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by p-e-w 12d ago
An authoritarian state that exercises oppressive power through legalistic institutions in league with a corporate oligarchy.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
There is no irony. The German government is proto-fascist, and has been for a while, as are several other European governments. Apparently the UK now arrests more people per capita for online speech than China does.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
But it’s in the EU! Which is obviously extremely important for static hosting.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
I don’t see how they could credibly estimate inference costs without knowing the model size.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
It can do some things that JS can’t do, such as invalid pointer writes. But you are correct that this doesn’t automatically imply system access.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
Firefox with uBlock Origin. It’s astonishing how many exploits uBO stops before they ever reach your browser engine. It’s the antivirus of the 2020s.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
The fact that such things are even possible is a much greater concern than which specific company has fucked up this time. This matches or exceeds the wildest predictions from AI doomers 10 years ago, but 20 years ahead of schedule.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
They’re pre-IPO. I doubt that they are loving something that could trigger regulatory action that might shave a trillion or so off their market value.
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by p-e-w 12d ago
Imagine thinking that everything that happens is some inane conspiracy to sell something.
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by p-e-w 13d ago
There can be no such test because “AGI” is (or has become) a pseudo-philosophical/socio-political concept rather than a scientific one.
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by p-e-w 14d ago
Indeed. I’m baffled by the comments here. He predicted that a plateau had been reached multiple times in Spring 2024, and now more than two years have passed and capabilities have exploded since then. He wasn’t being imprecise, he wasn’t
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by p-e-w 15d ago
> It's always at the top of every single firefox thread no matter what is being posted. That’s because this mismanagement has been going on for nearly 10 years now, nothing is being done to address it, and if anything, it seems to b
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by p-e-w 15d ago
There are a lot of good community forks of Chromium also. And no, a fork of Chromium isn’t “the same as Chrome”.
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by p-e-w 15d ago
Firefox has indeed done things that are worse than anything Chrome has done, such as abusing a privileged update channel to push content advertising a TV show to user’s browsers without their knowledge or consent.
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by p-e-w 15d ago
“What do you call a medical student who graduated at the bottom of their class?” “Doctor.”
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by p-e-w 15d ago
They all converged to looking the same though. An unreadable fantasy font logo at the top, multiple concentric frames, dot lines, l33t speech etc. And I absolutely remember people complaining about slop in such intros even in the 90s, they
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by p-e-w 16d ago
You can buy them without training, but that doesn’t mean you should be allowed to use them in a research setting on strangers without training.
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by p-e-w 16d ago
The website looks great to me, clean and simple, perfect for a project like this. “Not looking like it was made by AI” isn’t something I value for itself in a website, any more than “not looking like it was made with injection molding” is s
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by p-e-w 16d ago
> In 2006, when he was a professor at the MIT Media Lab, Ariely conducted experiments including administering electric shocks with a research assistant who had no human–subject training. […] Ariely confirmed this and said that he wasn&#x
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by p-e-w 16d ago
> Is there some way to change incentives to get people to try and replicate? Sure. Pay them to do it.
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by p-e-w 16d ago
> Our view of the universe we live in changes over time as we get more information about it. But that’s not what happened here. The definition was changed. We didn’t learn anything new about Pluto that made us say “ah, we thought Pluto
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by p-e-w 16d ago
Uranus has been observed since antiquity, but wasn’t recognized as a planet.
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by p-e-w 16d ago
We’re on an Internet forum, so that framing is logical when discussing here.
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by p-e-w 17d ago
The pursuit is performative and pretentious, in much the same way as body culture on Instagram. It’s about collecting achievements in an imaginary social game, and then bragging about it, while insisting that it’s not like that at all but s
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by p-e-w 17d ago
Oh, the list wasn’t meant to be exhaustive. I also didn’t mention Homotopy Type Theory, Stoicism, and urban beekeeping.
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by p-e-w 17d ago
Yes, an article explaining online tracking proves the claim that “privacy doesn’t exist”. I guess it is true for certain people who no longer distinguish between their life and browsing the web…
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by p-e-w 17d ago
So do I. According to today’s prevalent tech/science culture, “everyone” should - write their own network stack, compiler, text editor, operating system - learn 3-5 foreign languages - travel extensively - learn how computers work from
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by p-e-w 17d ago
I doubt it. It seems far more likely that such code will be written just once by LLMs, but in a way that allows its claimed guarantees to be formally verified (e.g. in Lean). At that point there’s no need to JIT an implementation each time.
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by p-e-w 17d ago
That’s tinfoil hat nonsense. Of course there is privacy, otherwise those agencies wouldn’t be constantly lobbying for more invasive surveillance powers. What would be the point of that, if they could already read everything?
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by p-e-w 18d ago
Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Vatican, Liechtenstein.

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