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> Of course, now that video editing is cheap and difficult to spot, who knows if your evidence will make much of a difference. Maybe you could use a trusted timestamping service to…

> LLMs (I believe) _can_ be trained to not plagiarize. They do not have to be original, nor to use public domain training-data, they just have to give attribution (which, as far as…

I ran into the same problem with Firefox, except viewing it directly works. It turns out the server is using referer checking and I've got referer disabled. Compare the following c…

There's an issue on the FluxEngine git repo that may be related to this: https://github.com/davidgiven/fluxengine/issues/75 At the end of the thread, David Given reports that some …

It's difficult to say anything about experiential/first-person consciousness as we don't know what it is. Some say it doesn't exist and everybody is a p-zombie. That aside... As yo…

There's a hard problem in either case, I think. If the mind is supported by or comes from the physical world, then the hard question is "why is there something it is like to be me"…

> Rovelli is arguing (I think) that we need to fundamentally view consciousness as a natural phenomenon - albeit one that is extremely complex and poorly understood. But you can vi…

Largely, I think, because devs are given too powerful computers. It's easier for companies to "fix" or preemptively had off performance bugs by giving developers high-end computers…

> They get blocked by Recaptcha, I think. I think SV was asking what onion services, which can't really use recaptcha, do to prevent the DDoS storm. And I would imagine the answer …

If it's just a contact form on some random site that isn't particularly valuable to spammers, a bespoke solution like hidden input fields, obfuscation, or some kind of token calcul…

Certain esters have been found to be much safer (in mice, at least): > The glutathione hepatic values in mice obtained by intraperitoneal injection of the ester are superimposable …

There's a broader law: If it needs to insist on what it is, it probably isn't. E.g. "People's Democratic Republic of Foo".

The code lets you shoot yourself in the foot in a lot more ways than a spec does, though. Few people would make specs that include buffer overflows or SQL injection.

That sounds like a good way to get extreme short-term optimization. Say a particular finetune prioritizes profits right now and makes recommendations like "cut down on maintenance,…

The Rivest methods in the CSR13 paper - ThreeBallot, VAV, and Twin - seem to be relatively simple. Not directly applicable to online voting, though, but perhaps they would be simpl…

Not all answers are conducive to such subtle manipulation, though. If the user asks for an algorithm to solve the knapsack problem, it's kind of hard to stealthily go "now let's se…

I wish there were some kind of file search for the Wayback Machine. Like "list all .S3M files on members.aol.com before 1998". It would've made looking for obscure nostalgia much e…

I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention the peroxidase hypothesis[1]. Has it been disproven? [1] https://tmedweb.tulane.edu/pharmwiki/doku.php/acetaminophen

The problem is that if what "really counts" is too vaguely defined, then it's hard to pin down and argue the point. Virtual memory probably isn't what you meant, but take something…

IIRC, you could use asymmetric cryptography to derive a site-specific pseudonymous token from the service and your government ID without the service knowing what your government ID…

It is possible to take this too far, though - consider the OpenAI IMO proofs[1], for instance, and compare them to Gemini's.[2] [1] https://github.com/aw31/openai-imo-2025-proofs […

At some point, I would imagine the distinction between capital and land becomes blurry, though. Economic rent can be had from either if the barrier to competition is high enough. D…