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by lambdaone 3mo ago
> Why would anyone create robots with a sense of self-preservation? Laziness, avarice, and that creating a system that is a 'self-sacrificing saint' is almost impossible to define. What saintly goal, for example, would you exp
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
> The loneliness epidemic, a constant drip-feed of outrage -- all so that people can make a small amount of money I think that should read "all so that a very small number of people can make a very large amount of money"
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
The problem is that your principled opposition to these ads by voting with your wallet does nothing. The advantage to the advertiser is that AI allows them to vomit out ads even more cheaply and to make even more micro-targeted versions of
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Indeed. An ownership class with killer robot armies living in luxury while they exterminate the rest of humanity would be quite possible in theory. After all, we've seen how slave-holders, the Nazis and many other malfeasants behaved i
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Free-to-roam pets are still pets. The Minds are benevolent dictators, and generally seek not to be seen as such by humans.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Carmack and Bellard are both wizards, and trying to rank them is a fool's errand. Let's appreciate them both!
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Bellard is a genius. Carmack's modesty about his own genius is impressive too.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
This re-thinks the entire 3D printing paradigm. Whether this specific idea works or not, I'm sure that this will lead 3D printing research in interesting directions - and the defensive publication is a massive help.
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
[citation needed]
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
And yet mysteriously the British police seem to be able to deal with such situations with nothing more than a Taser - and often manage to avoid even using that. And yet, in spite of all the falsehoods being spread about knife crime levels,
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Words indicate intentions, and framing changes mindset. Starting by changing the names of the ranks to British-style ranks and changing the training materials to the American guardian / British Peelian mindset wouldn't suddenly fi
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Deep, deep down, the average person wants to be controlled and told what to do, just so long as they don't have to acknowledge it to themselves. Clinging to the garment of a Daddy or a Mommy or a god or priest or a Great Leader is the
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
"Mental gag reflex" is exactly right. I'm running two different instances of Claude Opus 4.8 on xhigh right now, and I'm absolutely fine with it because that's what _I_ want to do. AI features on my toothbrush, toas
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by lambdaone 3mo ago
Exactly this. I want a system that can understand basic instructions like this, in context, with all the necessary unspoken assumptions implicit in natural language and the problem domain, and get it right _every single time without fail_.
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
I've written my own autoplacer/autorouter. Placement is where you put the components on the board, routing is how you shape the traces to interconnect them. It does a pretty decent job on small hobby-project boards of ~40 componen
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
The answer to grandfathering things in is not to give them an indefinite examption from the rules; instead, give them, say, a 10 year period of exemption, giving the owner enough time to fix the defect and to spread the expense of doing so
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
"Probably the wrong framework for most use-cases" is not that much of a recommendation.
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
SPAs are a monster that grew and grew; an idea that at first seemed like a clever optimization has generated huge and complex systems that are a nightmare to work with, and are bloated, slow and insecure. Web components are the next big ide
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
There is a medical treatise, "On Assholes", just waiting to be written here, in much the same way that Harry G. Frankfurt introduced us to the technical academic concept of 'bullshit' in his book "On Bullshit".
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
There's not much information about transfluxors available, although a patent for them goes into quite a lot of technical detail, and is referenced in the Wikipedia article.[0] If anyone knows more about this, the Wikipedia article is d
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by lambdaone 4mo ago
This is truly disturbing, and trying to sneak it in like this without public discussion is disingenous. Hopefully it will be shot down like last time - at the very least, there are surely antitrust issues here.
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
There are so many ways around this - for a start, you can use some other working fluid that boils at a lower temperature. Or you can choose a different thermodynamic cycle that doesn't involve phase change.
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
I once aspired to American citizenship, and was dazzled by its wealth, opportunity, can-do attitude and freedom. Now I can't imagine wanting to go there - everything I see or hear, from both American and other sources, right or left, s
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
It seems obvious to me that there should now be a concerted and open effort to detect malware in supply chains based on AI-based scanning. Sure, there will be an arms race in malware obfuscation, but that was coming anyway. Manual review is
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by lambdaone 5mo ago
At today's prices, that's around 1400 tons of gold. It's made out of lots of individual gold bars, and they can certainly move it in increments, by road then air or sea, unless the American government stops them doing it. Peo
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by lambdaone 6mo ago
Very insightful. One key sentence sums it up: "He shipped a product, but he didn't learn a trade." This is going to get worse, and eventually cause disastrous damage unless we do something about it, as we risk losing human in
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by lambdaone 6mo ago
False positives can be eliminated mechanistically by testing if they actually work, in a sufficiently isolated automated test apparatus. The hard thing is reducing detected crashes to well-formulated test cases that help rather than hinder
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by lambdaone 6mo ago
What a fantastic company HP used to be, back in the day. They led the way in scientific equipment and calculators, and even desktop computers for a brief moment. They even made PostScript laser printers that were built like tanks and were a
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by lambdaone 6mo ago
The article says "I don't know where this fascination with getting everyone to download your app comes from." The answer is really simple and follows on from this article; the purpose of the app is even more privacy violation
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by lambdaone 6mo ago
This company sounds like it has months to live, or until the VC money runs out at most. If this idea is good, Anthropic et. al. will roll it into their own product, eliminating any purpose for it to exist as an independent product. And if i

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