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by hollerith 4d ago
>Iran is the Houthis’ primary benefactor, providing them with security assistance, such as weapons transfers, training, and intelligence support. In July 2025, for example, the Yemeni National Resistance Forces seized the largest-ever sh
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by hollerith 4d ago
>Among Americans under 50 without children, 57% said they simply didn’t want kids Your 57% lacks relevance to the current conversation because it is 57% of a small percentage of Americans. 42 to 43% of Americans are either under 18 or a
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by hollerith 5d ago
>It's just a pretty pedestrian data-munging problem In other words, how complicated could it be? Well, if Adobe has been introducing complications and making the format brittle and inflexible over the last 35 years to make it hard f
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by hollerith 6d ago
I've seen many arguments for why AI will be safe. Yours relies on the assumption that no one would be stupid or reckless enough to give an AI that might be much more capable cognitively than a person the ability to manufacture weapons
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by hollerith 6d ago
>[the name "Misanthropic"] is childish Good point, but "Sudden Human Extinction" would be too long a name.
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by hollerith 6d ago
>detachment from baser emotions that enable them to pursue abstract ideas to their logical conclusions Yes, WASP are attracted to universal moral principles. A major WASP institution (namely, a religious denomination) is literally named
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by hollerith 7d ago
The Huggingface incident strongly suggests that OpenAI is not able to make its products consistently law-abiding. It's not like OpenAI carelessly neglected to consider that its products might break the law: it has spent literally billi
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by hollerith 8d ago
Why the focus on drones and ICBMs specifically? If alien spaceships with tech more advanced than ours suddenly appeared in Earth orbit, you would conclude I'm sure that they're a potent threat to us even if you couldn't guess
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by hollerith 16d ago
Nit: Unix was designed for multi-user minicomputers . When Unix was designed, the smallest computer anyone could buy was about the size of two of today's server racks and was called a minicomputer.
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by hollerith 18d ago
>macOS is the most secure desktop OS by a long way, it's not even close. GrapheneOS has become a desktop OS (because of all the work Google has done to adapt Android for desktop/laptop use) and its security exceeds macOS's
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by hollerith 20d ago
France’s foreign-born population is roughly 13% to 14%, which puts it about tied with or slightly lower than the U.S., depending on the specific year and census criteria used.
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by hollerith 20d ago
So you put the blame for WWII on the US government, then?
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by hollerith 20d ago
Are 47% of naturalized immigrants into the US themselves xenophobic according to your definition because that how many voted for Trump in 2024?
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by hollerith 23d ago
You seem to have interpreted "have faith in your own country" as "have faith in the people who grew up here" whereas I interpreted it is as more like "have faith that the parts of the country's institutions and
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by hollerith 26d ago
I used to work like that (minus the Signal window) and have no desire to go back.
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by hollerith 28d ago
I agree! A Lisp coder should define a new macro only rarely. Junior coders should avoid doing it altogether. Macros make Lisp code hard to read. Every time I see a call to define-minor-mode, a groan a little: that macro saves about 5 tokens
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by hollerith 1mo ago
Gemini 3.6 Flash was offered with the same introductory pricing (also until Jan 2027) when it was released less than 4 week ago.
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by hollerith 1mo ago
I used to like computers and technology, then I realized AI is really dangerous. Getting back on topic, I admit that AI is very useful and will become much more so between now and when it kills us all or permanently dis-empowers us in some
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by hollerith 1mo ago
That would be relevant if the OP were warning about the dangers of LLMs . There's plenty of research going on into machine-learning models that aren't LLMs. Also, the models we think of as LLMs aren't pure LLMs anymore: abou
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by hollerith 1mo ago
130 years ago, nobody knew that uranium-235 or plutonium could be used to make a bomb. There might be things laying around in our environment that can be turned into weapons, but we have no knowledge of the relevant science, so we won'
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by hollerith 1mo ago
Doesn't matter much because people care quite a bit about the planet, so if advanced technology liberates people from most of the constraints they currently live under, the planet will do very well. (Dogs, cats, seals, foxes, etc, shou
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by hollerith 1mo ago
>Why should someone not be shamed if they do things shameful ? Trying to understand your logic here. His logic is probably, "arguments are soldiers": the enemy is trying to make my side look bad; neutralizing that enemy action
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by hollerith 1mo ago
>There's a reason that people don't like engaging with you . . . nobody wants to fucking talk to you. He has 708 times as much karma as you have, which would be impossible if no one wanted to read his comments. I saw your comme
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by hollerith 1mo ago
Quirky and adorable!
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by hollerith 1mo ago
>Aliens was Alien fanfiction Just because an established Hollywood director was a fan of the first Alien movie does make his script for Alien's sequel "fan fiction". Cameron had already written and directed The Terminato
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by hollerith 1mo ago
When I started on the internet, Dec 1991, there were basically no ads. It stayed that way till ads starting appearing on the web, probably in 1994 or maybe 1993. The internet in Dec 1991 was already the largest computer network in the world
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by hollerith 1mo ago
Just because we can't stop it completely doesn't mean we can drastically slow it down: make it illegal to study to be an AI researcher, to train someone to be a researcher, to seek investment for AI development, to invest in AI de
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by hollerith 1mo ago
You wouldn't be worried about constant noise from the chillers?
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by hollerith 1mo ago
Someone conjectured that every organization that doesn't have opposing Leftism as its mission will eventually be run by Leftists.
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by hollerith 1mo ago
Good point, but China's generals were trained by generals with experience in a proper war, which is not nothing. Specifically, Beijing sent 3 million Chinese soldiers to assist Pyongyang in evicting the US Army and its allies from No

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