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by verisimi 1y ago
It's a concerted attempt to de-anonymise the internet. Corporate entities are jostling for position as id authorities.
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by verisimi 1y ago
> OK, so now, we've gone from "I guess I'll give OpenAI a few bucks for API access" to "I need to verify my organization" to "There's no way in hell I'm agreeing to provide biometric data to a
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by verisimi 1y ago
Light you can't see, sound you can't hear... Ok. But functionally they have the same effect - ie they cause the subject to vibrate and heat. I think it's fair to say they are similar functionally... Or do you disagree?
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by verisimi 1y ago
Isn't this good news for the environment?
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by verisimi 1y ago
Is there much of a functional difference between 'ultrasound' and 'microwaves'? Both seem to impact cells at a distance, causing them to vibrate.
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by verisimi 1y ago
I agree. I even see support of this in the seasons. If you think about the difference in light between summer and winter, it is far more natural to be up and about when there is more light, and far more likely to be 'lazy' in th
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by verisimi 1y ago
In defence of procrastination, perhaps there are good reasons for failing to have enthusiasm for whatever-it-is. Perhaps trying to do something but being unable to muster the energy is an indication that this is not the thing you really ou
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by verisimi 1y ago
> children should be protected. I get how this sounds unambiguously good - but I hate this excuse. As I see it, if you don't allow kids some danger (unmonitored play, freedom of movement) you end up with adults that are completel
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by verisimi 1y ago
"We" is highly ambiguous. It ranges from 'me and my dog', to 'humanity', to anything in between. It's of course fine to us once the group has been defined. That it invokes the idea of a consensus humanit
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by verisimi 1y ago
It's not a helpful response, but then saying 'we should work hard to go to space' as a comment is generally accepted but is actually quite meaningless. Why not say 'NASA' or 'my colleagues at NASA' or &#x2
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by verisimi 1y ago
We don't get to the source. Have you ever personally seen any historical sources? Eg the sources for classical writings or the Bible? At best you get high resolution imagery provided by suspicious folks such as RB Toth. If the sourc
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by verisimi 1y ago
The history we have inevitably passes through bottlenecks. Much is left out, edited away, embellished. We have no idea what happened over 500 years ago, but the idea of a brilliant scholar translating the Greek texts on behalf of the Medic
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by verisimi 1y ago
With pleasing circularity, the original post for this discussion, is referenced on the instructables page as one of the 17 people confirmed to have made it.
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by verisimi 1y ago
> Clocks are very impressive.. useful.. and now there is almost no escape from them? What was lost? What was lost is control of time for the individual. Time is such an externalised concept now, we can barely conceive of an internal, na
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by verisimi 1y ago
> Language models are not designed to know things, they are designed to say things - that's why they are called language models and not knowledge models. This is true. But you go to Google not to 'have a chat' but ostensi
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by verisimi 1y ago
> I wouldn’t worry about this project becoming overly mainstream or changing everyday speech. I disagree - I think the word is already frequently used; the unnecessary use by this project is just another example. I've no problem wit
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by verisimi 1y ago
I don't mind what people do, I don't mind the software, I'm not having an emotional reaction. I do mind degradation of language and the normalisation of what is plainly an obscene concept like this. I bet there would even be
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by verisimi 1y ago
So it's even more good news. Yet another way EVs are better.
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by verisimi 1y ago
> However, I don't think people are just going to wake up from calls to wake up, unfortunately. > We typically only wake up to anything once it is broken. Society has to break from the over optimization of attention and eng
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by verisimi 1y ago
Nothing to do with scruples, but I don't think casinos need to load dice too. They already have 'loaded the maths' and this is in the open - over time they win. Why act covertly in an underhand way, whilst also providing th
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by verisimi 1y ago
> While Nature can’t do its selection on ethical grounds, we can, and do, when we select what kinds of companies and rules and power centers are filling which niches in our world. It’s a decentralized operation (like evolution), not cont
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by verisimi 1y ago
Do you think that prosocial is the same as empathy? Prosocial means getting a group/everyone to do things. But empathy is a feeling that an individual feels, group or no group. In fact, a group (collective noun) can't feel - only
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by verisimi 1y ago
You think one's political opinions determine whether someone has empathy? Wow.
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by verisimi 1y ago
PS - you realise of course that spycatcher was written by an ex-mi5 employee. Is it possible to you that there was no 'ex-' about it, that the book itself is an mi5 product? Agents are known to lie, you know.
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by verisimi 1y ago
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by verisimi 1y ago
Good lord, you're right! Not even one functional iphone has been found from the period either!
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by verisimi 1y ago
Isn't it amazing that we have an in-silico model that goes back thousands of years and can even tell us about atmospheric conditions 12,000+ years ago? We can confirm this via miyake events which are registered as growth in the tree r
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by verisimi 1y ago
> Kids don't have a shared cultural experience like I did. I tend to think that humans historically have had very isolated, independent experiences. It is only recently with mass media that we all share a collective experience. I t
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by verisimi 1y ago
> both lost power and drifted into the bridge "Restart your computer to finish installing important updates".
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by verisimi 1y ago
I agree with that ^ though I'd say the bbc has told more than it's fair share. Must I love it?

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