tehjoker

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by tehjoker 8mo ago
A reminder that American economic sanctions are a primary cause of the situation that causes protests against the Iranian government. Our government is attempting to destroy Iran, an independent nation that is not our enemy. When will Ameri
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Some of that latter part depends on how good and cheap open weight systems get. The ability to deploy your own will strictly limit the price of closed models if they aren't dominant in functionality.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
I think this problem will start to fix itself as people start to set a higher bar for what they share (or set policies restricting projects that don't show effort).
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's crazy that they weren't reeled in by a regulator and it had to make it all the way through the court system. People are dead. A court judgement can't change that. Preemptive action would have.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Those people weren't ideologically against you on housing, healthcare, or poor salaries etc. If they were, you wouldn't be able to convince them. The reason they were easier to move is because of their class position. If you talke
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Iran is not our enemy. We are the aggressor.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
That's true, I've seen it in action, but at the same time... the number of grants and the rate of grant issuance has been very slow. They aren't using a scalpel to eliminate all the "woke". They are also attacking H
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Organizing is often less about convincing people that are in hard opposition and more about moving ppl that are pro, soft or uninformed. Then moving those people to take actions that advance the ball in their own interests or the interest o
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
I understand that the government is now too coarse to use soft power, and maybe it wasn't even working as well as it used to, but it is bizarre to undercut the sciences when their military capability is derived almost entirely from hig
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's an important function in a capitalist economy. Socialist economies are like "adblock for your life". That said, some advertising can be useful to inform consumers that a good exists, but convincing them they need it by s
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Does no one remember how the resistance in Gaza held out to this day via their highly sophisticated tunnel system that the IDF was so terrified to enter they tried bombing it in a raster pattern with 2000 lb bombs to virtually no effect exc
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
There is probably a threshold effect above which the technology begins to be very useful for production (other than faking school assignments, one-off-scripts, spam, language translation, and political propaganda), but I guess we're no
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's true, it's a bit tricky, but it's an interesting idea. One could imagine a deployable carpet that consists of folded paper sandwiched between thin water impermeable layers to make a lightweight collapsible elevated floor
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
This is true, state gov does own many universities, though there was a concerted effort to bring the idea of privatization and deregulation there too since at least the 1990s by cutting subsidies. I met a Polish student a number of years ag
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
other poorer countries just pay all or most tuition for students and own the universities
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
That evaluation has value and the possible use case of strong and cheap emergency housing is interesting though it sounds like it would take substantial work to push it to fruition and would need to be competitive with existing solutions.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
When LLMs first came out, my initial impulse, though I didn't pursue it, was that the summarization function was ideal for sorting through FOIA requests. So glad to see stuff like this come to fruition.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
I’m confused, OpenClaw seems to be some kind of agent communication hub, but if you’re calling out to OpenAI or Anthropic, why would the model not have the same safeguards? If it’s a local model, how powerful does the hardware need to be to
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
In China, when they didn't have enough medical personnel, they sent the half-trained barefoot doctors to the rural areas to give even basic medical care. Over time they trained more and more people in allopathic medicine and increased
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
That’s fair, I don’t think the CEOs are fully aligned culturally with Trump but they are sick of pretending to be liberals that care about other people and they want to make more money.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
All the tech ceos are on the trump train this time around, it was a specific strategy of the trump campaign. Using words like “caved” as though they were pressured and not already aligned with the government is a disservice.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
They have a limited amount of power to suppress opinion even with their powerful tools and thugs. Their method is to go after big platforms and prominent individuals. If you keep speaking up anyway, it will overwhelm them.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
What they did to snowden was illegitimate but at least they had the cover that he was an insider that had signed a contract with the government. They are going after random ass people expressing a 1A opinion now. Legally very different ball
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
"Would it not be wildly irresponsible, they ask, to expose our entire species to even a 1-in-10 chance of annihilation?" I have bad news about how decision makers have responded to risks about nuclear weapons and climate change in
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
You are in all likelihood correct, it's the more realpolitik reading of it. One other more charitable interpretation would be that the EU was under the US's thumb so they never took action, but now that there is some more separati
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Interesting, but aside from replicating students rather than real judges, an AI as judge would undermine the legitimacy of the process. It might give more “accurate” formal results, but that’s not the entire purpose of the process. It’s par
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
In the particulars yes, but not on things that are the common experience of humans
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's kind of annoying to see headlines complaining about some consumer facing UI that sound like a fundamental change in the model.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
Very helpful, thank you.
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by tehjoker 8mo ago
It's hard to say what this means. They didn't give a single example of the kinds of situations the remote workers help in. I can think of an array of different kinds of situations ranging from "should I continue with this rou

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