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Concrete high-profile example: in "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!", Feynman told of a ball which, in a Brazilian college-level physics book, was described as having a 40% highe…

> Recognise it is simply a zero-intelligence search engine I think that this highlights the problem: it's not even a proper search engine. If it were, it would find existing materi…

If we're on the topic of hardware, let's remember that a few years before ARPANET, Olivetti was a powerhouse rivaling IBM. The ELEA mainframe came out with a competitive design in …

Completely agreed, it is rational to de-escalate by several steps (e.g. to have cloud providers "spontaneously" decide to split into different, actually autonomous but still privat…

> In the cases provided for by the law and with provisions for compensation, private property may be expropriated for reasons of general interest. Excerpt from article 42 of the It…

> It's why the US entered WW1 and WW2 even if it didn't have to. Because if it didn't and just decided to sit it out chilling away from the conflit, it would have missed out on all…

> a lot of the time when servers start getting turned off the team that could do this work has been dissolved or are working on other things. That is precisely why the SKG initiati…

I can vouch for what you're saying - Italy is a jurisdiction in which truth is not a defense, for instance. Truthful statement seem to be a defense for Germany, though. https://www…

GDPR also applies to companies that provide services to EU citizens, no matter where the company is based. This makes a lot of sense, because otherwise you'd get situations where M…

Disclaimers and user acceptance does not remove liability for slander, particularly against third parties. In fact, in most EU countries "the user acknowledged" works only for a ve…

Thank you. I was missing that info because I do not get that banner, currently surfing that site from the EU without any login. Visiting the same URL on the .co.uk version gives me…

I notice a different, amazing angle that doesn't really stand out in current comments. This is a BBC article. UK public broadcasting, paid with taxpayer money and aggressively coll…

"personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person" - GDPR article 4 Data often pertains to multiple people (trivial case: direct messag…

> assuming the bottleneck in this process has so far been coding is pure BS. This is the core insight for most businesses. When evaluating the impact of AI on velocity, the first t…

One should not overlook the human/emotional aspect. Decision-makers are not immune from it. Hegemony comes with a certain degree of humiliation. Socially, it means accepting that a…

Threats only works if the threatened entity thinks they can avoid them via compliance. Tariffs come anyway, both Canada and Denmark are under threat of annexation, and ICC suspensi…

I do not think that this is likely to be a successful model. When (not if) software breaks in production, you need to be able to debug it effectively. Knowing that external librari…

Exponential curves happen when a quantity's growth rate is a linear function of its own value. In practice they're all going to be logistic, but you can ignore that as long as you'…

> it's just mimicking the human ideas of good/bad that are tied to most "things" in the training data. Most definitely. The article mentions this misalignment emerging over the num…

It's sadly an example of terrible leading question bias, to the point where I'm surprised that it even got a 22% oppose rate. The percentages would change dramatically were one to …

Regarding [1], the study itself mentions that stopping watching porn reverses the effect. In layman's terms: watch enough of it and the novelty wears off, but the sexual drive retu…

I moved to Sweden three months ago. The article is good in pointing out that a cashless society has runaway effects to other social systems. Despite being in one of the best situat…