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by zmgsabst 5mo ago
There is no way in which opening external control is more secure than local-only control. What is this FUD?
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by zmgsabst 5mo ago
No — regular people use QR codes all the time. Point your phone at the QR sticker on the router, click open, boom you’re on the config page! That’s a faster experience, doesn’t require any searching, doesn’t require wondering if you downloa
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by zmgsabst 5mo ago
Also, if all you have is a dual model, then it’s equally accurate to say entanglement arises from spacetime. Eg, this article describes entanglement giving rise to wormholes, but the model equally says wormholes give rise to entanglement. T
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by zmgsabst 5mo ago
> I can easily construct something that shows the U.S does pay more for science and education than it does for military, but only by being IMHO somewhat misleading, for example by throwing K-12 spending together with the higher education
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by zmgsabst 5mo ago
The $9B figure is total amortized to yearly: research, development, production, and maintenance across the near century of lifetime (1990s-2080s). I took the total number of graduate students, to spread the money across them. We could also
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by zmgsabst 5mo ago
I’m sure this has nothing to do with 3.1 million graduate students versus 500 F-35s. For actual context, F-35 program receives $9B per year (amortized over lifetime), which is $3000 per year per graduate student. Erasing the F-35 program en
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
I use HTTPS because it makes my packets “more retarded” than the HTTP version of those packets to anybody without the session key to decrypt the “retarded nonsense”. That’s literally the whole point of encryption: Your message becomes unint
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
But… it did do that. > that it would, to a large extent supersede the necessity of large armies, and consequently, exposure to battle and disease [would] be greatly diminished. Our force structure shifted towards logistics and infrastruc
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Or that those “nonsense” phrases are not actually nonsense when spoken by a manager. The conclusion they’re nonsense comes from the random generation and the technical perspective on semantics; but it’s entirely possible they’re generating
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
In exactly the sense my HTTPS packets are semantically emptier than my HTTP packets.
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
nVidia is sitting on a huge pile of cash, ie, they’re not constrained by resources — hence the framing as a choice.
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
That’s exactly my point: HN is a place where people don’t ask what is true with intellectual curiosity but classify opinions as “problematic” and justify bullying people based on that. HN becomes emotionally upset if you discuss actuarial t
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
It was already going downhill a decade ago, eg, using bad think on video games. But my personal experience is something snapped in a lot of people during COVID when people asked reasonable questions like — “is an experimental gene therapy r
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
“I wouldn’t pick up $20 if there was $100 on the ground!” Most people would pick up both. These economic proclamations don’t seem to make sense, when applied to different contexts — which suggests what you’re saying might be folk wisdom rat
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Okay — but did they try to address that, eg, via easy to remember pass phrases? Or were they hacks pushing that complexity nonsense that XKCD called out as midwit math? https://xkcd.com/936/ Passwords are the ultimate
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Okay — but it’s effective: Now the discussion is about how Facebook glasses are offensive and worn by murderous psychos who take creep shots of their neighbors.
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Okay — but if Anthropic is typical banal evil in that regard, why should we believe they didn’t also compromise in other areas? The exact point is that Anthropic is unexceptional and the same as other corporations.
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Your example about malls is actually common in Asia: - Central and Aeon own malls; - Tesco owns multi-story shopping complexes including banking, retail, fast food, etc; - and for that matter, Walmart, Target, Costco, and some grocery store
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
For pasta: you can make it fresh so it only needs 2-3 minutes to cook, boil water in the microwave, and cook the pasta itself in that heated water (ie, on the counter as it cools from boiling). Like making instant ramen, but fresh pasta — t
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Late reply, but it’s not about mind games so much as rhetorical artifacts to actuate the levers of power. When the US issues reports saying the EU is actively working against US values both within the US and globally, that report can be ele
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
The real value is in mixed mode: - Lean supports calling out as a tactic, allowing you to call LLMs or other AI as judges (ie, they return a judgment about a claim) - Lean can combine these judgments from external systems according to forma
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Sure — you just deny those same rights to anyone you deem a “fascist” in a secret report. Much like say, the Stasi would allow you to speak your mind unless you were a capitalist subversive, as clearly documented in your secret trial. Obvio
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Sure — but the UK or EU has to accept the constant rhetoric of “you clearly don’t support free speech, you block freedom.gov” when discussing with the US. I don’t think it’s meant to be a perfect solution; I think it’s meant to be a politic
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Go try the same in a non-Western country and report the comparative experience. Histrionics over normal law enforcement that is tame and well-regulated by global standards is embarrassing — it makes Americans look uneducated and childish.
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
> The community I’m talking about definitely weren’t like secretly building tools for these agencies. I mean this sincerely I have no idea what point you’re making. You knew exactly what point I’m making, because it’s the first thing you
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
I always need to contextualize these numbers: - there are 2.4B under 18 globally - which means 500k is 0.02% of all children - or around 1 in 5000 children globally, per day - if evenly distributed (which is unlikely), then roughly 7-8% of
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
I think it’s a difference in kind, ie, if we return to above[0] and the discussion about “outsourcing our thinking” — then it deeply depends on what we hope to accomplish. That’s what I was originally intending to convey: that people are ac
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Having been in Seattle, I’m not sure there was a time the NSA wasn’t involved with technology — eg, UW hosted meetups between researchers, criminals, and the government at least that long. Who built the Echelon follow-up, proto-dragnet syst
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
I’ve made frameworks that turn a project entirely over to the AI — eg, turn a paragraph summary of what I want into a book on that topic. Obviously I get much less out of that — I’m not denying the tradeoff, just saying that some people ar
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by zmgsabst 8mo ago
Those roles seem to be diverging: - crowdsourced data, eg, photos of airplane crashes - people who live in an area start vlogs - independent correspondents travel there to interview, eg Ukraine or Israel We see that our best war reporting c

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