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Towards Understanding Subliminal Learning: When and How Hidden Biases Transfer(openreview.net)
4 points by yubblegum 5mo ago|0 comments
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HG Wells Interviews Stalin (1934)(newstatesman.com)
3 points by yubblegum 5mo ago|0 comments
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
> Since when have we considered ads something helpful? They are not. The utility of companies advertising their products can be trivially served with dedicated 'advertising' channels without enabling stealth surveillance by big
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
Seriously, I just skimmed that LA Times article and wondering why isn't HN discussing this claim made by her? quote: "She further alleged that Schmidt had built a “backdoor” to Google servers with a team of company engineers that
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
I just tried brave search: -- The name of the young humpback whale that made headlines for swimming into Pillar Point Harbor in Half Moon Bay in September 2024 is Teresa T. While the whale was not officially named by government agencies, t
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
> Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE That's just social media. Wait until CBDCs are rolled out globally and we'll what else can get blocked.
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
> Designed to anticipate your intent, it also helps you formulate your question with AI-powered suggestions that go beyond autocomplete. The first red flag for me. The +/- of this type of feature are well worth exploring.
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
> "Radios aren't animals. And anyone pretending otherwise is a ginormous silly billy." The results presented to the scientific community of the island was that the "mechanisms" are "thinking machines".
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
I don't think the insistence on the requirement of 'hard disconnect' is reasonable. Per the brain as transceiver analogy, you are jiggling a part and may get 'static' while you are doing it. Stop the jiggling and st
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
There is no problem here. [I may have shared this thought experiment before here using a different handle.] Let us assume there exists in our planet an undiscovered island that has developed independent of other human societies. This is not
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
My god that tv website is chockful of javascript from all over. If you wish to avoid it: https://nitter.net/search?f=tweets&q=mountain+home+air
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
I was looking at that building interior and the (faux) leather seats built into the concrete that surrounds the sunken waiting area, and it got me thinking about perception and how much of our reality is a sort of mind game we engage in. Ba
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by yubblegum 5mo ago
> There will be two classes That confident "will" in that prognosis may ultimately stimulate a consensus "why?" response in the population to explore alternative outcomes ..
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
It's wonderful. Thank you for building this.
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
> Although that link doesn't actually have the picture of it today ?? Works for me. It's the second pic right after the 1848 one. See "The same place today:" The chocolate factory is the building right after the white
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
> Humans aren’t any better We're different. People have fairly consistent faults. LLMs are nondeterministic even in terms of how they fail. A high value human resource can be counted on to deliver. That, imho, is in fact one of the
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
Any French sleuths in the house that can geolocate that street? There is partial visibility of the signage for a chocolate factory. (Just curious.) p.s. AI assisted search to the rescue: "The factory visible in the photo was located in
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
that + NoScript. That latter is a must for me.
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
> According to the complaint, Google alerted the man about the request on February 9, despite an ask included in the summons “not to disclose the existence of this summons for an indefinite period of time.” Which means this sort of heads
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
Had to look that up: Putt's Law: "Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand." I suggest that this law
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
It is designed to undermine any future disputes regarding IP and their "AI" being trained on our mind products.
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
Give me a break. This was already happening with Web 2.0 and things like "microservices".
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
> OPEC is a cartel of Arab oil-producing countries "In 1949, Venezuela initiated the move towards the establishment of what would become OPEC, by inviting Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia" ...
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
At this point I must assume the expertise to troll exceeds that of secure systems' design.
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After 16 years and $8B the military's new GPS software still doesn't work(arstechnica.com)
17 points by yubblegum 6mo ago|1 comments
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
Then the headline would be French goverment loses encryption keys ..
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
TIL about isopod "nuptial rides". These may go for "many days". Yes, other males may try and dislodge so riders beware. In sum, nature can be vulgar and very few species get a break when it comes to love life.
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
This shit should be stored encrypted not in plaintext.
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
lol, yes :)
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by yubblegum 6mo ago
Oddly enough was watching Colossus: The Forbin Project . One of those mid 70s scifi flicks. At some point, their AI demanded that its creator be under 24/7 audio-visiual surveillance (including bathroom time, yes). https://

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