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Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

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Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

#21

Can we stop putting this site on the front page if it has geoblocking for certain locations? Or at least require an archive link with it?

Blame your own government for trying to levy fines on non-citizens anywhere on the entire damn planet without explaining or justifying itself.

Kyle has spent a lot of time and resources trying to talk to OFCOM. They won't give answers, so the only reasonable option is to block the UK.

Which is the entire point of your laws. Blame yourself.

Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

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post #4

Tangent - does anyone immediately recognise how this was typeset? I’m guessing it’s some kind of pandoc output? I read the original chapters online but appreciate this format.

It's in the file metadata: - LuaTeX-1.17.0 - LaTeX via pandoc

Yup. The only major changes here are fonts and twocolumn. https://gist.github.com/aphyr/6f0cd6910ccfe2cd7828d1ade2eac5...

Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

#23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds more like a self-imposed penalty by the author. I mean I can read most of the world internet without such a message so I don't know what it even means.

This is what the UK government wants. Kyle has spent an insane amount of effort to get answers from OFCOM, got none, and as such blocks the UK for self-preservation. The UK wants to fine non-citizens for violating online purity rules, so this is the result. Blame the UK for this bullshit. The rules say you must geoblock the UK or be fined, and then sometimes you still get fined anyway.

Such a delicate balance.

The US 'free speech over everything', also allows anti-science and conspiracy theories.

But this UK example, seems to be a good example why allowing all the US Crazy is better option.

Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

#24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would we do the same for sites unavailable in North Korea? If your country is blocking sites, speak to your government about it.

the country isn't blocking his site. his self-importance is. OFCOM doesn't give a shit about this blog.

From others "Kyle has spent an insane amount of effort to get answers from OFCOM, got none, and as such blocks the UK for self-preservation. The UK wants to fine non-citizens for violating online purity rules, so this is the result"

If he can't get an answer, then probably better to not get charged with something.

Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

#26

Can we stop putting this site on the front page if it has geoblocking for certain locations? Or at least require an archive link with it?

It also blocks IPs from states with age verification laws. I mean, okay, I respect the principle, but since there's very little I can do about the laws, and since there are exactly zero politicians who are going to fret because they can't visit aphyr dot com, it's a bit pretentious. So I guess I'll just k-line all aphyr dot com links in my filter and move on with my life. Everybody blocking everybody is how we win.

Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

#27

Can we stop putting this site on the front page if it has geoblocking for certain locations? Or at least require an archive link with it?

Blame your own government for trying to levy fines on non-citizens anywhere on the entire damn planet without explaining or justifying itself. Kyle has spent a lot of time and resources trying to talk to OFCOM. They won't give answers, so the only reasonable option is to block the UK. Which is the entire point of your laws. Blame yourself.

Going to Uno Reverse that back to you - the current edition of "think of the children" is from organisations in the US pushing their agenda all over

Get your own house in order (if you're from the US), and ironically, keep your nonsense within your own borders....

Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

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post #3

Something that is still not clear to me is, what is conscious even. It references the Chinese Room experiment: > Suppose that artificial intelligence research has succeeded in programming a computer to behave as if it understands Chinese. The machine accepts Chinese characters as input, carries out each instruction of the program step by step, and then produces Chinese characters as output. The machine does this so p…

> But what makes a human mind more "understanding"? If you view understanding as knowledge + the ability to apply it , everything falls into its place. The Chinese room can't apply the knowledge that it has, even theoretically.

That's not true. The Chinese room is no different than an immobile Chinese person.

Leveraging ability gets you nothing.

Re: Bullshit About Bullshit Machines [pdf]

#30

> Hacker News is not expected to understand this, but since I’ve brought up M3GAN it must be said: LLMs thus far seem incapable of truly serving cunt. And here we are upvoting this drivel. This individual has clearly never used Claude in unhinged mode.

If you think that is serving then - oh, what's the use, none of this was ever for you. It even says it isn't!
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