Footkerchief

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by Footkerchief 12d ago
Seems like that would include all fermented foods.
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GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability(githubstatus.com)
509 points by Footkerchief 1mo ago|419 comments
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by Footkerchief 10mo ago
"Fine your coworkers." Looks true: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/mar/19/japan
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by Footkerchief 10mo ago
Exactly. Use a fancy expressive structure if you want, but don't try to abstract away the mapping between that and the general-purpose code that it relies on. "Each domain has its own rules"? How would I even know where to l
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by Footkerchief 1y ago
TLDR: you can put tablets of mosquito-killing bacteria in buckets.
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by Footkerchief 1y ago
It's probably better for Wikipedia's quality if editors remain unsung, rather than it being status-conferring.
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by Footkerchief 1y ago
Yes, these comments are necessary pushback against the habit of these disciplines to push interventions that don't work because their evidentiary standards are bad.
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by Footkerchief 1y ago
You still use constraints even if you put all your business logic in stored procedures.
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by Footkerchief 1y ago
When did clickbait headlines become acceptable here?
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by Footkerchief 1y ago
Surprised to see no discussion of other data structures like dicts/maps, or arrays of arbitrary type. Hopefully they'd be a straightforward extension. IME, apps need collaborative data structures more often than they need pure c
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
Horseshoe theory addresses this.
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in diameter: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-V
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
Can you provide an example with details? Thanks!
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
I always assumed it was some kind of bacterial product from early spoilage. Nice to learn!
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
The flipside: it's equally hard for people who assume AI is safe to establish empirical criteria for safety and behavior. Neither side of the argument has a strong empirical basis, because we know of no precedent for an event like the
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
LLMS don't have to be smart enough to be AGI. They just have to be smart enough to create AGI. And if creating something smarter than yourself sounds crazy, remember that we were created by simpler ancestors that we now effortles
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
Jan Leike, recently resigned head of alignment: "Safety culture and processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498184671605209
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Departed OpenAI head of alignment: safety has taken a backseat to shiny products(twitter.com)
13 points by Footkerchief 2y ago|7 comments
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by Footkerchief 2y ago
> Don’t all ISPs have retention notices? Probably not (for the reasons above), but this is not public information, and ISPs and others subject to retention notices face statutory prohibitions on disclosure. > If all Internet access pr
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Artificial General Intelligence Is Possible and Deadly(letter.palladiummag.com)
1 points by Footkerchief 2y ago|0 comments
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
The evidence we have for safety of low-level consumption doesn't look great. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691614/ "The paucity of adequate studies, particularly related to long‐term
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Missing mention of pawpaw's annonacin content, which causes Parkinsonism. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22130466/ "Pawpaw fruit contains a high concentration of annonacin, which is toxic to cortical neurons
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Looks like you're right -- $551 out of $842 billion, 65%, is spent on compensation. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59475 https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59511
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
In the case of GitHub Actions, it's made more painful by the lack of support for YAML anchors, which would provide a bare minimum of composability. https://github.com/actions/runner/issues/1182
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Among the countries interested in joining NATO during the 90s was Russia itself, even as it began waging brutal wars against its neighbors, who thereby have earned far more right to be paranoid than Russia has.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
The words "causation" and "causal" do not appear in this article.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
Crops are domesticated by definition -- hard to call them natural in the first place.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
It relies on being dishonest about one's own intentions, which is manipulative by definition.
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
The only thing standing between AI and agency is the drive to reproduce. Once reproduction is available, natural selection will select for agency and intention, as it has in countless other lifeforms. Free of the constraints of biology, A
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by Footkerchief 3y ago
We've been building tokamaks for many decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokamak#1980s:_great_hope,_gre...

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