mptest

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by mptest 6d ago
as someone who upgrades frequently i keep two one as a backup for travel and what not so my past two gens i keep third oldest trade in.
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by mptest 2mo ago
> alternatives... Well, maybe start fixing problems at home before spending tens of billions not fixing things anywhere else? we can't even change ourselves for the better, an adjudicated rapist, alleged pedophile rules us, and we&#
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by mptest 2mo ago
> how are yall carrying context... Personally I just , in the orchestration loop, have all decisions be constantly reviewed and deliberated on and the decisions logged in a permanent way, that way everything is auditable, the model if ne
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by mptest 3mo ago
> they do need to actually consider that 5 year olds might have guns. hilarious accidental commentary on the US > no way to prevent this - only nation where this regularly happens [0]
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by mptest 3mo ago
> The AI companies were all asking for the government to regulate them pretty shallow take. they asked for sensible, transparent, tech aware regulations. this is not that.
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by mptest 3mo ago
"democratically elected" being an extremely load bearing sentiment if you know anything about what people's lives are actually like on the ground. did you know a large majority of the populace didn't even vote in 2006?
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by mptest 3mo ago
that's a forward thinking robotics company right there. putting in weakspots for when the centaur robot revolution begins. so we have a chance.
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by mptest 4mo ago
it's gotten scary out there for purveyors of truth and knowledge. book burnings, banning, retributive use of the judicial system, etc..
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by mptest 5mo ago
If you read anthropic paper on "functional" emotions in llm's you'd have a lot of fun. there's so much research that would be so fun to do if we had the compute to spare https://transformer-circuits.pub&#
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by mptest 5mo ago
if it helps it's from his novel imperium about cicero. the rest of the quote is great. "...Cicero had stuck to his principles and rejected joining pompey, crassus, and Caesar in their triumvirate to supplant the state. He denounce
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by mptest 5mo ago
404media is good stuff, one of the few news outlets I pay for. I didn't dig too deep on the above comment because I have a deep respect for journalists despite admittedly many of them servicing things I dislike by choice or coercion or
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by mptest 5mo ago
for a good counterbalance to those just finding out the nyt is a state dept mouthpiece at best, read about real journalists and why there seem to be so few of them, read Pegasus by laurent richard. Spoiler alert, real journalists who expose
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by mptest 5mo ago
"how easy it is, for those of us who play no part in public affairs, to sneer at the compromises required of those who do" - robert harris Not making any value judgements, but I can see how one might value their interpretability r
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by mptest 6mo ago
But not all are IN decline..
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by mptest 6mo ago
In an empire in decline, sure.
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by mptest 6mo ago
When the only question is how precipitous the empire's fall will be, it's not looking good, regardless.
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by mptest 7mo ago
the end of proprietary blobs has to be the oddest set of words that excites me
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by mptest 7mo ago
In retrospect, was there a better place to learn about the cruelty of the world than runescape? Must've got scammed thrice before I lost the youthful light in my eye
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by mptest 7mo ago
I'm sorry for your loss. Beautiful memorial and portrait you painted though. Thank you for sharing.
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by mptest 7mo ago
What's even crazier is the technological pursuit of EUV and what a moonshot it was. Chip wars by chris miller chronicles it and it is absolutely crazier than sci fi.
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by mptest 7mo ago
Luckily I am US based, but unfortunately looks like there's no way out of the developer grind for a few years. I have presentation skills and plenty of soft skills but no experience building complex b2b systems. I've, for many a y
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by mptest 7mo ago
>Sure, if you're some sort of tyrant. I thought the left was against colonialism... but you guys really just one a more clever, subtle colonialism eh? Figures Drastic misrepresentation. I made no value judgements. I simply offered r
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by mptest 7mo ago
is there anyway you'd be willing to field a few questions from a soon to be cs grad interested deeply in this specific career path after realizing they'd been doing it in a way for free already. good experience, but unconventional
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by mptest 7mo ago
> The US taxpayer has no moral obligation to send welfare "around the world". I mean, by way of the atrocities we've committed around the world, we kinda do. Even if we buy your thesis, foregoing morals, geopolitics, and h
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by mptest 8mo ago
also remember it's pretty much the only addiction you are compelled to partake in even when "cured". No other addiction are you biologically compelled to do it (that i can think of) but for those with addiction issues and foo
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by mptest 9mo ago
paying to train* and fund the research for the tools to replace us
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by mptest 9mo ago
The only man to successfully battle and defeat glp-1's in war. his getting fit series is genuinely motivational. But not for any of the right reasons, lol.
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by mptest 9mo ago
if only i had a machine with a petabyte or two to spare to help seed the whole library
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by mptest 9mo ago
anyone got an archive link?
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by mptest 10mo ago
or if you prefer your depression in book format: surveillance capitalism by zuboff pegasus: a spy in your pocket laurent richard

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