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by sinity 4y ago
> It does, except it's about what led to pizzagate. In the times before The Internets, we had that too. OG Nazis were based on nebulous conspiracy theories about Jews. "Internationalists"*. And they certainly weren't
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by sinity 4y ago
> So let me tell you about my experience hosting the Culture War thread. (“hosting” isn’t entirely accurate. The Culture War thread was hosted on the r/slatestarcodex subreddit, which I did not create and do not own. I am an honorar
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by sinity 4y ago
> I think the main issue a media company like the BBC has with moderation, is that they want to discourage harassment of their employees. They certainly don't want the responsibility of moderating themselves. That's why comment
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by sinity 4y ago
> The next person will do this without announcing it, in a way that just looks like a server full of lurkers. When you have a protocol that's all about broadcasting things to anyone who asks to be notified, it's very hard to en
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by sinity 4y ago
> Last time this topic came up, I tried so very very hard, to find credible sources about wtf this website or it's users did exactly, and couldn't (found some but it was very light). I mean it's there on Wikipedia sure, bu
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by sinity 4y ago
> One day a robot is going to be walking around the world. Will it have to pay someone every time it glimpses a video / book / logo / car design / etc? Looking at all of the people happily deciding to interpret copyri
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by sinity 4y ago
> How do you propose to keep artists able to pay their bills and live a decent life if you're completely cool with training AIs on them? Why isn't it a concern for any other automation? How do we progress, exactly, if we random
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by sinity 4y ago
Why would anyone living outside of New Zealand care about New Zealand laws? Why the hell would (should?) he hand over private data of some people to the police?
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by sinity 4y ago
> Are we supposed to feign ignorance and claim terms of service don't exist anymore? Terms of service usually are vague bullshit which boils down to "we can drop you whenever we feel like it". And if it's an oligopoly
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by sinity 4y ago
I mean, such a thing happened multiple times at this point. Supporters of this aren't really ashamed of what they do. I can't wait to support the other side being censored whenever it'll be possible somehow.
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by sinity 4y ago
> On the other hand, MT is enabling communication among people that was not possible or practical before. A small start-up is able to find customers and suppliers in countries with different languages. People with common interests but di
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by sinity 4y ago
Ether is sufficient. Or will be, anyway. Consensus matters, we can't just keep switching this tech. Going from BTC to ETH made sense, because BTC is too primitive & its community doesn't want to change that. Ether will have lo
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by sinity 4y ago
> 3. They're ignorant enough not to know the name is already taken. Overloads are a thing, you know? > 4. They're ignorant enough not to know that the name means pretty much the opposite of what they believe. String of chara
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by sinity 4y ago
I thought you meant to imply that rationalists believe they're perfectly rational. Lots of people do so.
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by sinity 5y ago
The perspective shifts somewhat if you look at it from Eastern European PoV. West had a game-breaking advantage over the SU. It could've threatened Soviets with that power. Instead it folded and gave them everything they wanted. Presum
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by sinity 5y ago
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid... > For the reasons suggested by Cochran, Hardy, and Harpending, Ashkenazi Jews had the potential for very high intelligence. They were mostly
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by sinity 6y ago
The shift started at least months, if not years ago. At least one could laugh at the internal contradictions of the people championing for this, since they're mostly also "pro privacy". At least they think so. People can real
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by sinity 6y ago
Yeah, since the day I noticed it on one YT video I can't unsee it in every dark one. I didn't even learn why it's so bad for a long time. Horrible huge squares/rectangles of slightly different black all over the place.
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by sinity 6y ago
Uh-huh. Except anyone can verify the results themselves, sans specific ones like code generation - through (paid version) of AI Dungeon. Amount of people confidently posting bullshit on Hacker News is astounding. Reacting like everything we
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by sinity 6y ago
Well, it is GPT-3; through dev told me on Discord it's finetuned, prompt is more limited than what's possible (I think), to just generate lots of text one has to spam enter (with an empty prompt)... But if you just do "custom
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by sinity 6y ago
... but there was a reason , sort-of, for the rise of Nazism. Maybe I understand it badly, but things weren't great then. Now, there aren't really... problems on a comparable scale.
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by sinity 6y ago
I think this is relevant: https://twitter.com/AnimaAnandkumar/status/12711371765294161... Nvidia AI researcher calling out OpenAI's GPT-2 over how GPT-2 is horrible because it's trained on Reddit (except
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by sinity 6y ago
IDK, I'd say people calling everyone they don't like a Nazi seem like a party which doesn't get it.
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by sinity 6y ago
> Probably because 8channers and anti-vaxxers aren't successful in getting people fired, because they don't wield any power among legitimate institutions. Notable exception: Donglegate; a person was cancelled, then the person c
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by sinity 6y ago
Are you a Slav? Because I am, and I did not ask for this . Find me one Slav who requested this. And yet, you thinking about the word association is all it took to imagine you you're helping someone with that. Because, hypothetic
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by sinity 6y ago
You don't go blind from staring at a screen. Claims otherwise are the same as 5G conspiracy theories. Photons are photons. You might get issues from focusing at the same distance all the time. Or that theory about dopamine may be true