mapontosevenths

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by mapontosevenths 3d ago
You're right. I think I conflated allegations in the comments with the actual claims made in the Youtube video. GM did show that the devices scan for open wifi networks, and users in the comments have claimed that it connects without t
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by mapontosevenths 3d ago
> The problem is that you're not offered a choice. No one is making the "err towards explainability" choice. I'm not sure that's entirely fair. OpenAI recently discussed this at length in a blog post after some a
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by mapontosevenths 3d ago
Agreed. I would vote for the "when there is a choice" version of your argument. I'm not sure it is always possible to verify when human comprehension is the limit though. Most of research is done an the frontier of knowledge
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by mapontosevenths 4d ago
You are assuming that humans are capable of understanding everything. They are not. Human comprehension sets a ceiling on progress. It reminds me of those schools that can only teach as quickly as the dumbest kid in the room can follow. We
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by mapontosevenths 4d ago
1) I said that 2/3rds of all humans live near large bodies of water so evaporative cooling was probably fine for most of us. 2) You replied that it was saltwater and desalinating it was expensive. 3) I pointed out that saltwater evapor
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by mapontosevenths 4d ago
> We need to insist on building tech that's explainable by design. You realize this means insisting on terrible tech that humans can understand right? It essentially caps human progress at some point about 4 years ago. If you are ol
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by mapontosevenths 4d ago
The gamers nexus thing touched on this.. Apparently some ignore that choice and connect to open wifi or something like Comcasts modem hijacking wifi.
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
> We absolutely could run out of fresh water, and pumping it into data centres is a terrible idea. Maybe if you live in a desert. I'm not going to. We don't all live in the same place, and different rules are necessary. I suspe
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
> people who enjoy making it won't be able to afford to do it The demand for paintings did not disappear when photography was invented. Though many Luddites claimed it would. There were even those who wanted cameras outlawed to prot
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
It doesn't need to be desalinated for evaporative cooling, does it? Maybe they use fresh water because we allow it and it's cheaper. They should outlaw that where it makes sense.
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
It's not. You say it's gone after the pipe leaks, but it's still on earth. I have no idea where you think it goes.
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
I do need an entire ocean of water to live a normal lifestyle. Only some amount far less than the many, many, many quadrillions of gallons of freshwater we have. If you live in the desert, stop doing that... or get them to laws for your spe
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
> Protections are purely so that the creators can get paid in some shape. That's not what the founding fathers said, and it's not what they wanted. Madison thought that the two things were really the same saying: "The uti
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
> It matters because there's almost none as it is That's ridiculous and untrue.
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
> You can absolutely lose surface water, Where the heck does it go? Space? You're talking about the entire planet here. There's nowhere for it to be lost to, unless you're cracking it into hydrogen and oxygen or something.
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
> Also with LLM's we'll reach a point when everything is made out of samples We reached that point with humans long ago. There's nothing new under the sun. Only remixes of dead peoples greatest hits. The pentatonic scale,
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
Entirely new works are often created entirely from samples, and can be amazing. See "Frontier Psychiatrist" by The Avalanches for one example done entirely by humans. There are many others.
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
Three percent of two thirds of the entire planet is enormous. We aren't running out, and never will. Some people just live in places that aren't suitable for human life and survive only through technology. Those places need to hav
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
Fully two thirds of earths inhabitants live near large bodies of water. It's not a problem for most of us. The 1/3rd that choose to live in arid places where droughts are a concern should probably just pass laws that require close
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
I see no argument here. Just a note that it seems to be obvious to you. It must not be as obvious to me, or millions of others or we wouldn't be on the opposite side of it.
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
> Is impoverishing them supposed to encourage progress in the arts and sciences? No, but that needs new laws. Not an abuse of the old ones justified under the thinnest of pretenses. I don't think that folks stop to consider what ben
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
I gloss over it because it's an argument that makes no sense to me. Copyright exists to encourage progress in the arts and sciences. Not to enrich artists or scientists. Ai is progress. Further, the works it creates are fully transform
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by mapontosevenths 5d ago
Yes. The part I don't get is why do we care about that? Earth is two thirds water, and it rains. The water I drank this morning is million of years old. It will be around for millions more. So, they pump some water out of the earth and
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by mapontosevenths 8d ago
> A text search over the corpus of user data used in the training set can only take so long. Did you notice the line in the article that says the models had access to an offline copy of THE INTERNET. Like all of it.
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by mapontosevenths 8d ago
At long last we have achieved equality. Now everyone can know what it's like to be pulled over for DWB!
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
The orange pi doesn't do HDR properly. Linux in general doesn't support it natively, and the hardware doesn't provide for it. On most devices Dolby Vision, etc get downgraded or support only the streaming profiles (profile 5)
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
I'll go further. Advertising is at it's very core an abuse. They took Aristotles rhetoric, and turned it into a slimy dead thing that seeks profit rather than truth. Advertising is sophistry, and sophistry is evil.
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
> don't really have a problem with ads, I paid for windows. I am the customer. I am not not the product. I actually like Windows, or did for most of my nearly 30 year career. In the past I have defended it against the "winblow
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
The older M-Data discs actually claimed to use a stone data layer.
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by mapontosevenths 9d ago
Not well. If you only care about file playback, bit still care about things like HDR and quality audio I would recommend something like the OSMC Vero V instead. It's still relatively cheap, and open source, but also let's you play

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