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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Despite what AI providers wish was the case, we do not in fact have general human-level AIs yet.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> What you need is political action: organization, protests, strikes, infiltration, and targeted exercises of power. Or maybe instead of focusing on destruction, go speak in favor of good policies? Lying to people that the only way to
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> The first-past-the-post system can only support two parties in the long run. And yet the two main parties here do feel the need to collude to exclude third other parties. Which demonstrates that they see third parties as a legitima
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> It might be that style over substance is a long-running human problem. Standardization is useful for scaling.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> broken election system in the US, which has made it practically impossible for any new party or independent candidate to establish themself. As in ballot access restrictions and how the two big parties collude to keep other candidate
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> It's easy for it to happen if a colleague is away for a month, or has left, and the bill isn't being seen by anyone. Why TF would important things like that go to a single person's individual mailbox? Take a couple hou
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> … all kinds of left-wing priorities on the program that just divert resources away from the overall goal of closing broadband gaps. This is going to make the program less cost effective, and it's going to undermine its goals.” S
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Your ISP can't see it because of TLS. But the search provider will know things.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
I used to have a fortune file where I kept various quotes from Internet communities.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
So, would this increase the popularity of tor?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Like, the entire Arctic?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Or they searched his computer and it was in the browser history.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> This just measures "looking busy". It's practically an admission that they don't care about actual production, they just enjoy hassling people. I would tend to read that as saying more about the skill level (or la
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> That would have sounded rather hyperbolic about 30 years ago, perhaps even more recently. But now it sounds just about right. I think what many do not realize is that the past ~70-80 years in the developed world, or in other words the
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Is that not one of the main benefits that AI is supposed to bring though, and the way that that word is used in that context? Taking things that were previously the domain of experts who actually knew what they were doing and allowing the e
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Yes, that's why the biggest spender always wins elections. And why heavily marketed movies never flop. But the way these discussions always seem to go, is that anyone who provides counterexamples is immediately told they're imagin
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
So instead of testing each patch, it's faster to "read" it and see if it looks like the right kind of change to be fixing a particular bug. Neat.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Another example of terms being appropriated like that would be how "piracy" now refers to copying information your aren't legally permitted to copy, as well as the older meaning of using violence to steal things at sea.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Good isn't enough, everything has to be perfect?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> A lot of people Well, at least the couple people interviewed for the article who don't want casuals intruding into their newly democratized profession.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
So people are doing historical fiction in video format? That's kinda cool, even if the people doing it aren't experts being meticulous about every last detail.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
So what's happened in the ... two months and a bit since the dates mentioned for the letters that this is apparently in reference to?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
1. Install ublock origin 2. Spend less time on their website. Go touch grass or something 3. Mobile apps are right out
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Giving any form of access to some remote code into internal network of a company? Opsec guys would never ack that Solarwinds. Local agent machines for cloud CI/CD pipelines. Devs using npm and pypi and such. To be a bit reductiv
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> Rich people didn’t feed the poor. Al Capone's soup kitchens?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
How exactly would one "hoard" money these days? Even if it's just sitting in a bank, that still translates to getting lent out at whatever interest rate that bank charges.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
Right, of course, excessive concentration of wealth is the only thing preventing another Bell Labs or Xerox PARC from bringing us tomorrow's future today.
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
How would it compare to the persistent belief that the CIA uses the illegal drug trade for funding?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
This is not a novel question. If someone gets killed at work, how much do they get from workers' comp? What is a micromort and how much does one usually sell for? What did weregeld used to be back when it was still a thing?
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by tbrownaw 2y ago
> but this article (ironic for FT) reads like veiled de-development. Hard to tell if they're singling out AI because it's the current hot thing that everyone's talking about (and afraid of being replaced by), or if they&

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