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Who's going to intervene on the country with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world?

As somebody involved in the design of quantum computers (specifically, the architecture of the circuitry on the microchip), you're technically correct. But you're also so wrong. Th…

This wouldn't be the first time that homegrown dissent was characterized as foreign meddling. Red Scare is back in vogue.

> You'd think I'm going to have to stop you right there

Hyperpersuasion is not necessary. AI needn't convince the smartest among us, it need only convince the masses. Which, thanks to the widgets in our pockets, is a highly distributabl…

The paper explains it more as an experimental process than a manufacturing process. Each granule of hiroshimaite captures a "unique" micro-environment. One could imagine an ethical…

We are not at the end, how could you possibly be confident in this claim?

No. More like "I am mathematician and I have digested this sloppy writing and understand this to be an application of Foo theory to the Bar problem with a Baz twist. The prior publ…

I think this is where Terry Tao hit the nail on the head. OpenAI has made claims, but the mathematics community does not accept garbage. It's less that they've done a disservice to…

Do. Not. Anthropomorphize. The Woodchipper.

It's sad that LLMs are learning to devalue human life from people like you.

Sci-fi brings us some optimism on that front. You can build out Brawndo distribution pipes overland.

Watch the video; he was not making noise during a speaker's turn. The law revolves around pedantry, thankyouverymuch.

What you describe is a teacher getting arrested for clapping. Yes, they got arrested after being asked not to clap. But they were arrested for clapping. The clapping was characteri…

This is going to get worse, much worse, before it gets better. People are granting so much access to their agents, it's ridiculous. Imagine a comment posted to a popular github rep…

Your phone has an accelerometer, which can be integrated twice to result in slightly accurate dead reckoning; just keep accumulating 3-vectors with every time-slice. That's a hellu…

> Ubiquitous surveillance will end most crime How, praytell, will surveillance end wage theft?

> You can ask, but whether it will succeed depends on the competency of those who established the infrastructure under attack. Consider that "available resources" may include the t…

No, I'm interacting with people in person. I'd debate your claim that "most of the shit that humanity is producing" is internet-mediated, but your choice of noun renders that rathe…

I do not spend even 5 minutes on facebook. Aside from a comment or two per day on HN, the only human interactions I have on the internet are with coworkers, a of whom I regularly s…

This is such a strange perspective to me. I wouldn't describe anybody I know in this way. Do you not engage in thoughtful conversation with the people you meet? Do you not know peo…

Do you prefer a web-weaving snail or an extra-bitey spider? I'm leaning spider.

I made the slightly alarming realization yesterday that some script kiddies are old enough to have grandkids by now.

> it seems like a bad thing to compare inventions to haunted artifacts that mind controlled their users into betraying their friends to a powerfully evil being. It's worked pretty …