whichfawkes

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by whichfawkes 1y ago
Do you take a standard deduction? It's clearly not enough to cover all of the expenses that are required to generate your "revenue", but it's a gesture in that direction.
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by whichfawkes 2y ago
Seconding the Onyx Box Max Lumi here. I bought one back when they were much more expensive and I still think it's been worth it.
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by whichfawkes 2y ago
I did the same thing actually. There must be dozens of us! I was continually impressed by how easily and reliably it worked.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
It's totally solved, first class is just too expensive for most people. The future is not evenly distributed.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
The fact is it doesn't matter what people "deserve". People who are willing to forsake some degree of convenience can be granted greater privacy by simply informing them. People who are seeking convenience will always be givi
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
I'm not so sure about that. It seems to me that they're selling me a service. Just like I might pay for a subscription to Adobe Photoshop or pay per-render fees to a rendering farm. I could use Photoshop to reproduce a copyright
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
It seems weird to sue an AI company because their tool "can recite [copyrighted]" content verbatim. If I paid a human to recite the whole front page of the New York Times to me, they could probably do it. There's nothing inf
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Human brains are still the main legal agents in play. LLMs are just a computer programs used by humans. Suppose I research for a book that I'm writing - it doesn't matter whether I type it on a Mac, PC, or typewriter. It doesn&#
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Trying to prohibit this usage of information would not help prevent centralization of power and profit. All it would do is momentarily slow AI progress (which is fine), and allow OpenAI et al to pull the ladder up behind them (which fuels c
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Why do you expect an AI to cite it's source? Humans are allowed to use and profit on knowledge they've learned from any and all sources without having to mention or even remember their sources. Yes, we all agree that it's be
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
If society were the customer, society ought to be paying.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
How about instead of adding authoritarian restrictive technology to private vehicles, we just take cars out of the cities? With proper public transit, this would be a no brainer.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
I've only ever heard people prefer chains.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
So then you have to remineralize it... But how are those minerals being sourced, and does that mixture contain lead? Ugh, it never ends.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
For sure it is. Have you never been outside your city? There's stretches of flat, straight-ish interstate in the US that continue for dozens of miles with near-perfect visibility. Sometimes, there's no traffic. Go 120 for all I
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Sufficiently compromised privacy in conjunction with sufficiently sophisticated data markets starts to look a lot like "having a motive", eventually... How long before your AI girlfriend is sussing out your feelings and desires in
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
I'm empathetic to the struggles faced by women. That said, I also realize that those struggles are different than the ones faced by men. Yes, I believe that women experience this particular problem less than men do, but that doesn&#x
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Women can more readily get the kind of attention they want, with minimal effort. Getting emotionally invested in an AI seems to me like it would go hand in hand with giving up on human relationships. I'm pretty sure men are more likel
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Presumably they're making a higher margin on the professional cards.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
To be fair, if I was writing my own Wikipedia page, I would do the same.
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Getting away with it in this case just means "not being cheated by the casino". They're big enough to cheat you using violence or even the judicial system, so if you do this you're strategizing against that as much as yo
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Is it possible that in the end the internet will decide that humanity just isn't worth it?
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by whichfawkes 3y ago
Well, of course they're going to set the requirement high enough that they can be confident you'll survive without them needing to pay to deport you. Beyond that though, they want you to spend your money in Iceland - why else? Pre
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by whichfawkes 4y ago
I've been using MMO-style mice to do similar things for a while. Logitech's G-whatever software is kind of annoying, but one thing I _do_ like about it is it'll flash the configurations directly onto the mouse. This avoids n
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by whichfawkes 4y ago
Obesity can also be related to environmental exposures.
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by whichfawkes 4y ago
Why would they keep employees through a downturn? They're profit-driven entities. Of course they're going to dump externalities onto the public any chance they get, and we should strive to limit their capacity to do so... But in
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by whichfawkes 4y ago
For me, the main benefit of exercise is immediate. However - the magnitude of the immediate positive effect is somewhat related to the intensity/duration of the exercise that I can tolerate. So I would say something like "A 5k ru
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by whichfawkes 4y ago
Just because I might turn chicken in my old age doesn't mean that my death wouldn't be a benefit for most people. There's one other way to "solve" overpopulation, and it's galactic conquest. Everything else we
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by whichfawkes 4y ago
If we could cure some aspects of aging without prolonging life, that seems like it would be an obvious and nearly indisputable good. I'd rather have 80 good years than 80 years of progressive decline.
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by whichfawkes 4y ago
In the US, for a while I remember we had billboards advertising McDonald's burgers as being "1 <hamburger> <hamburger>% beef". Because the hamburgers were of course circular, it looked kind of like "100%&quo

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