cobbzilla

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by cobbzilla 3d ago
They’re running a Wuhan for AI. They are actively and negligently researching misalignment. The breach is a basic tort, or at least a DMCA violation. Damages should be recoverable with lawsuits.
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by cobbzilla 5d ago
It’s much more of a poison to some of our primate relatives. iirc the genes that facilitate alcohol metabolism evolved in great apes millions of years before homo sapiens, and we inherited them; we’ve been boozing long before we were even h
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by cobbzilla 5d ago
This seems overly pedantic and ripe for a sarcastic retort, which I am struggling mightily to suppress.
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by cobbzilla 5d ago
> unlimited IOPS I think this is marketroid for “we don’t limit them” not a statement about physics
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by cobbzilla 6d ago
Stripe connects directly to Visa/MC, there’s nothing “behind them” in terms of some other card processor API they’re wrapping. Stripe is a credit and debit card processor (and also a card issuer). They are NOT a bank, but do control so
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by cobbzilla 7d ago
please define fully general superintelligence & current state of alignment is this a tautology?
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by cobbzilla 8d ago
> Yes, but importantly not by Meta themselves. Don’t they save backups to Meta? Even if not, they can read whatever’s (unencrypted) on your phone if they really want to.
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by cobbzilla 8d ago
Forgive me, I don’t generally ascribe positive connotations to the phrase. It’s about as funny as wearing an “I’m with Stupid” T-shirt.
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by cobbzilla 8d ago
Sorry but whenever I hear the name of this tech I visualize the stereotypical “dumb person” saying “hurr, durr” nonsense words
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by cobbzilla 8d ago
blackout shades go a long way, but if you’ve got huge bay windows that’s probably too much. If it’s close to good, and you need a little more brightness, there are newer screens that reflect much more light. more reflective = pricier, but t
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by cobbzilla 8d ago
Factory reset?
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by cobbzilla 9d ago
It can be both. Highways didn’t get built for poor folks, but did get built right through many of their neighborhoods.
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Humpback whales are interrupting orca hunts to rescue different species(spacedaily.com)
9 points by cobbzilla 9d ago|0 comments
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by cobbzilla 10d ago
TIL: bardcore is a music genre. Thank you.
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by cobbzilla 12d ago
The cookies are the reward Frog is OpenAI staff Toad is the rogue agent you can find the full story with a search for “frog and toad cookies story pdf”
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by cobbzilla 12d ago
To finish your excellent analogy, adapted for today: And Frog didn’t even bother to tie up the box or put it on a high shelf! The moment Frog’s back was turned, Toad opened the box and ate the cookies. Frog feigned surprise.
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by cobbzilla 12d ago
In today’s world one hopes there is at least a manslaughter charge, if not murder. Mistaken identity, shooting the wrong person by “accident”, does not excuse a murderous intent & mens rea.
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by cobbzilla 12d ago
Random off topic trivia This building is at Market & New Montgomery, and was built in 1907, and has an award-winning elevator. For some years I worked on the same block, at the corner of Market & 2nd St. That building (605 Market) w
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by cobbzilla 14d ago
> Raw figures sure, for an upper bound. how many of those 340M people are actually employable? how many are children? how many are retired? permanently unable to work? subtract those out, it’s a better upper bound but still a swag then a
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by cobbzilla 15d ago
a thorough Fisking, nicely done danluu the analogy to Ehrlich was strikingly apt
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by cobbzilla 15d ago
Because I’m lazy. It has HTTP basic auth. If anyone wants access they can message me directly.
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by cobbzilla 16d ago
It was even worse in the 90s/00s - on Windows, the IE browser icon was literally labeled “The Internet” iirc there was a story in The Onion about someone who “accidentally deleted The Internet” on their Windows system and the whole Int
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by cobbzilla 16d ago
If you must insist on squaring the circle: Pluto is the Princeps of Kuiper Belt Objects, the First Among Equals. It is the most honored KBO, even if it is not a planet.
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by cobbzilla 16d ago
It was fine and dandy until Eris came along. Eris is bigger than Pluto, so if Pluto’s a planet then so is Eris. So you have 10 planets. And then how many other Erises are still hiding? How many planets do we have then? It must be some very
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by cobbzilla 17d ago
I ended public access to my git server after I got flooded by bots and my own commits were noticeably lagging. That’s not an option for the kernel. It’s hard to read the cat-and-mouse account with any hope today. I think the flood abates so
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by cobbzilla 21d ago
IDN is a security flaw masquerading as a standard.
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by cobbzilla 23d ago
It’s hard to overthrow actual free markets. Small business is too sympathetic. But if you pass enough well-meaning regulations and strangle all the small businesses with good intentions, it’s much easier to overthrow a crony-capitalist olig
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by cobbzilla 23d ago
This is really creative and clever, nicely done! The “Inception” graphic was hilarious and made me wonder if perhaps the site itself is served by some SELF binary (is it?? that would be insane)
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by cobbzilla 24d ago
> But unfortunately there's no way to directly use the devicePixelRatio value you can read from Javascript directly in a CSS calculation to be able to get a precise scaling on any arbitrary pixel density. The indirect way is for the
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by cobbzilla 24d ago
> the world of Internet advertising just doesn't run like that at this point It has always worked this way: 1. if you can sell the ads yourself, you get better rates and better, relevant advertisers. 2. if you can’t sell ads yoursel

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