Sporktacular

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by Sporktacular 6mo ago
I'd guess making this a national pride thing will just make it less diverse. Answer would be training models on broader sources, not more nationalistic models.
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by Sporktacular 7mo ago
This was an inevitable step for a surveillance state. Technology will consolidate the position of the leaders while making organised resistance impossible. Bummer.
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by Sporktacular 8mo ago
What's to explain? Seeing gay porn doesn't increase the number of gay people but can let gay people feel less abnormal. If cause equaled normalisation they would be synonymous.
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
Only because no one is presenting both options to the public as a choice - cheap gas but you'll screw up dozens of countries and create insecurity for your kids. They would be less likely to want that if they understood the tradeoff. L
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
24 hours and no zionists complaining about how this is not tech news/flagging the post. Thank you, I guess, for allowing the rest of us to talk about whatever we want.
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
So true. I think everyone should remember exactly that anytime a MAGA tribesman uses the language of reason and compassion to gain an air of respectability. They have no concern for truth or ethics and don't deserve the legitimacy of r
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
Not when you're claming the moral high ground and all you have is guesswork.
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
It's not about what should be the case. It IS the case. If we should decide to change that it won't work if one government unilaterally decides who stays or who goes for obvious reasons. Last month we saw Trump prostrate himself b
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
"US will be ‘strongly involved’ in Venezuela oil industry, Trump says after Caracas attacked and Maduro captured" https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/jan/03/caracas-e... Yes, US fo
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
No Interpol or ICC warrant, no answer to sovereignty or jurisdictional issues, no justified claim of extraterritoriality. Can't we call a kidnapping what it is?
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
"That interference has overwhelmingly turned out well." What an absurd thing to say. The US doesn't only overthrow dictatorships - it supports them too, as it suits its self-interest. Why not include the US interference when
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
"I don't need to care about privacy because I have nothing to hide." One counter is "since I've done nothing wrong, you have not need to care about what I hide". Both make assumptions, the difference is about w
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
So resistance is futile?
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
Ah yes, the gateway drug straw man. Poster didn't say it causes that consequence, just that it normalises it. Just like video games normalise violence, gay porn normalises being gay etc. Doesn't mean it should be banned, but it do
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by Sporktacular 9mo ago
Some harsh comments here. The idea is interesting and the miniaturisation impressive. Successful or not, it's good to see these ideas realised.
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
Why is this flagged now? It's been 15 minutes. Is this a Hasbara thing again?
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
So donate to unsexy causes instead. What's that got to do with EA?
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
It just doesn't. It's about how to make the most from altruism. It's got nothing to do with predictions. If you make enough to pay some people to work in a soup kitchen, don't quit your job to make soup. It's nothin
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
What reasons do you have to assume EA = SBF?
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
If you can afford to hire 10 people to do it then they'll probably be able to do more good than just you. That sounds like a more efficient allocation of effort and resources.
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
The origins of EA were never in question, nothing new there. It was Peter Singer's work on maximising value for charitable outcomes. Comment section seems to be about something else altogether. Maybe a book clarifying what it really is
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
But if it's a net positive, the point is made.
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
I think it's a case of judging a band by its fans. Enough dodgy billionaires have jumped on to create a poor image. Singer never said donating buys you a license to be evil.
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
Yes! Commenters seem to have jumper onto The Guardian's vibes about it rather than Singer's entirely reasonable logic.
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
That's not what it's about. Exploiting people to make money is not fine. Causing harm while mitigating it elsewhere defeats the point. Giving is already about the kind of person you are.
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by Sporktacular 10mo ago
Arrests aren't the only way a company can be harmed. Being flagged or investigated is enough of a legal burden and reputational hit that it could be catastrophic. "Stumbling" is not a part of any network protocol. Over a netw
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by Sporktacular 11mo ago
The US diverts trunks for interception and active attacks all the time. Jamming the internet to Greenland during an invasion would be trivial on multiple levels. This will make virtually no difference to national security. Good for the mono
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by Sporktacular 11mo ago
The sentiment is understandable. But jamming the satellite trunks to another country during an invasion would not be difficult for the US. It's not clear how choosing a French provider will prevent that.
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by Sporktacular 11mo ago
Either way, trunks will use a network that is not under sovereign control. So sovereignty here means access must exclusively be through the locally controlled monopoly. Foreign powers will still have the ability to shut down or manipulate t
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by Sporktacular 1y ago
Post-quantum ratchets - cool. Now if they could solve notifications not consistently appearing between iOS and android devices...

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