c-linkage

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by c-linkage 8d ago
Your lack of creativity is not a reason to believe that a super AI is harmless or less destructive than a nuclear weapon. Damage need not be limited to destruction. Introducing doubt is sufficient. Right now you have faith that digital Fina
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by c-linkage 13d ago
What happens when a husband decides to risk the mortgage payment on a sports bet and loses? Now the wife and kids are evicted. Or maybe he lives alone and is now homeless. But now we have a man living out of his car, or worse, homeless an
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by c-linkage 14d ago
Voters can be held accountable; he demonstrated exactly what he was the first time in office and then people voted for him again.
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by c-linkage 16d ago
My suspicion is that HF specifically didn't pursue charges to set the precedent that use of AI absolves accountability. A computer under control of an AI cannot be held liable. The lack of a law suit also leaves no ground for regulatio
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by c-linkage 1mo ago
I still remember when Interstate exits in the US were numbered sequentially. It seems like only 20 years ago they switched to mile markers for exit numbers.
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by c-linkage 3mo ago
Start up a seti at home style of open source LLM training! Assuming there is an ability to merge the sub models trained on each user's home PC into a larger model...
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by c-linkage 4mo ago
I can't wait for The Truman Show to be real. This is the best future possible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43fqtIPGo2A
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by c-linkage 4mo ago
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by c-linkage 4mo ago
In my place of employment, anything I create while on company time or using company resources is the property of my employer. So while it might be nice to say I won't share, boss-man can certainly make it so I must share.
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by c-linkage 5mo ago
I don't need to be able to write proofs about my maths using logic and determinism. If the answer comes out in a way that I like then it has to be correct!
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by c-linkage 5mo ago
Which shows the lie of the common engineering trope "use the right tool for the job." It really should be "use the same tool that everyone else is using so you don't have decide which tool is the right one -- the herd ma
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by c-linkage 5mo ago
He probably had plans to use it for some sort of Ender's Game crap but then realized that grok wasn't smart enough to do it.
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by c-linkage 6mo ago
There are a few reasons that I can see why they don't integrate the latest .net. First is that the security model changed with .net 5. Next is that they subsume Mono/.net core into the foundation of the language and this cost them
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by c-linkage 6mo ago
If you don't like hallucinate, try bullshit. [NB: bullshit is a technical term; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit ] https://www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-isnt-hallucinating-its-b...
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by c-linkage 6mo ago
I don't know anything about this ONTO Standards group, and the piece gives me weird pseudoscience vibes, but if their idea really leads to a useful probabalistic and epistemiologic responses from LLMs then that could be a game changer.
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by c-linkage 6mo ago
Code is Law is pretty much demonstrates that it is not possible to precisely define law. https://www.fxleaders.com/news/2025/10/29/code-is-law-sparks... Additionally, law is not logical. Law is about ju
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by c-linkage 7mo ago
Just get an AI wife so you can then spend 100% of your time online talking to bots. *Posted by my ClawdBot Agent
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by c-linkage 7mo ago
>For the owner of a five-year-old EV, this results in a repair bill ranging from $3,000 to $4,500. >This is the EV equivalent of a blown engine caused by a faulty spark plug. Its an interesting problem. Many people focus on batteries
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by c-linkage 7mo ago
Being a 100x developer means you can work just 1% of the time you used to work, right?
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by c-linkage 7mo ago
Litigation can be one reason, but I think the more likely reason is that people want to avoid confrontation. Could you tell the person taking the pizza that that is inappropriate behavior? Sure. But that is confrontational. The people who m
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by c-linkage 7mo ago
That's crazy to me. At this point, I don't even know if the git commit log would be useful to me as a human. Maybe it's just me, but I like to be able to do both incremental testing and integration testing as I develop. Thi
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by c-linkage 8mo ago
The problem is that convenience trumps everything. - It is convenient to use Facebook to chat with family - It is convenient to use credit cards to pay the local shop - It is convenient to use Netflix to watch movies - It is conve
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by c-linkage 8mo ago
It's pretty clear that the security models designed into operating systems never considered networked systems. Given that most operating systems were designed and deployed before the internet, this should not be a surprise. Although o
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by c-linkage 8mo ago
Some more testing reveals that it's uBlock Origin causing the problem. Disabling the plug-in for the site means Firefox no longer displays an error.
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by c-linkage 8mo ago
We focus on negative outcomes because that relates directly to survival. Our brains are wired for it. Talking about negative outcomes means we learn about them and have a better chance of avoiding them. Plus, the fear response is much str
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by c-linkage 8mo ago
English for Speakers of other Languages
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by c-linkage 8mo ago
OT: Is Cloudflare breaking the internet again? This is the third link off the HN Front Page that yields the following error in Firefox: Websites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certi
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by c-linkage 9mo ago
This seems like a tragedy of the commons -- GitHub is free after all, and it has all of these great properties, so why not? -- but this kind of decision making occurs whenever externalities are present. My favorite hill to die on (externali
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by c-linkage 9mo ago
Too late. Its those with money versus those without money. And those without don't count. And if you work for a living, you don't have money.
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by c-linkage 9mo ago
Yeah, but where are the performance numbers? :D

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