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I worry that this is just the begining right now I'm sure it's a temporary measure, to limit the downloading of sources. but I really worry that later this will become normalized first, after every exposed hack withrdraw source av
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this is a really cool question! i think the only plausible solution is that we don't know but we're just about to find out? as soon as the singularity hits we can ask the AI (...?) then again, and thinking more broadly, all of lif
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up there with negative probability frequencies
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i'm not supposed to say this, but my above paranoia is but a coping mechanism to deal with the harsh truth that I just cannot for the life of me completely understand any of those ideas no matter how well they're explained
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they don't have to, they bought it. or hired it? dunno. for all you know I'm an AI intended to keep you distracted while at the same time you're just an AI bot keeping me occupied with pointless online discussions. even if ne
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yes, it doesn't really matter at all for this kind of system you can set it to zero, to negative one... possibly to the imaginary constant because this library does not actually make any sound. it's (to me) an implementation of 12
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as it turns out, there's a better way. already the AI detects criticism of itself. except its response it's to shadowban you meaning you can continue to post but nobody sees your opinion online. eventually, you're "bubbl
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the mathematics of cartographic projections possibly but this information was really a military secret not that long ago. same as cryptography is right now! which annoys me personally becuase I wish to learn more/better about the mathe
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because capitalism means they get to do whatever they want to be more efficient, i.e. extract more profit but how and from whom do cable companies 'extract' their profit?
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> people shouldn’t be reaching for Hadoop when Postgres would suffice. Indexes are fast. Use them. let me try a riskier one: "people should not be reaching for kubernetes when a system administrator would suffice. sysadmins are ch
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I have a more entertaining: "typical google, getting somebody else to give them training data in exchnage for free hosting of some sort"
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> applying intention to evolution is a bad habit I think it boils down to the directionality of time. let me explain applying intention to evolution does mean re-imagining what may have happened, but I put that it's an extremely nat
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they've offshored all safety corncerns to an insurance corporation /joking, but I mean.... it doesn't sound as far fetched as it should
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kindof... not exactly back in the day, reddit was really like that, then digg collapsed after getting redesigned and then reddit started to dilute. that's when r/truereddit and later r/truetruereddit happened. but this is his
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I wonder how many USB storage devices have had their firmware infected without anybody ever even knowing about it like SD cards and other sorts of storage devices with embedded microcomputers; why storage? for a huge binary payload for the
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but so many things work like this: "global south" countries, i.e. former eruopean colonies have resources that get shipped to the industrialized north, things get industrially transformed and then sold back to the resource origina
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numbers have all of mathematics as a background which is what makes it so easy to design apis for them graphs are a much newer development, I think there's a very deep connection between category theory and graphs in general (and also
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the programable part of the machine, the tracks themselves are comparable to a midi file I think part of the point of this project is to avoid electronics and digital tech in the final machine. personally I think it's what makes it so
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it's from 40 hours a week, down to 32, then to 30. doing both means a 24 hour work week...
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I prefer a 6 hour workday 5 days a week but I'll take a 4 day workweek (I assume 8 hours a day)
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i'm pretty sure apple would and could sue you if you do that. but it really depends on how much attention you get gotta keep an eye on the nintendo emulator lawsuit.... the war on general purpose computation carries on
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meaning that in practice we would have to fundamentally tweak how capitalism (maybe?) works somehow in the mean time keep paying taxes, rent, subscription, and utility bills. i'm not even sure it's capitalism that needs to get mod
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it's different from a company defending itself in court if only because a court is a judiciry power affair whereas lobbying congress interacts not with the judiciary branch of government but with the legislative
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we gotta redraw the relationships between government, people, THE people, and business/corporations which behave like people but aren't actually individuals all as part of a renegiotiation of what "the public" actually m
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> How so? network effects
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i'm pointing at how this is an issue between corporations exerting their rights and individual users exerting theirs but you divert the focus towards the technicalities of specific rights further, this is not about "press", s
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the free speech rights of giant companies VERSUS the free speech rights of the users of the products of them giant corporations the plot twist is how the figurative judge presiding over this contest is the literal will to the power of dicta
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if ants were mammals they would be humans equivalently if humans were insects we would be ants
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I cannot let me get tired of repeating this: the underlying fundamental problem is that capitalism does not play nice with digital assets. an AI model is a very valuable digital asset right now, so there's a covert war being fought ove
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so it's a variation of the overall idea of nagware I believe the real problem is larger than computers and technology. capitalism just doesn't play well with digital assets which have effectively 0 distribution costs

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