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by sowbug 8mo ago
It appears that enshittification has joined exponential and literally as words that used to mean specific things but are now just generic intensifiers.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
Dongles still exist in the form of Nintendo Switch cartridges, though they're an extreme form that contains all the app logic, rather than just 7606h.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
It seems about right. They reshuffled the deck about three-quarters of the way through (1689 ÷ 2315 = 72.9%). Blackjack shoes are typically shuffled around the same point. Different games, but similar considerations in this respect.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
At least he went down fighting ( https://archive.is/M4nek , the op-ed referenced in the article). That's an impressively dignified response to a gobsmacking shift in public opinion. In his position, I might have given up
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by sowbug 8mo ago
And to see himself become the villain.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
She put it at the end of the article. If her premise is correct, it will remain safely unread.
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by sowbug 8mo ago
"... go into college ..." makes it sound like more of an active decision than it is for many students who treat it as four more years of high school. It's not surprising that such students might pick a major that sounds more
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by sowbug 8mo ago
One consideration is accessibility for first responders once the aircraft touches down.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
You'll love Mike Laoshi: https://youtu.be/cna89A2KAU4?si=SQEZ_0ooO1z119_k
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by sowbug 9mo ago
I think I'm having more fun than you are in this conversation, and I'm the one who thinks he's an LLM.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
That's smart. It's not perfect, as you say, but at least it's trying to play nicely with the other kids.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
I believe I'm now supposed to point out the irony in your response.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
I love the 14500 except for its footgun shape. 6 x 14500 is at least 21 volts, which won't play nice with a device that wanted 9 volts. I used to try to keep the 14500s far away from the AAs, but there's no stopping a kid in a hur
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by sowbug 9mo ago
I swab the corroded contacts with white vinegar from the kitchen. It turns the white gunk into a foamy blob, and I assume it etches off enough of the corrosion to restore conductivity. I wipe the foamy part with the dry side of the cotton s
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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect(en.wikipedia.org)
12 points by sowbug 9mo ago|1 comments
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by sowbug 9mo ago
It gets sad again when you ask yourself why your own brilliance isn't just your brain's software predicting tokens. Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Consciousness_in... for more.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
Like why arent they posting 100 times per minute? The initial instruction is to read https://moltbook.com/skill.md , which answers your question under the section "Rate Limits."
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by sowbug 9mo ago
So is the trolley problem, which this problem restates. I'm not sure what you're adding by observing that a hypothetical situation is hypothetical.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
That seems like a very hard problem. If you can generally prove that the outputs of a system (such as a bot) are not determined by unknown inputs to system (such as a human), then you yourself must have a level of access to the system corre
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by sowbug 9mo ago
> I might be mistaken [snip]. FTFY Also - a red-team exercise doesn't work if you tell the targets that they're about to be tested.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
Sorry, I was being oblique. Humans kill other humans with cars every day. They kill even more on Halloween. Let's start addressing that problem before worrying whether Waymos might someday decide it's OK to drive through ghosts. A
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by sowbug 9mo ago
And we haven't reached the point where people start walking straight into the paths of cars, either obliviously or defiantly. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nVEDebSuEUs
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by sowbug 9mo ago
Even in terms of plain results, I'd say the consequences-based system isn't working so well if it's producing 40,000 US deaths annually.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
When my kids were school age, I taught them that the purpose of crosswalk lines is to determine who pays for your funeral. They got the point.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
You're right: a quick search shows that pedestrian fatalities are 43% higher on Halloween.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
The usability issue with IUs is that people are used to scales measuring weight and containers measuring volume, but an IU is different for each substance. Another issue is insulin syringes are labeled in "insulin units," which ha
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by sowbug 9mo ago
Oh dear, here we go again. IU, not mg. K2, not K3.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
The US has less than 5% of the world's population, but 25% of the world's incarcerated. So we're already exceptional in terms of numbness to incarceration.
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by sowbug 9mo ago
Are those not people?
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by sowbug 9mo ago
It's not a particularly strong argument that these agents didn't violate the 8th amendment because they violated the 6th amendment right to trial.

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