Lerc

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by Lerc 4d ago
The problem that I see with most P(doom) scenarios proposed seem to include the same set of presumptions that, if true, quite likely doom us anyway. I do not think they are true but I find it amazing that people not so much disagree, but s
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by Lerc 5d ago
If only we could put all new stories into a single feed and have some sort of mechanism to determine what the community considers interesting.
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by Lerc 6d ago
If everything the AI companies are saying is true, we'll all be living in a utopia while simultaneously annihilated by a rogue AI. It will be pretty, but rather quiet.
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by Lerc 6d ago
Their claim is that training on their solution is "unlikely but possible". Consider this scenario. Has a google crawler read my new novel, which I may or may not have posted on my blog, page by page, as I wrote it? Can you, witho
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by Lerc 6d ago
1.1^5 is a 10 percent increase compounded 5 times.
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by Lerc 6d ago
>At 2021-03 prices these four cost $1,150.92 a year. Today the same nine cost $1,852.92 Is that number really correct? It seems remarkably coincidental how close $1,852.92 is to $1,150.92 * 1.10^5 ($1,853.56) It's pretty much a matc
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by Lerc 9d ago
Running simulations isn't just about parallelism, cost, or performance. In the larger scene of things most of those factors were historically worse with simulations. You run simulations because it would be reckless to try something th
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by Lerc 9d ago
It's not about being a luddite. In many respects I consider it the opposite. It's engaging with technology in a way that demands standards of behaviour and performance. I don't want the new thing because it is the new thing
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by Lerc 9d ago
I had a similar experience regarding Facebook. People would always remark that they thought someone who knew about tech would surely have an account. People don't say that so much anymore. It's worth remembering that for all the
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by Lerc 10d ago
Get thee to https://beta.dwitter.net Also https://github.com/nanochess And then if you really want to go large https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/09/q1k3-making-of I still have a soft
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by Lerc 11d ago
How can you tell if people can accurately identify AI generated text? If a person reads AI generated text and does not notice, they by definition will not know about it. There have been numerous cases of people accessing human created conte
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by Lerc 11d ago
Notably Oman, and Iran border seperate bodies of water. That would make things a lot simpler. [Edit, I stand corrected, there's a little bit that goes up to Iran and nips off a corner)]
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by Lerc 12d ago
Berne convention countries plus a few more I guess, Maybe not Eritrea or Kosovo?
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by Lerc 13d ago
Well it's hard to name them because the names keep changing. There's a few that are just going for random letters, and simonw's stalker seems to pick a new name for the moment, but isn't really dedicated enough to match
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by Lerc 13d ago
You can do that legally as long as you do not confuse people that what you create might be an actual Disney product, or that you try to represent it as actually created by Disney. Both of those are protected by law. Learning from a Disney
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by Lerc 13d ago
>But from a social signalling perspective the price makes sense, it’s a way to show that you have lots of money. I think it's not purely an outward facing signalling. I remember attending a lecture by a former Apple designer on desi
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by Lerc 13d ago
On the topic of the sibling reply to this. There are quite a few new accounts that immediately go on attack on a few topics and individuals. I don't suppose you have any numbers of the ratio of IP addresses to attack accounts?
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by Lerc 13d ago
Can you offer any evidence that it is any less accurate than a page hand crafted by a human? I thought it provided an interesting tool for people to put things into perspective.
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by Lerc 13d ago
Did the original owners of the books no longer have them in their possession afterwards? Theft involves removing from the source, Copyright violation is distributing copies without a legal right to do so. Training is fair use. The judge f
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by Lerc 13d ago
Just my luck. 503CE, dead at six months from smallpox.
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by Lerc 13d ago
Have you been following the videos on Youtube of the Amiga port of Sonic? Their approach to replicating the behaviour is to run the original game logic. The display has to be totally rewritten but they had the advantage of 68k for both mac
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by Lerc 13d ago
There are a few instructions that are functionally equivalent. It is possible that one of the assemblers has the ability to auto convert equivalent behaviour instructions into smaller instructions that do the exactly the same thing. That
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by Lerc 14d ago
No, spectre is based upon speculative execution of code generated by another party. The breach is from the protection stopping that code from doing anything bad. Speculatve execution making things faster by varying amounts is used to turn
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by Lerc 14d ago
My aphantasia says your milage may vary on that. On the other hand I deal with higher dimensions better than most, possibly because of my aphantasia.
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by Lerc 14d ago
It certainly comes across as disrespectful. To my reading the nature of supervision creating the structure seems to be the core of the argument.
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by Lerc 15d ago
That is not a given. I have earned a living from created works of authorship. I think copyright suppresses creation and does very little to support creators in general. It has enabled businesses to choose a few winning creators that reap t
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by Lerc 16d ago
If you can't say when something will happen you are just playing with statistics on another domain. Seems like this chaps problem was that the actions were based upon a different hypothesis than the one he stated. X will cause Y by th
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by Lerc 16d ago
It is not my field, but a quick search suggests that LibraryThing is a candidate.
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by Lerc 16d ago
Which also did not seem to me to be AI generated. I read that one to the end and it seemed coherent enoght. The writer has been writing articles on books going back to 2017 at least.
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by Lerc 17d ago
I get the impression that analogies like this are trying to disguise a moral judgement as a practical one. It's clearly absurd to abandon GC languages or to require everyone who uses one to learn assembly. Yes, it could be beneficial

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