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by danaris 3d ago
...how do you set a breakpoint in someone else's devtool console?
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by danaris 3d ago
Ah, you have fallen for the bullshit that is "revealed preferences theory", a dependent of "free market theory". The reason it's bullshit is that we don't have a free market . There are constraints and asymmet
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by danaris 3d ago
Why? That's easy. They believe the sci-fi, rather than the reality. They've bought their own hype, and abandoned their critical thinking skills. They're the guy saying to the computer "Say you're alive", and th
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by danaris 4d ago
Some really important and informative stuff in here—I certainly had no idea just what the nature of the prompts and tooling that produced the HuggingFace exploit were. This shows fairly clearly that (as I already suspected) this was not, re
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LLMs are real, AI is fake(pluralistic.net)
75 points by danaris 4d ago|37 comments
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by danaris 5d ago
"Superintelligence" is a vaguely-defined term that refers exclusively to things that do not currently exist, and we have no plausible path to, nor even a guarantee that it is even possible to create one. So sure! This fictional th
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by danaris 7d ago
There are a couple of different formulations of the Basilisk I've heard: I agree with you that the version that says the AI will create a simulation of you to torture for eternity makes no sense as an actual incentive for you to help
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by danaris 7d ago
With Roko's Basilisk, if you believe in it, the most rational thing to do is to put forth every effort to bring it into being. Because if you don't, then you will be one of its targets when it does, inevitably, come into being.
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by danaris 8d ago
Various courts have already invalidated clauses of click-through agreements that no reasonable person would expect to find in such an agreement. Terms of service are not an absolute "I'm rubber you're glue" type shield a
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by danaris 11d ago
The water can be a closed system. But that's more expensive to operate. So most of them don't do it. Show me actual statistics that a supermajority of new and proposed datacenters either are currently using (for new), or plan to
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by danaris 11d ago
You don't seem to understand how renewables actually work. The idea that you need so many batteries to store enough energy to last the entire winter indicates that you don't comprehend how good solar panels are in 2026. (...Or
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by danaris 11d ago
> The main problem of renewables is that it is intermittent and that fact remains to be solved. It is solved. Grid-scale batteries are being mass-produced today. It will continue to get even better , but it is reasonably well solved eve
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by danaris 12d ago
Exactly. And the dangerous mindset tends to be worse than just "more money quickly": it's far too commonly "if this can't become the next Facebook/iPhone/ChatGPT, it's not worth doing." The only
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by danaris 12d ago
I think we're running into (or at least pretty close to) a Two Guys Fallacy here: There's still a strong libertarian streak in HN posters, in a variety of ways. However, there are also (mostly) different posters who have more vo
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by danaris 14d ago
And much of that assistance is not a guarantee: they'll have to jump through a number of hoops to get it, and making a single mistake on a single form, or having one non-liquid asset that's too valuable on paper, may mean they g
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by danaris 14d ago
But "employment" is tracked as a binary, not as a "number of jobs someone is working". So if person A takes 3 jobs just to get by, there are fewer jobs left for person B. (Not quite 2 jobs less, because it's not p
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by danaris 17d ago
...What? Opposite ends? The Shift key is right next to the / key. The Command key is one key away. Even on laptop keyboards. I can trivially chord Cmd-Shift-/ with my right hand.
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by danaris 17d ago
> Keyboard shortcuts for those menu items are what most people will learn -- save, print, cut, copy, and paste will be the common ones that a lot of people will know. I would say that it's true that the keyboard shortcuts for those
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by danaris 17d ago
To a large extent, I believe it's a holdover from the earliest days of the Mac, when the mouse was brand-new, and many developers had to essentially be forced to even support it, let alone treat it as a first-class interface device.
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by danaris 17d ago
The "few" I'm talking about are the politicians who pushed for the referendum, and the politicians and media execs that cheerfully portrayed it as if Brexit was going to cause Europe to give the UK everything it wanted with z
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by danaris 17d ago
> (kind of funny those legal arguments never came up BEFORE it could even be put up for a vote, again showing the level of confidence on display) Actually, IMO, it shows one of the weaknesses of our legal system. The courts can't ru
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by danaris 17d ago
Hm, which is worse: An entire country of millions of people suffers from the shortsighted actions of a few with reduced quality of products, increased prices, worse access to other countries, and a host of other problems... ...or we have to
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by danaris 17d ago
You are talking about what is . Shimman is talking about what could be . Responding to "hey, we could make our workplaces better by making it possible to elect our bosses rather than having them imposed on us as absolute dictators wi
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by danaris 18d ago
There are very few accessibility features that increase usability across the board for everyone. If they did, they'd just be called "features". Disabling high-contrast display makes the colors more aesthetically pleasing. Dis
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by danaris 18d ago
Do you think that the way a jury trial works is that they call the jury into the room, show them a few screenshots, and then immediately say "right, time to give your verdict!"? If this were ever to go to a jury trial, both side
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by danaris 19d ago
Do you understand what the difference between "creation" and "release" is? And which one actually involves inspiration...?
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by danaris 19d ago
Yeah; notice that "on behalf of": Microsoft isn't even the one filing this, they've outsourced their enforcement and may not even have known about this before it blew up.
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by danaris 19d ago
It favours large copyright holders, with deep pockets and ranks of lawyers on retainer, over small copyright holders.
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by danaris 19d ago
That's...straight-up false. Unless you have some source for this, you're just lying here. Yes, it's inspired by Minecraft. The screenshots are of voxel-based survival crafter games you can build with their platform. The textu
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by danaris 22d ago
Benefits which are laborious to apply for, many who should don't qualify, structured to make you feel ashamed of having them, and getting cut repeatedly by the GOP.

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