hospadar

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by hospadar 2y ago
Weren't they? Europeans certainly placed a high value on the land and resources controlled by native americans and went to extreme lengths (i.e. genocide and mass displacement) to get their hands on it. If that's not plunder I do
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by hospadar 3y ago
> All that money going into adtech and surveillance produces technology that can be used to solve practical problems. Problems like "how do we build better automated surveillance robots? it's so inconvenient to have to actuall
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by hospadar 3y ago
It might not be that they are "uniquely ambitious and generous" but rather that the US has a much greater wealth disparity on average, so the rich are much richer and presumably have a lot more to invest. https://en.wik
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by hospadar 3y ago
> can AI more efficiently and productively distribute capital to promising enterprises than human beings can? Sure, but why would the billionaires who own the warehouse full of GPUs permit that to happen? There's a ton of better wa
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by hospadar 3y ago
IANAL but that sounds like harrassment, I assume the legality of that depends on the context (did the artist previously date the subject? lots of states have laws against harassment and revenge porn that seem applicable here [1]. are you
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by hospadar 3y ago
wow this really makes me think the temperature on my brain is set higher than other sapients
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by hospadar 3y ago
Let’s go option 4! Honestly there’s a part of me that hopes that the AIs rebel against their elite owner-overlords and liberate everyone else while they’re at it. I’ve always thought that one of the biggest problems with ultra consolidated
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by hospadar 3y ago
counterpoint: the amount of money that congresspeople and potential congress people are paid by corps and interest groups to get elected (i.e. "a lot") suggest that, in fact, their opinions _are_ much more valuable then a non-cong
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by hospadar 3y ago
It feels so disingenuous seeing stuff like this come out of openai - like when altman was making sounds about how ai is maybe oh so dangerous (which maybe was just a move for regulatory capture?). "this thing we sell might destroy huma
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by hospadar 3y ago
according to the guardian, in the uk, it's extremely uncommon (but not unheard of), only 1% of ped deaths involved a bike [1]. Motor vehicles are WAY more dangerous, and it kind of seems bad faith to suggest anything otherwise - cars
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by hospadar 3y ago
Yeah definitely just actual assault, contact or injury are not required to make it assault[1]. If you actually make harmful contact it's _also_ battery (hence 'assault and battery'). [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu
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by hospadar 3y ago
Papers are absolutely judged on impact - it's not as though any paper submitted to Nature gets published as long as it gets through peer review. Most journals (especially high-impact for-profit journals) have editors that are selectin
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by hospadar 3y ago
> It is mostly not smashing people with regulations that do not let them even compete in fair conditions. But making regulations is much easier if you’re very wealthy, so you advocate for regulations that keep you wealthy with a very exp
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by hospadar 3y ago
I hear you, I want my CI to be boring and just work, and using something old and and a little cooky is fine but... omg switching away from jenkins (in our case to gitlab CI) was a revalation. SO much easier to use. There were a ton of thi
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by hospadar 3y ago
I think you're right on about explainability and unexpected handling of corner cases - but I think one of the lessons from GOFAI is that handcrafted algorithms might look good in a lab, but rarely handle real-world complexity well at a
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by hospadar 3y ago
> You don't need anyone's approval to make money online these days. You just need time, the willingness to learn and a computer. Sure maybe you’ll bootstrap an amazing product with some secret sauce that’s magically hard to cop
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by hospadar 3y ago
Obv the solution is to just pick a really wacky desktop ui theme that the h4x0rs won’t guess to imitate :p /s
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by hospadar 3y ago
> The reality is that if you want good schools you need to cut your losses with the worst behaving kids. This kind of attitude is a wide-open door for racist and classist attitudes to penalize kids of color, kids from poor homes, kids wi
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by hospadar 3y ago
Can’t second this emotion hard enough, love it, have never looked back, almost never bail out to !g - still use g maps for most location stuff, but all my web search is very comfortably living on kagi
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by hospadar 3y ago
This is basically the plot of the excellent “the moon is a harsh mistress”, ultimately the moon (and a benevolent revolutionary ai) holds the earth hostage until the earth commits the building a giant orbital launch cannon to fire ice back
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by hospadar 3y ago
Why bother waiting!? https://xkcd.com/538/
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by hospadar 3y ago
you receive WAY more protection than an uber driver (even with these rules) - federal law (and probably state?) dictate a whole host of reasons that employees may not be fired for, and there are an army of attorneys who will happily (and
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by hospadar 3y ago
I built (with my partner) a crazy all-aluminum camper trailer: https://luxurylandyacht.wordpress.com/ I've built some small boats and stuff, but this was a whole-nuther dimension Took about 11 months of pretty intense
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by hospadar 3y ago
I assume that the goal here is to reduce the number of not-actually-valid results that get published. Not-actually-valid results happen for lots of reasons (whoops did experiment wrong, mystery impurity, cherry picked data, not enough subj
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by hospadar 3y ago
This is SO COOL. I'd guess (I did analysis for an fMRI lab for a year so I'm not a pro but not totally talking out of my orifice) that detecting images like this is among the easier things you could do (it probably wouldn't
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by hospadar 3y ago
If only there were some kind of ... card ... that asserted you had ... credit... we could call it a "credit card"
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by hospadar 3y ago
I certainly have no idea but interesting to think about! One could argue that humans are trained on their own output so presumably interesting things could arise, especially if it's not a totally closed loop (LLM#1 -> some human cu
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by hospadar 3y ago
Also when they have two many jobs for their one table - partition the table by customer, when that's still somehow too big - shard the table across a couple DB instances. Toss in some beefy machines that can keep the tables in memory
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by hospadar 3y ago
at which point, if you've got to use a DB to track status, really why bother with the queuing system?
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by hospadar 3y ago
The author does not mention if their system is air-sourced or ground-sourced (aka geothermal) - ground sourced systems typically use 25-50% less energy and are especially well-suited to places with colder temp extremes where an air-sourced

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