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> Have you any examples? Much of the "alt-right" narrative seems to revolve around embracing identity politics but siding with the outgroup in the left's version of the group-confl…

The phrase "exception that proves the rule" refers to an apparent exception to the rule's outputs actually being explained by it having divergent inputs, i.e. if you claim P=>Q, th…

> Ice cream is 1.5 qt not 1/2 gallon. Except Blue Bell, who use a bright banner on their packaging to call out "Still 1/2 Gal!".

I have a speculative theory that core of the "woke right" did not originate from pre-existing conservative politics, but in fact emerged from segments of the political left finding…

More fundamentally, you'de be filtering out people's views on policy based on their engagement with the horse-race side of politics . That's not a particularly well-aligned criteri…

Sounds like it will work with DGX Spark, though.

> I think there's still space for another harness that's 1/ open-source, 2/ written in a fast compiled language (Rust, Go, etc.) and scriptable in a simple (aka non-JS) scripting l…

Humans are generally bad at predicting patterns in long-term and large-scale systems, especially those that emerge from their own micro-level choices and intentions. Large institut…

I don't think "nerdy" is the right term here. MCA was a deliberate attempt by IBM to reassert walled-garden control over the PC architecture. The fact that Compaq would have had to…

Regulations are principally a vehicle for these very sort of intrusive behaviors, given that their main effects are to create barriers to entry that entrench established business m…

Why wouldn't there end up being a separation between prompt and context, though? Why can't we set up LLM engines to have one input stream for instructions and another input stream …

There are no objective measures of design quality. Every aspect of interface design can only be measured in the extent to which it facilitates the user's access to the functionalit…

That's sad news. I've been a fan of Ubiquiti for a long time, and the main selling point has been that they're fully self-managed on-prem infrastructure, with cloud services being …

> There have been real improvements in this space, such as passkeys Passkeys are not an improvement. The way they're being implemented entrenches middlemen into auth flows in a way…

> It means more electricity, more compute, more money spent. And it means more middlemen mediating people's access to their own tools.

Security is also increasingly being used as a pretext for usurpation of end-user control over their own devices, which the situation in this very article seems to be a case of. The…

If keyboards did have keys for ASCII delimiters, people would start using them for a variety of purposes, and they'd start showing up in data streams, leading to the same issues we…

> While I do use old.reddit and genuinely think it's better UI-wise, in the general case users tend to be resistant to any UI change because it breaks their habits and muscle memor…

> By design there is no separation between control & data channels in LLMs. No? MCP integrations are certainly different channels than the prompt stream input by the user. They're …

> After your post I reviewed the first page of your comment history and I was pretty sure I knew where you would stand on this issue. Yes, that seems reasonable. I try to root my p…

Well, it's not so much a "rhetorical fishing expedition" as much as I just initially gave you the benefit of the doubt, and didn't assume you were aiming to divert the thread into …

It's not possible for any of these to be "basic human rights", regardless of what rhetoric may be employed by states seeking to assert centralized political control over their prov…

It's not a coincidence that the three sectors you mention are the three most heavily regulated and subject to political intervention in the US, all with schizophrenic policy framew…

Until what problem goes away? What are you talking about?

In fact, there is no relationship whatsoever between these considerations.