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by gatonegro 3y ago
Because more AI-generated SEO garbage is exactly what the Internet needs.
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by gatonegro 3y ago
When updates or apps go wrong on Windows, you sometimes need to use Powershell. Sometimes it's easier to use Powershell for admin tasks to avoid janky settings menus. What's the difference?
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by gatonegro 3y ago
https://archive.ph/9T3wA
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by gatonegro 3y ago
It's perfectly doable. I set up Linux Mint for a non-technical family member on a laptop almost a year ago. They use it for browsing the Internet, watching things on streaming services, etc. I just told them to click on the small shiel
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by gatonegro 3y ago
I think the comparison with nuclear tech is missing one crucial aspect: ease of access. Nuclear tech has been misused, and a sufficiently funded and motivated malicious actor could get their hands on it in some way to cause harm, but it is,
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by gatonegro 4y ago
Because AI-paraphrased copy/paste jobs and plagiarism are the future of academic writing!
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by gatonegro 4y ago
I think the so-called "replication crisis"[0] might have something to do with it, particularly in psychology. The misaligned incentives to publish frequently to have a nice-looking list of articles to show when you next apply for
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by gatonegro 4y ago
> it seems a lot of our modern afflictions come down to an gross imbalance of exercise, diet, sleep, and social connection If you think about it in an evolutionary timescale, the way most of us live in the West these days is horrendous
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by gatonegro 4y ago
> Now Apple just moved the search to the OS via an API call to its server, and people are noticing the traffic. I'm not sure how photo hosting services doing this for the past 2 decades is related to this when the author of the po
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macOS phones home when previewing local image files [video](youtube.com)
64 points by gatonegro 4y ago|23 comments
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by gatonegro 4y ago
> I presume a lot of time is wasted grading papers and it seems like something an AI that can see pages should be well suited to automating... I guess if grading papers is "a waste of time", then we shouldn't be surprise
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by gatonegro 4y ago
Hard work is a means to an end. People want to work hard when their efforts are likely to have some meaningful result—higher pay or a promotion, if talking about a job; a good grade or admission to some institution or program, if talking ab
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by gatonegro 4y ago
You might be interested in vx-underground[0]. They maintain a neat collection of malware samples and source code. [0] https://www.vx-underground.org/
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by gatonegro 4y ago
> majority of my suggestions were Jordan B Peterson I'm interested in psychology and philosophy, so I'll watch videos on those subjects every so often. Naturally, the Algorithm™ becomes obsessed with recommending me Peterso
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by gatonegro 4y ago
Sure, that's a useful heuristic, but I'd say it works because we deal with other humans. It's safe to assume that, being members of our own species, they are likely to have an inner experience and consciousness too. How do yo
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by gatonegro 4y ago
I always enjoyed the X-Files -style alien conspiracies. Abductions, Roswell, the Men in Black, crop circles, Area 51, that sort of stuff. Unfortunately, those seem to have fallen out of favour in recent years. To this day, one of my favour
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by gatonegro 4y ago
https://archive.ph/tt0pY I keep seeing talk of artificial consciousness with nothing more than a vague outline of what said "consciousness" would entail, or a hand-wavy "we'll know it when we see it.&quo
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by gatonegro 4y ago
I keep a line of JavaScript as a bookmarklet to do this: javascript:void(open('http://archive.today/?run=1&url='+encodeURIComponent(document.location)))
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by gatonegro 4y ago
I tried Takeout on my main account, and I have to say I'm surprised. Took about an hour to process and it allowed me to download everything. While I was waiting on that, I finally paid for a proper email service and migrated my domain,
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by gatonegro 4y ago
A few days ago I was going through an old Gmail account, and decided to get my data through Takeout. Told me it'd take a few hours, and the next day I had a link ready. Click the link, enter the password, it tells me I need a verificat
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by gatonegro 4y ago
Would you be OK to find yourself in this situation[0] in the future? Personally, I feel like putting all your digital eggs in one basket, be it Apple's, Google's, Microsoft's, or anyone else's, is asking for trouble. And
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by gatonegro 4y ago
It's just the "celebrity gossip" aspect of HN at work—where Elon Musk was, what Paul Graham had for lunch, etc. Truly fascinating.
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by gatonegro 4y ago
> treat your customers well. Supporting Linux is treating his customers well. It's really won me over, I can say that much. When I was using Windows, I favoured buying games from GOG over Steam whenever possible. DRM and all that.
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by gatonegro 4y ago
People were falling for "verified" tweets from blatantly fake accounts. The coming deepfake crisis is going to be hilarious and terrifying.
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by gatonegro 4y ago
Here it is.[1] I missed the original post, thank you for mentioning it. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33412932
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by gatonegro 4y ago
I just got to a bit where Herzog is talking about how artificial intelligence is "the next step in human evolution", and Žižek brought up the idea of organising a "pro-artificial intelligence movement." Herzog then talke
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by gatonegro 4y ago
> I've considered going to someone like Krebs This sounds like a good idea, honestly. Companies' reactions to vulnerability disclosures can be... unpredictable. If security research is not your area, it might be easier to get
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The benefits of doing nothing – Lessons from Freud on Covid-19 burnout [2020](iai.tv)
6 points by gatonegro 4y ago|0 comments
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by gatonegro 4y ago
The conclusion of this article does not follow from its premise. "Hydranencephalous babies are conscious, so materialist views of consciousness are wrong and dualism is the only explanation." I am not familiar with hydranencephaly
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by gatonegro 4y ago
Yes, sorry, my phrasing is somewhat confusing. In terms of energy they are faster, since more speed is required for higher orbits. They appear to be slower in a relative sense when observed from Earth — the Space Station or a Starlink sat

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