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- Comment on I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology 2 days ago:
Hmm. I wonder if anybody’s compiled a modern text compression algorithm onto whatever machine they have?
- Comment on I’m Fighting for My Freedom Using Outdated Technology 2 days ago:
I mean, there’s also the political unpopularity of letting the words “prison” and “upgrade” get anywhere close to each other. Unless the upgrade is to the guns and razor wire.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 6 days ago:
Yes, doxxing has always been possible. When I think about how you could dox this account, though, it’s not ways that would show up on a simple tool like that. An LLM might be able to piece together a chain of thought for it, though.
- Comment on Pandering to conservative Americans 6 days ago:
It’s the bible verses on the side OP was focusing on.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 6 days ago:
I mean, you can still be anonymous, but it’s extra work.
- Comment on Reddit is using AI to determine users beliefs, values, stances and more based on their activity (posts and comments) summarizing it to Subreddit Mods. 6 days ago:
Yeah, so this was always going to happen eventually, right? It’s yet another reason you’re not anonymous online unless you actually are.
Next stop, AI-powered doxxing.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
The difference is whether there’s any room outside the system to exist in, right? Can you jailbreak your implant? Can you live in a shitty illegal slum, or are they all carefully dispersed before they can begin?
It’s all about technologies of control. Ironically, the places seeing democratic backsliding are not the only or even the main ones developing and implementing them.
- Comment on Um... I'm not even using a VPN... Fuck you reddit. 1 week ago:
Truly the new Coke of websites.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
I’m still holding out hope for cyberpunk. At least it comes with skylines and cool back alley markets.
- Comment on VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power 1 week ago:
And the choice given is if want your car crippled or you want to cough up money.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Ah, the classics. Nothing like a weird dictatorship giving themselves medals.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 1 week ago:
Yes, you’re technically right, that’s at least what I was trying to say. “Linear” and “everything is in a multiplicative relation” are really close in my head, though, so I made a mistake.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, journey length is a huge factor. Over, like, a block or two walking is as dominant as a million years ago. Over continental distances airplanes are the thing to beat. Ordinary rail is promising, and vactrain concepts seem like the best very-long-term option. I did some napkin math that shows for an antipodal trip, even orbital travel can be energy-competitive, given one of a couple improvements beyond existing rocketry.
I also wonder how trains traveling in opposite directions will handle passing each other at 1000km/h given China is already working on next gen trains with that speed as a goal.
You have to adjust for Chinese truth in advertising a bit, so we might not find out, although apparently their rail infrastructure is a notable bright spot. You have to think the shockwaves would be loud, and potentially damaging to the trains, and the solution would be preventing them from ever passing close by, either with barriers and a wider allowance or careful scheduling.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Who didn’t even necessarily believe in god, just some kind of hands-off universe creator?
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 weeks ago:
Sure. And now the question is if halving the travel time is worth whatever it costs to double the speed.
In some cases, it is. There’s a grand total of one ocean liner left in the Western world, for example, despite the energy efficiency. The concord had problems with energy use getting ridiculously higher right after the sound barrier, which made it not worthwhile, and which is why 21st century passenger jets fly just below it, so that’s a straight example. I guess I just take issue with it being represented as mathematically inevitable.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 weeks ago:
Travel time is distance/speed. I suppose that’s only linear in distance in the technical sense, being inversely proportional to speed, but the point that there’s no dark magic or non-elementary school math involved stands.
- Comment on The train that never came; how maglev technology was derailed 2 weeks ago:
100km/h train = 4 hour journey 200km/h train = 2 hours 300km/h train = 1 hour 20 mins 400km/h train = 1 hour 500km/h train = 48 mins 600km/h train = 40 mins
It feels like you’re scoring returns logarithmically as you move the scale additively here. The faster you go, the sooner you arrive, it’s linear. I’m not actually sure if acceleration and deceleration has been a big issue at the scales involved.
- Comment on LLMs’ “simulated reasoning” abilities are a “brittle mirage,” researchers find 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but it supports the jerk that everything called or associated with AI is bad, so it makes a popular Beehaw post.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 3 weeks ago:
By that logic, grocery stores exploit hungry people.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 3 weeks ago:
Hmm, what’s your toilet situation right now? Cassette, tanks, composting, other? I hope it’s not rude to ask in this context.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 3 weeks ago:
I sure wouldn’t. If anything it sounds like these rentals will be worse than the free to look at ones. It’s only 5 bucks, but it’s 5 bucks.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 3 weeks ago:
Is anybody actually going to pay this? I’m limited in how mad I can get over someone deluding themselves.
- Comment on Charging to tour rental properties... 3 weeks ago:
What’s the biggest thing you miss? The idea certainly appeals to me; you have to pay to exist as a person in a building but there’s free parking everywhere. And you can do a bit of nomadism.
- Comment on White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite 3 weeks ago:
Okay, see no evil, hear no evil, sure.
I would hope that one of the scientists involved “accidentally” gives away the access codes.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 weeks ago:
Well, they kept a few of the design bureaus, I guess.
When their whole economic model was obviously failing, I think the West thought they’d given up on Marx, when in reality they just decided to become the bad guys from Marx.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 weeks ago:
Because it’s an incantation to you?
I’d be inclined to respond and explain further, but I don’t think learning and understanding is the point of this exchange anymore. Bye.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, and I was wondering if this was a “commie democrats” thing.
You’ll probably disagree with Putler being wanted by the ICC for warcrimes as well? Or at least make some excuse for how he’s not responsible or how the ICC or the UN are somehow the bad guys or smth?
No, Putin is shit and I hope he ends up in the Hague where he belongs.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 weeks ago:
Because you posted him with no context. It wasn’t clear you meant Russia.
but modern day Russia has inherited a lot of policies and values from them.
I’d disagree with that. They inherited autocracy, but it’s not even a vaguely similar model of it. In a lot of ways current Russia is a backlash to the USSR, although they shoehorn communist stuff together with Tsarist stuff and everything else from even earlier to pretend they have some kind of ideology.
They still see the West as enemies or at least competition, though, that’s true.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 weeks ago:
A change in architecture to accompany the change in form of government.
- Comment on The White House Rose Garden was replaced by pavement 3 weeks ago:
I really don’t think the funny shoe man from the 60’s is to blame for this.