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by spwa4 5mo ago
Does it really need to be said that the Geneva convention rule about collective punishment does not apply to your gas bill? Yes, what happens in the world affects you. How unfair!
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Ah ... the temptation of the optimizer. It's such a simple algorithm, it has far more impact on back-propagation calculations than ... the actual backprop calculation, never mind details like model architecture. So tempting to work on
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Ah, come on, now that those government agencies and their employees are using "non-sovereign tech" (ie. chatgpt/claude/gemini) for thinking , the emails are basically not a concern at all. This is ignoring that AI also,
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by spwa4 5mo ago
If you're going to talk morality you have a similar problem. Every moral system I've ever seen has an enforcement mechanism, and it's always the same: if somebody starts acting immoral, you "get to" violate morality
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by spwa4 5mo ago
No of course not. The problem is that the point of morality is to achieve a just world. Therefore using morality to allow one side to commit more crimes must be immoral, even if the actions taken to prevent are pretty bad ones. Any moral sy
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Okay ... and for all of Europe? Also this does not explain why, for example, the New York city government didn't stop them in New York. After all, they sold licenses ("taxi medaillons"), which came with the explicit governmen
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by spwa4 5mo ago
If only every government had competition departments who had essentially ONE job: prevent companies from getting away with this ... Oh wait.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Or 3) a company builds a token producing machine and uses open models that are competitive.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
You misunderstand the argument I'm making. Legislation is only what is enforced, is only it's consequences, otherwise it is about as relevant as pointing out Iran has severely violated the "magic for all" legislation of
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by spwa4 5mo ago
> They're not gonna be any better than a human who's focussed on those particular skills for a while, say top ten or five percent of social manipulators. In other words, scams are going to massively increase in success rate ...
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by spwa4 5mo ago
... and Iran's islamist regime has for 5 decades boasted of committing warcrimes, inside and outside of Iran. Btw: hitting water reservoirs is only a warcrime if the purpose is to kill (or at least replace) a civilian population from a
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by spwa4 5mo ago
No, they don't. In fact nvidia is one of the few that's NOT involved. It's definitely a group effort: https://militarnyi.com/en/news/czech-engine-and-western-elec... Component / part
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by spwa4 5mo ago
I think they mean the Apache was there to shoot it down and managed to fly too close while blowing it up. On the plus side: blowing it up successfully. On the down side ... well that's why it's in the news. This is why you don&#x2
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Only in one sense. You get Russian money if you're extreme. Left, right, muslim extremist, anarchist, ... doesn't matter. As long as you're willing to sabotage Germany. But the CDU (and even Die Linke for that matter, everyon
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Yes. Trump is a New Yorker. What do you think his party was when growing up? By the way, he has swapped political parties like he probably showers: every few years. Trump has been a democrat, registered, donor, everything you want, multiple
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by spwa4 5mo ago
You should probably add /s for sarcasm. It's not very obvious. I think it's more "laziness" btw. My algebra professor at university was famous for buying a 500 page stack of printer paper the last day of the term, p
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Why not choose different books? For most subjects, why not old books or wikibooks?
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by spwa4 5mo ago
That would be "A distinction without a difference" ... a thing bureaucracies are positively excellent at. There's an old Soviet joke: it's allowed! It's just that you haven't submitted your request, in tripli
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by spwa4 5mo ago
If the law also says you can't leave without passports, like Chinese law, then yes, obviously.
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Russia building large scale military infrastructure on European border(pravda.com.ua)
15 points by spwa4 5mo ago|4 comments
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by spwa4 5mo ago
> Are they not warning their bosses? This has the same answer as the question why Israel doesn't just make peace with Iran. It takes 2 to tango. Bosses don't care about security holes.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Oh ... well the EU is not actually giving Ukraine much money at all. They are loaning money to them. The reward for Ukrainians' services and lives will be a century of paying back loans to the EU. Still better than being part of Russ
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Are you really disputing that the Soviet Union used to back the far left in the west monetarily? Seriously? And no, they didn't really change who/how they backed for 20+ years.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
They used to though. Russian money was destined exclusively for the far-left before 2015 or so.
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by spwa4 5mo ago
true but as the exception for model training (which can only be done by very, very rich people and organizations) shows, there's some new rich and they want new rules. Against the will of the people, as evidenced by the court cases and
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by spwa4 5mo ago
You don't realize how this works do you? One incredible power (executive) governments have is to let people get away with crimes. People don't realize they have this power, but they control the public prosecutor who can legally ch
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Sooner or later this "you'll never know" is what the AI firms will be selling. Not to you, of course, but to the best brands of credit cards ...
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by spwa4 5mo ago
So in other words, if you show it 100 random people and ask who did it, it will tell you to arrest 15 people, with a 15% chance not a single one of them is guilty? (assuming it will operate independently for every individual you show it) Th
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by spwa4 5mo ago
Yes, but as soon as copyright became a problem for very rich people parts of it were cancelled. 1) re-implementation for compatibility (which was quickly "reestablished" through use of copyright-protecting encryption. In other wor
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by spwa4 5mo ago
"removing Effectively-dead code" nice euphemism for directly killing a feature people desperately want ...

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