euroderf

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by euroderf 3d ago
Why do file dialogs have a button for this ?
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by euroderf 3d ago
> An AI could make and release some super-pathogen or virus. So could a human, if sufficiently educated and motivated.
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by euroderf 6d ago
TFA is lossy compression ?
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by euroderf 7d ago
> I would have expected at least a toggle to keep old Siri on the old watch. Nasty destructive surprises in upgrades. Years ago I had lots of archival material organized on my Mac under the root "/". Why not, right? It&#x2
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by euroderf 7d ago
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money." -Alexis De Tocqueville But turns out it's a fun game for another branch of government too.
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by euroderf 7d ago
So fade the stem to dark grey already.
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by euroderf 7d ago
Sure, it's a satire of fascism, so the movie was lost on Americans and didn't do well in the box office there.
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by euroderf 7d ago
Ya gotta wonder how pervasive facial recognition affects the espionage trade.
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by euroderf 7d ago
Perhaps his idea was to remove the pro-violence influence of the likes of Cheney and Trump. War is not healthy for children and other living things.
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by euroderf 7d ago
> We could ask if it is possible to end up with an AI that is smart enough to destroy humanity and at the same time still blind enough to consequences and/or callous enough to do it Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing
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by euroderf 7d ago
Fiction is a variety of oft-useless drivel when the world is chock-full of compelling, urgent non-fiction. Altho... science fiction is hardly useless, when it mentally prepares the ground.
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by euroderf 7d ago
Fascinating stuff. Reawakening my interest in arborist stuff ("arborism"?). Thank you for posting.
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by euroderf 7d ago
And just one letter away, "enteroception" sounds like a concept from the Alien films.
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by euroderf 7d ago
Sounds interesting! Elucidate?
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by euroderf 7d ago
This. It's why "unitary executive" is so attractive - he can extend his tendrils into every nook & cranny of policy (foreign and other) to personally monetize it.
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by euroderf 7d ago
It's compilers all the way down. But so if there's distillation, and more distillation, and more distillation, what do we end up with ? A world of ELI5 ? "Grey zones are for losers" ?
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by euroderf 7d ago
I think Toronto would do just fine as New Buffalo.
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by euroderf 7d ago
MAANGO - this is the first time I've seen this. Decisions, decisions. Microsoft/Meta Amazon/Apple/Alphabet Netflix/Nvidia Google Oracle ?
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by euroderf 8d ago
Think about it the way the US thought about them pesky Rooskies during the Cold War: Don't look at intentions. Look at capabilities.
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by euroderf 8d ago
Nihilistic power acquisition ? Control over all hoominz ?
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by euroderf 8d ago
"We use the demo to determine how much of your wallet we try to empty."
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by euroderf 8d ago
And one of them died.
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by euroderf 10d ago
> The government is already looking for a great excuse to criminalize open source models. Sounds interesting+scary. Do you have some source for this ?
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by euroderf 10d ago
If tasked with this, I would start with an image of a piano keyboard and ask: Why the hell does it look so weird ? Black and white keys in some infernally strange layout ? WHY ? Which takes you very quickly to equal temperament and perfect
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by euroderf 11d ago
> The simplest and easiest geopolitical strategy that is available to any country: switch completely to renewables (solar, maybe wind) This lessens the impact of attacks on transformers too. A serious point of vulnerability.
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by euroderf 11d ago
Proving Riemann sure would clean up a lot of contingent/dependent number theory.
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by euroderf 12d ago
So the business challenge is to balance sizable investments and relatively small marginal costs. Not so different from other digital goods.
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by euroderf 13d ago
Why didn't I see any of these in Lynch's Dune ? Totally appropriate.
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by euroderf 13d ago
In the USA ? I ask because the EU is putting effort into harmonising signaling (and all railway comms) across the union and it seems to be a fairly imposing task.
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by euroderf 13d ago
I watched a talk by Lee Smolin and he seems to have a great take on how physics relates to life. That moment to moment the universe supports and runs on spontaneity and free will. I'd love to find a really good summation of his ideas.

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