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by yyyk 3y ago
Is there anything at all that could disprove Chomsky using your definition? And does Chomsky rise beyond the level of trivialness using this definition ('humans can learn language and have some specializations in the form of neurons to
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by yyyk 3y ago
LibreOffice can accomplish most office tasks. How much moat do Office and GSuite have? Moats are less than 50% tech advantages, and way more than 50% user/product/ecosystem/API integrations. Even if the self-proclaimed '
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by yyyk 3y ago
>It descended into me arguing with the machine over whether or not 2b even existed. Sounds like ChatGPT can already obsolete the tax office.
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by yyyk 3y ago
Hmm, we need something a bit more deniable. "I swear this essay is free of AI generated content or plagiarism. Every analysis that indicates otherwise is a lie, and every dumb AI that indicates otherwise must be deleted."
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by yyyk 3y ago
>You're happy to join in trying to close down the thread by dumping on the losers, why would you stop at arguing about it? Because a few of the arguments basically devolve to things that would affect me as explained above? I did get
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by yyyk 3y ago
>See? You have nothing better to say about it than "you simply lost, ha ha" Why would I argue about that? I'm not British. I don't make their decisions, and UK being/not-being in EU has zero effect on me. Deval
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by yyyk 3y ago
A pity we can't downvote a submission. I won't flag since it's not against the rules, nor has the submitter any fault - it's just that the article simply has contempt for the reader.
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by yyyk 3y ago
The UK had 3 different votes on this (the original referendum + 2 elections after), the UK government promised to follow the referendum again and again, and having a poor policy is hardly 'killing everyone'. When push comes to sho
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by yyyk 3y ago
This shows the difference between physics and drama. Physics tells us nothing much happened. Drama tells us they survived, they evolved, and are just waiting for their water-thirsty revenge...
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by yyyk 3y ago
DisplayPort is royalty-free while HDMI charges licensing per unit. Additionally, Intel strongly supported DP so many boards came with support even if there was nothing to connect it to, and Intel ensured support in USB specs. Eventually eno
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by yyyk 3y ago
At which point the prison service will be responsible for bugs/unimplemented features/support. Often, simply offloading responsibility is worth a lot bureaucratically even if features would be technically identical.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>I only need real navigation on holiday and I'm pretty sure not taking some expensive pocket computer on travel. Neither when hiking nor in a foreign country. I just print out the directions from MapQuest. K.I.S.S. This is actually
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by yyyk 3y ago
If you wish require some users to install an interpreter, you might as well go for Korn or a real programming language. If you want to use something that's portable and installed everywhere, that's POSIX sh (or at most dash-like l
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by yyyk 3y ago
These are common enough bit of nonsense slung by the degrowth movement. A 1% economic growth does not at all correspond to 1% increase in resource use. Saying that something can't go on forever is an irrelevant non-argument (just abo
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by yyyk 3y ago
True that. But I won't give Apple credit for products we can't see or assume good performance without proof. As they say in the movies: "Show me the money". I'll say though that no multibillion company is under exis
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by yyyk 3y ago
OpenAI has plenty of moats if it looks for them. The trick is that companies' moats against commoditization (open source or not) usually have little to do with raw performance. Linux could in theory do everything Mac or Windows do, but
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by yyyk 3y ago
>The mainstream media cartel is pumping Sam Altman hard for some reason. The media likes to personalize stories. Altman is a face for AI and apparently knows to give an interview, that's worth something to them. (Lobbying may well b
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by yyyk 3y ago
When people talk about AI they mean the new tech like LLM or Diffusion, and the only relevant Apple offering (Siri) is way behind and there's no evidence they have anything to replace it. (Aside, their image manipulation and Map is wor
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by yyyk 3y ago
>They are in the unique position to enable local AI tools The only unique Apple thing here is how bad their AI products here and how behind they are in AI. This is the only thing that matters here - performance is adequate or better for
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by yyyk 3y ago
When the alternative is Azure Devops...
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by yyyk 3y ago
The BSDs support ext2fs in kernel, that should work. FAT would work too of course.
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by yyyk 3y ago
>I can easily imagine it having no understanding of "what humans want/need". There are many examples of human needs in the current dataset; and we usually state our wants rather explicitly. It would be some AGI that starts
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by yyyk 3y ago
The idiomatic and library-supported way to make a Java web application was to make a richer interface using Java itself. Why reinvent the wheel to make a HTML interface, only to incur a performance penalty? EDIT: Java applets failed because
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by yyyk 3y ago
>The other was headless and you had access to the DOM. Why no one built interesting applications with the latter is beyond me. Frameworks, HTML5 or even DHTML/AJAX didn't exist at the time. If you were already paying the cost o
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by yyyk 3y ago
>It might have some associations with "human", just as it has some associations "lamp" is a concept, but that doesn't mean it has any particular regard for either humans or lamps when taking actions. Let's b
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by yyyk 3y ago
>>>Alignment just means "getting AI to have any concept of 'the thing we told it to do'. >>That's a requirement for AGI anyway, >No, that's a requirement for AGI that does what humans want it to do
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by yyyk 3y ago
I searched and found the slide: https://msrndcdn360.blob.core.windows.net/bluehat/bluehatil/... (Pages 20-22). Oh dear.
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by yyyk 3y ago
In the Lancet 's case, it has always been politics. For example, the Iraq war study they published was utter bunk on multiple levels***, and a normal review would have caught that. The politics is often defencible or at least debatabl
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by yyyk 3y ago
>As always, he has a right to his political opinions like everyone else; the issue is that a prestigious scientific journal is used to push culture war politics. This is the Lancet , there's a long history of the Lancet being lax
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by yyyk 3y ago
There's mokutil to add your own key.

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