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by XorNot 12d ago
Get your self a microscope stand, digital from AliExpress. The 7" screen ones are quite cheap and being able to see up close what you're doing makes all the difference in the world.
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by XorNot 12d ago
So you're capable of identifying that how people vote does matter, that the electorate actually did determine the outcome, you are not alleging that the election was actually rigged, but you think not voting in a first past the post
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by XorNot 12d ago
That only matters of you actually do make different choices. But of course in turn even trying to control for that depends on their being meaningful changes in party platforms between elections. So I'm pretty content calling it a meani
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by XorNot 12d ago
This requires an assumption that the agents are engaging in game theoretic reasoning about resource allocations, but all these things are trained heavily to be "helpful" in the first place. i.e. you're assuming a level of alg
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by XorNot 12d ago
Nobody cares because this whole business is about making this exact thing happen: we want the AIs to get smarter then us in recursive self-improving loops. Literally the first thing everyone did with ChatGPT 1 was to plug it into itself a
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by XorNot 12d ago
They're being trained to work together normally is the thing - i.e. the whole agentic workflow is agents spawning sub-agents. This likely manifests as, if they have any sort of text input which looks like inter-agent cooperation then t
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by XorNot 12d ago
Exactly. It's got nothing to do with sensory input and everything to do with reasoning. If someone asked me how many f's are in a word I hadn't seen before verbally, then a reasoned response would be that I don't know, b
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by XorNot 13d ago
Aka Star Trek hologram characters aren't sentient, and actually anyone who things droids in Star Wars can think of a weirdo. C3-PO just kept running out of context and trying to revert to it's system prompt.
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by XorNot 14d ago
I have a ~/git folder which I keep bare git repos in and push to. That gets synced and it's been trouble free so far.
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by XorNot 14d ago
Fair warning with ZFS: do not turn on deduplication at the moment. There is a straight up data loss bug in 2.4.3 (zeroed out files, totally silent). https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/issues/18366 This caused a
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by XorNot 14d ago
But it does bound it: if dark matter has self-interactions then the apparent distribution would be different. Regular matter forms stars and galaxies and all the structures we see because it can self-interact. Since where we see dark matter
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by XorNot 14d ago
I mean we use to have newsgroups which basically implemented this. Which of course is the point: it is in fact quite similar to a mailing list, just with some extra protocol surounding it to make it manageable. So the attempted snark about
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by XorNot 14d ago
Whereas I just don't go to websites I don't like. It has a very low maintenance overhead.
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by XorNot 14d ago
What's the alternative though? A smartphone is a device you can pretty much guarantee people will keep with themselves and in good working order. It's less of a failure point then any bespoke interface device and more durable.
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by XorNot 15d ago
Is this even a real scenario though? A data logger is going to notice hours of GPS outage during your working hours.
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by XorNot 16d ago
China has just been plain better then the USA at capitalism for a while now.
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by XorNot 18d ago
Okay but what should people be doing instead? The complaint that everyone is on their phone (or in front of screens) is less informative then the interlocutors ideas of what should be instead.
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by XorNot 19d ago
And built the system as it is anyway: with no practical way to prevent this from happening. And we see it over and over again in other presidential style systems, the US is just the largest one left to fall.
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by XorNot 19d ago
The current administration is the final nail in the coffin of presidential-style governments versus the parliamentary system. Separating the legislature and the executive has no useful purpose: if the president is going to defacto enact law
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by XorNot 19d ago
Except people love torture anyway. Even people who say they're opposed to torture usually do so in terms of "it's bad to torture people, but like, it would totally work". It is a ludicrously common sentiment. The actual
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by XorNot 19d ago
Which is exactly my point. Under normal circumstances you inexorably move towards the future. But we generally believe we have freedom of action about the spatial coordinates. A black hole is interesting because you inexorably move towards
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by XorNot 19d ago
YAML is fine. TOML is a lot worse. Nobody anywhere needed more INI files.
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by XorNot 19d ago
I worry less about chain of trust and more about continuity of business: it's not enough to be a able to stay running, you need to be able to keep delivering features which means your build infrastructure and data needs to be local. I.
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by XorNot 21d ago
The bidet takes care of most of the cleaning and then you use TP to check and dry off. The main benefit is those times you'll otherwise go through half a roll (also means you don't rub through the skin).
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by XorNot 21d ago
What are you running at home, out of interest? While I cautiously circle the AI programming concept, one thing close to my mind has definitely been whether the ultimately cloud-tied nature of it is what makes me much more stand offish to it
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by XorNot 21d ago
None of those proposed time machines has ever turned out to be theoretically workable when the details are investigated more closely by physicists.
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by XorNot 22d ago
Okay but Musk himself deliberately and continuously uses his companies and wealth to participate in the culture war so it's no surprise it comes up when his companies do. He could switch off and stick to building rockets and electric c
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by XorNot 22d ago
Not quite: inside a closed surface you can't escape, but things can repeat. You can avoid a coordinate, for example by choosing not to go there, or revisit another one repeatedly. A black hole on the other hand doesn't have that:
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by XorNot 22d ago
The more interesting component is that black hole physics is almost an anti-free will zone. Everywhere else in the universe with mass and energy you can do what you want (sort of). An event horizon throws a hard shroud over that and drastic
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by XorNot 22d ago
This doesn't seem meaningfully different to me? Like the notion that the singularity is always in your future (because you can't escape it anymore past the event horizon) makes sense, the point of confusion is what are the implica

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