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by smaudet 3y ago
I actually share your hope - I want the world to collapse before an insane AI or set of greedy VCs eradicates humanity. As for downvotes - I would say the OPs post again and then ask yourself if they would not downvote anything that doesn&#
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by smaudet 3y ago
It will be very alien to us - "it's just predicting the next word" is what I have heard repeatedly said about ChatGPT. First, AI is far more than just chatgpt, don't presume this is the same thing happening everywhere.
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by smaudet 3y ago
"hallucinations of our own making via events like Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima" I suppose the millions executed under extremist politics were also "hallucinations" then... (e.g. German holocaust, Soviet pr
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by smaudet 3y ago
How does that compare to duckduckgo? I use that almost exclusively these days...
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by smaudet 3y ago
I think parent's objection is to exactly this logic - a sort of mental laziness demanding proof before willingness to attempt to grok the potential harm. And then we get stuff like accounts hacked, bank accounts wiped out, people'
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by smaudet 3y ago
Depends whether locks can be made to work. Solutions exist within problem spaces, or "paradigms", a car lock is only useful for a specific set of things i.e. deterring thieves or unwanted entry e.g. at stop lights. What I really w
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by smaudet 3y ago
Hmm, possibly but I am thinking there are some certification requirements e.g. and you have to be able to use some API whether that is hypermedia or otherwise, which again credit card companies must agree to let you use. You could maybe byp
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by smaudet 3y ago
It doesn't exist (yet) but pair this https://www.amazon.com/Digi-1st-Counter-Digital-Mechanical/d... with a paper notification (behind plexi) and some green/red leds, and a raspberry pi and you could have a s
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by smaudet 3y ago
I am not sure this place exists - if they do there is no website. I like the concept, practically banning phones would be hard. Other commenters are saying there would be no traffic, but actually when this sort of thing has been tried in pa
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by smaudet 3y ago
Pretty much all card readers use a screen, even if it is just a cheap green one. You could design one without, which would be interesting, but good luck integrating with the major cc companies.
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by smaudet 3y ago
Who says there is an antiviral for every virus? You can't go doing something because you assume there is a solution to the problem you create - that's irresponsible and if you think that you should be denied all access to modern t
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by smaudet 3y ago
There is no reasonable difference between a police state and a military one.
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by smaudet 4y ago
I can immediately think of several situations where that is not at all possible to do. Construction, cliff roads, country roads, etc. Tesla are unsafe death traps by design.
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by smaudet 4y ago
> "Sure but the Linux audience is certainly not one that pays for such things." Eh? People just pay for their stuff. The problem is there isn't really a market for OSes (as a consumer), period. Unless you build a PC yourse
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by smaudet 4y ago
High performance, low error-tolerance applications previously only available to Windows are a continuing lock-in, yes - that's part of why gpu drivers are such a big deal. There have been working comparability layers for the various ha
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by smaudet 4y ago
It is somewhat strange then that enterprise linux is not more common, you get stability and configurability. I mostly put this down to bad salesmanship/C*s tending to be effectively technological cavemen...perhaps there are backroom de
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by smaudet 4y ago
That is where the problem lies, yes, the inequality is as they "systemic", rooted in practical reality. There is no real way to perfect this - but if an effort is made a good result can be achieved nonetheless. The fallacy with th
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by smaudet 4y ago
> equity is just cruel and unusual punishment to future Equality of outcome can be an undesired outcome, equality of opportunity is completely different. The only trouble is getting the opportunities to be equal - there must be no advant
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by smaudet 4y ago
To gently challenge your acceptance of an absurd, disconnected "challenge" - When every service starts pushing 20$ subscription fees onto their service to support their backend usage(s) of these services (in a desperate attempt to
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by smaudet 4y ago
Open - Not (yet) closed to only request from large entities that can pay 6 figure contracts...
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by smaudet 4y ago
As the movies have long mentioned, machines don't "feel" (yet) - there's a physiological component and arguably a quantum one to "consciousness", whatever that means. Sentience may be different - a machine coul
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think if I encountered that in a UI I would actively seek another product... 'Juice' is not universally good. In the context of a game there is utility, but even then the audio etc becomes grating. People tend to start turning o
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by smaudet 4y ago
Classroom experience is so rarely useful, the ONLY time you benefit is when either a) you already studied the subject and the professor is good and mentions something tangential/extra credit, or b) the classroom size is small, so when
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by smaudet 4y ago
Bootloader ROMs let you install open source Android, which typically you can arrange how you see fit. So, either patch the vuln yourself (extreme) or toggle a setting somewhere. Hardware switch lets you disable wifi completely - I own one p
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by smaudet 4y ago
> I'm not sure how manually "blasting cold" to keep raw meat in the back cold also doesn't freeze you in the front, or what that has to do with auto mode, but we typically don't have groceries in the car for more
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by smaudet 4y ago
I think there's an old joke somewhere in here about designers being unable to resist re-inventing perfectly good buttons for the nth time, so that they can cleanly "style" them.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Hmm another thought - tie the gas pedal to the steering wheel with a steel chain/lock. Sure, they can cut your chain with bolt cutters, but that's not exactly inconspicuous, and it encourages would be theives towards easier marks.
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by smaudet 4y ago
Plus, you can probably fix them yourself! None of this "hack it yourself and void the warranty, or pay a goon to hookup a computer to your car to 'fix' it." I wonder how long it will take for people to start selling jail
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by smaudet 4y ago
They probably don't - it's what you get when a sociopath designs cars and doesn't think of anyone but himself.
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by smaudet 4y ago
You know I tried to think of a legit case where screens are better - if I could get engine details that'd be rad but not actually that useful, weather might be nice as well but actually no while I'm driving I'd prefer just to

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