wmidwestranger

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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
They obviously just change the news network until they get the bullshit they prefer.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
> This time it'll be different, we're way better than the last bunch to do it, double-promise!
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Forgive my dusty memory but I think the relation is that most people stay in the cave, not because they enjoy the experience or they're completely ignorant of the sky, they stay because they are unprepared, incapable, or unwilling to l
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
Absolutely correct. Along with the usual reduction, there is also the, "Actually, it's too free speech that is bad we need censorship." Meanwhile, no issues with operant conditioning from the Skinner Box Phone.
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by wmidwestranger 3y ago
> ... these are text token prediction algorithms, underneath. If I had to take a wild guess, my guess would be that the prediction probabilities are very dependent on context, so by changing the context, the entire slate of probabilities
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by wmidwestranger 4y ago
If the publishers could push the button and kill digitally lending at their whim then there isn't a reason to pretend it was actually alive and well, in any real sense. I believe Machiavelli observed, "War is never avoided, only d
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by wmidwestranger 4y ago
Surely, the DVDs the US troops bought in the market when they were there were 100% legit... The mendacity of the producers and manufacturers has to be off the charts when you can't even let the Iraqi market slip through your fist.
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by wmidwestranger 4y ago
The great forces of those interested in suppressing the spread of news and those interested in being paid for their stories to be read are pretty much insurmountable but there is a way past this that neither will like: Simply deliver their
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by wmidwestranger 5y ago
Somehow everyone making those arguments is also happy to overlook the reality of operating such weapons in any purposeful way. I'm not aware of any military that deploys a precision marksman without a spotter. That makes a precision ri