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The whole contract cancellation started because citizens engaged in civics.

Town meetings are happening right now, people are already engaged. If you want to see the pressure raise, you should go to your local one.

I'm familiar, thank you

The same way democracy doesn't expect that people that are free to choose who governs them would choose communists.

Both democracy and anarchy are a belief system based on the assumption that their ideal state is good enough to be self-replicating.

>> what's with the obsession with filling every possible gap in stories, leaving nothing to the imagination?

Isn't that just the imagination working as intended? Whats its use if not to try and fill the gaps ourselves?

As far as we all on the same page regarding what's in the book, it's fun to expore what could'ves and what should'ves of the story.

Anecdotally alcohol also had the same function, but people just started drinking less

Makes sense. I stack books every time I clean my table, but they get out of stack pretty quickly.

I wanted to correct you and bring up my favorite website that had filters for the ingredients you want/don't want to use, type of dish, and time for cooking, but it appears that in a last month it was sold and now it links to the slop site with no useful filtering. I used this site as a quick lookup for recipe ideas for 7 years now.

Fuck. Does nothing good survive on the internet anymore.

> If the models can do this, they're almost certainly good

I would argue that "good at math" was a short hand for "good at X" because mathematicians were historically good at engaging with very complex ideas, distilling them and coming up with precise and concise answers they could validate by themselves.

Given that AI solutions are described as "psychedelical" and they rely on the outside source to validate the result, I don't think the same logic could apply to them.

The mass of plants growth is roughly the mass of water absorbed plus carbon from the atmosphere, minus water evaporated from leafs. The nutrients from the soil don't adhere to much.

That's to say, farms basically convert water to food and CO2 to O2. I'd say this is the water well spent.

I think "until you received base education and an ability to work/sustain yourself" is a good cut off for woman.

What's disturbing about 16yo marrying 20yo is that in most cases the girl just moves from abusive household to another, now with additional risk of pregnancy (read: another 2 year of total dependence on the sole provider)

18yo is a good cut off not because everyone is suddenly smarter and know what's good and bad, but because by that age people have the ability to leave bad and go live on their own.

>> “s3 bucket set to public”

I don't believe that was mentioned in the article in any way. Could you share your reasoning there?

Well, yeah.

If I sold a button that hacks random sites as a fidget toy, people pressing the button wouldn't be held liable — I would.

You shouldn't be held liable, OpenAI should

The real problem is that even for companies that wish to pay more and wait more for secure-by-default can't easily tell the difference.

The only solution I can come up with is some form of certification or paid code review from a third party. I know that at least for Windows prior to 7 Microsoft actually allowed some parties to come in and check the code/checksum on an air-gaped computer. We somehow moved to "trust more" in the last decade, and now we can trust nobody

Just to clarify: if you "sudo ufw deny 80" and than run a docker container on 80 port, your 80 port would remain inaccessible (as per ufw rules)?

Even rootless docker usually pierce through that. Might be some setting in a podman, thought, never really worked with that.

I'd like to point out that this isn't a theoretical question.

You can add a bit of kefir to a potato-based salad, and it will remain a salad. But at one point it will actually turn into a cold kefir soup, which is a thing that exists.

Personally, I think it's the floating. As soon as first ingredient becomes buoyant (even partially), it's a soup.

The thing is you have to imagine a better garden in order to build one. Maybe you have to imagine bigger fence, or a guard, or moving house to a better part of town, or even a social change that would provide food for the hungry so they wouldn't feel the need to steal

(You might think the last point is the most naive one, but in my experience the economic growth was the only thing that actually worked)

Hopelessness has it's own self-fulfillment. In order to change a thing you have to wish for something, and if you can't imagine a better future, then you can't get one

The problematic thing is the implication that holding a similar view automatically makes you a part of the same organization.

Terrorist groups are more traditionally defined as an organized groups that use terrorism as a military tactic to achieve their goals.

noblogs.org never used such tactics nor supported them.

If we call anyone a terrorist, if they have at least one view similar to those who did terrorist acts, we only need 2 quite specific terrorist acts to cover all earths population.

The other side is: my grandmother could survive heatwave just because her house wasn't heating up that much. It's old, it's stone, stone is just good at keeping temperature even. And the air coming through the windows passes through trees that are good at lowering temperature.

Even if it got a bit hot – like it does in mine, that has less volumetric heat capacity — simple floor scrub lowers temperature. Evaporating water is just a very good at that, and floor is a big area.

If we take a house made of paper and place it in a place with no trees and a lot of asphalt, I believe that AC could become a necessity. No amount of evaporating water could help you to fight heat rising from the road.

But I much prefer better houses and city planning

There is nothing wrong with murdering a million lives while iteratively developing – it's how we grow and study bacteria after all. Any person that fixed their gut by sticking to a diet also did exactly that.

So if we are concerned with the AGI suffering, then we don't need to determine consciousness at all. We just need to prove that they don't have suffering capabilities. Which is a way easier question.

That's like a 4-5 seconds of low paid work for each transaction, though. 10 seconds, if I'm being generous. Counting a lot of cash is a long process, but each separate banknote is counted in a fraction of a second.

So, about 4-8 cents, for 30$/hour if we talk about grocery store.

Restaurant might take more time to process cash, but pays lower salary.

I do not think it's a higher cost than current credit card fees

As a past civil engineer, I can't manufacture concrete.

But I still could calculate and write an electrical design project and draw all necessary plans and schemes without touching PC once – if I have a ruler, few pens and enough time (I would have to reference standards, but I did have most standards in print version)

I doubt your metaphor really fit. Was manufacturing ever an engineer job?

Slightly off topic, but that would be a great name for a curry restaurant

I think that this task will fall on governments.

Mostly because they already are responsible for systematizing documents that are needed to recognize us as citizens, land or car owners, etc.

Some laid back countries might allow companies to take and manage that function, but I don't think most of them would. Especially not in current landscape where people heard "you are the product" from all tech companies for the last 10 or so years.

I also really liked the quote "Your existence is not impossible, but it's also not very likely" from the Night Vale podcast.

I feel like the existence of good writing is also not impossible but not very likely, and so of course LLM can only write mediocrity, even when taught only on great writing.

That reminded me. Almost 20 years ago, there was a city folktale that some species of Convolvulus could get you high, and my friend tried it and then described seeing little knights playing|fighting on a wallpaper. I was a designated spotter, and didn't know what to do, so I just wrote down everything she said. Still should have a notebook somewhere.

(It was 2 specific species out of 200, and I hope that not mentioning which part of the plant she ingested would deter people from trying. The plant is also slightly poisonous, could weaken your kidneys. Weak kidneys no fun)

Well, eastern dragons always reminded me more of a giant oarfish. And some central europe dragons weren't that far off, being described as flying snakes.

I think "every culture has a dragon" is kinda misleading.

"Every culture has a creature that got translated as a dragon" seems closer to the truth. The creatures themselves have a great variety between them.

If we were normal society companies like Meta would be shut down before their CEO could commit crimes against humanities

The people working in the company are anonymous from design. There are forms of LLC that hide the owners as well. Trade name is already a form of pseudoanonymity, and it's the highest level of anonymity that can be achieved. The company itself must be publicly known, at least for contract and tax reasons.

Buying stuff from truly anonymous provider isn't possible. From a legal standpoint you basically transfer money to them for fun. Since, you know, can't enter any agreement with unknown entity.

>> AI writes code like that, but people get pretty upset hearing it.

To this day I never saw an AI write anything less than a 3Mb binary. Do you have specific examples in mind, and if so, can you share them?

That's like helping a grandma to move her groceries, only to throw them on the ground, saying "I didn't sign up to be your carrier for eternity."

Like, understandably you could wish to stop helping her. But if you took her groceries to help, you also supposed to place them down gently.