emodendroket

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by emodendroket 4d ago
Then I guess the states' attorneys general are suckers for not bothering to bring a case.
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by emodendroket 4d ago
Yes, the President enjoys great latitude to do things that are ill advised, immoral, or harmful without breaking any laws.
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by emodendroket 4d ago
If “his buddies” are not elected the President cannot realistically enact legislation.
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by emodendroket 4d ago
None of that makes it, legally, an illegal bribe.
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by emodendroket 5d ago
What he did was promise to enact a massive stimulus if elected. If that is illegal you might as well ban any kind of campaigning, because any campaign promise could be construed as a "bribe" to deliver concrete benefits to voters
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by emodendroket 5d ago
While his proposed policy is likely extremely unwise there's nothing illegal about it.
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by emodendroket 7d ago
I think there's a reason that they've pushed to get these things up all over the country in a very short amount of time. I feel like the more entrenched they are the less likely the Supreme Court is really going to find against t
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by emodendroket 23d ago
Another thing is, I have been playing Chinese chess a bit lately and, yes, Pikafish is stronger than any human player, but if you actually share a board state or list of moves with an LLM they will fail to accurately interpret the state of
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by emodendroket 23d ago
The board, presumably
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by emodendroket 23d ago
Well, maybe. But most fields of human endeavor aren't very much like a board game with clear, unchanging rules and a single, unambiguous objective.
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by emodendroket 23d ago
Yes, but aren't you just restating the premise in more words?
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by emodendroket 23d ago
Working on a passion project or working through the hairy details of a complex algorithm or whatever can be fun. But that's not really what the job is like most of the time.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
Sure it is. It's just bound to a vowel.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
> But that said -- and as others have noted -- the explanation here is misleading, and that's because of the dependence on romaji / transliteration. Japanese conjugation is extremely simple, and the author is missing some essen
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
"War is politics by other means" is the one line of Clausewitz everyone can quote.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I don't think there's some magical technical trick that lets you do an end run around politics.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I think there's no question that auditing open-source software is easier, but it can be harmful if auditing actually basically never happens yet people wrongly believe that all the open-source software they're installing must be a
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I would imagine what it means is that in practice open source just gives a false sense of security that someone must have looked at it.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I would wager a policy of only installing commercial software from well known vendors has a better success rate.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I would say that it's not just an academic argument that's being made about what is technically possible but a stronger claim about what is likely. If the claim is just you technically _could_ do it, sure, that's true by def
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I know. But the problem is that in reality the only way to get people to audit software reliably is to pay them to do it, so it's not really true as a general principle that open-source software is more thoroughly vetted.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
And how often do you do it?
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I've seen that people can get Claude and friends to say they're DeepSeek if they ask in Chinese. I think distillation is happening all the time.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
A lot of people are slow typists.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
No, I've not been "living on" such a principle but it was a big claim for "the bazaar."
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I have to say, the principle that open-source software can't do anything nefarious because the source is open just hasn't held up for a lot of reasons -- including that nobody has the time to inspect the code, let alone ensure tha
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
Yeah, it'd be easy, but the hard part is getting people to agree what the standard will be. Plus, frankly, a lot of people (myself included) who want a richer experience are pretty much just happy turning on emacs keybindings in VSCode
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
But where on the planet are you going to go and escape that?
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I'm sure they do genuinely have those problems but it's not like Western research has been free of such scandals.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
That's interesting on Deepseek. But I think as long as the models are still making noticeable gains with each iteration it's hard to say "good enough."

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