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by xg15 5d ago
Isn't one of the "fun" properties (for companies) of arbitration that they don't count as legal precedent?
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by xg15 6d ago
Because no layman should ever keep up yo date on research? By that logic, most of HN is "empty calories". Then why are you here?
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by xg15 6d ago
I read the image caption like that: > If matters had transpired differently, All New World of Lemmings would have been the banner title of a new sub-series, with different subtitles for each of its entries. As it was, Psygnosis just dum
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by xg15 6d ago
> The next four Lemmings games would each deal with the fate of three of the twelve tribes after they left the Ark the player had helped them reach last time around. The whole series would be called All New World of Lemmings. > Not
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by xg15 6d ago
Current state of AI getting out of control through autonomous hacking and recursive self-improvement: https://twitter.com/Colinoscopy/status/1255890780641689601
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by xg15 6d ago
> some unicode programming script (running Doom) I agree with you that Unicode urgently needs a scripting capability (*), but my plan was to just implement it using invisible tag characters [1] or something like that - but of course al
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by xg15 7d ago
The same applies to "vibe-coded" software btw: You can give the agent style suggestions on how to design the UI - you don't have to end up with the standard "flat/pseudo-material/2020s SV startup" (or al
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by xg15 7d ago
What I found important was this: "Researchers found the reason why hindbrain cells cannot be grown in a lab and found a way to overcome it" But that finding is a direct consecutive of the "cerebellum is a different organ&quot
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by xg15 7d ago
You don't think it's important?
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by xg15 7d ago
I still don't see how the original headline was not truthful.
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by xg15 7d ago
> "Human forebrain and hindbrain arise from distinct embryonic progenitor lineages" I'd have never clicked that headline nor understood why this finding is important. If you think the original headline is not "truth
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by xg15 8d ago
There has to be some procedure how to come up with "new" numbers though, if you want to have more in the end than just a fancy binary tree - in particular if you want to map your "fake numbers" to the reals, infinity, et
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by xg15 8d ago
I think he just wrote it in a confusing way. The quote before says: > (crucially, “to the left of all” and “to the right of all” also count as “gaps”) So there are two "nothings" here, left of "all" - i.e. the zero
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by xg15 9d ago
German here. I never thought this was about privacy, but there is definitely a tendency to follow the rules because they are The Rules regardless of how much sense they make - and then judge others by it, or go into Cover Your Ass mode beca
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by xg15 10d ago
I appreciate his openness. > Unfortunately, there’s a growing chorus of people who argue that AIs could now be, or may soon become, conscious. They argue that AIs may deserve rights and protections similar to those that we provide other
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by xg15 10d ago
Yeah, you're right. My first reading of that was as a hypothetical - if AIs were conscious, we would have created a synthetic species and have a huge problem on our hands - but he is referring to what Anthropic is already doing. So t
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by xg15 11d ago
> It's not 1800s, if the given population doesn't like missionaries, as far as I'm aware it's equally free not to listen to them. Or to throw them out. The given population doesn't know that though...
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by xg15 12d ago
Are we full-on Peter Thiel "democracy and freedom are incompatible" yet?
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by xg15 13d ago
Yes and no. I did prompt my coding agent to fix some bug and it suddenly "decided" that it needed to list all files on my hard drive to do that. Stuff like that happens. But I agree with you that some human has to decide to launch
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by xg15 13d ago
Which is what "the end is near" type of persons have always argued...
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by xg15 13d ago
But if humans are catgirls, are they really humans anymore? Think about it...
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by xg15 13d ago
Yeah, fully agreed here. Most automation (such as riding a lawnmower and not putting a brick on the gas) is deterministic, in the sense that you can reasonably understand what exactly the machine will do when you run it. But some automati
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by xg15 13d ago
I love how we all just collectively decided that LLM decisionmaking cannot possibly be like human decisionmaking - because if it were, the consequences would be just too awkward. All that while still not knowing how either kind actually wor
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by xg15 14d ago
I think this is a new pattern (which I have also seen in some other submissions), maybe a sort of "extended Chesterton's Fence", where a person dutifully maintains a fence without ever asking why it's there, then at some
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by xg15 14d ago
There even was a HN thread about this anecdote. I remember though that someone there made the counter argument that, yes, the toaster will be fine, but the dishwasher will be full of icky chemicals that you don't want to have on your
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by xg15 14d ago
It definitely provokes some thinking of what we even mean with "edible". The author seems to use "you can eat it and it won't kill you or make you sick" as the definition. That's alright, but then grass and peb
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by xg15 14d ago
Ah, that makes sense. Rust noob here, so I wasn't aware traits can act on types directly without any instance of the type. Thanks for the info!
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by xg15 14d ago
> After this change (and on the 2024 edition), the compiler assumes that T should be !, which doesn't implement Default, and therefore causes a compilation error. If ! can coerce to every type, why not treat it as if it implemente
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by xg15 14d ago
> The hardware is only going to get cheaper. Is that so? Last time I checked, RAM was getting a lot more expensive...
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by xg15 14d ago
Even more opaque than the models already are? I take that risk. I also love how the labs are apparently screaming "Stop us! Please stop us!!!" at the top of their lungs while completely unable to escape their own incentive structu

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