RyanAdamas

I live in my car. It's awesome.

Oddly enough, I live in an even older Ford Fusion and it's really easy. Spend time at the Library, Starbucks and get a gym membership for showering. I work full-time and don't dick around with washing dishes or anything. Got an inverter and think of my car as a generator with wheels.

I took out my front passenger seat so I can lay down to sleep. Made it through the summer in the south and it was pretty bad, but you sleep while your body sweats and you deal with mosquitos and flies on the regular.

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg did their Ice Bucket Challenges on August 14th 2014 and Hal died August 28th 2014 of ALS.

>Sure, but Occam’s Razor applies. Why go to such lengths to sow disinformation in a private communication? It would have been far simpler for Hal to have just responded at a different time rather than leaving this proverbial needle in the haystack that would have never been revealed had Hearn not published the emails.

Occam's Razor, as the author enjoyed using, would suggest that someone knowingly creating a rival to a hegemonic currency system would need plausible deniability as to who they are and what they are doing. Having a partner in crime would not be inconceivable and they wouldn't need to be Satoshi.

"Hal used tabs while Satoshi used spaces (this is a massive never-ending debate between developers)

Hal preferred his debug statements not to be indented while Satoshi’s maintained indentation with surrounding code

Hal made comments with block style multi-line markers while Satoshi preferred to create many single-line comments with double slashes

Hal used snake_case for his function names while Satoshi used camelCase

There are probably far more differences that are more subtle, but these jumped out from just a few minutes of eyeballing the codebases."

These are irrelevant. Someone of Hal's intelligence and skill who was a decades long cypherpunk would understand the importance of obfuscating ones own styles. Lastly, I find it interesting that the Silicon Valley elite did the ice bucket challenge 2 weeks before Hal died.

As opposed to statements of absolutism? Sounds like you're one of them!

that's called a trust and it needs to be disassembled

The same outcome could be achieved by instructing children on what Propaganda is, who created it, why it was created and how it has become akin to modern marketing and advertising. Attempting to reframe the perception of deception as "information warfare" is disingenuous to the actual battle at hand; which is Propagandists versus everyone else.

The implications of critical ignoring replace the foundational need for critical thought. The basis for your argument is fully set on anonymity. If the governments of the world provided nation-based social media structures where real people, confirmed as vested citizens, go to communicate, you would see a dramatic drop in "misinformation".

As it is now, misinformation helps the various intelligence agencies and media outlets sell eyeballs or distort truth. The idea we should take a "shunning" like approach to communication is draconian and misplaced.

That is sick. Was just watching an old Computer Chronicles on Lotus 1-2-3

Regulatory capture happens more often with greater regulation. More regulation = more funding required = more labor needed to perform; more money, more labor demand = more political power; money funnels into those managing agencies through third party avenues as a means of buying power and before you know it the regulation is just another barrier to entry that allow existing corporations (often the ones who craft the regulation) to consolidate their industry.

Then we get things like the Horizon Deep oil spill.

Microsoft must be broken up into at least 10 companies. Otherwise, this nation needs to stop pretending any sort of "market forces" dictate our economy or corporate ability to consolidate.

CNN reporting is the absolute worst, crap reporting out there.

"It’s still early to determine the cause of this extreme event but according to our experts, it is certainly connected to the drought period and high temperatures in Lake Tefé, in which some points are exceeding 39 degrees Celsius (102 degrees Fahrenheit),” the institute said in comments carried by CNN affiliate CNN Brasil."

It's the drought and that is causing the temperature of the water to increase, too, not just the "global warming" bearing down on a roaring Amazon, slaying dolphins left and right.

Yellow journalism at its finest.

Don't confuse progress with profit.

>>How are photos and chat interactions processed and stored, and who will have access to my data? Be My Eyes initially processes your photos and chats to (a) send them to Open AI for further processing, (b) provide Be My AI’s descriptions, and (c) give you follow up options. Open AI processes the photos and chats to provide the AI response.

During our beta testing, Be My Eyes stores all photos and chat interactions on encrypted servers so that we can review them, if necessary, based on tester feedback. That helps us build a better service based on your feedback. It also allows us to address any safety or content issues that may come up. Open AI does not store the photos or chats after processing them. None of your photos or chats are being used to train the AI.

The storage and use of your photos and chats by Be My Eyes are governed by our privacy policy.

That, does not mean the data isn't being mined for data, or processed into other models. The data may not be directly training AI, that doesn't mean the correlations aren't. Also, the key clarification here is "During Beta Testing".

>>Governed by our privacy policy: >>>>The one exception is that if you use Be My AI or another Service powered by third-party artificial intelligence technology, and the images or video you submit contain personal information, that information could be processed by our third-party provider to train and improve the artificial intelligence technology. >>>>We also work with third-party ad networks and advertising partners to deliver advertising and personalized content on other websites and services, across other devices, and possibly on our Services. These parties may collect information directly from a browser or device when an individual visits our Services through cookies or other data collection technologies.

Obfuscation is the word of the day.

And all it's going to cost the rest of us is our ability to free and critically think.

No biggie.

Accessibility is accountability. How accountable is 'OpenAI' to anyone other than it's massive investor Microsoft? You want me to be self-righteous so you can be dismissive of the actual path we are travelling on, likely because you benefit from it; and most likely not because you're blind.

"Anti-corporate agenda" is a pro-human perspective. Difficult to call people liars without being utterly delusional, when there is a clear track record of corporate abuse of purpose.

"Don't be evil!" That turned out well, huh?

Life loves irony; and the truth is, we will grant the blind vision only for them to see it all collapse. Congrats on being a real champion of the disabled.

At what point does this start being used to wipe the trail of other agencies malicious actions via foreign proxies? How do we know, with this level of unprecedented access and overreach that the FBI isn't going to quickly become the domestic clean sweeper for all other bad acting agencies chartered for foreign surveillance and activity?

Does somebody have a magnetron?

After the fact doesn't matter. If all tyranny requires is an after-the-fact judicial ruling then tyranny will just find a way to win before then.

The fact is, there is no such thing as a private company. Infringing speech is happening all over the place; the fact the Constitutions states Congress cannot enact laws against speech is tantamount to the people themselves being unable to enact action against speech and expression. Congress is the people, and the people don't get to privatize tyranny. Period.

Home Economics is an actual economic discipline imo that is often overlooked.

There is no population crisis that's 100% propaganda. We have so much arable land yet to be developed, oceans yet to be fully utilized. The Earth can easily hold 1 trillion people. The only ones promoting population control are the people who make money off of labor scarcity and fear.

Societies across the world need to start focusing on Eternal Automation. The goal is for everyone to benefit from collective advances. So what if someone doesn't want to work and has 10 kids; if even half of those kids end up working to contribute to the worldwide implementation of systematized structures which free us from corporate control; though that struggle will be very real, then it's worth paying people not to work and instead incentivizing those who do with advanced access to new structural creations.

There is no reason to continue as we have. What gets you to where you're going isn't generally needed once you get there. We don't hike to the park only to hike up the mountain; we drive, then hike, then picnic or have sex (generally both). We must not let corporations or the greedy define what work and prosperity means.

Why does it sound like "trust the science" popular authoritarianism? Covid was a scam. You were duped. That's the fact.

AI will replace humans. At what rate and when is the only question. The idea we don't want that is only pitched by control hungry authoritarians who need subjects to define their existence by.

I received $150 in a class action settlement from WF. How they still have a damn banking charter is beyond me. It's modern day highway robbery.

Are we going to store our bodies to preserve our minds? Most of us wouldn't really want our old bodies back after the tech appears to create new ones. It would make more sense to store our consciousness and then duplicate a body based on the stored DNA in which to imprint into a new mind.

For my two cents; the goal of our human pursuit is to advance our technologies and systems to the point we can all live carefree lives where the focus of our pursuits is self defined.

It is not to "own more rights" to shit. Sorry, but no one actually owns what they create, that's the point of creation. And if you take issue with the term create, that only reinforces my point. We're all influence machines, input and output, the future should not be about preserving some peoples rights to limit our collective advancements over their personal wants. Tough shit.

The article version: https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicist-who-bets-that-g...

Sam Altman is a bad leader, and in my experience, most who come from where he comes from believe people who do not are inferior and need these kinds of redundant reminders of how to be good little boys and girls.

>They show that assuming some adversary can read Threema messages would entail that the Gap-Diffie-Hellman problem can be solved in polynomial time. Since this is something no efficient adversary is believed to be able to do, no adversary can read Threema messages. Hence, Ibex provides provable security, and confidentiality is guaranteed.

The whole point of the movie Sneakers was to remind the world that if someone does solve P = NP Hard problem they wouldn't tell anyone about it for the exact reason Threema is promoting it's secure methods. Not that anyone has solved the problem, but who really knows.

Gonna need a banana for scale, boys.

Edit: Is it possible to replicate the structure of this material using carbon nano-tubing? Someone mentioned packing ceramic like materials into silver tubes as a means of making cables; can that be done with carbon nano-tubing?

It requires the approval of the United Nations Economic and Social Counsel's Commission on Narcotic Drugs to remove a schedule 1 item from a member countries drug schedules provided the World Health Organization approves any uses as medicinal.

They schedule drugs through Article 6 of our Constitution which makes treaties law of the land. Our ability to change drug laws in the US is outsourced to the UN. It's not a "Republican or Democrat" issue specifically. Though, the prison system that is increasingly private which makes money hand over fist on drug users and pushers certainly is an issue either political party could champion and change.

A lot of these drugs are used to get people into the sex trade; once you get someone on drugs to do things with/to their body they otherwise wouldn't the cycle of shame begins that often traps these people in the escape through drug induced pleasure. Just the sad truth.