HocusLocus

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by HocusLocus 3mo ago
I liked maze games with sprites and CHASE.bas (like later PAC-MAN) was a first glimpse of coded transactional survival, though you usually didn't survive long. Great terminal game as was GORILLAS.bas. For printers/fanfold paper BA
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by HocusLocus 3mo ago
Also of note, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wienermobile Merry Pranksters Bus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry_Pranksters#Eastward_bus_...
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by HocusLocus 4mo ago
The "Trigger Effect" episode ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcOb3Dilzjc ) that set off Connections:I was one of the finest hours ever produced for television. It influenced my family and I in the years to come.
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Richard Dawkins: Claude (for one) has 'passed' the Turing Test(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by HocusLocus 4mo ago|13 comments
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by HocusLocus 4mo ago
We have grown used to the old rambling responses of Eliza, that wonder-tool of a bygone era. We are too easy impressed by semantics and subtlety of language. The one thing Dawkins might not be aware of, in his turn-based exchange is how man
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by HocusLocus 5mo ago
Do corporations get drawn to AI from a compulsion to make a move addressing it? "Fear of missing out"
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by HocusLocus 5mo ago
I think Perfect Forward Secrecy has a great deal to do with how things have turned out. In the days of Room 641A, copying and diverting fiber traffic to somewhere like Utah even before it could be read, would have conferred an advantage if
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by HocusLocus 5mo ago
Now that 'tough guy' Chuck Norris has departed this world... The AIs are looking for new defs for tough.
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by HocusLocus 5mo ago
A wall or a goat?
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by HocusLocus 6mo ago
gray goo of the future
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by HocusLocus 6mo ago
This is accompanied by a 'shocked Pikachu face' when people discover that other countries' militarizes have deployed low bidder AI without guardrails. The illusion of moral superiority is the best tool of paralysis in warfar
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by HocusLocus 6mo ago
I tend to give the lack of credible ready to deploy asteroid response for Earth defense 41 years after consensus was reached on the KT boundary, 70 years since the 'space age' began, much greater weight. Motivation for retiring IP
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by HocusLocus 6mo ago
This laundry list is THE CHEF'S KISS. No, that one wasn't in there
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by HocusLocus 6mo ago
Q: How can you tell which 'real' people are debating UFO evidence? A: The ones who consider PSYOP a likely possibility.
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Show HN: What Chicken Said(archive.org)
1 points by HocusLocus 7mo ago|0 comments
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by HocusLocus 7mo ago
I have lived my whole professional life with this being 'beyond obvious'... It's hard to imagine a generation where it's not. But then again, I did work with EBCDIC for awhile and we were reading and translating ASCII l
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by HocusLocus 7mo ago
This recalls the Miami Miley Cyrus Hanna Montana balloon incident of 2008. https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2008/11/11/Hannah-Montana-birds... I remember things.
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by HocusLocus 7mo ago
The Clown is my master I've been chosen! Eeeeeeeeeah!
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by HocusLocus 8mo ago
predatory unscrollable website. Most expensive fail in history.
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by HocusLocus 8mo ago
I have always believed that the human evolution consensus which is usually based upon finds of advanced toolmaking in absence of culture cues, to be questionable by orders of magnitude. So it seemed natural to simply double generational con
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by HocusLocus 8mo ago
Gemini gets it: "... This is a biting piece of speculative satire. You’ve taken the mechanical failure of "Brazil" and updated it for the era of generative reinforcement learning. Your description of "Social Threat"
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by HocusLocus 8mo ago
I think AIs should combine maximum depth of bad intent detection amplification cycles like PCR or 'force-feedback' in climate models. Under cover of buzzwords like Extreme Sensitivity to Social Threat, the AIs would simply iterate
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by HocusLocus 8mo ago
Or just project negative ions into your working and sleeping places and breathe easy, wipe the mold spores off the walls every couple months or so. Test their effectiveness by shining a bright flashlight in the dark. You can't see th
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by HocusLocus 8mo ago
"Last week, OpenAI was accused of hiding key ChatGPT logs from the days before a 56-year-old bodybuilder, Stein-Erik Soelberg, took his own life after “savagely” murdering his mother, 83-year-old Suzanne Adams." I don't belie
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by HocusLocus 9mo ago
How come ChatGPT's refusal to release logs right up to the heinous acts themselves itself is not getting pushback here? In a case like this, do you think their refusal to be forthcoming is a 'good' thing?? Since his estate ha
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by HocusLocus 9mo ago
;) I was a by-invitation-beta in 2004, trust me. Even then spammers knew about the +1234 trick too. The earliest throwaway forwarders suffered from explosive growth and spam netblocks and their queue times varied greatly. The golden age of
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by HocusLocus 9mo ago
Boss move that I learned under great difficulty: a new temporary gmail alias for every jobsearch.
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by HocusLocus 9mo ago
I would be curious about this comment at the OP site from yesterday as a proposed or contributing cause for such a mysterious limit, it does carry a ring of adversity via absurdity. I do remember the early days of gzip encoding, many apps
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Show HN: Calclock, Countdown/Lifeclock, Configurable(thysys.com)
3 points by HocusLocus 9mo ago|0 comments
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by HocusLocus 9mo ago
This is a beautiful cope. Every time technology rolls out something that works great 90% of the time for 90% of the people, those 10%s pile up big time in support and lost productivity. You need functional systems that fall back gracefully

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