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> but typical compiler behaviors on UB are reasonably understood that I think its immediate effects are overstated I don't dispute that usually the compiler and the compiled code b…

> Integer overflows themselves are not significant, they have to be paired with other mechanisms to be actually vulnerable No, that is not true. That's a misconception. Your senten…

> The practical effect of this security bug is quite limited. You are probably correct (although it's hard to say for sure that you've considered every single compiler optimization…

> needed more time to solve challenging tasks but made fewer errors [1] As someone else said, I can solve problems very quickly if the solutions don't have to be correct... But mor…

> being a talented software engineer doesn't give you any ability to understand the nuances of neurochemistry. This is a bit of a non-sequitur based on what you said before. Being …

There's no such thing as "intelligence in one area", intelligence is a general ability. You're basically ignoring everything that psychology has studied regarding intelligence.

That's probably one of the reasons why you'd use GPT-4 to explain GPT-2. Of course, if you were trying to use GPT-4 to explain GPT-4 then I think the Gödel incompleteness theorem w…

The Stargate SG-1 TV series has a similar, although not exactly identical, recurrent plot point (replicators). The show is well worth watching IMHO.

You probably don't even need to have the server in your premises. Perhaps the server could be in some datacenter and you, as well as others, could use it remotely via the Internet.…

> Didn't Bitcoin lose half its value like 6 months ago? Let's say the following statement is true: "If X is a scam then X's price eventually goes down". That doesn't necessarily ma…

> At the very least, I would want to assume any civilization capable of interstellar travel to be at least 1000 years ahead of us, technologically. My guess is that we'll be able t…

We'll never know the weather again...

> 5. Rightfully mentions that you should not put a plaintext password on the CLI, then proceeds to recommend you use pass in a way that puts the password back in plaintext on the C…

If someone replaces the APK on their website with a compromised one, what prevents them from replacing the PGP signature with a signature created by the attacker?

It's very rare and extremely interesting for me to read a well-argued opinion that is the polar opposite of mine. Furthermore, I don't even have any good counter-arguments (at leas…

The Flying Spaghetti Monster is also an interesting concept. It can even be useful as a concept, in certain discussions/contexts. Should we take the Flying Spaghetti Monster as a c…

> The biggest problem with finite sets is that most operations don't work nicely in finite sets. I didn't necessarily mean to suggest that we should not work with infinite sets, on…

That's very interesting, thanks. So you're saying that in such a scenario, it would be impossible for complex life to exist, even if it looks different from the complex life we hav…

I can't really give a substantial response to your first argument, as I'm not certain about all the implications that you mention. Your second argument, though, doesn't sound very …

Perhaps we should start admitting to ourselves that infinity is not really something that actually exists but instead it's just an imaginary concept that we created but that has no…

> You have to shield your home from your neighbor's emitters too. And from the police radar surveillance van sitting in the street in front of your house. That's what tin foil hous…

But the question was not whether we would be here. What's to say that in the absence of the K-T event, some dominant dinosaur species wouldn't have eventually evolved their intelli…

> there's a lot that had to go right with the Earth for it to support not just life, but complex, high-energy life, which enables (expensive-in-energy-terms) intelligence Like what…

OK, so I have a few comments about your experiments: > I am surprised that mounting worked without error but I guess the device is still active via losetup. Exactly. `rm` doesn't a…