Pup Biru

% is % is %… absolutes are completely irrelevant… 1m people uninstalling facebook is less relevant than 100 people uninstalling <insert your favourite indie game>

a large % change is always relevant no matter the company size. that’s the whole point

it’s enough to be indicative

ENS runs on Etherium which no longer uses POW, thus doesn’t waste power in the same way as eg bitcoin

also I2P and onion don’t have name systems per se, so that doesn’t actually address the problem… AA could just use an IP address or something, but they require (for human usability) well known domain names

I2P and onion still require systems for discovery. they solve different problems to name systems

but it’s not a 1000000x return!

i took the phrase

You don’t need to understand why they struggle, just accept that they do.

to mean that you shouldn’t assume someone is lying. they just might have different circumstance or needs. that doesn’t invalidate their experience, just that you’re solving different problems.

if you’re trying to solve their problems, then sure that’s a discussing… but 99% of tech conversations on the internet like this are people berating others for “not understanding” the “simple” way it’s done because it works fine for them

slight disagree: proud version is actually when you become so disillusioned with your old code that you throw it all out and start again

i moved one of those 8x2 cube storage shelves from next to my front door (where it didn’t get used) to my bedroom where i use it for “worn but not dirty” clothes

pile of clothes on the floor instantly fixed because now putting clothes “away” is the same effort as dropping them on the floor

sell at $100… got it! thanks future me! will do!

someone elsewhere in the thread mentioned that this is the requirement, and the hooks are an “if not possible” compromise

that as the case may be, sending signals is still good. you don’t have to continue for very long, but a flood of support after making a moral decision will make it more likely that they, and others will make similar decisions in the future

the worst thing would be for google for example to see the fallout from this and think “well we don’t want to be them! better start building autonomous weapons”

the cost of having a child is more than just childcare

imo still very plausible… the key thing is deleted… accounts are rarely deleted, especially when they contain purchases and things like fortnight accounts do. more often than not, they’re suspended or just inactive which means the public ID remains used

it’s a very common security issue. it’s usually not a problem because deletions aren’t very common: usually accounts are just inactive, and it’s not a problem that really effects the company itself so there’s no really big reason to focus on fixing it

i’m not arguing either way on this specific case; i’d not heard about it until right now… but it’s pretty plausible from a software and security standpoint

one of the things i love about australian taxes: by law the displayed price must include all taxes… the price on the label/menu/sign/website/whatever is the price you pay… by law

always catches me out in the US adding tax and tip 😓 i end up spending way more than i’d intended and having a far worse experience because of it

One thing that is correct that many people posting here seem not to understand is that there is no current residency requirement to open a bank account in the US

okay… but… why is that a problem?

that solver would be tool use though… i’m talking about just the “thinking” LLMs. it’s fascinating to read the thinking block, because it breaks the problem down into basic chunks, solves the basic chunks (which it would have been in its training data, so easy), and solves them with multiple methods and then compares to check itself

what’s not how a model works? i didn’t say anything about how a specific thing works… i simply said that emergent behaviours are real things, and separately that consciousness doesn’t look like a human brain to be consciousness

given we can’t even reliably define it, let alone test for it, if true AGI ever comes along i’m sure there will be plenty of debate about if it “counts”

who knows: consciousness could just be bootstrapping a particular set of self-sustaining loops, which could happen in something that looks like the underlying technology that LLMs are built on

but as i said, i tend to think LLMs are not the path towards that (IMO mostly because language is a very leaky abstraction)

yeah i find the thinking fascinating with maths too… like LLMs are horrible at maths but so am i if i have to do it in my head… the way it breaks a problem down into tiny bits that is certainly in its training data, and then combine those bits is an impressive emergent behaviour imo given it’s just doing statistical next token

emergent behaviour does exist and just because something is not structured exactly like our own brains doesn’t mean it’s not conscious/etc, but yes i would tend to agree

also wage theft is a specific thing: failing to pay wages or benefits owed in a contract… things like not paying overtime, etc

conflating terms makes it difficult for people to educate themselves and know what their actual legal rights and options are