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by skissane 4d ago
> I truly think because of the pace of innovation this will be a universal feeling for every human for the rest of existence. Why would it be? Imagine a man who is a student in a kollel in Kiryas Joel. He spends his day studying the Tora
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by skissane 4d ago
Yes, but negligence is more commonly a tort than a crime. Negligence is generally only criminalised in certain narrow cases, e.g. when it causes human deaths or serious physical injuries And tort law only works when the plaintiff believes i
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by skissane 4d ago
This depends on a lot of things: how many committed omnicidalists there are; how much financial resources they have (untraceable crypto doesn't help you if you're working a dead-end job and only have $5K in your bank account); eng
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by skissane 4d ago
> "AI diversity" does nothing when AIs can attack at incredible speed, when compute imbalances exist, etc They can defend at incredible speed too. Diversity needs to measured in a capacity/capability-weighted way. It isn&#
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by skissane 4d ago
I think AI diversity protects against rogue AIs. The more different AIs we have, with different weights, controlled by different actors, the less likely that any one AI will be able to "take over", and the less likely that a signi
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by skissane 7d ago
> Steal 20$ out of a cash register and make the local news. Waste a billion dollars at a corp and make insane decisions and ride out on a golden parachute. Its a fucked up world. I think if we are just looking at the media: Most journali
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by skissane 16d ago
> The stuck-in-slop state of LLM writing is not from lack of trying. AI labs already tried hard on improving prose and hit a wall. LLM giants would have loved to ship better writing capability to conquer marketing, copywriting, and publi
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by skissane 16d ago
> The current definition of "planets" and "dwarf planets" is fine. It’s serviceable, but is it ideal? What’s the scientific advantage in categorising “planets” and “dwarf planets” as two separate categories, compared
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by skissane 16d ago
This is why I think, the best way to ensure AI safety, is make sure no one company gets ahead of the others. Multiple vendors, competing implementations – that's good, that increases heterogeneity and hence decreases existential risk B
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by skissane 17d ago
I think our biggest protection against “AIs kill us all” is having lots of different AI systems (different agents, different models, from different vendors, serving the whims of actors with disparate interests), at a similar capability leve
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by skissane 17d ago
It doesn’t because the UK has FPtP yet doesn’t have a hard two party system. Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have nationalist movements that want out of the UK-state independence movements exist in the contemporary US too, but they are
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by skissane 18d ago
One thing this makes possible – accelerated memcpy. Of course, it is only worthwhile once the memory buffer to be copied is large enough. But the copy speed could be greatly increased if it could all be done inside the memory module. And of
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by skissane 18d ago
> So you basically dispose of cache for the memory region used? I wonder what the offsets of the cache misses is going to be in practice (the article addresses it but there is no solution/impact given by samsung). This is a temporar
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by skissane 18d ago
I actually think the US hard two party system isn't purely due to first-past-the-post, it is actually due to four interacting factors: (1) first-past-the-post; (2) presidentialism; (3) a deeply-entrenched primary system; (4) cultural h
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by skissane 19d ago
> I am not sure a vote of non-confidence would have helped here — there are only two parties. But why are there only two parties? The rest of the Anglosphere–Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the UK–have multiparty systems–some ar
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by skissane 20d ago
20 years ago, IBM had their eCLipz initiative to unify z and POWER. What actually shipped was two different CPUs sharing some design, but some of the media reports on it made it sound like it may have originally been more ambitious-one CPU
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by skissane 21d ago
Yes, I agree that taking drugs manufactured by unregulated black market operators is dangerous and not to be recommended. But "microdosing" per se isn't the issue. I once stumbled upon a psychiatry case report about a man wit
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by skissane 21d ago
GHB’s sodium salt (sodium oxybate, Xyrem/etc) is a legal prescription drug in several countries, used for treating narcolepsy, alcoholism, and also as an anaesthetic. I don’t see what’s the problem with someone taking any drug legally
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by skissane 23d ago
> They get away with this sort of nonsense because large corps have nowhere to go. I think a lot of large corps could function quite well with a model like: (a) allow employees to choose a MacBook instead; (b) use various macOS enterpris
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by skissane 27d ago
> instead of using an existing hardened library A lot of retry libraries I’ve seen require the user to configure them. You can use a library with all the right settings, but if you configure it wrong, you are really no better off than if
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by skissane 1mo ago
Are there any plans for compatibility with GitHub's APIs? I have a lot of dev tooling which assumes code is stored on public GitHub and/or GitHubEnterprise. This produces some degree of lock-in, in that all that code would have to
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by skissane 1mo ago
Sierra released most of their AGI games on the Apple IIc/IIe. Given C64 is a roughly equivalently specced machine, there is no reason in principle why they couldn't have ported AGI to C64 as well – it just, for whatever reason, ne
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by skissane 1mo ago
> Many people currently in power believe that if we do not talk about race, by literally not using the words, that longstanding societal issues will simply disappear. Australia used to have a "White Australia Policy". It was in
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by skissane 1mo ago
> search keeps getting worse For a lot of use cases, you don't need a general purpose search engine – a search over a curated knowledge base works even better. There are plenty of freely available data sets you can use, depending on
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by skissane 1mo ago
> For your father's gas heating, this really sounds like an emotional decision. Modern gas heating produces the same heating as reverse cycle, where air is passed over a hot bit of metal and expelled into the room. One bit of metal
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by skissane 1mo ago
A lot of people still prefer gas stoves for cooking Yes you can get bottled LPG gas, but it is a pain – you worry about running out, you have to call up and get them to deliver it. With piped gas you just set up a direct debit for the bill
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by skissane 1mo ago
> The coast-to-coast "long distance transmission" is not in fact a thing in Australia. The main Australian electricity grid reaches from Cooktown in far northern QLD [0] through to the Lower Eyre peninsula in South Australia [1
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by skissane 1mo ago
> What is even more amazing is how many of Australia's politicians have been in the pocket of coal barons and yet they put up barely any struggle against solar adoption. More than 80% of coal mined in Australia is exported. So reduc
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by skissane 1mo ago
> Residential demand is only down by 6% and part of that is likely due to the effective ban on gas in new residential construction which started in 2023 in Victoria. Prior to 2023 residential gas usage was increasing. There's a lot
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by skissane 1mo ago
I’ve got nothing against AI-written code But if people are going to post it on HN, they should consider at least writing the README / main page of their website by hand It is nice to hear the human authorial voice, at least sometimes

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