armada651

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by armada651 14d ago
> To make the most facile counterpoint - the reason the Skyrim blacksmith doesn't care if the main character slays dragons is because they weren't programmed to. There aren't consequences either way. In the actual game, NP
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by armada651 22d ago
It's difficult getting a grid connection and fiber optic uplinks in the middle of nowhere.
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by armada651 26d ago
Everyone is banking on the current trade policy simply being temporary and whoever replaces Trump in the White House next will restore bilateral trade to normal. Why would you destroy your trade relation with the U.S. for decades to come wh
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by armada651 27d ago
What is the value in anthropomorphizing it? Often I get the feeling that it's more about the sales pitch of selling these AI as general intelligence than it is about providing a truthful insight into how these models actually arrive at
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by armada651 1mo ago
> The despair of the the unemployed skilled laborer is that losing his livelihood imperils the things he does value, family and the ability to provide for them. Isn't that exactly a concern for those who find meaning in other things
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by armada651 1mo ago
> callers get automatically routed to an AI agent who asks if they are calling regarding the incident. If the answer is yes, then callers can receive information or updates, and if it's no, then the callers are transferred to a huma
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by armada651 2mo ago
It's standard policy at most major corporations even for low-level employees to not discuss anything legally sensitive over company e-mail or chat.
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by armada651 2mo ago
Having airworthiness certification done by an independent organization not beholden to Boeing's shareholders makes much more sense to me. Giving the authority to Boeing to do its own airworthiness certification feels like the fox guard
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by armada651 2mo ago
> One health problem has me hitting 75% of my full-price, high deductible... and this doesn’t even include my much more intensive second surgery yet. I'm confused, don't you want to reach your deductible as soon as possible?
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by armada651 3mo ago
Female circumcision is often more brutal, but I agree with the stance that any mutilation of children is bad. No matter what you think about circumcision, elective surgeries should simply not be performed on children until they're old
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by armada651 3mo ago
> There's no silver bullets here. Because it's a trade-off, just like stability is, they're both software bugs in the end so mitigating them has similar pros and cons.
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by armada651 3mo ago
Who determines the specs?
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by armada651 3mo ago
This is a big difference with much of the U.S. and Europe, Japan doesn't subsidize car ownership as heavily. There is no on-street parking in the city, businesses aren't required to provide parking and if you want to own a car you
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by armada651 3mo ago
The problem is that a lot of people have a very binary view on life. Either something is a complete success or a complete waste of money, rarely do we accept that most projects fall somewhere in the middle.
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by armada651 3mo ago
I always found advertisements for AI to be so strange, why would you advertise your AI to the public as a danger for humanity that will also put everyone out of work? Such advertising would only appeal to sociopaths, but of course that&#x27
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by armada651 3mo ago
By that logic an abacus has human-like attributes. Just because it can simulate the processes involved does not mean it is at all practical to compute them. Besides, LLMs are not a simulation of the physics involved in human consciousness t
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by armada651 3mo ago
I guess we're ready to blame anything but work hours, no one has time to take care of kids anymore. The correlation between industrialization and falling birth rates has long been established, but it's just shrugged off as a &quot
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by armada651 4mo ago
Then stop using the roads and everything else that tax money paid for. If you keep using things that's been paid for using taxes the government will only feel more entitled to collect it.
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by armada651 4mo ago
It's mostly just about getting the data out of the news cycle. If you don't have new data on the oceans warming then there's no news story, so less pressure on Big Oil to greenwash their industry.
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by armada651 4mo ago
That stretch of ocean is closer to Canada than it is to mainland Europe.
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by armada651 4mo ago
Since very few types of plastic are actually recyclable most of it ends up being burned despite being separately collected, so I don't think you can simply discount the recycled plastic from the plastic waste being produced.
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by armada651 4mo ago
Because the startup is going to buy $2 billion worth of services from IBM.
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by armada651 4mo ago
When your labor force makes gains in productivity you can choose to do one of two things: 1. Reduce working hours 2. Grow the economy Guess which option was last picked in 1868 and never again despite massive gains in productivity?
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by armada651 4mo ago
I learned what a crossover cable was as a teenager because I was in an electronics store buying an ethernet cable and I picked the cool-looking black-and-red cable. Then the guy behind the counter told me that the cool-looking cable I picke
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by armada651 4mo ago
So the United States should step in because it knows better than our elected representatives? Are you sure you're on the side of democracy here?
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by armada651 4mo ago
You may not have complete immunity beyond 10 years though, so the recommendation is that you get a booster every 10 years. But I don't see your point? Are you arguing that the COVID vaccine grants immunity for much longer than advertis
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by armada651 4mo ago
This is not public scrutiny though, that comes from the public and their institutions. This is simply a nation meddling in the internal affairs of other nations.
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by armada651 4mo ago
You need a booster every 10 years to maintain immunity.
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by armada651 4mo ago
When did you get your last tetanus shot?
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by armada651 4mo ago
What's legal doesn't matter, it's their store, if they want to claim they own the word Pear too they can do that. I think holding that kind of power over devices people own is problematic, but I seem to be in the minority her

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