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by telmo 3y ago
They can indeed, but that doesn't change the fact that YouTube is obliged to follow the laws of the jurisdictions where it operates, and citizens have the right to demand that these laws are upheld.
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by telmo 3y ago
I use Firefox as my main browser and it is fine. People complain because it is not Chrome, that is all. It is a shame, because the last remnants of the open web will soon be gone, and with them any sort of user control over their computing
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by telmo 3y ago
"Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted" (attributed to Albert Einstein)
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by telmo 3y ago
Consciousness is the thing and the only thing that you have direct experience of. Everything else could be an illusion. You could be a brain in a jar and all of the reality you perceive be a simulation, but you would still be conscious. I k
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by telmo 3y ago
That is a very good point, you have convinced me.
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by telmo 3y ago
How could lab-leak ever become a theory? A theory is an explanation of some repeatable pattern of phenomena that is observed in nature and that can be empirically verified. "Lab-leak" is a single possible event, that may or not ha
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by telmo 3y ago
They clearly couldn't care less about user experience. This is all about selling ads. The web was a beautiful thing for a moment in time, but the rotting corpse that is left after "adtech" did its thing is an anti-user monstr
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by telmo 3y ago
In my personal experience, people who hate the GDPR are typically not EU citizens. I am an EU citizen and I strongly approve of GDPR. Is it perfect? No. Is it a step in the right direction? Yes.
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by telmo 3y ago
Then it would be the "grand designer" hypothesis, wouldn't it? I notice that the big unspoken resistance to metaphysics these days is the fear that it is somehow a trick to smuggle God back into our understanding of reality.
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by telmo 3y ago
There is no objective true to claims such as "X is the greatest writer who ever lived". Even if you could objectively determine the best writer for a certain culture and context, there are countless other cultures and contexts. Is
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by telmo 3y ago
> I think your thoughts are completely off. Removing users from power is definitely not illegal. Yes, but restoring user generated content that was deleted by the creator without their consent is. That is what we are talking about here.
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by telmo 3y ago
> Users were misled to believe they have power. And now are completely bewildered when they realize they don’t have as much power as they thought. First of all: if Reddit really is doing this, then it is committing an illegal act. At lea
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by telmo 3y ago
> I don’t know of any tech companies using Python for anything serious anymore, except data/ML analysis, which is usually not too much code. If you make me rewrite the thing, it’s getting rewrote in Go or Rust, not Python again. It
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Non-Evolutionary Superintelligences Do Nothing, Eventually(arxiv.org)
33 points by telmo 3y ago|53 comments
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by telmo 3y ago
> Given her age and the possibility (at the time, obviously known now) of a lengthy prison sentence, it was also likely the last chance for her biologically. To be honest, this comment makes my blood boil. Her "last change biologica
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by telmo 4y ago
> The modal share of car in Berlin is 26%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share Which is pretty low for a capital of a prosperous western country (order by that column and you will see). Maybe I do actually kno
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by telmo 4y ago
I live in Berlin and my main mode of transportation is the bike, since before e-scooters were a thing. Bikes are very popular here and I do not actually know a lot of people who live in the city and own a car. E-scooter made life objectivel
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by telmo 4y ago
Source: "trust me bro"
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by telmo 4y ago
If enough people refuse to jump thought the hoops, you will hire someone without them doing the task.
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by telmo 4y ago
I agree with your sentiment, and for some time now I fear that all this hype will lead to another AI winter. Large language models are a true breakthrough and they are, in my view, much more useful than ChatGPT. They allow for some fundamen
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by telmo 4y ago
It is impossible to prove, because "objective reality" refers to a hypothetical reality that exists independently of the perceptions of conscious entities. The problem, of course, is that we are conscious entities and all of our e
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by telmo 4y ago
And which one of those do you figure "real football" refers to? Can you take a wild guess? It's like saying "the real Albert Einstein", as opposed to good Albert Einstein the baker, who is a local celebrity because
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by telmo 4y ago
That's pretty new for a programming language.
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by telmo 4y ago
> Very condescending for someone who is deeply mistaken. You pointed out other human rights violations in the world, even though I never claimed that human rights violations only take place in Qatar. You failed to mention what is it that
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by telmo 4y ago
> OP is trying to just share something cool and fun, and now you come here making it political. It is important to make it political. The stadiums where this WC is taking place were built by slaves. The host country rejects fundamental h
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by telmo 4y ago
Oh man, the nostalgia! This was my first programming book. I started learning both programming and English from it.
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by telmo 4y ago
I disagree. Direct vs representative democracy is orthogonal to this issue. In a representative democracy, the mandate to exercise power still comes from popular vote. That is a qualitatively different situation from one where someone can e
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by telmo 4y ago
Ok, but then it must be accepted that a "British style constitutional monarchy" is not a full democracy, given that in certain situations a non-elected head of state holds real power. I believe this sort of news appears in the con
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by telmo 4y ago
Tying one's personal identity to a private company that can be bought and sold always ends in heartache...
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by telmo 4y ago
Allow me to propose to you the following thought experiment: had Elon Musk not bought Twitter, what do you figure would be the probability that mainstream media would be talking about Mastodon right now?

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