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Why has the stereotype of the coked-out stock trader or ketamine addicted delusional billionaire not held the same place in popular culture? Vagely functional coke heads are very, …

Just about all common psychological medication (by which I mean antidepressants, antipsychotics, ADHD meds, etc) have a pretty weakly measurable effect and effectiveness. If you ta…

Yet we still have tobacco and vape companies

In the US, there's a government shooting people in the streets, with jackbooted thugs operating with impunity in multiple cities, a leader who's started a war to try to drown our d…

I'd say instead that we value the commons and don't like companies making money by externalising all their problems to the general public. If company Foo leaks my personal data, I …

For encrypted disks, you've now got high-performance data shuffling between userspace and kernel space - a massive new attack surface

The thing with a jury is that there are motivated experts on both sides explaining the technical details in a (hopefully) easy to understand way, a judge to help ensure fair play, …

You have a right under the GDPR to get a copy of all data associated with you PII data. Not just your PII data, but every table where PII is a field, or is transitively joinable. I…

Stock is worth exactly what people will pay for it. Ebay share holders get to vote to accept or reject this deal

Nearly a decade old story now

He can apply to the court for special permission - and probably use ADA to guide permission

It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable

People have been making the same complaint about Dr Who for at least 40 years, couched in the language of the day. Same with Star Trek.

The phrase "the key insight" now sets my teeth on edge due to how often it appears in LLM writing

Nothing unites a group like a common enemy. If it does fall apart into civil war, expect past and random terrorism for years

Was he buying from Ea-nāsir?

I don't think any commercial entity can be trusted to break the law on behalf of customers who only pay a small fee each

Any chance of pushing it to GitHub? My swift knowledge could be written out on an oversized beer coaster currently, so I'm still collecting useful snippets

There are plenty of examples of AI being successfully used to emulated the email / messaging style of a specific individual already known to the target, for spear fishing attacks, …

Plausible but lacks suggested experiments or predictions. Seems testable in principle though, in both human and animal models

Humans also write endless amounts of convincing bullshit, and have done since time immemorial. False papers and faked results have been a growing scourge in academia before LLMs we…

You have to be careful when you edit comments - you can be seen as editorialising, which can lose you protection against being liable for defamation in some jurisdictions. Probably…

Found to be illegal when? 3 decades after they've done their damage?

There's plenty of evidence that many people are not making rational and informed decisions due to advertising practices. That is absolutely being forced into things

I don't control most of the discord communities I'm in. Some have been going a long time, and every platform migration sheds and shreds members. The 'mild effort' to move an old co…