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To racists, people who look different are inherently harmful. Racists are terrible.

You still have radiative transfer. The instruments in question probably take significantly less power in than they lose through radiation. So they need to be given extra power to m…

Won't Saudi ownership of something bad make it even worse? The era goes on!

Ugh. There's nothing inherently European about Chat Control. It's a dumb proposal, and it's European. Any free society has a bunch of dumb proposals. Nor is there anything inherent…

This reduction of everything to stochasticity is silly. Or, to put it differently: Do you accept a value with some error appearing in your bank account on salary day? We have plent…

Exactly! When someone does it at work, I get a bit sad because my conclusion is that whoever does it can't like their job very much. But that's ok – not liking your job very much i…

It's not out of the realm of possibility to do AI audits. I'm not saying it's a good idea or likely, but certainly something they could do.

There's a huge difference between a completely decentralized reputation system like the interpersonal one that has existed since humans first became sentient, and an artificially b…

Cleanroom?! What the hell kind of definition of a cleanroom is it when you get to take hundreds of GB of compressed code with you into it?!

I think you know that well-known, highly visible entities usually set their legal bar a bit higher than "I'm sure we won't be sued over this".

Good thing it's a sport and not a commercial operation then!

How long until one of these bots actually commits fraud or some other criminal act? Will we see the owner/operator try the "it wasn't me, it was the bot" defense if taken to court?…

Works well where I work. Some ground rules to help are: * Do the bulk during work hours. * Be 100% accepting of people who don't wanna spend free time on it. Or compensate. * Add i…

Nonsense. Man-made things can be explained by humans without needing to experience what came before.

> But I'm not sure what you mean by "understand". If you want to understand the graphics theory, Vulkan tutorials aren't going to teach you that. I meant understand the Vulkan-spec…

Relatedly: could someone recommend a Vulkan introduction for people who don't "just want to make it work"? I understand the fact that Vulkan abstracts away a lot less of the render…

I think this is some of the most interesting revelation to come about during these times: there seems to be two kinds of people – those for whom the act doing something well has th…

> Selling author signings, talks, authorized copies, subscriptions/merch, sponsorships. Most of these turn intellectual work into that of indie musicians, or outright beggars. You …

I, too, hate rentseeking. Owning one's intellectual output, however, is not in and of itself rentseeking.

Are you really saying that because IP protections are (and should be, I agree) time-limited, they're not doing anything in the first place? This is patently ridiculous. > Speaking …

Yes. But you can't redistribute it. Which is what the AI companies are doing.

Are you saying that if someone writes a book or records a song, anyone should be able to use it for anything forever without consent? How does intellectual work get funded in this …

> I dunno, ever used a thing you learned from a textbook in your job? Did you have to continue paying for the copy of that knowledge speed on your brain? They are, presumably, huma…

I thought these "engineers" were bragging that they aren't writing code anymore.

We're not mad at you. But we'd really like to learn: what went through your head when you read that comment? Was there not even an inkling that this might be satire? Can you tell g…