Kattywumpus

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by Kattywumpus 1mo ago
I don't know. Upvotes often do the same thing, especially in siloed communities. I feel like this is a larger problem -- people leaning into extremifying their views or just playing to an audience -- even though one might frame it as &
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by Kattywumpus 4mo ago
One analogy might be to the misleadingly named motion picture. We all have heard the stories of early cinema-goers who dove out of the way when the train on the screen barreled towards them. It's easy to make the mistake of thinking of
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by Kattywumpus 4mo ago
To be fair, it doesn't sound like anyone is literally judging this person for his moral stance -- it sounds like he is judging others for not sharing his morals. They're not making him an outcast; he is literally casting others ou
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by Kattywumpus 2y ago
Interesting, especially because GPT-4o still can't tell you how many R's there are in "strawberry".
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by Kattywumpus 5y ago
Aliens Can Watch ‘I Love Lucy’: https://www.lscheffer.com/tv.pdf
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by Kattywumpus 5y ago
I was just re-watching "Westworld" recently, and there's a moment when Aaron Paul's character Caleb is having a telephone conversation with a sympathetic HR employee who tells him that he didn't get the job. "L
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by Kattywumpus 5y ago
Let's just do away with the justice system entirely since social media seems to fulfill its functions perfectly.
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
As I pointed out above, this is really 20th century thinking. Social media allows for a kind of mob behavior that has shown itself antithetical to the kind of market liberalism most of our current assumptions are based on. Or did you not no
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
We really need a better vocabulary for talking about this sort of thing than the 20th century terms of fascism, communism, and liberalism. I don't have the words yet, but we need to start inventing them. We are in a new era, and our di
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
> For God's sake, is this where we're headed? Just ban anything that sounds offensive? Headed?
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
If Trump and the Republicans confirm a new Justice, Democrats have indicated they will pack the Supreme Court, appointing as many Justices as they feel necessary to get the rulings they want. "If they show that they're unwilling t
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
I think about this a lot. We are the first people in human history to see the planets up close, so to speak. For thousands of years, humans stared up at the sky and watched these luminous dots change position over time. They made up stories
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
> I don't want to be part of a machinery that spreads misinformation and conspiracy theories. You're swearing off the internet entirely?
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
> We don't store any of the images uploaded or generated. Once the toonification has finished running no images are kept on our systems. I imagine this is all in good fun, but this disclaimer doesn't rule out data being deriv
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
I want to thank you for linking to the articles, even if you disagree with him. Calling an observation "offensive" and punishing someone for making it, is not refuting it, or even addressing it. America's tradition has always
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
This should be horrifying to any sane human, but we live in a time of great insanity, and much of what ought to be criticized passes by unremarked in plain sight. > Ubuntu asserts that society, not a transcendent being, gives human being
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by Kattywumpus 6y ago
I imagine others are thinking about this, too. I feel as if we are headed towards either an era of radically secured code where serious vulnerabilities become rare as hen's teeth, or... the discovery that we exist in an environment of
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by Kattywumpus 7y ago
I'm going to remember this. It's a good way to have discussion if you're lucky enough to have someone who can abstract their personal views from the model that produced them.
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by Kattywumpus 8y ago
Makes me wonder what a similar mod would do for video shot on a Fisher-Price PXL-2000: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pxl-2000
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by Kattywumpus 8y ago
I will cite this as "Hliyan's Law" from now on.
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
Whenever I read about this experiment, I think about Theodore Sturgeon's "Microcosmic God", and experience a moment of profound disappointment: https://tinyurl.com/microcosmicgod I won't spoil it for you
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
No. I'm saying that your face is more public than your fingerprint, and that makes your phone less secure. That's not my primary reason for being against FaceID, but it's an obvious truth that Apple has engaged in a lot of mi
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
> FaceID doesn't "take images of your face and environment" though. From "How Apple's New FaceID Works" at Gizmodo: "Face ID starts with an image of your face, but builds on top of it with the TrueDepth
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
I do not want FaceID, and will resist it as long as possible. I do not want to normalize the idea that security should depend on a camera taking images of my face and environment. I am not alone in this, and believe this is one reason the i
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
There is something ugly about this piece, about the idea that you can see into someone's soul and just know that they'd be a Nazi if they could. To be honest, the tone of it reminds me of the stereotypical pre-Anschluss German who
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
> "Hitler did nothing wrong" went from a provocative joke to a political statement. I'm sort of fascinated by the phenomenon, which I think of as "LOLgical argument". You start off with a joke where the humor is
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
I've never understood why GridCoin hasn't caught on yet. One of the chief complaints about Bitcoin is the utter wastefulness of its hashing mechanisms, with hundreds of times more computing power than the top 256 supercomputers c
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/sci/tech/401227.stm
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
No more Private Tabs.
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by Kattywumpus 9y ago
The interesting question is teasing out why the correlation occurs at all.

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