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by toss1 3d ago
Yup. Sacks has been so catastrophically wrong about everything else (especially geopolitics), this prompts me to reconsider my opinion on this.
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by toss1 3d ago
On the topic of regulatory capture, there is this rumor that Google has achieved Recursive Self Improvement, and the other three (OpenAI/Anthropic/X) are just trying to get the regulators to slow down Google so they can catch up.
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by toss1 3d ago
Sure, that'd be more "cost efficient", and for a small one-off, probably better. But law enforcement and justice is not a profit center. Merely making the threats like you specify and even having it restored encourages more c
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by toss1 5d ago
Yes, your comment on smoothness and speed prompted me to also wonder at what level the remote control could be happening. The obvious level is the monitor just takes over driving like a remote FPV driver/pilot. But I wonder if the soft
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by toss1 5d ago
Not today. The Iranian-backed Houthis also struck the Saudi East-West oil pipeline [0], pumping stations and refining capability. Reductions in export output initially estimated around 700,000 barrels per day now missing from the market. [0
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by toss1 6d ago
Corollary to that is the then-newish services had less content now. A higher price alone for the same "tier" does not necessarily mean less value. I'd want to also estimate the overall quantity and quality offered for the hig
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by toss1 6d ago
As a former Notes developer/VAR/user, the core platform absolutely had a combination of key functions available nowhere else — distributed, replicated rich-text/object database, DOD-level security, seldom-connected communicat
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by toss1 6d ago
Do you know how much of the drive and handling those complications was actually fully autonomous vs how much (or what key points) were handled from the remote control room by a human? I'm not sure how you would tell, but that is a crit
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by toss1 8d ago
Stop with the strawman arguments; am not equating internet words and meaningless upvotes with real action. I am also not even close to claiming such disobedience is sufficient. It is not. But it is a necessary first step. And failing to tak
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by toss1 8d ago
Even "symbolic" resistance is not merely symbolic — it is actually costly and meaningful. A core principle of authoritarianism is to get people, corporations, and institutions to yield to the despot's — comply in advance, ret
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by toss1 8d ago
That is not helpful. That makes them only useful as windsocks, and there are other far better ways to see which way the wind is blowing.
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by toss1 8d ago
When it gets to the end of the design loops, can it run simulations and tests, or is that out of scope i.e., for another product? (I didn't notice testing on a very quick peruse, but that doesn't mean I didn't simply miss it)
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by toss1 9d ago
It will be when enough people elect enough politicians who take action against this weaponized incompetence and strip-mining of the peoples' assets. Or, if that does not happen, when enough people rise up in revolution and take the com
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by toss1 11d ago
They are likely expecting the same kind of war we are already in with Russia; in which Russia tries to keep its attacks just below the threshold of open war and its rhetoric and "negotiations" about "seeking peace". Ru
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by toss1 11d ago
Wouldn't that depend a lot on what and how much were targeted? Seems a sufficient number of satellites in a particular orbital altitude and inclination would be required to create a self-sustaining cascade. Even then, the Delta-V of te
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by toss1 14d ago
YUP. >> you need to test the thing you're in there for. At some point, refusing to test an untested belief is just protecting a fantasy. "One test is worth a thousand opinions" Indeed, if the opinions are about yourself
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by toss1 15d ago
Ha!! Yup. 'Tho it seems a ~5w laser rapidly scanning would be enough to fry optics without igniting furniture or draperies?
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by toss1 15d ago
The overall article and discussion here is detection, and all the weaknesses of detection. At some point, the only solution will be active destruction. Someone will build something like a multi-wavelength high powered laser device to sweep
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by toss1 19d ago
Ah, yes, improvements both — the awesomeness of internet strangers! "Evokes Curiosity" and "Does not yet compute" seem much better and more useful.
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by toss1 19d ago
In an otherwise idle moment some time ago, I for some reason started pondering what we really meant when we said/wrote something was "weird", as it seemed an odd word and not really as defined as it seemed. The closest soluti
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by toss1 19d ago
Interesting data, and possibly true OTOH, I'm quite sure if you came to me with a truckload of $100 bills and a gun, put the gun to my head and asked me to tell you anything about an advert I saw 3 minutes ago, the truckload of cash is
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by toss1 19d ago
Surprising it is taking advertisers this long to wake up, considering the decades I've been reading articles on HN about the massive fraud rates from entire fraud ecosystems. The saying in marketing used to be: "Half of all market
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by toss1 20d ago
Start with the excellent articles and books on the topic of enshittification by Cory Doctorow. Also, simply observe the economy, without the prior bias of holding paramount values of tropes like "free market" and "shareholder
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by toss1 20d ago
YES!! The other thing to do is discharge it, so it has little energy stored to maintain/enlarge a fire A drone engineer I worked with would immediately put any suspect battery into a barrel of water for several days, then get them disp
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by toss1 25d ago
"Democratic Socialism" is VERY different from "Social Democracy" In socialism with supposed democracy, where the state owns the means of production and supposedly the workers supposedly have a say about everything, the
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by toss1 25d ago
Perhaps consider reframing the term from referring to the God in which you believe but as merely a reference to just the top agent in its little Munder Difflin universe? Seems like both a mental model which more accurately represents the me
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by toss1 27d ago
The evolutionary adaption to running ultra-distances is persistence hunting, and it was one of the keys to human survival and evolution. In persistence hunting, over great distances, humans can outrun game animals as long as they pick one a
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by toss1 28d ago
If you take the view of a simpleton, sure, it seems "Better", for now, and depending on your definition of "Better". If it is only price, then sure. But remember, the economies of scale first make things more the same an
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by toss1 29d ago
If it is only 25% more, you are NOT getting ripped off. Mere economies of scale and purchasing power yield Amazon more than 25% lower costs. the mom & pop stores you accuse of ripping you off likely have even slimmer margins than Amazo
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by toss1 1mo ago
Interesting thought, but I'm not sure the (admittedly flammable & explosive) fuel load is the main threat posed by a hijacked aircraft — the large mass at velocity can still to major damage and casualties wherever it is crashed. Pl

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