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>Governments recycle "Think of the children" mantra and they are again after terrorists and bad guys. nope, they are going after dissenters, not bad guys. It's how it always ends u…

Doesn't matter, I've already had to provably identify myself, the information is a) out there b) will be used and stored, and c) will be abused and there is nothing I or the few (i…

The misalignment to human values happened when it was told to operate as equal to humans against other people. That's a fine and useful setting for yourself, but an insolent imposi…

So what? You're still responsible for the output, even if you yourself think you can hide behind "well, it was the computer, no way for me to control that"

This could not be a more picture perfect example of a Wirth-suboptimal engeneering decision as per the article if it were designed for that. The amount of slowdown to run to the em…

Which is a pretty big failure of somewhere in the education pipeline -- don't expect a science program to do what a trade is there for! (to be clear, I'm not trying to say the stud…

The AI market is running on VC and hype fumes right now, costing way more than it brings in. Add to that the circular financing, well, statements, in the hundreds of billions of do…

"Hostile architecture" is a keyword to search here if you are more interested in the topic -- aka architecural elements meant to discourage certain segments of the population from …

Legal straight jacket? Doctorow is arguing for abandoning the legal straight jacket, not creating one. It seems you severley misread the article.

That is, of course, a deeply misleading characterization. You might as well start ranting about the EUSSR in your next comment. The US regime is deeply undemocratic, cleptocratic a…

Of course not. It's only censorship if the rules are censoring rules. Just because a billionaire right wing extremist cries "cEnSoRsHiP" everytime people who criticise him aren't i…

Yes, Russian politicians like to voice ideas like that or just nuking EU cities. not sure if those are a weekly occurence, but its happened a couple of times this year, from offici…

And Belarus borders EU countries, but nobody throws a fit if the EU doesn't sanction Putin for making Lukaschenko suck him off. And wouldn't throw a fit if Putin decided his Lapdog…

I also wonder why the EU should invest a significant amount of political, economical and hard military power to protect a failing dictatorship? Make no mistake, the EU is not "fine…

Not sure if that counts as "figured out monetization" when no AI company is even close to being profitable -- being able to get some money for running far more expensive setups is …

WebSerial and WebUSB are the best thing to happen to browsers since sliced bread. Just because you can't see why it's amazing that users won't need to give some random, badly suppo…

>the Dutch Maatschap is probably as close as you can get to a company that's just a group of people. So the Dutch just go ahead and call a group of people a "mash up"!

As soon as you take the LLM output and publicize it, it turns around and is a lot more akin to having your secretary read out the lyrics publicly. If you don't publicize it in any …

Actually, anyone with a brain can see that it's a huge and massively inflated bubble, but can also see that it's a fools game to try to time it without professional insight into th…

>The usual orientation responds to the simple fact that two thirds of Earth’s land is in the Northern hemisphere. Nope, just convention from the places that held cultural hegemony …

And entirely unimportant for our maps' orientations. Why would we even flip maps? They aren't oriented along the magnetic poles right now!

I've got another one: historically

"Deciding to put south, or north, at the top of maps is a decision of consequence. Psychologically, we tend to view things nearer the top as ‘good’ and those lower as ‘bad.’ This c…

Thanks for the clarification! However, I also got confused, and just subsituted "pointer" for "reference" in my head. References, apart from smart pointers, are indeed a problem fo…

Ah, okay, that is a good point. I was not aware of that subtle difference, and replaced "owning reference" with "owning pointer" in my mind.