argomo

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by argomo 4mo ago
Yeah, but perhaps we're getting to the point where the AI synthesis of all reachable data sources is going to be more truthy than trusting whatever random anonymous result you pick from the top half of the results page. I'm also f
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by argomo 4mo ago
"heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" -- Lord Kelvin, 1895
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by argomo 4mo ago
Unfortunately, when you try to starve the beast, it's the essential functions that get slashed instead of the leadership and adminstrative apparatus. The animal is harmed further while the parasite intercepts the generated value.
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by argomo 4mo ago
If he's a clown what part of his theory is the circus? Are you saying that superintelligence is impossible? Are you saying that the alignment problem will certainty be solved before superintelligence emerges? Are you saying that a supe
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by argomo 4mo ago
Not everybody thinks it's nonsensical. Here's a different take: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_Anyone_Builds_It,_Everyone_...
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by argomo 5mo ago
I'd say repeatedly forecasting "full self driving next year" every year for a decade qualifies Tesla for #2.
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by argomo 5mo ago
The evidence is just "human nature". Honestly, it's just negligence at this point to give people power over others without due oversight and accountability. But it's nice we have concrete examples of abuse to help motiva
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by argomo 5mo ago
I think a lot of the objections to your post could be answered by reminding folks of how Microsoft Access databases tend to pop up in small businesses as well as corporate environments outside of IT departments. Yes, they're not "
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by argomo 5mo ago
A military coup in the U.S. is imaginable, which probably explains some of the top brass purges (until recently, where it's probably an attempt to deflect blame for the massive Iran fuck up). Putin did it better; he kept the military w
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by argomo 5mo ago
It's not for me, but I can see the appeal - minimalism, distraction elimination, geek cred, and the sort of flow state one gets from working in a low latency, high muscle memory environment.
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by argomo 5mo ago
Okay, I'll say it: is it really worth encumbering the movements of millions of people for decades in order to make a few boring history exhibits? If you want to see some the bone comb that belonged to somebody's great^100-grandmot
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by argomo 6mo ago
That's the kind of corporate baby-talk I use when I'm trying to resist doing something.
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by argomo 6mo ago
Amazon extracts a lot of the value of a purchase from the seller's take. Sellers risk sanctions if they sell a product cheaper thru their brand website.
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by argomo 6mo ago
Note that populist demagogue started a trade war and threatened allies with invasion. That tends to put a damper on friendship. And that's before the idiotic blunder with Hormuz.
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by argomo 6mo ago
What a coincidence. I also read the book and can't recall what it was about. Umm, what were we talking about again?
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by argomo 7mo ago
While true, that doesn't make it acceptable. In a functioning society, companies would be punished harshly for this behaviour.
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by argomo 9mo ago
They should have gone all in and published the travel history of elite politicians, CEOs, and celebrities. That'd get a lot more media attention and potential for consequential legislation.
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by argomo 9mo ago
It's an unstable equilibrium: companies can always make more by adding ads, therefore they do so. This isn't the consumer's fault.
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by argomo 9mo ago
For me, it's an especially bad argument because the sloppy nature of HTML parsing is NOT a virtue... it's a source of bugs, vulnerabilities, and incompatibilities that provides (yet another) technical moat for existing web browser
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by argomo 10mo ago
In addition, hackers should know government is inevitable. Even in anarchy, governments spontaneously begin to form.
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by argomo 11mo ago
Agreed. We need legally enforceable standards granting owners full control of their devices. But also: TPMs could be used to prevent evil maid attacks and to make it uneconomical for thieves who stole your device to also steal your data. It
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by argomo 11mo ago
What happens to these people if, hypothetically, a malicious U.S. president subverts the Federal Reserve and wildly inflates the dollar?
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by argomo 11mo ago
Ugh, capitalism monifies yet another problem it created.
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by argomo 11mo ago
What's your method for eliminating underground nests?
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by argomo 11mo ago
These days, all the results that AREN'T from reddit are AI slop.
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by argomo 1y ago
Capitalism and socialism are both pretty effective at killing competition and rewiring the government & economy to seek extractive rents. Granted, it takes longer with capitalism.
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by argomo 1y ago
Au contraire... FreeCAD has a confounding UI, except for the sketcher.
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by argomo 1y ago
Spiritually, Blender is to FreeCAD what Gimp is to Inkscape or what BMP is to SVG. With Blender you're massaging piles of anonymous polygons so they look right aestheticallY, while with CAD you're composing geometric primitives to
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by argomo 1y ago
Energy corporations and wealthy individuals funded the Heartland Institute who then ran public influence campaigns to discredit climate change. Conspiracy theorists and talk radio hosts predictably made a buck amplifying it. Conservative po
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by argomo 1y ago
Is it just me, or are nation-states getting way too uppity?

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