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Very exciting! And I like the fediverse integration too.

> $N independent, personal blogs. One front page. Ranked by votes and freshness, shaped by you.

This sounds a bit AI-generated (i.e. bland). I would just remove that line entirely from the UI.

> top / new / hot / my

this is a non-parallel construction[1], "my" sounds weird here to an english speaker. These can all be read as adjuncts if you change it to "mine".

[1] https://www.grammar.com/nonparallel-construction

my government is implementing a ZKP protocol to solve this problem. So is brazil. (bifold open wallet.)

device-side restrictions; improve the UX for parental restrictions and make them on-by-default for children.

When you buy a device, if you can't present ID (or the device is for a child), the vendor gives it to you in "child mode." Child mode has a whitelist/blacklist of all apps and websites that it can use. The list is set by the vendor, but modified by the federal government, state/provincial government, municipal government, school district, and parent/guardian (in that order, each overriding the previous.)

Perhaps in addition, devices in "child mode" always attach "do not show me adult content" to the HTTP headers they send to websites.

That's rather meaningless. The scientists in the Manhattan project initially had less information than what is now available on the internet.

it really should be .gc.ca for us to be sure.

Here's a chain of trust you can follow:

https://parl.gc.ca -> https://parl.ca

https://www.parl.ca/Committees/en/LANG/Contact?parl=37&sessi... -> ourcommons.ca

in a three-party system, there's provably no optimal voting system. Most people who would normally vote NDP voted strategically in the last election to prevent a conservative majority. While it's true in the literal sense that we got what we voted for -- I mean, that's tautological; whoever wins an election is "voted" for -- it's not really the whole picture.

Regardless of whether LLMs are conscious or not, they have no known mechanism for experiencing pain and suffering, and there's no reason to believe they have one (such as a limbic system). So why worry about it?

maybe the bacteria are conscious. How sure are we that they're not?

The only strong argument I have against it is the anthropic principle -- there are billions of times more bacteria than humans, so it's overwhelmingly unlikely that I'd be a human rather than a bacteria.

Not a very good argument of course.

why is that obviously false? To a functionalist, a pen and paper and a set of rules is sufficient for consciousness.

TL;DR, the arguments are:

- If you asked an LLM to imitate somebody, it's not creating a digital consciousness of that person, so if you ask an LLM to pretend to be a helpful chatbot, that persona is also not conscious. - they can't be conscious because they generate one token at a time, - nobody claims that non-text transformers, like AlphaFold, are conscious; so therefore LLMs are also not conscious. - you can't have desires or emotions if you don't have (virtual or physical) sensory organs, and those are necessary for consciousness and morals. - because training LLMs doesn't resemble evolution as it happened on earth, it's very unlikely that they're conscious

These are some bold assertions, I don't really see any reason to believe them in particular though.

Germany's official name is Bundesrepublik Deutschland

how would you build memory into the weights? and why is RAG not enough? Our hippocampus is at a bit of a distance from our frontal cortex.

is remote attestation possible in a web browser already?

it's just annoying to have to do that.

It's good legislation. I would love to see this extended to "Stop Killing Software" in general, with the same provisions.

Many people's code underpins the internet. Some of them are women, yes. I wonder if you've ever heard of Grace Hopper.

the bill explicitly doesn't apply to games that are free or are on a subscription system. (I assume free-to-play with microtransactions would be covered by this bill though, unless those microtransactions are subscription-based or time-limited.)

I am indeed worried that this will push games to be subscription-based, so I would advocate making the bill apply even to subscription-based games. Though that would require some thought, of course, as it's not obvious how it should apply to such a game.

Yeah! And if climate change is so inevitable, why do the people who want to prevent it from happening seem hell-bent on convincing people that climate change is real?

Closely related is Laplace's Rule of Succession[1], which basically says that (in lieu of other information), the odds of something happening next time go down the more times in a row that it doesn't happen (and vice versa).

So for example, the longer a time bomb ticks, the less likely it is to go off any time soon. (Assuming the timer isn't visible.) :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_succession

Mind you, he is only personally invested insofar as he's staked his reputation on it. Throughout his writing, he expresses the same point over and over again: desperately wants AI to slow down, advocates for politics that would slow it down, and most likely nothing would bring him greater peace than to see a sigmoid curve appear.

AI has not been trained on Lojban. And furthermore, this article is almost certainly primarily intended to be read by humans directly.

I understand you're being facetious, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make about programming languages in comparison.

matrix.org alive and well

I've never understood the illiberal desire to treat boys and girls so differently. I'm glad I live in a country where sexism is illegal at a fundamental level -- this kind of law would be quickly struck down.

I'm very interested to see how it was cracked, and how the anticheat works.

this is an incomplete picture though. Would Google Maps be considered a control or setting?

A number of publishers have retroactively added Denuvo to their older games, inexplicably.

Even if you're in favour of surveillance, why does the surveillance also need to be secret?

The article ends with "we were all a little worried." Is this where it's supposed to end? Feels incomplete. I'm hooked anyway.

Was a little disappointed that this didn't result in the agent playing Doom itself over MCP.

Still this is very cool! (And if that had been what you'd implemented, my disappointment would have been that it wasn't the reverse. :P Can it do both?)

Google already killed their main music service in 2020. Why should I trust them with another?