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by xg15 6mo ago
So it's basically "owned", just a generation later... Didn't know Jacob Rees-Mogg was so popular with the kids... (please not)
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by xg15 6mo ago
I love how Hacker News seems to loose out to basically everything, even example.com ("such intentional use of whitespace!")
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by xg15 6mo ago
Yeah, this is also why the "the climate has changed before and will always change" comments are so misleading - indeed it does, and currently, it's in a cold phase, so if we're seeing rapid warming right now, then some
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by xg15 6mo ago
> though deaths due to auto polo were rare. Oh well, then...
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by xg15 6mo ago
Yeah, I didn't find his initial take very convincing, but he lost me at the followup: > For most cases I don't think having explainability is worth the trade offs in capability. That'll be a good topic for a future post.
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by xg15 6mo ago
I think it's interesting that a lot of "eery" or "threatening" scores in movies or games have a strong bass component. I wonder if that's the same underlying effect and the research just found out that it conti
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by xg15 6mo ago
At least one thing is that for a human observer, the "source" would immediately look fishy - the entire site contains nothing but that press release. An LLM doesn't seem troubled by the fact that no one would structure a genu
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by xg15 6mo ago
> “Sorry I didn’t get back to you sooner. But yeah, that new movie The Matrix looks like it’ll be great!” That's a whole other can of worms: If you took so long to reply that some circumstances mentioned in the original email have
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by xg15 6mo ago
Was recently at a demoscene presentation, where, after one particular demo where the author was recently deceased, one person just didn't stop applauding, even long after the rest of the audience had done. Someone sitting next to him w
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by xg15 6mo ago
I read this does have a functional reason: Sperm cells have to be kept at slightly lower temperature than the body temperature, so if the testicles were inside the body, the sperm wouldn't survive. Of course you could ask why sperm is
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by xg15 6mo ago
> The hole in the retina is sizeable (~9 full moons in the sky), but we don’t notice it because [...] (2) our brain automatically fills in gaps in our visual field by interpolation I still remember this bit from school and various pop-s
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by xg15 6mo ago
Internet usage must not ever be restricted, but restrictions on parenting are fine?
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by xg15 6mo ago
Because lots of people have inadequate parenting skills (last time I checked you didn't need a license for parenting) and tech companies are actively exploiting that.
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by xg15 6mo ago
Lol, well at least I was right about it being written in anger then. But yeah, that makes more sense - and in that context, those are some good observations.
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by xg15 6mo ago
The world is much more globalized now. Countries are watching each other, political movements can be global. That wasn't the case when drinking laws were enacted. Also, the object - social networks - is global. Yes, all kinds of societ
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by xg15 6mo ago
Children of the Light, though haven't read QC yet. But from what I've heard, it sounded like it could qualify as well, yeah.
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by xg15 6mo ago
Drama! It's an interesting list, and yeah, I'd say most are common sense and well put. But I'm still a bit very of those "negative lists". (I actually just found a webcomic which tries a similar approach - gives the
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by xg15 6mo ago
Yeah, I don't think the true scale of the "war on general computation" is apparent for many technical people: It's good to think about alternative distribution models for the internet, better use of protocols, etc - but
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by xg15 6mo ago
I think in several ways the promises of AI to leadership is taking jobs not what AI is actually doing.
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by xg15 6mo ago
> I wanted to cook venison from scratch, which meant learning to shoot, which meant keeping track of my progress, which meant porting a 2012 OpenCV paper and training a state-of-the-art computer vision model, which meant the dinner took
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by xg15 6mo ago
> Would one be uneasy about calling a library to do stuff than manually messing around with pointers and malloc()? The irony is that the neverending stream of vulnerabilities in 3rd-party dependencies (and lately supply-chain attacks)
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by xg15 6mo ago
Yeah, the "economist" view of a country's state always seems awfully reductionists: "Those few KPIs look good, so there can't possibly be a way in which things are bad. So the rest must be 'feelings'.&quot
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by xg15 6mo ago
Yeah, I'm baffled how hard this seems to be to understand for many tech people: Everyone raves on about the massive increases in productivity we archieved in the last decades thanks to technological progress - meanwhile wages and livin
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by xg15 6mo ago
I agree that work as a moral goal in itself is pretty absurd, but as long as people's livelihood and participation in society is bound by it, it's still pretty hard to argue against.
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by xg15 6mo ago
From what I read (which is also not much), wikipedia has a good summary, I think: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production#Marxism_an... Yes, technological improvements are an important factor, but not a purel
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by xg15 6mo ago
Maybe read the rest of Marx too, and not just that sentence. The point is not whether or not we have technology but who controls it.
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by xg15 6mo ago
> Capitalism sucks, free us from our labor "Capitalism sucks" has become a pretty universal slogan, but traditionally, leftists didn't want less labor (that's what the capital owners want), but more control abou
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by xg15 6mo ago
Both can be true at the same time. You can both use AI productively yourself and be concerned/horrified of the larger direction of the technology or the actors that drive it forward.
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by xg15 6mo ago
> teachers Given all the borderline apocalyptic articles how students are using it to cheat and teachers have no way to stop them, I'd be honestly surprised by that.
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by xg15 6mo ago
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