darthoctopus

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by darthoctopus 15d ago
that's only true if Roman were to do a continuous stare. However, it (as with any telescope) has to re-point from time to time in order to look at different targets.
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by darthoctopus 22d ago
I think it will be interesting to see how this plays out for Waymo, as (unlike Uber in Zagreb) they will be competing with a world-class public transport system. A bold move! But perhaps that only goes to show how far ahead of the competiti
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by darthoctopus 23d ago
market conditions _that they participated in causing_.
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by darthoctopus 27d ago
That makes the typewriter the actual writer and you the credit-taker, just like in present ghostwriting arrangements
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by darthoctopus 29d ago
why do you think that implies leaving out the modern food industry, rather than suggesting that they, too, should be held accountable for flooding us with hyperpalatable foods to addict us? After all, they were literally engineered by the
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by darthoctopus 29d ago
> one could also question the ethics of buying rare, second-hand books and then destroying them I believe that is exactly what the parent post is doing
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by darthoctopus 1mo ago
this page gives a 404
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by darthoctopus 1mo ago
Yes, in my field (astronomy), Overleaf is also ubiquitous, especially for observational papers with long author lists. However, by the same token, this means that most of my collaborators are distant ones, and from experience many are happy
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by darthoctopus 1mo ago
Thank you for pandoc. I made the (at the time perhaps not transparently wise) choice to go all in on it when I started my PhD, and that decision has paid nothing but dividends since. I owe my career as a scientist to it.
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by darthoctopus 4mo ago
What is definitely being argued unironically is "it doesn't matter that humans are sentient", and I would still consider that misanthropy
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by darthoctopus 4mo ago
this kind of overt inevitabilism is complicity in the death of good writing.
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by darthoctopus 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone
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by darthoctopus 4mo ago
Can we finally stop having business people forcing product decisions on us? Microsoft's recent history suggests not… and I fear the facade of empowerment by LLM will only make things worse in the near future.
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by darthoctopus 5mo ago
> You have not heard any of the many, many excitable AI maximalists in the media address this reality, the bits vs atoms barrier, because they have no response that can preserve their intense attachment to the idea that the world is abou
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by darthoctopus 6mo ago
subtlety is dead on the internet of the lowest common denominator, and that enabled by AI assistance is very low indeed
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by darthoctopus 6mo ago
wanting to be good at something is not exactly the same as being interested in getting good at something, which carries the additional, nuanced, connotation of investment (or willingness to invest) towards this goal. e.g. many people want
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by darthoctopus 6mo ago
> don't want to put in the human time and effort to do so In most circles, that is "not that interested in getting good at it".
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by darthoctopus 6mo ago
> Who is forced to use it? Just use X11, as you said (many times) you do already. I can no longer use GNOME on X11, and the decision to remove support was a deliberate one. Users are definitely being forced.
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by darthoctopus 7mo ago
> Why is that not going to happen next time? Because this shortage isn't natural, it's the result of OpenAI flexing monopsony power to deprive everyone else for its strategic gain. Unlike an organic shortage, there is no compel
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by darthoctopus 7mo ago
Lest we forget, this memory shortage was deliberately engineered [1]. Thanks, OpenAI. [1]: https://www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-altman-s-dirty-dram...
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by darthoctopus 7mo ago
what _is_ that reason, out of curiosity?
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by darthoctopus 8mo ago
I think you may have fundamentally misunderstood what a technocracy is: it has nothing to do with tech companies whatsoever. From literally the article that you have linked: > The technocracy movement proposed replacing partisan politici
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by darthoctopus 9mo ago
I would absolutely love for this proposed blocker to happen, but I have zero faith in it actually happening given the user-centred nature of this feature and the user-hostile origin of Mozilla's funding situation…
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by darthoctopus 10mo ago
every one of these things that make the deal "good" for OpenAI is a direct result of negative externalities for everyone else : competitors, consumers, and people who wouldn't care otherwise.
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by darthoctopus 10mo ago
Indeed, I find it very hard to take the article seriously given that every one of the notionally decentralised trends it's described has propagated on a very small handful of highly centralised platforms. For that matter, it's ver
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by darthoctopus 11mo ago
that is the point of Luddism! the original Luddite movement was not ipso facto opposed to progress, but rather to the societal harm caused by society-scale economic obsolescence. the entire history of technology is also powerful busines
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by darthoctopus 1y ago
> Throughout Europe, though not in America, there is a third class of men, more respected than either of the classes of workers. These are men who, through ownership of land, are able to make others pay for the privilege of being allowed
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by darthoctopus 1y ago
perhaps read the actual first paragraph of the article? the whole point of it is that, whether we call it that or not, our privately run reputation scores (including but not limited to credit scores) functionally are social credit scores
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by darthoctopus 1y ago
Did you even read the article? Here is the situation in China: > Here's what's actually happening. As of 2024, there's still no nationwide social credit score in China. Most private scoring systems have been shut down, and
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by darthoctopus 1y ago
that is the point --- precisely because the usual mechanisms of enforcement do not apply, there will be no accountability for Apple.

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