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If someone steals my passwords and then does nothing with them, or just uses them for their private purposes, then there's no problem. The problems only occur if my passwords are u…

National security can mean protecting a society founded on the values of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It can also mean facilitating a militaristic surveillance state…

It applies to anyone knowingly using false information to try to influence people

The point is to convince people who are undecided. Using information that's known to be false or weakly supported is then short-sighted and counterproductive, because enough false …

They are. I just used different words to refer to the same idea

Good points, but it any case, it's true that chimps in general treat group members very differently to outsiders isn't it? Those behaviours that de Waal mentions seem probably dire…

noob question: can't we just use longer classical keys, at least as a stop gap?

In the UK the main deception was the farcical Iraq Dossier, aka "the dodgy dossier", put together by Blair's propaganda chief Alaister Campbell. Colin Powell had seen it before rel…

Looks like not much. The book is about using Python to implement numerical methods, mainly about teaching the Python part, and that's all explained. You might be missing motivation…

Dogs are allowed though, and used to herd sheep and cattle, so ground-nesting birds don't seem to be a big concern

Of course, but everything depends on context. Stating a mathematical theorem in English will also make no sense to someone who's not acquainted with the field

> People who really grasp a subject can usually explain it well in plain language. That's very much a matter of style. An equation is often the plainest way of expressing something…

Ah, I thought writing a bit was irreversible, because after writing say 1, the previous state could have been a 0 or a 1. But in fact writing a bit should be thought of as the whol…

> The platform doesn’t need to bother with individual prompts - it just needs to see where the questions cluster. A map of where the world is moving. This was insightful, but is it…

Nice post. Just this bit: > Our hacky solution for the blind spot? Let the brain hide it in software. I would say the solution is just having two eyes, since their respective blind…

Is the focus on the erasure of a bit, rather than writing a bit, just conventional or is there a significant difference between the processes?

Did you try turning your computer off and on?

I was talking about Greek texts rather than Roman legacy, whatever that means. Arabs certainly preserved some of the Greek texts, because many haven't survived in origianl Greek ma…

Nevertheless, many of the texts from the Greeks were first translated into Latin from Arabic copies in Spain from the 11th century, because the Greek versions were inaccessible in …

Because sycophancy in humans is motivated not by the wellbeing of the person seeking advice, but by the interests of the sycophant in gaining favour. It makes sense that this behav…

Well, maybe, but that seems like a deliberately uncharitable interpretation of the question, which I interpreted more as "Can you summarize the video in ~1 line?" - or at least clo…

But just a personal account with materials reportedly from 2011-2022, not an FBI breach

Answers that are only comprehensible to those who already know the answer:

This study finds a higher rate of correct identification for black people than for other ethnic groups, whereas a few years ago the problem seemed to be that the software was less …