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by tbrownaw 1y ago
It's also that even engaging with ("platforming" or "amplifying") wrongthink makes you guilty by association. If someone's feeling talkative and generous you might even get the "tolerating intolerance&quot
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Lifestyles tend to expand to consume the money available.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Sometimes you need your timestamps to be in a named timezone. If I have a meeting at 9am local time next month, I probably want it to still be at 9am even if the government suddenly decided to cancel daylight time.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The storage tech exists and is in practice right now, no advancements needed. The ones I've seen in the news have enough batteries to time-shift the output by like four hours. Which is rather less then would be needed to keep up
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
That paper says this kind of pulsar can be as slow as several seconds, and the main discussion link says the parallax navigation could be made a lot better with a better camera. Maybe that could provide enough overlap?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
More that they mistakenly thought that doing the right thing meant they didn't have to do the thing right.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> might be a better link It's definitely a much better link. It actually describes what the ftc did wrong and even links to the decision. The guardian link doesn't do either, and so doesn't actually provide for meaningfu
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> SideBar Tabs doesn't work for me. Mostly because the Desktop web isn't designed for squashed layout. I would imagine it would work much better if I am on a 21:9 ultra wide monitor. ... Are you still on an old 4:3 screen? St
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Entanglement is just a statistical effect in our measurements — we can’t say what is happening or why that occurs. We can calculate that effect because we’ve fitted models, but that’s it. Bell's theorem was a prediction from mat
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I think the real argument is that the ARC problems are too abstract and obscure to be relevant to useful AGI I think it's meant to work like how getting things off the top shelf at the supermarket isn't relevant to playing
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
... So it's about not being able to observe short-lived particles directly, and having to work backwards from longer lived interaction or decay products? Or about how those intermediate particles they have to calculate through also hav
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The only descriptive / empirical parts is the particle masses. But it sounds like your objection is that reality isn't allowed to be described by something as weird as complex values that you multiply to get probabilities, so th
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Take for example entanglement. The math that describes it is known precisely. Specific implications of this are known. There's no information transfer, there's no time delay, etc. And yet lay people keep incorrectly thinking it ca
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The comment you are replying to is not claiming ignorance of how models work. It is saying that the author does know how they work, and they do not contain anything that can properly be described as "hidden state". The claimed c
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> sure but models also can't see any truth on their own. They are literally butchered and lobotomized with filters and such. The one is unrelated to the other. > Even high IQ people struggle with certain truth after reading a
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
I'm pretty sure this can work human moderators rather than an LLM, too.
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> I’m not trying to excuse any predatory commercial practices directed at drivers or passengers, which are serious problems deserving of more strict regulation, but I absolutely do not want to go back to the old way. So which of the la
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> In the spirit of HN I will only point out here this fact: RFK Jr's attack book on Fauci was extremely poorly produced. It's in the spirit of hn to attack the person rather than the specific proposal?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
It's cheaper, and most shoppers aren't willing to pay enough extra to cover better treatment. (It's not the shoppers' fault that most of the labels aren't very meaningful? Well no, that means it's not cost-effe
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> become unprofitable due to all the birds dying Isn't this just switching from, if you detect any infections you're required to kill your flock, to if you have any infections your flock will die of illness? Your flock is sti
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Degeneracy is about loss of expected complexity, yes? All your atoms are smooshed together into a uniform soup, all your call-center people have to follow an identical script, etc. Taking something that originated itself as a way to ensure
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> What makes adult content "degeneracy"? It's decoupling what shouldn't be decoupled in order to optimize what shouldn't be optimized. Rather like how your employer's janitors are from a service company, y
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> It's not a bad argument, it's just not an argument against sex work. That's because they're eliding the common knowledge that the activities in this particular industry are meant to be special and locked away be
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
Perhaps there are legitimate non-fear-based reasons to not like it?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The CEO & CTO are both obsessed with it and promote things like "delete entire unit test file & have claude generate a new one" rather than manually address test failures. So what are the tests actually for then?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> The extended (not extant) family (including ext4) I read that more as "we have filesystems at home, and also get off my lawn".
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> Some believe that ~13,000 years ago, humans were highly advanced, but a massive flood (Younger Dryas) wiped out & reset civilization. What kind of "highly advanced"? Iron-age equivalent, industrial revolution, sci-fi wi
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
So, is this particular slope likely to be slippery? Do governments have a history of looking for ways to control what information people can see, or looking for ways to identify people who post disfavored information?
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
> 2030: you must be logged in to visit these specific sites where you might see naked boobies, and if you're under age you can't - those sites must enforce logins and age limits Some states in the US are doing this already. A
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by tbrownaw 1y ago
The makeup equivalent would be someone broadcasting instructions to everyone else's AR about what filters to use for them. The "improved" version would be sending different filter instructions to different people's AR.

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