redditors was that the poster was indeed in the wrong Holy shit, then it's _very_ bad, because AmITheAsshole is
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Look, if it’s good enough for North Korea…
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I give it a year before he starts trying to rename months after himself: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/25/1 Seriously, how is anyone, even the people who voted him, watching this nonsense an
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
No, that's not what it means. Actually, it doesn't _really_ mean anything, here, as it's not correct. The EPP has 188 seats out of 720. It is the largest single party, but, ah, to some extent, so what. (Also it is a European
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Eh, I wouldn't say that's true. It has a lot of "Christian democratic" parties (the likes of CDU/CSU), and also a bunch of 'liberal-conservative' parties (there's a fair bit of crossover). However, it
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> the problem in my opinion is the concentration of power in one person. Generally, a prime minister is less powerful than an executive president, often much less powerful. > and the prime ministers or presidents job is to only manage
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Yeah, this is more or less what I'm saying. Large parts of 'Chat Control' likely _are_ unconstitutional, but that doesn't necessarily stop it being brought (it just makes it likely that the courts will kill parts of it i
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The US's voltage issues make installing powerful electric stoves more expensive than it is in Europe, AIUI; for anything decent you need three phase there. Hence this bizarre (and very expensive) product: https://www.nytimes
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They'd be extremely rare in new builds, at least in Ireland, but some older houses would still have them. Interestingly, they were seen as kind of a high-end option for a long time; before induction stoves became a thing, the _default_
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
> Also - wasn’t this program voluntary? This gave companies permission to do things which would ordinarily be illegal under the ePrivacy directive, but did not make it mandatory for them to do so. That permission is now revoked (or will
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RE Chat Control 2 (ie _not_ this, the proposed permanent version): > In early October 2025, in the face of concerted public opposition, the German government stated that it would vote against the proposal German MEPs also voted against t
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by rsynnott 7mo ago
That pretty much _is_ what it is called. It's generally known as Chat Control, but "Chat Control 1" (the thing just rejected) is called "Extension of the temporary derogation from the ePrivacy Directive to combat online
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European parliament parties are really not particularly cohesive, and the EPP in particular is a bit of a random mess; it is _broadly_ liberal-conservative and pro-European, but its membership is a bit all over the place: https:/&#x2F
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I think the point of confusion is that there was an amendment before the final vote, which was way closer.
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I mean, they're _not_ the first defence. This is a story about the parliament rejecting a bad law.
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Ah, looks like they're American, based on their profile.
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That's pretty much how it works; there's generally no way, in a modern parliamentary democracy to say "no, and also you can never discuss it again". You could put it in the constitution, but honestly there's a decen
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> People need to directly elect the MPs ... We do? What did you think the European Parliament elections every four years were for? > directly elect some kind of president. Why? Nowhere in Western Europe except very arguably France (Fr
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> With every new proposal, every vote, they are closer to the totalitarian regime. Proposals can be declined a million times, but the EU regime is always finding sneakier and more manipulative ways to push again and again. ... I mean thi
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Note that European parliament parties aren't particularly cohesive; some EPP members voted against it.
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The screenshot is actually a vote on an amendment. Here's the final vote: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270 Less tight.
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Much worse, really; it was selling $10 bills for half a cent. The Moviepass thing, I think if you were kinda gullible you could maybe buy into it eventually working on scale. This could never work on scale.
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Costs would have to be reduced about 2,000 times just to break even, assuming that inference was the only cost, which of course it was not.
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> The wife of a conservative politician was sentenced to 31 months in prison for what police said was an unacceptable post. I feel like that article has a particular slant. From the BBC: > The wife of a Conservative councillor has bee
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It looks like about 30-40% of Americans look upon Trump's war favourably. That's _very_ low; I'm pretty sure that that's the worst _any_ American war has polls this early on. Approval of the Iraq war didn't fall und
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I was 90kg 20 years ago, 65kg now. About 5’9, so from low end of obese to low end of normal. I don’t honestly notice _that_ much of a mobility difference. Def never had any trouble getting around a city on foot/public transport. Now, i

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