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by jampekka 3d ago
Djikstra seemed to manage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra#Use_of_tech...
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by jampekka 7d ago
Sad that there's the obvious regulatory capture angle encouraging motivated reasoning about AI risks and how they should be tackled. Maybe it's not the best idea that potentially civilization destroying technology is developed to
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by jampekka 8d ago
Thousands of some of the brightest minds have worked on this problem for over a century. The million bucks is not the big deal here.
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by jampekka 8d ago
> WOW This. I do dislike the AI oligarchs as much as the next person, but I do find the thread full of complaining a bit depressing still. If the result holds (and it looks it does), this may be one of the, if not the, biggest things to
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by jampekka 8d ago
Not in the past I guess?
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by jampekka 10d ago
I'm not much of an artist, but I'd guess trying to paint a painting of how quicksort works, in a way someone else can grasp it too, can need a lot more reconceptualization than writing a description about it. Doing plots or diagra
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by jampekka 10d ago
With the last line I tried to condense (and oversimplify) about these ideas: Not all writing is thinking: That all, even a lot, of writing, or parts of writing, is such that it will develop one's thinking much. For example most stuff I
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by jampekka 10d ago
This is an example of the problem. I did choose to write it in the way that although I knew it can be interpreted trivially, if the reader assumes I'm an imbecile. It was a "punchy" recap of the relatively long explanation fo
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by jampekka 10d ago
I did think about this while writing, and I made the compromise to accept that someone will nitpick about it to hopefully drive the point better for those willing to read it charitably. QED?
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by jampekka 10d ago
Sure, but doing an interpretative dance or an abstract painting can make you reconceptualize the whole concept too. But we're not really pushing those tools as much as writing. Take for example a non-native writer of the language. I&#x
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by jampekka 10d ago
> LLMs write better than most journalists. I used to think this, but now that I've been trying to use them to help with writing, it turns out they are not necessarily that great on the deeper level. The grammar and the surface style
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by jampekka 10d ago
> Writing is thinking. Thinking and deciding. There have been many times when I start out writing something substantial - could be an email, a blog post, a software design document, anything - when my own views substantially changed duri
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by jampekka 10d ago
Some ISPs in Finland have blocked it from resolving for copyright issues, but even if you get it to resolve by changing DNS servers, it goes into a Cloudlare CAPTCHA loop. I assume it's still about the spat with a Finnish blogger.
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by jampekka 10d ago
Plenty of delivery robots in Finland at least, with apparently not much problems with them getting stolen or destroyed. Starship alone seems to have running operations also in UK, Sweden, Estonia and Czhecia.
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by jampekka 10d ago
For us banned by archive.is: https://unwall.app/www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/travel/solar-e...
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by jampekka 12d ago
Seems you have to compromise on HW openness and ethics vs paranoia.
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by jampekka 12d ago
Also the module/import system is still quite painful/hacky. Which is partly due to the long compile times. https://docs.julialang.org/en/v1.13-dev/manual/workflow-tips...
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by jampekka 15d ago
It manipulates the PRNG seed in a systematic way, keeping the same token sampling distribution. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4
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by jampekka 18d ago
1) is not a problem. This is actually already defined technology neutrally in GDPR: "the data subject may exercise his or her right to object by automated means using technical specifications". For specific implementations the law
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by jampekka 18d ago
They banned all of Finland, presumably due to a spat with a Finnish blogger, although the story seems a bit murky. https://lobste.rs/s/z0mdor/archive_today_is_directing_ddos_a...
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by jampekka 18d ago
Lack of do-not-track header is not a consent to track of course. It's just signaling non-consent.
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by jampekka 18d ago
I don't understand why this was downvoted. It's informative and factual.
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by jampekka 18d ago
The law is not about cookies specifically, it's technology neutral. The law doesn't even include the word cookie anywhere. https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
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by jampekka 18d ago
The ePrivacy directive did/does not require the nag for "necessary cookies", i.e. most of the cookies that are serving the user's interests.
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by jampekka 18d ago
GDPR itself is quite a good law. It's implementation and enforcement are not. E.g. the nag problem would have been solved simply and effectively with something like do-not-track header (probably as OS setting, as apps are often even wo
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by jampekka 19d ago
For us banned from archive.is: https://unwall.app/www.ft.com/content/6f3ada65-c56c-499c-8eb...
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by jampekka 19d ago
I generally trust vibe code a lot more than researcher code.
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by jampekka 20d ago
Correlates to what exactly? To behavior or processes we assume subjective experience is present in?
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by jampekka 20d ago
I read "consciousness" in there meaning attribution of consciousness, not as an ontological claim about what is conscious. The article seems to use this switching of the definition as a bit of a rhetorical device, which does muddy
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by jampekka 20d ago
Murdoch et al aren't that bad either.

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