waselighis

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by waselighis 3y ago
I would think there are certain situations where a person might be compelled to lie, such as if you have a security clearance, have signed an NDA, or are acting as an informant. That is, a person may have to lie to prevent divulging classif
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by waselighis 3y ago
... k? If you have nothing to contribute, then please don't comment.
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by waselighis 3y ago
> I don't think it is accurate to think of it as the "output" of information processing Don't put too much emphasis on my use of the word "output". I simply argue that information processing alone is not wha
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by waselighis 3y ago
I would state it as: The content of your conscious experience is the result of information processing in the brain. Information processing alone does not create consciousness, but the output of this information processing defines what we ex
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by waselighis 3y ago
1. Use 7-zip and check "Encrypt file names". 2. Use a strong password, not "infected" which could be guessed in less than a second. 3. Host your own file server (Linux based with no antivirus). Don't use OneDrive or
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by waselighis 3y ago
I have no doubt that there is an objective reality. Physics shows us that reality is weird and unintuitive, and we don't fully understand it. The mere existence of consciousness also raises big questions about the true nature of realit
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by waselighis 3y ago
It really bugs me that they categorize stevia as an NSS. While technically correct, multiple studies have found no negative effects from stevia-based sweeteners. Of course, the opposite is true of many artificial sweeteners, which are well
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by waselighis 3y ago
I think this video starts out good, but then goes downhill quickly and makes lots of assumptions about the role of consciousness. The video uses the word aware/awareness a lot, but there's no good reason to assume that "aware
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by waselighis 3y ago
There is likely some sort of feedback loop between the brain and consciousness. Our conscious experience does have some unknown effect on the brain that alters our behavior and thinking, otherwise we wouldn't be able to speak of our co
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by waselighis 3y ago
It's a pretty simple and direct mapping. A single character is 8 bits, and a single base64 digit is 6 bits. They perfectly align at 24 bits. So it simply has to learn how to map every 3 characters to 4 base64 digits. Otherwise, there&#
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by waselighis 3y ago
Not a bad point, but cars, planes, and space rockets are specifically designed for us humans. We have crafted our entire environment for ourselves (building, cities, governments, etc). AI systems will be no different, AI models will be trai
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by waselighis 3y ago
I'm still left dumbfounded by the amount of nonsense surrounding the phenomenon of consciousness. Consciousness emerges from a PHYSICAL process, not from software or some trained model full of matrices of numbers. It doesn't matte
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by waselighis 3y ago
> No they don’t. Umm, yes they do. I'm not claiming these stories to be factual or correct, but the news being reported is that the number of websites selling CSAM, the number of reports of grooming/trafficking they receive, an
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by waselighis 3y ago
I probably left too many comments in this thread, but I just remembered something. WTF happened to FOSTA (Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act) and SESTA (Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act)? The article doesn't make a single mention of eit
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by waselighis 3y ago
You may be right, but that's not the point. For some reason, I've been seeing many more stories about CSAM and child sex trafficking pop up in the last few weeks. These stories do suggest that the problem is getting worse, wherein
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by waselighis 3y ago
Wire taps are a thing. I don't know the law around it, but it likely requires approval from a court. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiretapping#United_States Otherwise, telecom companies keep records of all calls t
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by waselighis 3y ago
>What is odd to me in the story was the absence of a moral compass of the child and lack of knowledge of the internet as a potentially hostile place. The term I see being used again and again is "grooming". I also saw another s
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by waselighis 3y ago
This seems like an obvious first step to combat the problem. Much of the activity is public too, it's not all in private messages. The article does make a good point that it's much easier to detect CSAM than trafficking, but still
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by waselighis 3y ago
While I knew China is a surveillance state with cameras and face rec everywhere, this is just horrid. Fuck, what a terrible place to live, I can't even imagine growing up there as a child.
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by waselighis 3y ago
Most 12yo children have unmonitored access to the internet. Many parents have to work and can't monitor their children 24/7. Children are naturally curious, so even if you setup parental controls and such, they'll find ways a
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by waselighis 3y ago
> This sounds a little over-dramatic. I'm sure that people looking for CSAM know some places to look. But this almost makes it sound like anyone has a good chance of just accidentally coming upon it. I've been on the internet f
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by waselighis 3y ago
If we're going to save E2EE (End to End Encryption), then we seriously need to propose real and effective alternative solutions that don't involve putting backdoors in encryption. If these problems continue to proliferate, society
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by waselighis 4y ago
If not passing on the torch, would you consider releasing a data set for the ~5500 torrents? I imagine it wouldn't be a huge data set, and it would allow others to build their own websites and continue the work.
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by waselighis 4y ago
There's an interesting history behind the RCA CED (Capacitance Electronic Disk), an attempt to put video on vinyl. While the full history behind it's failure is complicated, a large factor was the differing priorities between rese
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by waselighis 4y ago
You may already be aware, but Apple tried to implement this on their devices a couple years ago. "Client side scanning". There was huge public backlash and Apple eventually moved away from the idea.
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by waselighis 4y ago
Two things need to happen before I would even begin to consider a ban on E2EE: 1. Show that the problem of child abuse on social networks is wildly out of control. I hear about it all the time, but what are the numbers? Where is the data? 2
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by waselighis 4y ago
Dave's Garage on YouTube has a couple good videos that I can recall. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlZe2JwrJqM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyJw2MumgTQ
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by waselighis 4y ago
Please no. I wish the users who create quality posts could get paid. But sadly, once money is involved, people will start to gamify the system, posting as much barely-passable garbage as possible to maximize upvotes, and the quality of cont
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by waselighis 4y ago
It's already happening. Numerous deepfakes have spread around online, and possibly many more that nobody even realizes are deepfakes. There are numerous stories of people losing their jobs because ChatGPT. One story comes to mind, a fr
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by waselighis 4y ago
The Skynet Terminator future seems unlikely at this point. The fear shouldn't be some future in which AI takes over and enslaves humanity. The real fear is how these AIs will be used by nefarious actors. Phishing attacks. Misinformatio

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