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> But this example hilariously contradicts the claim that "the system is stacked against the accused" How does it contradict that? It sounds like you're saying "The system is, in f…

Hahaha, that's awesome. A nice adjunct to "Why Don't We Just Kill the Kid In the Omelas Hole" [1] (to take another example of a riff on a classic speculative fiction piece, that ex…

... is there any reason why I shouldn't be visiting Aphyr's site directly?

archive.is: https://archive.is/e701M

> you must surely be guilty of something. Otherwise, all offers would be meaningless and worth nothing. You don't have to be "guilty" of anything to be liable in civil law (which c…

> > Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent > This means exactly that no representation should exist in the activation states about what the model wants to …

> For years, despite functional evidence and scientific hints accumulating, certain AI researchers continued to claim LLMs were stochastic parrots: probabilistic machines that woul…

gtk-vector-screenshot ( https://github.com/nomeata/gtk-vector-screenshot >) will do this, but for GTK apps only. It relies on a custom protocol layered on top of X Window, and I th…

The whole point of corporations is that they can sue and be sued like a natural person can - they have legal personhood, and can pursue and defend actions in their own name. I assu…

Romans didn't use chariots, except for chariot racing. For military purposes, they used cavalry and footsoldiers. For domestic transport, they used wagons. And as far as I'm aware,…

What? No, it's a Latin word, and not a distortion of anything. It's a conjugation of the verb 'gero', which has several meanings - but when put next to 'bene', most likely means 't…

Huh. You're right, and it's a WONTFIX: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=485 . I hadn't even noticed, because I tend to automatically reach for rsync instead, even for s…

The Sunk-cost fallacy is when you weight the value of something disproportionately because of effort or expense you've put into it. But if you've got an OS that's certified for the…

As someone who ran Linux on Windows 3.1 era hardware, perfectly well.

Besides the archive.is link already posted, you can find it on the Internet Archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20230622023623/https://furiouslyr...