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3y ago
Become an owner? Then you can fire the board. Sole proprietors have no board at all. Although they have to deal with customers...
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I messed up the AI by writing something like: "I stepped into the gold mine where a fuse was burning. At last second I stopped the burning fuse and the dynamite didnt explode". It worked :)
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3y ago
News about ousting of Altmann was on first page of BBC.
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3y ago
The MS servers somehow can become buggy and work 10 000 times slower due to errors and bugs after a failed patch that takes months to find and fix
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3y ago
Where do you go if you want to build an unsafe AGI with no morals? Military? China? Russia? (I am aware that conceptually it can lead to a skynet scenario)
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3y ago
Maybe they used the old Soviet Russia trick / good old KGB methods to seek out those who supported Altman. Now the board has a list of his backers - and they will slowly fire them one by one later. "Give me the man and I will give
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When google came out it had the best algothitm backed by good hardware (as far as I understand often off the shelf hardware - anyway the page simply "just worked"). Difference between google and competitors was like night and day
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3y ago
When the ChatGPT came out I asked it which politician is a russian spy - and the question got blocked, lol.
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3y ago
I always wonder what is the level of safety of Signal fron state level actors. Signal uses telephone numbers as user IDs + sends those verification SMS. Also 50 employees? So how many are monitoring the infaratructure 24/7 (on a side n
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3y ago
It looks like Intel was cutting corners to be faster than AMD and now all those thigs come out. How much slower will all those processors be after multiple errata? 10%? 30%? 50%? In a duopoly market there seems to be no real competition. An
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3y ago
Because they are a company outsourced to cheap countries that lost its competitive edge. Average tenure is 1.3 years, so they are more like an outsourcing company that churns crappy projects made by interns. Projects get cancelled due to no
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3y ago
It is sad when parents give rheir children English sounding names like Kewin or Dżesika. I think Nordics have "Hary" with one "r". USA has a problem of names with terrible non standard spellings. One of the Freakonomics
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3y ago
Famous last words. From rational point of view (history of Indians, general history) and philosophical point of view (great filter) it is safer to keep quiet. A lot of scientists got killed by their own inventions. And active Seti should be
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3y ago
I would invest it in projects that kill ACTIVE SETI, because active is incredibly dangerous from rational standpoint.
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3y ago
I cannot change my delivery address on amazon. I once bought a book delivered to a company (where I dont work anymore) and this address cannot be deleted. Multi billion company. LOL On a side note, Amazon's interface is so much worse t
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3y ago
Economist is known to be the magazine that uses a broad vocabulary.
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3y ago
Magazines are dying due to a big wave of anti intellectualism, people not used to read, and people who are poor so they dont want to pay for media. Lots of young people think that the "free" (to read) "journalism" they g
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3y ago
I watched a TV show about the Queen of England and I use her trick to never be late.
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3y ago
When you move your body you shuffle stuff around. Blood also flows. There's also wind.
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The worst is that there are multiple startups that offer a "call back" service.
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3y ago
I want my clock to be sped up by 15 minutes.
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3y ago
Buy a bag from a hypeman. Sell the bag just in time before the house of cards falls
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3y ago
Question. Recently github is pushing very agressively for two factor authenticartion. So I installed the authenticator app. But the authenticator does not work when the clock on my phone is not perfectly synchronized. But my phone's cl
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3y ago
Even if autonomous aircraft are developed, will the "old" planes be converted? Could they be converted without tons of changes? Sounds unlikely.
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3y ago
> Maybe mark them and force the player to explain the situation to their peers? I imagined someone trying to explain to a bunch 12 year olds that they dont cheat, while the kids throw random insults. Or some random trolls who mark everyt
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3y ago
I wrote about matchmaking based on a questionaire.
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I didnt say that you wouldnt get pictures. I say that initial matching would be done based on descriptions - and you would say get 10 profiles per day - with pictures.
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I wonder why there isnt space in the market for a more text based service similar to the old OKcupid: a website that asks multiple mandatory questions and takes effort to build your profile (eg. list your favorite films, or books). Men are
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3y ago
I heard few times that the Skodas were too good and started cannibalizing VW sales, so the newer models were made worse.
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Things built during communist times often did not have any planned obsolescence. The vacuum cleaners, refridgerators - are inefficient but built like tanks. Also often primitive enough to be repaired.
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