ClumsyPilot

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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
Well it’s now illegal to make cars that don’t spy on you https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Properly_Paranoid
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
There are situations where you don’t care about government spying but care about random criminals And there are situations that are the opposite
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
That was suppose to be a reductio ad absurdum, not a genuine argument
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> If people really cared, they’d choose browsers that have better control If people really cared, they’d chose reputable suppliers that sell non toxic food. If they are eating food with lead, they don’t care. Don’t force your wordview on
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
Nukes are the only thing keeping corrupt ruling class and their ambitions in check. On either side of ideological divide. It’s the only weapon that’s going to hit them along with the foot soldiers
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
Does this sentence have any meaning at all? There are 30 Active military conflicts right now.
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> The main actors threatening (and delivering) a hot war are China China is actually the adult in the room. Since 1979, 45 years ago, China has not dropped a single bomb on foreign land. That’s two generations peace. In that timeframe, U
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
That’s fine too, in that case Open Weight models made by China are doing humanity a favour
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
Has anyone had any luck in writing drivers using LLMs? It’s one of those areas of software that is very niche and no one wants to do it. And it’s also relatively testable
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> we have to speak of the policy of the Chinese government as the policy of China This does not even have meaning in English. Policy of US government is not policy of US? When Trump decided to bomb Iran it was just a suggestion?
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> They want to… watch the US AI labs crash and burn. I don’t think dozens of large independent companies and thousands of researchers are working just to spite Sam Altman. Ad much as I don’t like him, I have other things to do and I am s
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> You can't rely on asking the customer It’s not even been five years of AI, and we’ve already arrived at the point where the human is wrong and the AI is right. Mind you this is in an area where the benchmark is the opinion of the
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
There is too much fantasy about distant habitable planet and not enough about making a planet in solar system habitable or building artificial habitats The second is likely easier than the first
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
Platform must be the most abused word ever Apparently, everyone is building the platform all the time, even when it’s just a user facing application
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
Nice to meet a fellow appreciated of the French revolution. There aren’t many of us these days.
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> They were arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and taken into custody He was arrested, jailed, tried and convicted. He was not imprisoned , which I did not say he was. The only thing I misremembered is the age. The actual c
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> value. All billionaires could be instantly broke if the general public decided they were broke. Are we taking about abolishing the fiat currency system or bringing back the guillotines ?
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> But what we really need is a massive boycott Is it? What’s the most effective boycott you can think of ever achieved?
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> This is ultimately a failing of democracy itself. This stuff was legal Nah, it’s corruption the CEO of the company that forged fire safety documents was given legal immunity.
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> A large part of this is life coming at parents faster than they can keep up, let alone stay one season ahead of their childs growth. The amount of administrative tasks, bureaucracy and complexity an adult, let alone a parent, has to na
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> Except social media as a concept isn’t the issue Are you sure about that? So far the negatives vastly outweigh the positives. Imagine a statement: > as a concept there isn’t an issue with a social credit score / great firewall
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
Why are we conflating having a camera with social media that is addictive?
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
We imprisoned kids for making an offensive video of a burning cardboard xopy of grenfell tower But we gave legal immunity to the corporate executives that forged fire testing certificates and caused the actual fire that killed over 100 peop
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
I would not assume that. Because British government has just made leaseholders of apartments liable for costs of fixing forged and fraudulently obtained fire safety certification of apartment blocks. The manufacturers of cladding materials
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> The collateral is effectively a claim on the person's future earnings Back in the Russian empire a person could buy themselves out of serfdom if they could come up with the money… which was difficult for obvious reasons. And this
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> We don't, particularly in the west, have the skills, shops/craftsmen, or access to resources It’s worse than that, most consumers don’t even know what good looks like any more. We are much more restricted and maybe lower vari
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> Crimes are crimes and must be prosecuted as such. That would be nice but that is not the current situation, neither my stolen bicycle nor the fraud that caused 2008 had resulted in any arrests. Until such time that all crimes are crime
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> that doesn’t mean they actually had any legal responsibility to lock him out If the property owner doesn’t make bare minimum effort to protect the property Then how much effort and money should taxpayer spend to protect and prosecute r
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> You get trustworthy people by trusting people Huh? Do FBI/CIA/etc run that way?
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by ClumsyPilot 2mo ago
> Producing something novel and valuable is HARD I disagree, producing something valuable is common, and it’s common for scientists / inventors / artists / composers to die poor. Selling, Capturing the value, and building

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