beeflet

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by beeflet 6mo ago
Who attuned your crystal ball? LLMs are already pretty general. They've got the multimodal ones, and aren't they using some sort of language-action-model to drive cars now? Who is to say AGI doesn't already exist?
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by beeflet 6mo ago
And many of them so unexpected, given the unusual nature of their intellegence emerging from language prediction. They excel wherever you need to digest or produce massive amounts of text. They can synthesize some pretty impressive solution
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by beeflet 6mo ago
How do you know that a car is the result of a properly designed system before you get behind the wheel (or step in front of it?). >the only real fear here is a state-level attack Why isn't this a valid concern? We should just be fin
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by beeflet 6mo ago
If you want to talk about society, then this is about systematic security not individual security. If someone somewhere can push a button and flash your car with OTA firmware to drive you off a bridge, political assasinations become a lot e
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by beeflet 6mo ago
In the future, no one will be rich enough to buy a free car
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by beeflet 6mo ago
Do personal computers even really emerge under communism? it is yet to be seen. But this specific technology seems to only evolve under capitalism to suit the needs of a certain type of buisness against the consumer. If it emerged under com
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by beeflet 6mo ago
Big opportunity for irobot to release a bedpan cleaner.
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by beeflet 6mo ago
This is a noble lie, because it's really the non-cheaters who are losers. If the cheaters lost then there would be no problem.
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by beeflet 6mo ago
How noble. I nominate you to be first for the drowning experiment.
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by beeflet 6mo ago
I have never wondered that because it is caused by many obvious factors. >So doesn’t it seem strange that so few of them ever manage to see that they’re being indoctrinated? I don't think most people care. They are primarily interes
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by beeflet 6mo ago
The success of chinese infrastructure validates my concern, which is with a specific faction of the american/western elite
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by beeflet 6mo ago
I don't use X or Grok. The fact that the elite and knowledge workers in this country are generally more left-leaning is pretty evident. The right wingers in these ranks make up a distinctive subgroup. These are the thoughts of pretty m
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by beeflet 6mo ago
>A locked bootloader does not imply you cannot run unsigned software in user space. In the long term it does because the purpose is to provide the scaffolding for remote attestation. Once remote attestation becomes the norm, it transitio
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by beeflet 6mo ago
Fabrication of microchips is based on massive economies of scale. Thanks to apple, the majority of top-of-the-line microchips are going into locked-down computers. What happens when Apple or similar companies control 90% of the market, and
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by beeflet 6mo ago
There are AOSP-based distros like grapheneOS and calyxOS with various "app stores" like fdroid that behave similar to package managers on linux. There are also just run-linux-on-your-smartphone distros like postmarketOS. I doubt s
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by beeflet 6mo ago
This is my analogy: If you are a fisherman, and you try to catch big beautiful fish and release small ugly fish back into the water, then eventually the pond will be full of small ugly fish because that is what you are selecting for. If we
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by beeflet 7mo ago
yeah bro genius, that sounds like a totally actionable thing people will do all the time with email. Be sure to drink your ovaltine
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by beeflet 7mo ago
federation would never work. How would it work here? Either you are forcing tiktok to give pageviews to federations of spam, or you are letting tiktok decide which federations to work with, which essentially results in no federation.
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by beeflet 7mo ago
I've got this functionality in linux with the framework laptop, and it really isn't much faster than typing in a password.
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by beeflet 7mo ago
maybe once before they patch it
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by beeflet 7mo ago
The iranians would say the same thing about the USA/israel. The israelis share that dogmatism with them. perhaps we could negotiate a peace deal in which israel and iran both agree to give up nuclear weapons and allow for IAEA inspecti
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by beeflet 7mo ago
most liberals do not support the assassination of politicians. after the guy got killed, there was a massive search on social media where right wingers were looking for anyone who mocked him, and they got like a handful of people.
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by beeflet 7mo ago
I think iran wants nuclear weapons to ensure its survival against israel
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by beeflet 7mo ago
how about a negotiating a peace deal between the Israel and Iran wherein they both agree to give up nuclear weapons and allow for IAEA inspections
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by beeflet 7mo ago
That's
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by beeflet 7mo ago
getting your paper in a research publication or your book in a library is a question about the allocation of public funds
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by beeflet 7mo ago
If 4chan is unimportant, why is it being censored?
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by beeflet 7mo ago
I don't care about specs, I care about functionality and price. The camera on the pinephone doesn't practically work because it is too slow and the quality sucks. You basicially cannot record videos whatsoever. I can't use th
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by beeflet 7mo ago
I love postmarketos, but there is not even one "Main" phone with all of the hardware feature supported. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices Fairphone 4 looks close, hopefully fairphone 4 support will c
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by beeflet 7mo ago
> that just so happens to be able to run on your hardware the hardware is specifically locked down with "trusted computing" features to facilitate this. It's not a random coincidence. The problem here lies in the network e

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