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by notabee 1mo ago
The most serious vulnerability that any LLM has exposed to date is in the human brain, where a whole lot of people cannot help but anthropomorphize it and they seem to be willing to totally forego critical thinking. I think this vulnerabili
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by notabee 3mo ago
I am really starting to think that the Very Smart People (pejorative) holding power think that they can just copy the Chinese mass surveillance and social control model without changing anything else about the economic or cultural models of
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by notabee 3mo ago
I think that fasting-mimicking diets are a way to potentially get some of these benefits through occasionally engaging these "slower speed" repair mechanisms without permanently living with bare minimum protein intake. But I also
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by notabee 4mo ago
For a deeper dive on just how that funding is meant to circumvent constitutional protections that normally exist around law enforcement, I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkgNnbTrsgw
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by notabee 4mo ago
Conway's Law still holds true. Software applications will resemble the communication structure of the companies that build them. If the companies are comprised of 90% overly verbose bullshit, so too will be the fragile slop monstrositi
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by notabee 4mo ago
Any system is going to have a free rider problem. I genuinely believe that if we stopped trying to force a large chunk of the population to look like they're busy when they have zero intrinsic desire to do anything well and will contin
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by notabee 4mo ago
I really hope that more people become aware of how much of our society is turning into kayfabe. Just think of the rise of all the new types of ____ theatre like this that have been coined over the last decade or more. It's not an acc
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by notabee 6mo ago
The U.S. has done that kind of thing before, and that's probably why it's so paranoid about having the same kind of thing done to it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...
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by notabee 6mo ago
The problem with this becoming the only reasonable tactic writ large is that it creates social bubbles just like social media. You wind up with very insular cultures and I think at least some of the hype addiction problems seen in tech can
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by notabee 8mo ago
It's baked into the foundations of the U.S. While perhaps not a cult as we describe it today, even the first puritans that settled here were considered extremists not welcome in their home countries. For such a young country, we have a
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by notabee 8mo ago
I had a situation like that with an undocumented behavior and systemd-tmpfiles. I wanted it to clean up a directory in /var/tmp/ occasionally. The automation using that directory kept breaking, however, because instead of eit
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by notabee 10mo ago
Billionaires are buying up and consolidating all of the media outlets just as a hobby, I'm sure.
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by notabee 10mo ago
I'm pretty much always disappointed these days reading online discussions, and I sometimes think about how intentionally devolving most online conversations into petty slapfights is one of the very effective astroturfing techniques.
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by notabee 10mo ago
I really wish people would stop fixating on one nation-state or other entity when it comes to the astroturfing problem. It's something that's going to have all sorts of hands stirring the pot since it's basically just a very
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by notabee 10mo ago
The longstanding existence of religions and the continual birth of new cults, the popularity of extremist political groups of all types, and the ubiquity of fortune-telling across cultures, seem to stand in opposition to your assertion that
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by notabee 2y ago
It's also a social coordination problem. For example a neighborhood where all the homes have to be fire resistant is going to fare a lot better, and probably be cheaper for the individual home owners to build and insure, than the one
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by notabee 2y ago
That's not really true. The introduction of so much extra energy into the atmosphere is going to make weather extremes worse all over the world, and harder to predict as historical models become less relevant. Large scale pattern chang
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by notabee 2y ago
But then it's harder to shim in the money-makers like microtransactions, loot boxes, and all the other recent "innovations" in the gaming industry.
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by notabee 2y ago
Or more likely, listening to background noise to spy on what family members are saying and listening for marketing/brand trigger words. It may not be very human audible but if it's machine audible it will probably be scraped.
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by notabee 2y ago
Considering how massively in bed with the U.S. government and other governments that Microsoft is, and said government has been known for keeping tabs even on allies(1), I'm sure that certain parties have a keen interest in keeping up
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by notabee 2y ago
The blame should honestly go to Congress, because they keep interfering in the process to force NASA to stick with SLS. NASA has tried several times to ditch this albatross around their necks only to be scolded by influential senators deter
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by notabee 2y ago
People have been talking about raising the minimum wage to $15 for so long now (the "Fight for 15" movement started in 2012) that the inflation-adjusted value of that would now have to be almost $21/hr. However, the minimum w
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by notabee 2y ago
This has been posted here a good bit before, but adding it in as relevant. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-navy-spent-billions-l... We've let everything go to rot for the sake of a giant financial ponzi sch
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by notabee 2y ago
It's not harsh. The tide went out and it turns out a lot of people were swimming naked.
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by notabee 2y ago
Without delving into any kind of specific conspiratorial thinking, I think people should also include the possibility that this was malicious. It's much more likely to be incompetence and hubris, but ever since I found out that this is
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by notabee 2y ago
Just perhaps the idea of sticking everyone's retirement funds into massive passive vehicles was a bad one and has an unhealthy effect on the market, as you illustrate here. It is the way of things now so I see your point and it would b
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by notabee 2y ago
Unless the way elections are handled changes, such as doing anything that selects for expertise instead of partisan hackery, all this is going to do is accelerate the gridlock, corruption, and dysfunction. It just does not logically follow
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by notabee 2y ago
It's true, the flexibility can be both a boon and a curse. There should be a little more "best practices" info out there that's not too prescriptive. It doesn't help that a lot of pre-made roles on Ansible Galaxy va
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by notabee 2y ago
HN culture is progressive on some things but very libertarian on others. It's not very left wing because a large portion of the posters here are quite insulated from the plight of blue collar workers.
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by notabee 2y ago
It's called class solidarity, which the wealthy are smart enough to have and everyone else gets grind culture and crab bucket mentality instead.

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