someguynamedq

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by someguynamedq 5d ago
I'm not voting either way on your comment (I don't have downvote rights), but it's clear to me why it's being downvoted, so I'll say it if they're not. The Nazi example was clear and useful in the original post
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by someguynamedq 5d ago
If you aren't friends with anyone you have a disagreement with, you are friends with no one.
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by someguynamedq 5d ago
If a pimp threatens and intimidates a prostitute into having sex with someone and forces them to act like they are willing, are they not still being assaulted when the act of sex occurs? If an act of sex is assault, is the other person not
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by someguynamedq 5d ago
This comes across as pedantic purity testing. It's also ironic and hypocritical because you're not being nice.
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by someguynamedq 5d ago
You're making a category error. Black/Asian != immigrant in Britain. White != non-immigrant in Britain. Otherwise you'd be saying a black guy whose family has been in Britain for 500 years is more of an immigrant than a Polis
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by someguynamedq 6d ago
The time limit is obviously an important part of this
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by someguynamedq 6d ago
That's a lot of qualifiers for one title
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
The value in academics is teaching and research. The value in research is discovery. Proof was a useful function for humans to do towards discovery until recently. Understanding is a useful property insofar as it helps you teach and it is a
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Citation needed. Of course they are compression algorithms
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Technological innovation can be sped up, but it cannot be slowed down without mechanisms that create worse problems than technology. Adaptation is a political problem.
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Every tool that is developed drives down the value of human skills. All sufficiently good tools diminish or take away human jobs.
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Do you think msft market cap is just an accident, or...?
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
No need to balk. Different forms of coerced labor can all be bad even if some are worse than others.
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
How about we stop moralizing technology so much and start focusing on how we want to spend our time in the real world which now contains it
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Fortunately this is not basing science on proof. It's just making it much easier to do proofs when that is what we choose to do
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
You don't think LLMs can translate Ancient Greek poetry or analyze 18th century novels?
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Fortunately LLMs are smart enough to handle that already.
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Yes, why not?
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
With hammers do we build our mud huts more easily and sit back to rot? Or do we build more complicated structures and do it more quickly?
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Goes through != Enforced
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
But not impossible
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
It is not possible to make a secure computer system that is also usable. There is ultimately no way to avoid the tradeoff between convenience and security. You can make a system "more" secure than other systems, but you cannot mak
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Why is mishandling data tax deductible?
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
The irony is that corporations get a higher discount the more people they affect. Damaging 10,000,000 people should cost you more than 10,000,000 times the cost of damaging one, not less. It should be ruinous to cause damage at this scale.
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
SSN should be 1MM+. It is a password to your national identity that can be used to steal your identity and effectively cannot be revoked once leaked. It is a permanent grievous injury to someone to leak it.
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Yeah neither intent nor gross negligence is the reason most data breaches occur
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Correction, you "shouldn't be able to." Currently you can, actually
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
The bar for not getting hacked is a lot closer to perfect than gross negligence
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by someguynamedq 7d ago
Woosh
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by someguynamedq 8d ago
I personally love not having to type in a password

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