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by shawnz 3y ago
Have you tried x86 emulation on Windows for ARM? It works just fine for me.
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by shawnz 3y ago
Doesn't that more general statement now apply to anyone that collects telemetry, even for "noble" purposes, like Mozilla?
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by shawnz 3y ago
There is no objective morality, so any such ethics committee must have to make some trade-offs that are a matter of opinion. We can already mostly agree as a society that protecting civil liberties is more important than having zero crime:
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by shawnz 3y ago
What about sleep tracking? That's essentially the most important feature for me in a smartwatch/fitness tracker
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by shawnz 3y ago
If you collaborated with other bank robbers, and they intentionally arranged it so that you would take most or all of the punishment while allowing them to escape free, then I think most would describe that as scapegoating you (even though
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by shawnz 3y ago
I'm aware that it's a biblical idea, but even in the biblical sense, is it explicitly specified that the goat being without sin is relevant to its ability to be a scapegoat, aside from the fact that animals are incapable of sin as
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by shawnz 3y ago
SBF aside, I don't think it's true that a scapegoat must be sinless. Actually I think that's impossible, as the expression goes "Give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I will find something in them
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by shawnz 3y ago
I don't think the question was about the practical aspects but rather whether or not LLMs are theoretically equally capable in a technical, qualitative sense. We've had tens of thousands of years to work on the practical aspects o
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by shawnz 3y ago
As discussed in the sibling thread, the point I'm making isn't about whether prompt-based guardrails are effective enough for production systems. All I am saying is that it's possible to implement guardrails at the prompt lev
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by shawnz 3y ago
The point being made here is about a possible philosophical difference between LLMs and human beings, not one about application security best practices. I am not trying to make any argument about whether prompt-based LLM guardrails are effe
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by shawnz 3y ago
Yeah, but that's no different than a human that can be instructed to violate previous instructions with careful wording in a social engineering attack, which I think is the point that the parent commenter was trying to get at. Implemen
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by shawnz 3y ago
You actually can implement LLM guardrails by "just asking" it to not do X in the prompt. That's how many LLM guardrails are implemented. It may not be the most effective strategy for implementing those guardrails, but it is o
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by shawnz 3y ago
Is there any data on how often this occurs with other brands, or what the failure rate was (i.e. how many attempts to call 911 succeeded in that time?) Otherwise 20+ reports certainly sounds bad but I don't really have a perspective o
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by shawnz 3y ago
This seems like an artificially restrictive definition that necessarily excludes anything that you might actually enjoy using. Doesn't it just naturally make sense that the software you enjoy using most is the software that's desi
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by shawnz 3y ago
Why? Isn't the web basically the perfect fully virtualized and sandboxed environment with a highly standardized and open API and a sophisticated, accessible UI toolkit, with elaborate development tools built right in, like we always dr
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by shawnz 3y ago
Doctors certainly are familiar with chelation therapy (like DMSA) as a treatment for heavy metal poisoning (like from lead)
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by shawnz 3y ago
> Are we engineering a bland world full of pablum? Like any other technological advancement, we're freeing ourselves from the burden of wasting mental energy manually doing those commonplace unoriginal tasks which can be easily auto
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by shawnz 3y ago
Don't thinkpads use magnesium chassis?
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by shawnz 3y ago
Isn't it possible to estimate breathing rate with any optical heart rate monitor? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoplethysmogram#Monitoring_... , afaik that's how Fitbit, Apple Watch etc do it
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by shawnz 3y ago
That statement is obviously not true in an absolute sense, for example, do you avoid driving cars due to the chance of acquiring PTSD after a severe accident?
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by shawnz 3y ago
Buying a house isn't necessary to have a sustainable life. The costs associated with homeownership can be comparable to renting, and you can do just as well by investing in the stock market as you would investing in owning property (yo
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by shawnz 3y ago
How can you tell that it's not actually magnetic foil on your card? It's possible that the foil can be coloured, and my understanding is that the foil is still required today for international use cases
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by shawnz 3y ago
How could they both have the same answer? They must have opposite answers because of De Morgan's law: asking "is any item true" is the same as asking "are NOT all items NOT true"
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by shawnz 3y ago
You're describing the "any" function, which actually does return false in that case already.
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by shawnz 3y ago
Fair enough, I totally agree that SO moderators are way too overbearing when it comes to duplicates.
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by shawnz 3y ago
Isn't it the question author who gets to choose when an answer is satisfactory or not on SO? If a question is full of answers that aren't marked as satisfactory, then there's still an opportunity for someone to come in and ge
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by shawnz 3y ago
You suggested that in your previous comment, and I explained already why I don't think that's a good idea: it's liable to cause your alternative suggestion to get ignored and proliferate bad practices. If someone has a genuin
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by shawnz 3y ago
Agreed! Which is why I think it's especially disrespectful to criticize people making honest efforts to help as being "know-it-alls trying to show off" in cases where their idea of the ideal kind of help is different than wha
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by shawnz 3y ago
> Do I have to really preface every question with "i promise i'm not the idiot you assume I am?" Yes, first of all I do think it's up to the person looking for help to fully elaborate their situation in such a way tha
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by shawnz 3y ago
> answer X first and then say "did you want Y?". That's a surefire way to cause your suggestion of Y to get ignored and proliferate the bad practice of X. It's not anyone's responsibility to explain how to do thi

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