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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Probably didn't help that for much of the cold war Germany was a likely candidate for "ground zero" of a nuclear exchange. I think living under that might reasonably influence people's attitudes.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
If we can't even align OpenAI the organisation full of humans then I'm not sure how well AI alignment can possibly go...
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
If his concern was irresponsible AI proliferation, too much commercial focus and wanting to move more carefully, accelerating competition doesn't seem like it would align with his goals.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Both things can be true at the same time, it depends on the time preference of the business owner.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
I think you're annoyed by the phrasing but it's otherwise a substantive comment. Take a minute to look up dmitrygr's projects.
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
Yes if a particular group gets to externalise / socialise the costs of maintaining a protection then obviously from the perspective of the protected group then it's worth it. The question is, is it good for society overall. Who or
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
For me it's not even "hacked" that's the problem, the issue is cloud, subscriptions and the intersection of government and corporate interests. My phone is an amazing tool but it also enables quite pervasive surveillance
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by xyzzy123 2y ago
All sorts of sticky bits here. If the main thing the age verification service is used for is watching porn then how much privacy can you really have? The verification side knows you're watching porn and can look at your ISP records or
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Maybe. But if you value yourself as a $15 billion company, based on your sector you will have a typical revenue multiplier. So if you know you have x paid customers and projected growth y, that pretty much tells you how much money you need
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Agree. For me personally, 3d printing has been a "hit" and the printers keep getting better, cheaper and more reliable. Good bed levelling, multi-head, failure detection etc are reaching the mainstream and the printers I have now
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
I notice you didn't mention drones...
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
They could have IPO'd for less money ;) Then they wouldn't have needed to squeeze so hard.
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
This is interesting because it contradicts a pattern I've been keeping my eye on for a while. I haven't yet run into any very early / "hyperlexic" readers who learned by phonics. I'm not a teacher but I'm
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Right, from a private capital perspective, it's a misallocation of resources. If a company can make X% return on capital (researchers, equipment, marketing, regulatory engagement, office space etc) working on communicable diseases, but
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Why do people pay for webapps that - really - are just wrappers over PostgreSQL? Why do people pay $100 to call out a plumber when they could buy a wrench and the washer they need for $10 total? They are irrationally invoking an expensive w
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Good points, I think it's fair to claim Result and Option are technically better (when combined with the necessary language features and compile-time checks). Re: Close() errors yeah most times you would be better off writing the code
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
This kinda already happened for Telcos, LE got convenient backdoors and portals they can access. Surveillance capabilities are IMHO, absolutely a slipperly slope. If you build this multi-key thing and there is capability for direct access w
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
I think go makes more sense if you imagine spending more time reading MRs and code than writing it. Standard go error handling maximises for locality. You don't see many "long range" effects where you have to go and read the
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Surgeons don't get immediate feedback because the advisability of procedure X ends up being a statistical matter that might not be decided in the surgeon's lifetime. It depends what it is. They will have opinions of course, but wi
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Is that necessarily true on a very long timescale? Is it getting easier or harder over time to make meaningful contributions to storytelling, science, mathematics, etc?
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Hm fridge sure, but oven? 256Wh is going to power an electric oven for like, 5 minutes. Doesn't seem useful.
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
The root causes are usually among: Security teams are often staffed by people who have no operational experience, and do not understand the consequences of what they are recommending or even mandating. Often those staff are blindly followin
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
GP is completely on-point, you just have to read the post in Jello Biafra's voice.
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
I think there are some patterns though. For low-latency work more sleep = better. There's no real advantage to pushing long hours. You can sleep and make quick progress when fresh. For high-latency work that "should" be low-l
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
You didn't mention what country you're in or what level of schools you're targeting. This matters a lot. ----- A lot of people think schools are kind of "naive" and "under-resourced" but you will quickly f
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Why wouldn't people keep making open source, say "hey, no warranty!", but companies that use it in "load bearing contexts" have to assume liability for their choices, assuming someone enforces that. Isn't that
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Issue spam & harassment become a problem at scale.
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
The usual way to this would be to have the power company charge what they need to, then provide a subsidy to low income consumers to help offset the cost. It is super weird to make the power company responsible for administering social poli
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
It's an excellent and very practical proposal. Unfortunately I think geo-engineering is a hard ask politically. Left-coded groups demanding action on climate change seem to primarily it as a moral issue, and will tend to reject what
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by xyzzy123 3y ago
Usually there are large and unavoidable transaction costs involved in selling/buying properties. It's a liquidity event on a large amount of capital so it's pretty much inevitable that government want to get involved with tax

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