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by themafia 5mo ago
Is what the architects believe informed by reality or by dreams of profit? Why even account for them if you can't define this?
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by themafia 5mo ago
I know you "feel" pain because I can poke you and observe the result. If I do it enough there is permanent damage. Show this same phenomenon exists in LLMs.
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by themafia 5mo ago
One side is making a positive assertion. The other is making a negative assertion. One side can prove it's right. The other, logically, cannot. One camp has to offer it's proof. If it has none then that _in and of itself_ is
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by themafia 5mo ago
No, you're just guessing, as you don't know a single thing about me, what I've researched, or what work I've done on this subject. Other than suggesting that I might be wrong, for what reasons one can only guess,
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by themafia 5mo ago
An equal number of people believe horse urine cures certain diseases. If you sample the crowd you get nonsense back. This is why we invented science.
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by themafia 5mo ago
> Many involved genuinely believe these things are sentient Many involved have a financial stake and therefore cannot be taken at face value. > because they are creating sentient entities and promptly enslaving them. They fail to be s
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by themafia 5mo ago
> How does Ruby solve this problem? The interpreter keeps track of globals and all stack frames. So it knows what objects are in scope. If you're creating an object that can contain native ruby values inside it's own opaque st
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by themafia 5mo ago
The C interface to ruby is just superb. It provides a very simple and first class access to the entire runtime and all it's features. It's absolutely my favorite language to write extensions in. Lua is probably my second favorit
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by themafia 5mo ago
> I think it really makes sense to consider ourselves to be just intelligent cattle That's too misanthropic for my tastes. > to turn natural resources into machinery, weapon, insights and other stuffs they need It's easy to
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by themafia 5mo ago
Historia Civilis did a great video on this battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR7VDPUj5AE
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by themafia 5mo ago
They want globalization to make their jobs easier. In no sense do they "need" it. Whether we want a world where the desires of intelligence and finance are blindly prioritized is an open question. For my part the answer is obvi
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by themafia 5mo ago
I wish the same thing for the "AI dubbed" videos. I find them to be flatly insulting to the original content. I'd rather hear the creators original voice and read machine translated subtitles.
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by themafia 5mo ago
It's the same as any other bad information entering the decision loop. In this case they were promised "AI" can do things it cannot. They're having trouble rectifying what they were told versus what they experience. It
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by themafia 5mo ago
> I dunno if "psychosis" is a fair or accurate way to talk about it. > And that's very...intoxicating! Would you prefer if we say they're suffering from AI-holism?
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by themafia 5mo ago
Purchased and then completely ignored. The only consequence from an insiders point of view is we suddenly needed training on the "Foreign Corrupt Practices Act" since last.fm was a UK company.
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by themafia 5mo ago
DASDs supported ISAM. And they're not strictly just a disk. It's more like a complex multiplexing system for an array of disks. It has interesting capabilities like "channel programs" that persist to this day which all
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by themafia 5mo ago
> desperately chasing new capabilities and features that can make money Ah yes. And.. where are those?
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by themafia 5mo ago
> except where it serves Wikipedia's purpose of collecting knowledge Right. Exactly! They should use notepad.exe and be _grateful_ they get to participate at all. What more do you need to "collect knowledge?" > a fun
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by themafia 5mo ago
What if.. and this is a big if.. but.. what if we just paid people what they're actually worth?
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by themafia 5mo ago
And you have a limited amount of bandwidth to expend on judgement every day. What, in the human experience, makes you believe you can maximize on this?
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by themafia 5mo ago
> Sites meant for children would not be adding the header. Is Wikipedia "meant for children?" Should they be fully denied access to it? Should Wikimedia be fined if they make a mistake? If they get fined often enough do you
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by themafia 5mo ago
This is a consequence of elements of monopoly power existing in your organization. When you don't have to compete for income you honestly forget how. Then the company becomes a cargo cult of bad ideas driven by managers struggling to
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by themafia 5mo ago
Yes, but, I sleep very soundly at night.
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by themafia 5mo ago
The internet is too dynamic to build a working filter around. Perhaps just tools which help parents quickly and efficiently monitor their child's device usage would be best. Do you want to alter behaviors or lock children in a gilded
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by themafia 5mo ago
> An intern at each browser company could add this check in minutes. An intern could also just delete the product which would also "solve" this "issue". The fact that it's easy or cheap is not significant to the
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by themafia 5mo ago
The collection act originally was intended to apply to merchandise and merchant ports. The concept was judicially expanded upon in 1925 but wasn't fully ensconced into federal law until 1952.
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by themafia 5mo ago
Please don't take one sentence out of a larger context and pretend it represents the argument. Which, again, you've managed to completely ignore. The argument, ironically in black and white, so you can sense it, "this is
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by themafia 5mo ago
We start logically. Do you presume your handful of cases exemplify the entire Democratic system? Do you assume that "China" is best understood as a single centralized entity? You completely walked past the argument to pick at a
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by themafia 5mo ago
> a cutthroat businessman leading the company I'm sure his family connections aided him significantly.
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by themafia 5mo ago
> then it will no longer require subsidy from them Is there actually a huge Chinese consumer market for these products? If not then I'm not sure how you ever actually achieve this endpoint. Chinese wages and American wages are not

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