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by themafia 4mo ago
It's easy to find Wolfram tedious but I've not seem him be particularly disruptive to other efforts nor did his crankery lead to his current success. He's on the same level with Eric Weinstein. Your best bet is to ignore th
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by themafia 4mo ago
The basic failure mode I would expect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeFY9u69tkE The adjoining roads have a large speed differential. The runoff areas around this project do not appear as if designed with this in mind.
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by themafia 4mo ago
The Internet (mostly), the C language, the Unix Operating System were all developed and deployed on PDPs. The BASIC language /and/ an 8080 emulator was developed on a PDP in order to deploy to the Altair. I would argue that Intel
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by themafia 4mo ago
The mechanism I use is ordered. All specific aliases are tried first and then it falls through to the catch-all forwarding rule. So, it's a piece of cake to add "{random}@example.com" to the block list. Usually it's s
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by themafia 4mo ago
Noise is a really underrated security layer.
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by themafia 4mo ago
Probably not. And you certainly cannot use a retrospective analysis to answer this question. What you needed was a survey.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> Not unlike uploading a personal photo or video to social media I've granted them a limited license to use it. > that's not yours anymore. Not by any definition in the contract or in law is this true. > You gave all rig
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by themafia 4mo ago
> While Minecraft is just a game It's more than just a game. It's a bespoke social network. It's a merchandise generator. It produced an entire hollywood movie. It's become a cultural reference.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> My answer: soon. By the end of this year or next, the year after at the very latest. Which is based on what? > AI can process the entire world It can process what is in it's training set. Which is a monumental gap to step over
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by themafia 4mo ago
Humans gain knowledge through experiments. Without a physical body it has no chance of performing the same. That it can update it's training weights does not seem particularly significant.
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by themafia 4mo ago
A similar Luddite view formed in the 1990s. It turns out humanity constantly beats the expectations of economists. It makes you wonder if the "science" of economy is almost entirely bankrupt either in morality or imagination or
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by themafia 4mo ago
The word happiness, fulfillment or even freedom didn't come to mind? Well at least you're planning to have a very healthy population of enslaved serfs. I'm sure they'll appreciate all you've done for them.
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by themafia 4mo ago
One of those is deterministic. The other fails to be in nearly every conceivable way.
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by themafia 4mo ago
Non technical users still write down their passwords. So: no. Do technical users have the option to install something better? Yes? Then this has no purpose.
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by themafia 4mo ago
...don't look now, but, there's a trillion dollar gorrilla in the room right behind you.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> they do not really care What would their choice be anyways? It's like saying "yet people still die, they do not really care, they even engage in activities which hasten their deaths!"
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by themafia 4mo ago
Having helped more than a few users with down PCs. They're mostly not even aware these backups exist. When you explain it to them the result is a mixture of relief and then fear that this was occurring without their awareness.
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by themafia 4mo ago
If only Google kept "don't be evil."
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by themafia 4mo ago
Just because you managed to get a billion dollars of value attributed to your name does not mean that you know how to earn a billion dollars or that you have the first worthwhile clue to share to anyone else how they should do it. It'
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by themafia 4mo ago
Let me guess, when confronted with uncomfortable information that requires you to think longer than you are used to, you devolve to false dichotomies into defend your ego?
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by themafia 4mo ago
> It's tough to answer because you want to hedge You should just be honest. If you're not a good fit for the company then you should honestly be eager to discover this. > I've been responding with a sort of long winded
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by themafia 4mo ago
Two spoiled rich kids arguing over who's morality is the least worst. That this moment is held up as some great exchange in business is annoying. That our regulatory agencies are perennially sleep at the switch and allow this nonsense
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by themafia 4mo ago
It seems to me like the lies are both for the same reason. To capture attention and profits that are not deserved.
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by themafia 4mo ago
> A simple linear combination of every weight did not degrade the performance of the model, but enhanced it. Which could be a signal that your "performance" was so abysmal in the first place that even randomly applied training
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by themafia 4mo ago
It's actually an institutional success since prison labor is so often utilized in the United States. The truth is they're just lying to you.
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by themafia 4mo ago
When they choose the "DNA loci" to do SRT "matching" in the first place they convinced themselves it was a unique fingerprint and there never would be any duplicates in the database. It only took a few years. They'v
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by themafia 4mo ago
> it would be almost impossible for even the most corrupt moron to justify creating evidence out of thin air. Yet we have many examples of this precise thing happening. This is because the police carry immense credibility when testifyin
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by themafia 4mo ago
You can burn negatives. You can fake polaroids, really, just think about how a camera itself must operate and you'll see why instantly. Darkrooms used to be far more common before digital photography my Junior and High school both
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by themafia 4mo ago
> the US considers any country its ally. It shares that intelligence with the countries it was gathered from. It's been explicitly stated many times that this is an intentional work around for weak constitutional provisions on prot
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by themafia 4mo ago
That's what happens when you have a two party system but more than two political philosophies. Given that both parties will work tirelessly to prevent a third party from forming I think the level of corruption should be understood to

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