Anvoker

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by Anvoker 14d ago
I don't want to be uncharitable but the Mt. Everest analogy is not that far away from directly justifying not adding accessibility features in order to satisfy the ego of specific gamers. I agree with you that in some sense it undermin
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by Anvoker 2mo ago
In the era before the advent of mass digital surveillance, it was well understood that there are many different ways to fight crime. Now every time I see this conversation being had, it's treated as if keeping any amount of privacy bey
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by Anvoker 2mo ago
And why not? Law enforcement does not represent supreme justice and good. There are higher moral principles out there. Respect for law enforcement in the absence of justice is a disaster for society. All it does is give cover for bad actors
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by Anvoker 2mo ago
I feel the opposite. It is one of the genuinely competent languages out there, if you're the kind of person that isn't upset about it being a "kitchen sink". Instead, I feel like the ecosystem, community and reputation h
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by Anvoker 3mo ago
This kind of opacity is unacceptably user hostile. It's not okay to treat some amount of developers as acceptable casualties, without them even knowing, in order to help enforce a restriction that only serves Anthropic's interests
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by Anvoker 4mo ago
Because the poor will suffer tremendously if they are ill equipped for the job market. If we want to have education have a strong humanistic focus then we should start by changing society in other places. Or we'll get unemployed and su
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by Anvoker 4mo ago
Unfortunately, framing the problem as this kind of dichotomy is something people are inclined to do because then the problem can be reduced to the unwillingness of the opposing side to face reality. Sometimes the dichotomy is correct, but t
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by Anvoker 5mo ago
What about setting environments for normies that mitigate this problem? I don't know that you can do it on Windows, but Linux offers various tools for isolation where you can give full rights to an LLM and still be safe from certain cl
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by Anvoker 5mo ago
I recall having a conversation with a friend that was angry at this kind of thing sometimes being called "Tail Call Optimization". It's a guarantee that your program won't literally crash by stack overflow if you recurse
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by Anvoker 5mo ago
Trump's second term has had dire consequences for the US that are simply not on the same level as Obama, and it could have been avoided. The democrats are also terrible, but it's a matter of harm reduction. In this case, I would s
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by Anvoker 5mo ago
The fact that the police won't use surveillance data in a way you would consider good and effective does not mean you don't live in a surveillance state. One of the key aspects of police and surveillance states is that the incenti
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by Anvoker 5mo ago
They are a tool like anything else. Exposure and Response Prevention therapy works. You will never get fully well without exposure. However, it requires that you find stimulus of a magnitude that makes you uncomfortable, but doesn't se
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by Anvoker 5mo ago
If you've ever had trauma, especially recent, you'll appreciate well done content warnings. You don't want the dramatic plot twist to happen to be exactly the topic you've been trying to avoid so that you can slowly get
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by Anvoker 6mo ago
Were unions involved in Epic's layoff?
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by Anvoker 6mo ago
Often when I see layoffs like this, I can't help but think "Wow that company has so many employees and yet, in practice, does so little". This perhaps a rather uncharitable sentiment, but I can't help but have it. Yes, U
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by Anvoker 6mo ago
By accepting that valuing the life of a cop over a criminal is a good reason for American cops to behave the way they do, what you end up encouraging instead is cops valuing their own lives over those of citizens to a shocking extent.
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by Anvoker 7mo ago
One issue is that security theater creates demand for itself. Do things that induce worry and a tendency towards paranoia in the more susceptible parts of the population and then you will gradually raise the general alertness of the populat
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by Anvoker 8mo ago
Agreed, and not just engineering quality. The company I've been with for 8 years is on its last legs and massive overhiring has had a huge hand in it. It cost a tremendous amount of money and made management more difficult, reducing th
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by Anvoker 8mo ago
> The second sentence is false. Lots of people blindly follow things and don't understand consequences until they brick their devices. Those who don’t break something won’t notice if they’ve silently backdoored themselves. "Lot
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by Anvoker 1y ago
I felt like outside of bug fixes and QoL improvements, Revision's maps and soundtrack were a downgrade compared to the original. I feel quite strongly about this, but I recognize it's also largely up to taste and it's valid t
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by Anvoker 1y ago
Are you sure that the jankiness you describe is not related to you not being close enough to the enemy for it to count as a point blank hit? The engine does a simple distance check which is rather unforgiving, and if you utilize the range y
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by Anvoker 3y ago
I don't think any amount of ethics education will matter in the end in the face of the incentive structure that appeared in the industry. Strong cultural norms (e.g. hacker culture) might help for a while. But incentive structures eter
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by Anvoker 3y ago
I wonder if you could obtain stimulants and if it would help your particular situation. It's not like ADHD meds are somehow chemically designed to help only with ADHD. They can help with working memory issues and with chronic fatigue l