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pineaux··on TabBoo – add random jumpscares to websites you're trying to avoid
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pineaux··on Stargate Project: SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, MGX to build data centers
Yeah it's crazy.
pineaux··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Yes
pineaux··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Well, a lot of times the audience is to blame... There are many people that are stupid, aren't trained in style figures of writing or just not trained in reading in a way that allows for complex conceptual frameworks. It also happens in software: someone writes great code, it's very complex and some people don't understand it and blame the author of writing unreadable code. Its easy to call something unreadable if you don't understand what it's saying. Let me bring it differently: it takes two to tango. I found his story interesting and engaging. Let me bring it in another way: Sometimes the joke is brilliant, but the audience just doesn't understand it. It's not a bad joke or a bad comedian. It's a bad audience.

To go into the meat of this: he is imagining it while reading in the same location as the incident happened. This is a style of writing. It's definitely not wrong.

pineaux··on Starship Flight 7
this.
pineaux··on Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road
For all the people reacting that this is not a lot. Don't forget he has had a lot of border troubles, police troubles, money troubles and support troubles. Including rest days, I would estimate his running days at somewhere around the 400. That would mean about 20 miles per running day. So 6 miles short of a marathon, each day.
pineaux··on Ugandan runner due to arrive in London after 516 days, 7,700 miles on the road
He lives in London
pineaux··on AIs Will Increasingly Fake Alignment
It means that your experience of life is something that emerges as it unfolds, where the person has slight power of steering this process that is quite deterministical because of pre-occurring conditions, but nevertheless steerable by virtue of the will. I believe that, and see that it is a belief.

A lot of people in the valley and CS see people as evolved computers, but there is no real evidence to support that. We are not good in mathematical calculations, we are not deterministic machines. We are very different from the computers that we make. It's quite unscientific to see the human mind as a computer. Unscientific in that it isn't supported by evidence. It is actually more of a belief or techno-religion. Most people that believe it see it as "the truth".

pineaux··on New physics SIM trains robots 430k times faster than reality
Not enough comments, is this the ushering of a new era of robotics? Is everybody going to be replaced now?
pineaux··on OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB
Its quite stunning to frame it as anti-LLM hate. It's on the pro-LLM people to convince the anti-LLM people that choosing for LLMs is an ethically correct choice with all the necessary guardrails. It's also on the pro-LLM people to show the usefulness of the product. If pro-LLM people are right, it will be a matter of time before these people will see the errors of their ways. But doing an ad-hominem is a sure way of creating a divide...
pineaux··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
This is a lie. Hiding assets is trivially easy. You just shouldn't hide them by literally hiding them or not telling about them. Selling the assets for almost free to a different organisation just before you go get your bankrupty is the way to go.
pineaux··on Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion
This is correct. People should split intent and outcome. So for example: you going to prison is a punishment. Your wife leaving you because of it, is not part of the punishment, that is an outcome, but it is not an outcome that is intended. The same here. There are damaged to be payed to the victims of alex' Jones heinous lies that have provably made the lives of people that were already victims so much worse. The judges entitled them to restitution for the damages done and because Jones didn't turn up for court and had contempt for the court by ignoring direct orders they probably punished him by making the sum very high. However. Going bankrupt was not the aim of the punishment. It just asks a high sum. He might have been able to pay it, which would have been fine. However. Jones didnt stop being an unethical human (pretty objectively, as long as you don't believe his lies) and tried to slither out of his duty to pay.
pineaux··on My second year without a job
I am very weird and quite capable of making friends with people. I am not super extrovert, I need concentrated down time. And will ignore people when I am doing the introvert phase. But overal people find me sociable. Weird just means not normal. It's basically a codified statistical concept.
pineaux··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
@wahern. Nah you can just have a strongly progressive tax system that is used for large investments that create steady supply of jobs and innovation. Thats actually what the states so as well, via darpa and the like. It works very well.
pineaux··on Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals
Actually, I think our quality of life is going downhill. Things are very expensive and the taxes are still high. I think that the reasons the far right is winning everywhere is because people feel they have lost something. I agree. We have. We bought into the neoliberale thought mill and simultaneously lost our belief in social democratic welfare state. We are in short, becoming more like the states. But without the things that make the states so great. The states can basically print money and then other countries will begrudgingly buy dollars to keep it from inflating top much. So its basically global nation state socialism.
pineaux··on Egoless Engineering
How would you implement this though? Wouldn't things just be renamed?
pineaux··on Thoughts on the software industry (2022)
You can also teach your skill. I do that, although not full time, but there is money to be made. If you are reasonably good at your craft you can teach novices and you can make sure they get their money's worth. Or give training at a company. I teach creative coding for lighting designers and vj's and if I could do it every day of the year it would net me a good income. However, the market is too small to live off.
pineaux··on Chinese pebble-bed nuclear reactor passes "meltdown" test
Can someone explain to me how this reactor is meltdown proof?
pineaux··on Aftershock II
very, very cool stuff.
pineaux··on Australia: Kids under 16 to be banned from social media after Senate passes laws
This is not true. We have a technological tool to block all of that connected future if we want to. It's called "government" and it can even choose to destroy all landlines, jam all satellite signals en fire Rockets at satellites that want to fly over their land while connecting to people on the ground. This IS an option. Maybe not the best or simplest...
pineaux··on OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest
Which is what they did. So openAI was tricked, boohoo. Should be applauded here on h@x0rn3wz
pineaux··on OpenAI hits pause on video model Sora after artists leak access in protest
Hilariously correct you mean?
pineaux··on California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
@WgaqPdNr7PGLGVW

You are correct but I think it has mostly to do with the way academia is organized. Scientific study is only really funded or respected if it quotes enough other works. However this is a dead-end way of working, bad research that quotes bad research will become the norm. Real talent feels this, leaves academia, the problem gets worse.

pineaux··on California's most neglected group of students: the gifted ones
This is very true
pineaux··on Noise-canceling single-layer woven silk and cotton fabric
Although no hat populates my head, I take off my hat to you, while jealously cursing your cunning wielding of the English language, my good sir.
pineaux··on The Skyline algorithm for packing 2D rectangles
3d printing build plate optimalisation, passenger transport, real estate plot division. Let's make this list longer?
pineaux··on Elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her rival sought revenge
Or it could be an unintended consequence...
pineaux··on Starship's Sixth Flight Test
And they wouldn't work there if musk wouldn't fork tons of money and wouldn't aspire to the highest possible standard...

No musk fan here. He is an idiot, but probably a useful one.

pineaux··on Trump wins presidency for second time
Exactly
pineaux··on Trump wins presidency for second time
This true. They will keep playing this stupid game. Thinking they are on the right side of history, which might be true, or it might not be true; but in the end, the right side of history is decided by the winners. And their current strategy is to alienate as many voters as possible by powering through on issues nobody cares about and acting as if there are no real issues left to fix.
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