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by vzqx 7d ago
Hmm, that's an interesting thought experiment. Imagine you find out that your primary goal - to love and protect your family, let's say - was artificially implanted in your mind by an advanced alien race. Would you say "I&#x2
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by vzqx 7d ago
This article assumes we can choose a primary goal for an AI. But if that's the case, why not just use Asimov's first law of robotics - do no harm to humans? It has the same benefit of preventing us from getting turned into papercl
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by vzqx 17d ago
Original paper published in 2021 - https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/sustainable-food-system...
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by vzqx 2mo ago
Medicaid defines terminally ill as under 6 months to live. So there's no risk of someone mooching off the system for decades.
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by vzqx 4mo ago
"It’s unlikely that firefighters would consider creating a hole in the tank because of fears that could create a spark that might ignite the volatile and flammable gas." Per https://apnews.com/article/californ
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by vzqx 5mo ago
As someone who works for the DoD, the so called "disturbing" language in the paper is very commonplace in this industry. Idk if or why Red Hat is trying to redact the paper, but I'm sure it's not because they're emb
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by vzqx 1y ago
I think you need to rigorously define your macrostates. If your two states are "my friend's password" and "not my friend's password" then the macrostates are perfectly objective. You don't know what macros
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by vzqx 2y ago
I'm open to outsiders improving inefficiencies. The concern is that these are kids, barely out of college. They don't have the domain-specific knowledge required to rework these complex systems, no matter how smart they are. Plus,
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by vzqx 2y ago
The author has a fursona, so I think the author himself is the dog.
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by vzqx 2y ago
Neat, but the weird line breaks would drive me crazy. https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/647e0971bc9b144cf71693a5/... https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/647e0971bc9b144cf71693a5/... I wish they wo
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by vzqx 3y ago
The exact dollar amounts don't matter. As long as the ratio between amounts is the same, the authors' point still stands.
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by vzqx 3y ago
I've noticed that airline wifi doesn't block DNS traffic. You can likely accomplish the same thing with a DNS tunnel like Iodine ( https://github.com/yarrick/iodine ).
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by vzqx 3y ago
(1) When a resource is unlimited, it's easier to distribute that resource cheaply to everyone, which is exactly what communism strives for. Resource scarcity leads to power being concentrated in a small ownership class - e.g. capitalis
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by vzqx 3y ago
What's up with the launch times in the article? > scheduled to launch ... no earlier than Monday at 8 a.m. EDT (1200 GMT). It will be 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) local time. Looking at other websites the correct time is 8 EDT, 7 CDT, 1200
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by vzqx 4y ago
According to [1], it sorted flights by an "agony" metric which was a combination of price, duration, and number of stops. [1] https://www.afar.com/magazine/hipmunk-is-shutting-down-heres...
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by vzqx 4y ago
If you give 10% of your income, you're still keeping 90% for yourself. So it implies you consider yourself nine times as valuable as all other humans. I'm not on board with Effective Altruism, but 10% of your income seems like a r
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by vzqx 4y ago
No need to use two restaurants. Just order 1000 pizzas to your own address. When the delivery person shows up, hand one pizza back and forth between you 1000 times (or until the delivery person gets bored and leaves). Question - at what poi
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by vzqx 4y ago
This is how Patreon already works - they pool both incoming and outgoing donations for the month into a single transaction to reduce fees. But there are a bunch of donors who only donate $1-$3 a month to a single creator, and these incoming
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by vzqx 5y ago
How does Evil person interact with Pirate Bay owners? Does the Pirate Bay knowingly host fraudulent ads in return for a share of the profit?
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by vzqx 5y ago
From the FAQ - Is the Forward Party a political party? The Forward Party is a PAC that plans to grow its support and then petition the FEC for recognition as a political party when we fulfill the requirements, which include operating in sev
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by vzqx 6y ago
The title is technically accurate, but it's misleading to non-mac users like myself. I assumed the author was using functionality called "Preview" only to view the documents, rather than save them. There's a big differen
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by vzqx 6y ago
Rules for body art are more relaxed, but full nudity is still not allowed. https://www.twitch.tv/p/legal/community-guidelines/sexualcon...
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by vzqx 6y ago
Most bangs are user submitted. Feel free to make one yourself: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang
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by vzqx 6y ago
The source is this Fox News interview: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-seeks-to-starve-post-... No timestamp because I couldn't bring myself to listen to all 40 minutes.
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by vzqx 6y ago
The (peaceful) protests aren't illegal so anonymity isn't a major concern. Police might be violent towards protestors in the moment, but there's zero risk of the government tracking down and punishing protesters after the fac
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by vzqx 8y ago
http://facebook.com/ads/preferences/behaviors Apparently I'm 'very conservative'... probably because of my friend group, since I've never posted anything political on Facebook.
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by vzqx 9y ago
I think most people see ACA's failure as a failure of government regulation, not as a failure of private insurers. If anything the pendulum is going to swing the other way, and we'll see more privatized healthcare in the near futu