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> a coalition including Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc., corporations that profit greatly from mandatory identity verification online. This is not being pushed by private companies. There is no m…

This wasn't even a debate two years ago. People were still complaining about Secure Boot and needing Microsoft's permission to install Linux, and about locked phone bootloaders. The fact tha…

> The logic of giving ethanol or fomepizole is to slow down the rate of production methanol's dangerous metabolic byproducts so less damage is done, nevertheless those dangerous metabolites ar…

Recordable CDs involved individuals making copies. AI is run by a couple of dozen people who give full access to other people's work, metered by the syllable. It was never legal for massive corpo…

Not much of a dictatorship if the dictator concedes defeat after an election that was possible for him to lose.

> he was a agent of a horribly oppressive government that was trying to totally change the villagers' lives. These were previously peasants still under feudal lords. Before somebody came to te…

https://archive.org/details/Juggling-Step-By-Step-1987

> Good customer service will become a differentiator This does not matter without antitrust, which is why customer service became bad in the first place. 30 years ago, the low quality of customer s…

A million eyes makes no difference when it comes to AI, they're all going to find the same vulnerabilities. Which means that one guy running AI against your closed source software is just about…

Start with not antagonizing China, and you'll have other vendors to chose from.

No, you were having a discussion, and now you're the one who just had a tantrum. If you're going to be personally offended when somebody says that the US looks like it is throwing a tantrum,…

Wishful to the point of delusion. Europe is a stagnant backwater in a deep energy crisis that's about to get significantly deeper, and comforts itself on an completely unearned sense of moral sup…

Everybody still cares, so you should get them while they last. Nobody who cares has noticed and maybe won't notice for a while, or it won't be in the budget to go after IA after just hitting…

You're not missing anything. As you can see if you read through the thread, they rely on bitcoin miners being heavily invested into bitcoin and bitcoin equipment, so those people will operate unp…

There are tons of 1D games. Somebody else mentioned Mancala, and I'd also mention the venerable Game of Goose, which can become anything from Candyland to sophisticated things like Kramer and Kie…

> But they got caught up in other ideological battles That wasn't the cause, that was the effect. They got flooded with cash for participating in particular ideological battles, so they contin…

> ideas like freedom of expression, an expectation of privacy, and holding governments accountable This was a bipartisan agreement. Democrats just say "nothingburger" a lot when you talk …

> You seem to be waffling here between targeted and untargeted attacks. Why do you think it matters? Little Snitch is used by enough people that it would be completely worthwhile as just an asset. …

Yes, the number is silly. But that makes the danger even more relevant. They could really get it for a couple million to a couple of people, and double or triple that payment (or stretch it out over a…

All of the models that I've used do this. They, extremely often, pretend to have corrected me right after I've corrected them. Verbosely. Feeding my own correction back to me as a correc…

It's probably closer to 250 years than 25.

No, you've got it right. A lot of people trying to be cute and make southern language seem more alien than it is are over-"correcting." When southern people say y'all to one person…

Here's an odd example of testing, but I design very complex board and card games, and LLMs are terrible at figuring out whether they make sense or really even restating the rules in a different w…

There are only two big instances that work any more, everybody is aware of them including twitter, and they exist only because twitter allows them as a safety valve for upper middle class people who b…

All the facts are true here, but "design defect" is silly. The entire purpose was to keep a country like the US from exploiting its position, and becoming the "world's reserve curr…

> No, it's not a stupid reason. Reason is OK, the execution is controversial. This is a muddled statement. It is a stupid reason to "execute" the act of silently modifying your host …

> If you want to see if the prose is any good, read the book. I don't read complete plot summaries of books that I ever plan to read. That's why I look for "reviews." The only r…

> The thing is, agents aren’t going away. So if Bob can do things with agents, he can do things. But Bob can't do things with agents. He can get a project from someone else and ask the agents …