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by thfuran 1y ago
They mean that the baseline probability of someone manually doing that to themselves without AI is higher than that.
602.
by thfuran 1y ago
Neanderthals were certainly smart enough to have more understanding of dietary needs than a vulture does. And "any homo something before or after" includes us today. While it might be reasonable to say there are things we don&#x27
603.
by thfuran 1y ago
That's certainly worse, but needing to use your phone to run the dishwasher is still bullshit.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Chips that allow you to pay for stuff by waving your hand at a sensor You've been able to do that relatively cheaply for at least a decade. Nobody really does because the market for even minor surgeries that can essentially be repl
605.
by thfuran 1y ago
Why be happy about the demise of Intel? I'd rather have more chip designers than fewer.
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by thfuran 1y ago
And, though I don't think it's nearly settled, in other areas courts seen to be leaning towards the output of generative AI not being copyrightable.
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by thfuran 1y ago
>We're going to be swimming in an ocean of bad software I think we already are. We're about to be drowning in a cesspit. The support for the broken software is going to be replaced by broken LLM agents.
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by thfuran 1y ago
It pretty much applies to every market where security negligence isn't an existential threat to the continued existence of its perpetrators.
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by thfuran 1y ago
What world model exactly do you think they're advocating?
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Musk's seemingly oblivious approach to "Move fast and break things" in government DOGE wasn't incidentally and accidentally breaking things in their effort to save money, they were yammering about saving money as the
611.
by thfuran 1y ago
I'm not sure I'd go so far as to say that we shouldn't allow that sort of contract at all, but it should be considered fraudulent to call it selling or what the customer does buying. If you're only offering limited right
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by thfuran 1y ago
>Not a monopoly People get hung up on absolute 100% pure monopolies and how nothing meets that criterion. Monopoly power is a much better way of looking at things. Controlling 100% of a market with insurmountable barrier to entry of cour
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by thfuran 1y ago
>If a company invests billions in R&D to create hardware and its integrated software, shouldn’t it have the right to control who or what interacts with it? Of course not. Companies exist only because it is useful to have that sort of
614.
by thfuran 1y ago
And switching to Android, which is only technically not the only alternative, doesn't exactly help privacy anyways.
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by thfuran 1y ago
I think the fix we need is comprehensive legal privacy protection and (even less achievable) significant restriction on advertisement. That would actually curtail the market for user data and prevalence of ad funding as a model.
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by thfuran 1y ago
It's far from great for imaging, but it can be done. https://www.zmescience.com/research/inventions/wifi-technolo...
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by thfuran 1y ago
The FDA has been approving generics from factories known to have repeatedly failed prior audits or had products recalled for quality issues without re-inspecting the factories or inspecting the drugs on import. And they're doing it via
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by thfuran 1y ago
The US used to significantly limit the accuracy of GPS signal available for civilian use, so that's not exactly hard to foresee.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Harder than just automatically rejecting every claim.
620.
by thfuran 1y ago
Looks like someone took arms to me.
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by thfuran 1y ago
English is a pretty terrible language for describing the precise behavior of a program.
622.
by thfuran 1y ago
More like squinting to see if it's still visible in the rear view mirror.
623.
by thfuran 1y ago
An HDD (or tape if you really want want it to stick around), not an SSD.
624.
by thfuran 1y ago
Yeah, 18 kHz isn't really ultrasound, but 50 kHz definitely is and nobody's hearing that. You definitely don't need to go up into the MHz range and can't if the goal is to use existing audio equipment.
625.
by thfuran 1y ago
Not an issue except for any of the couple hundred million people who subscribe to Netflix at any rate.
626.
by thfuran 1y ago
Yeah, but it does have to do with graphics in the linux desktop ecosystem and is particularly relevant to those without a dedicated gaming machine.
627.
by thfuran 1y ago
Can you even watch decent Netflix on Linux yet?
628.
by thfuran 1y ago
Amazon then COVID wrecked them.
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by thfuran 1y ago
Will they? I don't think I've ever heard it called that before.
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by thfuran 1y ago
> I don't understand how people can willingly spend every couple of hours every week to trim their lawn to a pristine, perfect cube of grass. I once went out of town for two weeks figuring much the same and came back to a freshly cu

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