Perseids

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by Perseids 8d ago
As I've written above, I've found https://ai-2027.com/ to be a compelling description of how this could happen. In my words: If AI gets intelligent enough, it will be incredible useful to connect to real world mac
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by Perseids 8d ago
Let me argue on a technicality first: None of these are extinction level events. If global warming disrupts 99% of all crop production, the remaining 1% is still plenty enough to sustain a stable, if miserable, population. In fact you j
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by Perseids 23d ago
That would be the FernUni Hagen: https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/english/ > The FernUniversität in Hagen is Germany’s only state distance-learning university, and its largest in terms of student numbers. Its flexible d
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by Perseids 28d ago
You're making a good point. I was also of the opinion that these books don't land well, because I'm missing the context. And I'm actually still thinking that about quite a lot of these classics. But what I believe I&#x27
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by Perseids 1mo ago
Hoping to not sound like a broken record, this is why having full ownership of your device and OS is important. My stock Pixel Android recently told me something along the line of "A security policy blocks screenshots for this app. Tal
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by Perseids 1mo ago
> The bike with the torque sensor behaves a lot more like what you're used to from riding a conventional bike I agree, but would like to point out that sometimes this might not be what you want. I had a bike with a front motor and a
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by Perseids 1mo ago
The thing is, I explicitly wanted to not focus on current legality, because I believe this is leading us astray. This is about how we want to shape our society, not about how their actions fit into a legal system that wasn't designed t
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by Perseids 1mo ago
I think they are doing us a disservice by perpetuating this focus on intellectual "property" [1] in regard to AI. The real issue with Anthropic, OpenAI etc. is not that they have used all of our public knowledge for training their
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by Perseids 1mo ago
Adding to my sibling comments: It also has been conquered in some sense of the word. There are effective vaccines for the 9 most problematic HPV types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine . It is worth getting,
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by Perseids 2mo ago
I'm usually not one to focus on technological solutions given sociological problems, but this one seems to be a good exception. If we "just wanted to" [1] all this fake calls could be stopped by requiring strong authenticatio
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by Perseids 3mo ago
> It’s only expensive and brittle because environmentalists have choked it to death. They’re the third biggest villains of climate change, after consumers and oil companies. Do note, though, that it was the unbelievable irresponsibility
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by Perseids 3mo ago
And as a third answer: You actually don't need to take the flywheels of the power plants offline, when you take the rest of the power plant down. The locations for them are perfect, as the whole grid has historically been build around
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by Perseids 3mo ago
The limit is not how cold the water needs to be for the power plant, but how hot it can be for the river ecology to not take (too much) damage. Even in Germany power plants regularly need to be shut down. > 2022 was another consecutive y
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by Perseids 3mo ago
You are very conservative with the upper limits, probably because you are limiting yourself to medicine . With bio engineering the upper limits are hard to grasp. Why build a house, when you can grow one. Re-imagine all machines as custom
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by Perseids 3mo ago
But why? I'd understand (though not approve) them tightening down everything about the car firmware to the max. They are responsible for the app, sure (it's a "digital element"), but they aren't responsible for the
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by Perseids 4mo ago
Yes and that would be completely correct in many cases. > Almost like there are aligned interests there rather than a purely adversarial relationship. You might very well be the exception, but for something like 99% of marketing content
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by Perseids 4mo ago
All of their issues are self-inflicted. What benefit is there to their cloud backend except getting around the home NAT? If you want to build your IoT product privacy-friendly, your cloud offering can be reduced to a STUN/rendezvous
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by Perseids 5mo ago
Do try to follow the advice of my sibling comments, but its also okay to find out you are simply really bad at remembering names. I think I'm in the bottom 10% percent in that regard. The only way I can somewhat manage to remember th
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by Perseids 5mo ago
A side aspect of this drama is the root feature which enabled this bug: > ugh sorry this was a bug with the 3rd party harness detection and how we pull git status into the system prompt Claude wants to exercise control of how I use the &
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by Perseids 5mo ago
This is the important point. You need the right to not be discriminated when you withhold your consent, otherwise your consent is effectively meaningless, as it is forced on you by your impossible bargaining position. This is one of the cen
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by Perseids 5mo ago
> This is like saying we should have halted all RSA deployments until improvements in sieving stopped happening. Absolutely not. If people were advocating for ECC only, you would have a point. But this thread is about hybrids vs ML-KEM-o
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by Perseids 5mo ago
Off the top of my head? Pro hybrid: Negligible performance impact (negligible for battery devices, negligible for data send over the wire (number of packets -> sub-discussion about specific circumstances, time on the air for cellular), n
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by Perseids 5mo ago
> How do you mean the risk profile is comparable Exactly in the way the succeeding sentence defines: "For both cases there are credible expert opinions that say the risk is incredibly overrated and credible expert opinions that say
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by Perseids 5mo ago
The argument is that deploying PQ-authentication mechanisms takes time. If the authenticity of some connections (firmware signatures, etc…) is critical to you and news comes out that (")cheap(") quantum attacks are going to materi
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by Perseids 5mo ago
Super important: Don't replace traditional (elliptic curve) Diffie-Hellman with ML-KEM, but enhance it by using hybrid key exchanges . Done thusly, you need to break both the classical and post-quantum cryptography to launch an atta
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by Perseids 6mo ago
Thanks, I can very much agree with that. Re Oppenheimer: I know. My point was that he very much knew what his work was being used for, as should people working at xAI at the moment.
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by Perseids 6mo ago
Yes, yes, true, but you've massively moved the goalpost. The original commenter was referring to people working at xAI right now . To continue your comparison, your argument would be like Oppenheimer claiming "How could I have ev
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by Perseids 6mo ago
> on-demand can never compete with mass production even if a big part of the mass produced stuff is discarded. This is definitely not universally true. E.g. photos are very cheaply printed on demand. Even on-demand books are printed at r
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by Perseids 7mo ago
> But what is the option? I feel each of us wants to draw a line based off of our morality but the circumstances don't allow us to stick to it (still gotta pay rent) I was with you up to this point, but when you say "life is to
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by Perseids 8mo ago
I'm dumbfounded they chose the name of the infamous NSA mass surveillance program revealed by Snowden in 2013. And even more so that there is just one other comment among 320 pointing this out [1]. Has the technical and scientific comm

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