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by staunton 2y ago
GitHub could disallow/filter branch names. Developers will not write (and be be given the tools to) workflows that do not allow command injection.
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by staunton 2y ago
Or perhaps a "calculated risk with potential huge return on investment"...
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by staunton 2y ago
Obviously, I don't know. When asking about "AI" in general, I guess the only reasonable answer is "most likely at least some AI designs would do that". Asking about transformer-based LLMs trained on text again, I do
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by staunton 2y ago
The motive is pretty weak, basically coming "only" from a lot of the training data (e.g. fiction) suggesting that an AI might behave that way. Now, once you apply evolutionary-like pressures on many such AIs (which I guess we&#x27
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by staunton 2y ago
> Tech [...] has replaced Finance in the pecking order of power relationships Not at all obvious to me. Is there any particular measurable thing you're referring to, or is this just your personal feeling?
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Simce when would you say are git-submodules stable?
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> why do the folks working on human health get away with sample sizes that would be laughed about in any other field? Because it's really hard and expensive to do such studies with more participants
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I'm also pretty aure you'll see it eventually... Consider the possibility that this is both a bubble waiting to pop, as well as the stuff that will shape the future. Kind of like the Internet around the year 2000.
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by staunton 2y ago
This is how propaganda can still work. However, if a propagandist can get away with falsehoods, they will use those just as well. The interesting/newer things start when propagandists have multiple outlets and can distribute a number
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by staunton 2y ago
> But I cannot see how consistently doing general mathematics (as in finding interesting and useful statements to proof, and then finding the proofs) is easier than consistently cutting hair/driving a car. The main "absolute&qu
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by staunton 2y ago
Sure. Why do you say "but"? Solving such a math problem (while perhaps massively overstating the role AI actually played in the solution) would be great PR for everyone involved.
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by staunton 2y ago
I see. The "taxation" scheme I had in mind was intended to apply to "any and all wealth", which I didn't make clear. Do you think it works out then? On a more realistic note, gifting every human 1M would probably co
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by staunton 2y ago
In standard laser classification, there are only four classes. Class 4 includes IR laser welding systems...
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Which of my two claims is not true? Why should stock rise more than basic necessities? Of course, all prices would rise a lot. But I think stocks would rise by a smaller factor.
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If every person is giftet USD1M, prices of all things will go up by a lot. Furthermore, prices of necessities will rise by larger fractions because most people in the world are significantly poorer than the median of this forum. More genera
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by staunton 2y ago
There's a very long history of trying to establish merit-based selection of government officials in, e.g., china. That's not to say there wasn't a lot of nepotism anyway, but I think it's also undeniable that the state w
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by staunton 2y ago
> will be replaced with robots wielding lasers That's a very confident prediction for something that sounds quite unlikely to me. How about biologically engineered insects/bacteria that destroy weeds and pests? How about pestic
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by staunton 2y ago
You seem to be claiming that nepotism is good and that it is prevalent in all societies. Surely I misunderstood? Most societies do demand that workers for important roles be selected on merit or based on other criteria known to all partic
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The issue isn't that the Fortran code is too slow. The issue is that the problem description is super complicated, hard to measure and very hard to control is ways that noone really understands. However, you can just plug the measureme
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by staunton 2y ago
> the study author's own beliefs and biases strongly influence how studies are designed While studies should try to be as "objective" as possible, it isn't clear how this can be avoided. How can the design of a study
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by staunton 2y ago
Let's keep trying. What learning opportunities do you see in the details here?
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I'd say as soon as this becomes your problem it's too late for you to do anything about it.
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by staunton 2y ago
Also no need to go so far back. People are being killed based on metadata right now. Even Michael Hayden (former NSA and CIA director) confirmed this.
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Though you didn't claim otherwise, I'd like to note that drinking distilled water is rather unhealthy because it deprives the body of electrolytes.
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by staunton 2y ago
On a high level, "object orientation" means you think of your code as representing the state and interactions of objects. You can equally well do this in assembly. If you think of some namespace as a "singleton object" t
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by staunton 2y ago
> germany has too much not needed but costly infrastructure maintained only for a few people What infrastructure do you mean? Can you give an example?
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by staunton 2y ago
I don't think that's a useful generalization. It's pretty clear that company culture changes over time (in tandem with changing management and workforce). The point of the Planck quote is that many people (especially the &quo
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Remote ssh works on vs-codium. (With a slightly different extension).
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For some people, "never" means something like "I wouldn't know how, so surely not by next year, and probably not even in ten".
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> can we even call that science? The amazing thing is that it all works out in the end and science is still making (quite a lot of) progress. That's also the reason why we shouldn't spend all of our time and money checking and

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