chimprich

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by chimprich 13d ago
AI does mean Artificial Intelligence. That's what the initials stand for. The field has been called that since the 50s.
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by chimprich 3mo ago
"Indisputable". Actually, it is disputed. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10076766/
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by chimprich 3mo ago
> That's absolutely not true. The standard for new vaccines, iirc, required a period of something on the order of 7 years. I'm going to stop you there. "That's absolutely not true" versus "iirc". You&#x
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by chimprich 3mo ago
> And they were rushed out This implies that corners were cut. They were not. They went through the full regulatory procedures. > many people still sit with the issues they caused Few medicines are entirely without side effects. The e
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by chimprich 3mo ago
> it is a very common problem on the left -- taking the words literally and out of context This is a very common problem on the right -- whatever Trump says gets constantly reinterpreted into something more favourable. This wasn't o
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by chimprich 3mo ago
I don't think Trump or any of his appointed lieutenants think any of this through. It's the result of decisions made by emotion, not logic. "Vibe-governing" in other words. Climate change, and science in general, is asso
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by chimprich 4mo ago
> Russia's war against Ukraine has never been about getting more territory, That's completely counter to everything we know about Putin's mindset, and completely counter to all his actions so far. How would a war for terri
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by chimprich 4mo ago
> Wouldn't walking away from your house, maybe with a reparations package, be better than it being blown up by drones and your family killed? Please explain your analogy. Everyone should give up their property whenever they are thre
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by chimprich 4mo ago
Trump being a temporary phenomenon would be a more plausible claim if his presidency had been a single term.
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by chimprich 5mo ago
I enjoyed "The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company" by Dalrymple, which has a specific focus, but conveys a fascinating history of British involvement with India.
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by chimprich 5mo ago
I've used Cursor a lot. Until recently it was mandated by my employer. I can't see the attraction at all. It's a (bad IMO) IDE integration, a reasonable model (but I still generally preferred Claude over Composer), and a bunc
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by chimprich 5mo ago
> If Samsung or Xiaomi or Google could sell you a better phone with a replaceable battery, they would. It's an interesting theory. I'm going to call it capitalist-optimism. It's roughly oppositional to Doctorow's theo
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by chimprich 5mo ago
> Yeah, masks and intentionally antagonizing police doesn't scream peaceful protest They wear masks in case their political opponents take exception to their actions and hunt them down later and hurt their families. (This seems like
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by chimprich 7mo ago
> The agent has no "identity". There's no "you" or "I" or "discrimination". I recommend you watch this documentary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Measure_of_a_Man_(Sta
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by chimprich 8mo ago
There's plenty of tasks that can take hours that don't save their progress. E.g. running a simulation, training an AI model, rendering video. Or, these days, leaving agentic AI models running in a loop implementing tasks. Even if
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> get in between a federal officer and a suspect, and hope you don't get shot Sometimes standing up to tyranny does require bravery. Like the protestor in Tienanmen Square. Did he get shot? We don't know. > Comments like you
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> However, once you actively get in the way of official federal policing business, you are no longer a peaceful protester. That is absolute nonsense. You can be a peaceful protestor whilst still inconveniencing the authorities. Possibly
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by chimprich 8mo ago
You can't give all the blame for the deaths to Hamas. They gave Israel a monstrous provocation, but the decision to kill tens of thousands of civilians, and collective punishment by denial of food, water and medical care was the Israel
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> becaue of the terrorist urban warfare tactics hamas and palestinian islamic jihad are using This is ridiculous. I don't want to be a Hamas apologist; they're certainly brutally cynical enough to use civilians as shields, but
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by chimprich 8mo ago
Are you arguing about the number of shots or the location? https://news.sky.com/story/10-shots-in-5-seconds-how-did-the...
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> On top of which they have matching ICE issued vest with inscriptions. It's a fascist theme to have paramilitaries not wearing uniforms. See for example the mukhabarat in Syria. It makes them more intimidating, because they look un
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> Really? That's why they have vests that say "POLICE FEDERAL AGENT" front and back ? The paramilitaries that executed Pretti are all wearing street clothing, and all wearing different clothing. They look like a mob. >
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> Because if it were actual fascism, like the Hitler/Mussolini kind, you'd be arrest/dead the moment you spoke anything against it. It looks like you have paramilitaries roaming your streets - not wearing ID or proper unif
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> Yes, Britain and France have aircraft carriers but they are old, small and likely to be sunk by modern hyper-sonics You clearly don't have any idea what you're talking about. The UK's two aircraft carriers were commissio
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> They do it since that is the safest place to stash money long term. Only historically. The calculus is rapidly changing. If the US can't even respect sovereign territory of friendly countries, it doesn't inspire trust that th
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> To that end, NATO lacks the capacity to meaningfully impact a conflict in the Pacific. The EU simply does not have the means to project power in that way This has been repeated elsewhere in this story. What's your thinking here? I
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> Tariffs make foreign imports more expensive. This dissuades people from buying them. Some of those people will instead buy equivalent American made products, now that the price difference has lessened. But what about the other side of
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by chimprich 8mo ago
I think "meetings" are a poor (or at least, very inconsistent) way of making friends. Doing activities together is the best way of making friends. Bonus points if it's for multiple hours, or there's an element of risk wh
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> Most of the murders (homicides) in the USA are committed using illegal weapons Hardly relevant. If you control guns better, you get fewer illegal weapons as well. Most of the murders in Europe are committed by illegal weapons as well.
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by chimprich 8mo ago
> That has never been his opinion. There are many interviews with him on YouTube and I suggest you listen to them. I've viewed and read an interminable number of interviews with Cummings. He decided that a) Brexit was a good idea (w

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