bjt2n3904

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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
My (near decade long) comment history speaks for itself. I do not primarily use HN for a culture war, but I do engage it. Despite how I try to avoid the culture war, it beat a path to my door, and threatens my livelihood. Something somethin
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
The fact that Daghlian and Slotin died in the same hospital bed has always been a sobering thought. "Well, that does it" are harrowing words. There are famous engineering incidents that are good to study -- the Challenger disaster
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
The asides with the dog are great. I've seen a few blogs use this technique -- I'm not big on Greek, but I think Plato used this technique too. It instills the idea that you should be asking a question at this point. Some informat
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Psychiatry, having failed to measurably solve any "mental health" problem is so desperate to find a solution that it's sampling the recreational drug cabinet. This isn't science. This isn't medicine. This is rolling
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
What you say here will be deeply unpopular. I have found that people treat depression and anxiety like a medical condition -- diabetes, or high cholesterol. Yet I can measure those numbers, compare them with other people similar to me, dete
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Everyone's got their fairly reasonable explanations as to why this is happening. Complexity in cars driving up cost and tanking reliability. Inflation. Tight finances. Public transit, work from home. And then I look at the WEF guys, wh
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Who cares whether it's "spying" or "surveillance"? Here's the real issue, which this semantics argument is derailing. Several times, a shooting spree has occurred, and all the government agencies say, "Oh,
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
People don't communicate well. They use the word "spying", when "surveillance" would be more appropriate. How would you feel if you found the past three weeks, there was someone parked outside your home, who followe
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
I do believe this is the plot of Portal. Wheatley was created to stop Glados from going on a murderous rampage.
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Certainly with generative AI, we've demonstrated that an evolutionary model can produce (as an example) a method for a bipedal robot to learn to balance and walk like a human. But all this to me is a cheat. We've already built the
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
You have correctly identified the underlying assumption of this discussion. From someone who has the opposite view, that human consciousness did not arise from an evolutionary process, but was created by God -- I believe we will never fully
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Human behavior laundering is a magnificent phrase. The only thing is you don't have to worry about this in the future, it's already here. [1] 1 - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-jobs-automatio...
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Alternatively, we're reaching the point where we're creating a secondary AI to keep the first AI in check, like Wheatley and Glados.
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
I firmly reject that GPT is sentient, or can even tell truth. You're no better off asking it questions about society than asking a magic eight ball. And yet there's something sinister about twisting an evolutionary model into a re
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
dang's put me on notice, so I'm walking on eggshells here. But truth isn't political. As long as we think it is, we will continue to follow the descent into madness. Truth is just that: truth. The only reason we think truth i
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
This is like saying, "I've developed a new compass for a deep space probe to help it find North!" Our society is actively declaring that falsehoods are truth, and should be celebrated. We're hallucinating ourselves. All
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
> How is the song a violation of copyright? Few people are arguing this is an issue of copyright infringement. It's a very weak argument. > You can't sue someone for mimicking someone else's voice well enough This isn&#
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
It would be bad enough if they JUST denied that Drake was a victim, but they go one step further and say Drake has committed the offense! Learn to spot the DARVO tactic: Deny, accuse, reverse victim and offender.
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
No, you're not. You're dealing with principles of communism here. They're inherently nonsensical. Note the standard of justice being used. It's not, "impersonating someone to use them as a stepping stone is wrong, n
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Drake's voice isn't intellectual property, it's his own identity. Drake has a right to decide what his voice says, and have a monopoly on it. The AI artist is not "harmed" because they can't use Drake's vo
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
> IMO, the real tragedy here is not some threat to Drake (he’ll be fine) Man, what a skewed version of justice this is. "He'll be fine." The REAL victim is this unnoticed artist? Give me a break. What he did impersonating
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
I wrote about this a few years ago, when Wil Wheaton tried to move to Mastodon, and promptly got booted from his instance by a mob. The "heavy moderation" of IRC days is markedly different than the "heavy moderation" tha
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
If the private subkey is stored on their servers, then that means their servers are one of the "ends" in "end to end encryption", and they can read all your messages. Like putting a screen door on a submarine.
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Oh, let me hear the psychiatrist who has a new plan to overcome addiction with his bag of tricks. People worship modern psychiatry/psychology as this scientific insight into the human mind that has finally done away with superstition a
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Oh HN, how predictable you are. "You know what trucking really needs? Stricter solutions and harsher punishments! DRM in vehicles, so the government can electronically disable a car to prevent truckers from driving beyond the number of
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
They will be the first thing to break. I can't stand the amount of fragile connectors people keep installing on expensive boards. My BladeRF's micro USB 3.0 sheared off. USB-C is even a bit contentious for me. USB-A with the 3.0 e
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by bjt2n3904 3y ago
Can't wait for this to bring about a fresh hell of emergent human behavior. Hmm. My posts on social media keep getting weighted down because it seems too much like ChatGPT. That means (laughing) I need to start writing in a very strang
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by bjt2n3904 4y ago
The alternative to non-profits driving social change is for-profits driving social change. You don't want a morality designed by capitalism.
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by bjt2n3904 4y ago
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by bjt2n3904 4y ago
> Premium components Mmmm. Guarantees I'll never touch this.

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