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by rurp 8mo ago
I didn't know there was a type of bird called a shrike until long after I read Hyperion. The birds look and sound like cute little songbirds, kind of like a smaller mockingbird. But the way they hunt is hardcore. They capture small pre
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by rurp 8mo ago
Despite being a huge fan of Simmons I had originally passed on this one because I didn't care for the Dickens novels I had read in school. At a family gathering I was surprised to learn that my Grandma was a big Simmons fan. She convin
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by rurp 8mo ago
Yeah... the more I learn about nuclear weapon history the more I discount our society's long term viability. There are way too many frighteningly close calls already, and there are probably others that aren't widely known. It&#x27
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by rurp 8mo ago
I think it's more likely we end up with a better software ecosystem. There will be plenty of companies for the foreseeable future willing to buy from either continent if one offering is substantially better. More competition will be be
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New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow(meta.stackoverflow.com)
14 points by rurp 8mo ago|8 comments
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by rurp 8mo ago
So did the US reach an agreement with them first in order to avoid thousands of easily preventable deaths?
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Hegseth gives Anthropic until Friday to back down on AI safeguards(axios.com)
97 points by rurp 8mo ago|1 comments
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by rurp 8mo ago
For sure, I've been rolling my eyes at the Mars colony stuff for probably a decade or more now. I get that it's a fun futuristic thought experiment for nerds but the idea that Elon's going to send up some modern day Mayflower
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by rurp 8mo ago
You're talking about normal technological developments that yes generally follow Econ 101 patterns. But AGI isn't like that. If AGI or something like it comes about it won't be a normal technology. The upside case for investo
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by rurp 8mo ago
You think Teter Piel is going to fool Palantir spyware?
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by rurp 8mo ago
That's an incredibly vague standard and courts have repeatedly declined to get involved in second guessing management decisions. Aside from outright fraud or negligence executives can claim almost any business related decision is in th
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by rurp 8mo ago
A frustrating aspect of the AI debates has been the number of people who believe people like Sam Altman who say that the immense wealth created by AGI would be distributed to the masses to improve their lives. The notion that the mega wealt
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by rurp 8mo ago
This is very helpful information, thanks for sharing. Vegas is unlikely to be an outlier here, especially given the involvement of Horowitz. I expect that many cities and towns will face similar moves to do an end run around citizen's
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by rurp 8mo ago
Supreme Court decisions are not a deterministic process like you get with code. Justices twist and contradict precedents to suit their ideological goals all the time; these days they don't even try to hide it much. The Citizens United
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Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight(thenevadaindependent.com)
257 points by rurp 8mo ago|101 comments
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by rurp 8mo ago
Google will happily screw over users with 2FA as well. A few years ago I was out of state for the funeral of someone very close to me. I lost my phone and then needed to get into my email urgently. I didn't have my computer or any othe
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by rurp 8mo ago
Similar experience for me. I've been using DDG for years and while the quality has gone downhill somewhat I still rarely use !g because Google almost never has a useful result either if DDG strikes out.
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by rurp 8mo ago
I feel very strongly that's what should happen, and equally strongly that there's zero chance a democratic president will actually do that in a meaningful way. Dems sometimes talk a big game when they're out of power but when
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by rurp 8mo ago
The justices and all of their clerks don't live in a bubble. They regularly hang out and discuss god knows what with other political operatives. Thomas is particularly noteworthy for essentially taking bribes from a conservative billio
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by rurp 8mo ago
Very true, and it's not just creepy elites either. Before I got into tech I worked a blue collar job that involved zero emailing. When I first started office work I was so incredibly nervous about how to write emails and would agonize
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by rurp 8mo ago
I can't believe anyone still believes DOGE was actually about cutting federal spending. The current party in power has spent the past year massively increasing the federal deficit and future debt. If they are serious about anything i
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by rurp 8mo ago
I don't think many are confused about why Anthropic wants to do this. The crux is that they appear to be making these changes solely for their own benefit at the expense of their users and people are upset. There are parallels to the s
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by rurp 8mo ago
Totally agree, he was incredibly good in that show. He's also really great in the show Foundation, with a pretty different role. I watched Foundation much more recently and it took me a while to realize it was the same actor from Halt.
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by rurp 8mo ago
Employee pensions are a tiny portion of overall government spending. There are any number of ways to handle a modest increase in costs there.
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by rurp 8mo ago
Even if we completely avoid the worst case scenarios where AI obliterates the job market or evolves into a paperclip maximizer, it has a good shot of being the most destructive technology in generations. The tech industry has already done a
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by rurp 8mo ago
https://archive.ph/u518Q
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Elon Musk is betting his business empire on AI(economist.com)
9 points by rurp 8mo ago|2 comments
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by rurp 8mo ago
I think this is exactly right. It's not just environmental disasters either. There are more existential risks looming than ever before. The relative peace of the post-WW2 order kept things relatively calm and quite prosperous for decad
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by rurp 8mo ago
LLMs are similar in a lot of ways to the labor outsourcing that happened a generation or two ago. Except that instead of this development lifting a billion people out of poverty in the third world a handful of rich people will get even more
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by rurp 8mo ago
Oh I think it definitely did damage, just not enough to kill such a massive platform overnight. Twitter has lost a significant amount of users while other social networks grew or held steady, and the cultural impact seems to have waned a lo

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