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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I think they meant hero in the sense of archetype rather than heroic. But I agree with the person suggesting not diluting the word.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Yes — I never argued against VLS cells, but against exclusively VLS cells. I agree with you they’re necessary, including in modern battleships for air defense. What I’m arguing is that the threat generated by that bombardment capability — a
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
You’re holding a double standard, eg, a carrier can’t engage from outside the 1000km+ of modern anti ship missiles either. But that 200km is exactly my point: 120km back from the line of contact means that to hit it with 200km missiles, you
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Helicopters can operate off supply ships, 100km back from the conflict area and ferry munitions to your battleship that’s standing only 20km back. You can also use airdrops from cargo planes, delivery by small boats, or dropping back to mee
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Also the lifecycle of your system, eg, I’ve maintained projects that we no longer actively coded, but we used the tests to ensure that OS security updates, etc didn’t break things.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
You can helicopter shells and propellant onto the deck, then take them below for storage — as loading the guns from their magazines already happens. VLS requires that you reload missile by missile at the place they’re fired from the top, wh
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I’d suspect that an AI CEO would have to complement its weaknesses — just like any CEO. And in this case, rely on subordinates for glad-handing and vision pitches, while itself focusing on coordinating them, staging them to the right meetin
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Sure — but people reasonably distinguish between photos and digital art, with “photo” used to denote the intent to accurately convey rather than artistic expression. We’ve had similar debates about art using miniatures and lens distortions
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I’d suspect the other direction: Police unions get LLMs classified as some kind of cognitive aid, so it becomes discrimination to ban them in school or the workplace.
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
No — providing funding to promote creation and discovery is why those exist; granting a temporary monopoly is the mechanism meant to accomplish that goal. This sounds pedantic, but it’s important to not mistake the means for an end: > To
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
That’s actually a negative: My Docker build generating the byte code saves it to the image, sharing the cost at build time across all image deployments — whereas, building at first execution means that each deployed image instance has to ge
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
There’s a lot of us who think the tension is overblown: My own results show that you need fairly strong theoretical knowledge and practical experience to get the maximal impact — especially for larger synthesis. Which makes sense: to have
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
> There are plenty of non-native English tech enthusiasts writing absolute gems in the most broken English you can imagine! Nobody has ever had trouble distinguishing those from low-quality garbage. Your entire theory about LLMs seems to
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
Well, no. Because authors do two things typically when they use an LLM for editing: - iterate multiple rounds - approve the final edit as their message I can’t do either of those things myself — and your post implicitly assumes there’s unde
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by zmgsabst 10mo ago
I’m inclined to believe always — as the case establishing “state secrets” for national security was actually about covering up negligence. https://www.cato.org/commentary/48-crash-us-hid-behind-natio...
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
So it should be easy to show me, then. Go ahead, be specific. Rather than accuse me of bad faith based on stereotypes.
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Distribution isn’t controlled by elites; half of their meetings are seething about the “problem” people trust podcasts and community information dissemination rather than elite broadcast networks. We no longer live in the age of broadcast m
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
This is my opinion, as well: - elites already engage in mass persuasion, from media consensus to astroturfed thinktanks to controlling grants in academia - total information capacity is capped, ie, people only have so much time and interest
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
We know what the rate of deaths are: 1 in 8000; roughly 40,000 over 320,000,000. Slightly less than the rate of suicide; and slightly more than half the number of fentanyl deaths. And a smaller fraction of medical mistake deaths. (Of course
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Don’t things like Freenet do similar? Except that every user is also a node, thereby mixing their personal traffic into a share of network traffic. Or so I understand it.
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
As many people as were employed as artisans? — are the new jobs on average as good as artisanship? Or so we displace 9/10 workers to worse or no jobs while 1/10 gets a valuable one? My understanding of AI is that it’s likely to re
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
I would argue that yes, there’s no meaningful distinction between Biden and Trump. (And perhaps that Trump is more moral than Biden.) I’d find your argument would be more persuasive if you outlined what you believe Trump had done worse than
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Do you feel the same way about automatic looms displacing crafters, eg, the Luddites?
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
I’ve started using ChatGPT for their take home projects, with only minor edits or refactors myself. If they’re upset I saved a couple hours of tedium, they’re the wrong employer for me. And I’m being an accelerationist hoping the whole thin
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
In my experience, sometimes the job is just to talk and socialize — eg, with sister teams or stakeholders. For my own sanity, I at least try to accurately label those… which is how my calendar usually fills with “1:1”, “coffee”, “sync”, etc
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Actually, Alaska and the West Coast were attacked during the war — but only relatively lightly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu-Go_balloon_b
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
This seems like it’s very prone to selection bias. I don’t think most acquaintances I have would be surprised or cut me off; and indeed, I’ve exchanged comments about passing women with people I’ve only met recently. But that’s why I think
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
> You make it sound like this is a result of the type: "To prove that a coloring exists, I prove that an algorithm that colors the network exists." Which it is not, as far as I understand. This is the crux of the proof, as I un
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
Curry-Howard literally says that a proof your object has a property is equivalent to an algorithm which constructs a corresponding type. I’m not “sprinkling magic powder”, but using the very core of the correspondence: A proof that your net
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by zmgsabst 11mo ago
In this instance, it’s just claiming turf for the political movement in the US that has spent the last century: - inventing scientific racism and (after that was debunked) reinventing other academic pretenses to institutionalize race-base g

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