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by thret 3y ago
A $4 million fine? That's so much cheaper than the cost of archiving!
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by thret 3y ago
Which article are you referring to? I didn't see it in the parent.
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by thret 4y ago
Yes, I have a friend who does this for a living. The trick is apparently to get a high enough rating that companies give you software pre-release, and you can vacuum up the low hanging fruit before everyone else. He claims legacy car compan
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by thret 4y ago
"Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it
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by thret 4y ago
I really hope we're able to use LLMs to understand animals in the near future. They are communicating, and we should be able to communicate back.
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by thret 4y ago
Neuromancer was published in 1984 and I think we are finally on the verge of creating constructs. The future of GPT could be like a construct, or an AI embryo. Something you can purchase that will consume every piece of data you have ever p
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by thret 4y ago
Just reducing the weight of the product by 90% is interesting, it makes it more efficient for delivery by drone.
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by thret 4y ago
'Lays of 400 Employees' has a different meaning to 'Lays off 400 Employees'.
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by thret 4y ago
So this is pretty similar to the Continuity AI from William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, except it doesn't really maintain continuity. Crazy that this is where we are already.
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by thret 4y ago
Given that you absolutely never swear (or even waste words) on the radio, I wonder if beginning the transmission with an expletive is actually optimal: it is short, sharp, and immediately conveys the urgency of the command.
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by thret 4y ago
At one time I was living in a very nice apartment, and the building next door had a private dentist. Absurdly expensive, but convenient. So I got a toothache and booked an appointment for the next morning, but the next day my toothache was
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by thret 4y ago
The worker is also forced to beg for the money that they have earned. It's demeaning. Nothing about this interaction is positive.
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by thret 4y ago
1/3 isn't bad.
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by thret 4y ago
I'm hoping Notch responds to this, or at least reconnects with Julian in some way. I remember when he purchased that mansion because the story was posted to HN and Notch answered some questions about it.
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by thret 4y ago
One robot's struggle with the imperfections of the physical world.
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by thret 4y ago
This is the line of thought that got me to abandon strict atheism, as if we are in a simulation (something I allow to be plausible if not probable) surely the computer running the simulation would be God.
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by thret 4y ago
Anecdotally I think this is normal? I've heard actors and musicians can continue to get stage fright throughout their careers, but it fades after a minute or two.
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by thret 4y ago
I read an article (or watched an interview) a few years ago, where they were saying that because cancer is unique to the individual, to truly cure cancer you would have to target each cancer individually. Hence CRISPR. But they also warned
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by thret 4y ago
And then they keep collecting them for research until there are no more to be found, and we can once again classify them as extinct. "Subsequent visits to the same locality did not yield any additional shells or living animals."
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by thret 4y ago
Reading what happened to Ouchi makes me think two things: 1. Anyone who has not gotten that far, skip the "Ghastly deaths after the blue glow" part. 2. Euthanasia for someone exposed to lethal radiation should be the recommended t
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by thret 4y ago
How insane is it that women are risking death by burning a hijab, and as you say 'willing to sacrifice themselves for what they believe in'. LISTER: Do you mean they had a war over whether the doughnut diner hats were red or blue?
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by thret 4y ago
It's strange that they would give a security clearance to someone in a bad financial situation. I would think it's quite rare for the FBI to run a sting against an NSA employee... perhaps he wasn't targeted at all, but went o
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by thret 4y ago
Wait, what? Why would you eat goldfish?
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by thret 4y ago
The only unbelievable part of this short story is that they wrote a compiler in assembly! Very enjoyable. Reminds me of Rob Miles' AI tasked with acquiring stamps.
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by thret 4y ago
Huh, tried the impossible burger and a normal one side by side, and I preferred the impossible burger. I still think it's the best thing on their menu. So I think the problem is not the taste, it's simply that people who eat healt
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by thret 4y ago
Agadmator covered this game and explains a disgusting computer line quite well. Note that under time pressure, a human can only calculate so many lines. They will immediately see a range of possible good lines, explore them to some depth an
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by thret 4y ago
59. You will nerd Wikipedia: The first documented appearance of the word nerd is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950). I realise it is a typo.
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by thret 4y ago
If you sell devices secretly modified in China to the military and it comes out that you knew about it... I wonder if this constitutes treason?
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by thret 4y ago
No, the developed world.
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by thret 4y ago
That was far more complicated than I would have imagined. Thank you for linking it.

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