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nroets

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    Comment #48732321

    Then over confident, short sighted or shady characters will accept those directorships and/or sign off on the design because they think nothing will happen or don't care for jail.

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    Comment #48607639

    Wikipedia shuns primary sources, such as personal websites and company registration documents. They prefer reliable secondary sources such as mainstream news media.

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    Comment #48398911

    You can even replace "weights" with "gates". It can be build with NAND gates.

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    Comment #48380787

    There's like 1 spam message in my Gmail inbox every day. Some of it is so obvious that an LLM running on a Raspberry Pi can correctly classify it. For example car insurance ads. (M…

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    Comment #48256903

    Do you have any proof it's "white supremacy and the exploitation of labor under capitalism." ? Why can't it just be xenophobia ? There's xenophobia almost everywhere: Just look at …

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    Comment #48256802

    And my theory is that the US only looked good because there were no competitors: Break up of the Soviet Union left the constituents without economies of scale. Similarly European m…

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    Comment #48220209

    Theft of trade secrets. And so many people will have to be involved that evidence of the crime is bound to leak out.

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    Comment #48111300

    An "account" which is somehow linked to enough of your browsing history to determine if you're a scraper or a spammer. Then the company(s) administrating these accounts will be abl…

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    Comment #48097991

    The board members will be lobbied, wined and dined by billion or even trillion dollar companies. If politicians can be bought then so can non-profits. Having said that, there may w…

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    Comment #48097927

    It will certainly make some bot farms unprofitable: Remember that they are now paying for a screen, a battery, a 5G radio, software licenses, branding, distribution and customer su…

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    Comment #48096693

    I think you miss my point: When bots can "give" more money/computing power, then the transaction is no longer a good test of being human.

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    Comment #48093147

    If proof of work is the "payment" to prove that you're human, many AI startups will outbid poor people living third world countries. They will even outbid some Americans. Yes, thos…

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    Comment #47441404

    The De Beers cartel was able to avoid anti trust scrutiny because the best reserves are outside (Africa/Canada/Russia) of the most lucrative markets (US/Europe/Asia). Corporations …

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    Comment #47032545

    You can pattern match on the prompt (input) then (a) stuff the context with helpful hints to the LLM e.g. "Remember that a car is too heavy for a person to carry" or (b) upgrade to…

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    Comment #47007333

    He says nothing about the language barrier that migrants face in the EU. He went to The Netherlands where it's extremely easy for migrants to integrate: Not only is English widely …

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    Comment #46765098

    Here's crazy idea: Instead of the US spending all this money on restraining the Iranian government through military build ups and sanctions, rather drop hundreds of thousands of St…

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    Comment #46762909

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    Comment #46701893

    Some changes to the algorithms and implementations will allow cheaper commodity hardware to be used.

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    Comment #46410754

    In 2023 I stayed in a capsule hotel in Bilbao. There I was told at check in that no talking or loudspeakers of any kind is allow in the capsules. That can only be done in the loung…

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    Comment #46347501

    Could there be a motif unrelated to ICE ? That Home Depot does not like that day labourers are loitering and approaching customers entering and leaving the store.

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    Comment #46264970

    Your comment mentioned "studies" plural. There are many studies of twins that try to determine if genes influence intelligence. Some look at twins who are raised together. One [1] …

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    Comment #46262535

    What studies ? What data ? David Bessis basically says that there are so few twins reared apart that scientists can't make definitive conclusions.

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    Comment #46262359

    The article only asks the question of scientists have data to conclude that IQ is inherited. The author is only saying that there are so many problems with the little data we have,…

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    Comment #46183933

    So you point to one instance of highly targeted sabotage aka sanctions. But Snowden and others exposed many instances of espionage dragnets.