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- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 day ago:
If there’s one person who knows their applied zk proofs, it’s that guy.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 day ago:
There are some pretty strong arguments that even zk proof is a flawed way of preserving privacy though, in a variety of ways. It prevents pseudonymity by enabling one-user-one-account, and it leaves users vulnerable to being coerced to reveal their full online activities by handing over cryptographic keys.
- Comment on Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it. 2 days ago:
LLMs are simply tools that emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning …
Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world; our range of what we can experience and think about remains vast.
But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all.
The author seems to be making the assumption that a LLM is the equivalent of the language processing parts of the brain (which according to the cited research supposedly focus on language specifically and the other parts of the brain do reasoning) but that isn’t really how it works. LLMs have to internally model more than just the structure of language because text contains information that isn’t just about the structure of language. The existence of Multimodal models makes this kind of obvious; they train on more input types than just text, whatever it’s doing internally is obviously more abstract than only being about language.
Not to say the research on the human brain they’re talking about is wrong, it’s just that the way they are trying to tie it in to AI doesn’t make any sense.
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- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 2 days ago:
That’s literally what the comment above it was doing too though. It’s a very common anti-AI argument to appeal to social proof.
- Comment on Women and men and consensual sex 6 days ago:
but the kinds of people who grape others generally don’t feel shame
I think this is probably not true.
the primary tool society uses to respond to grape, assault, prison, ostracizing or murder is, so like, so what is there less shame?
Those tools aren’t equally available to everyone, they are expressions of power, which some people have access to more than others.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds is surprisingly optimistic about vibe coding - except for this one 'horrible' use 1 week ago:
But making the jump from there to programming seems like it would be frustrating, since you would need to start over with small projects to have any chance at learning the basics.
There’s definitely big pitfalls here but I think being able to actually produce software that is useful to you is a better starting point than toy projects that are only for learning purposes. LLMs producing code normally explain what they are doing, and give more detailed explanations when asked that can be supplemented by looking things up separately, which would be one way to learn enough to make your own edits to get around its mistakes and limitations.
- Comment on Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer 1 week ago:
and there’s a well-defined mission in each zone
It’s been a long time but I remember there being missions with scripted events and objectives and stuff, but then also areas where the main thing to do was simply travel through it to get to other places. My favorite moment from the game was when I worked out that you could skip a portion of the normal progression by getting to a higher level area early to buy more powerful equipment, but actually getting there was a real challenge due to being underleveled and the difficulty of getting past enemies without killing them. I got a group to make the attempt (which took some explaining and persuasion because it wasn’t the normal next thing to do) and we spent hours on it and got to the last leg of the journey, but ultimately had to give up because our death penalties were stacked too high to get through that last bit. I was able to make it on a later attempt with a different group using character loadouts more specialized for the task.
Something I think GW1 did really well was doing various things like this to build up a sense of location and meaningful travel, which does a lot of work to compensate for the gameplay itself happening in isolated instances and making the world of the game feel expansive and epic.
- Comment on Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits 1 week ago:
Emote only chat
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 1 week ago:
I don’t think anyone would ever argue against that
Aren’t they though? Take the example from the article:
KJ Muldoon of Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, was diagnosed shortly after birth with severe CPS1 deficiency – the buildup of toxic ammonia in the blood.
The experimental therapy, crafted specifically for his condition, corrected a minor yet crucial error in his genetic code, offering hope for others with similarly rare diseases.
While liver transplants can be a solution for some, this innovative gene-editing treatment offers a new avenue of hope.
Presumably this was legal because it is something that was able to be done after the baby was born. What about similar, unambiguously deleterious conditions (there are lots of really awful ones) that fall afoul of the broad prohibitions on modifying embryos? At least on paper, this is specifically what the company that the article is about claims its focus is; the stuff no one disagrees that it’s bad to be born with. Like it isn’t very arguable that it’s good for babies to have ammonia in their blood and need liver transplants.
Gene editing to create a baby is illegal in the US, UK, and many countries around the world, with critics arguing it is unethical and unsafe.
So really at this point the question is only, do we allow the development and use of this technology for the things there is no objection about. I guess the risk is that this will be a slippery slope and lead to things being done that are actually bad, or maybe that mistakes will be made that cause unintended genetic issues. But if it was possible to use it just for that class of diseases, and the treatments were safe and worked, it would be a good thing.
- Comment on Platform for Crowd Sourced Software Bounties? 1 week ago:
What about a way to donate (held in reserve for that purpose?) money after the fact for specific commits, and then have a way to indicate which things you’d be most likely to donate to going forward if they are completed? This would mean less reliable payments since there wouldn’t be a guarantee any given contribution would result in a payout, but there wouldn’t be any disincentive to work on things and there would be a general idea of what donators want. Plus doing it that way would eliminate the need for a manual escrow process.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 1 week ago:
Even if they are trying to hack me it’s only polite. Plus on the very remote chance they somehow find this and care they would have slightly more info about me.
- Comment on Using Fail2ban to protect exposed services 2 weeks ago:
Image Tried setting this up, caught a few already
- Comment on Jack Dorsey funds diVine, a Vine reboot that includes Vine's video archive 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think that’s entirely fair; the Nostr protocol has a modular design philosophy, with most components being optional addons, including the Bitcoin payments stuff. It’s genuinely decentralized and explicitly made to be easy to not use any baggage you don’t like.
It’s unclear from the article if the use of the protocol will also mean overlap with the content and community of Nostr, which is understandable to criticize, but the protocol itself is just another take on decentralized social media that does things differently than activitypub.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 3 weeks ago:
Maybe a manual dial to cycle through the available nearby vehicles then. The idea is just that there should be a way for it to be clear who you are contacting and where their vehicle is on the road relative to yours.
- Comment on With how shitty some Christians are, you really have to wonder if Lucifer or Satan is truly "evil" 3 weeks ago:
My interpretation of Book of Job is God and Satan are in a toxic relationship where they egg each other on to fuck with people so you shouldn’t trust either of them.
- Comment on Why don't cars have a way to contact nearby cars like fictional spaceships do? 3 weeks ago:
I just want a way to save the chicken :(
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- Comment on What do you call the beleif that gods are just higher beings on other planes of existence? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t know but now I’m wondering, do the Greek gods qualify?
- Comment on Democratic contender for Congress indicted over Chicago ICE protests - Progressive Palestinian American candidate Kat Abughazaleh, 26, decries ‘gross attempt at silencing dissent’ 4 weeks ago:
This is the stuff candidates for congress should be doing, hopefully Illinois voters see it that way too
- Comment on Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, sure, it’s all about individual success, nevermind the actual population level trends, it’s all on you to figure out some way to afford your life.
- Comment on Scientists have been studying remote work for four years and have reached a very clear conclusion: “Working from home makes us thrive” 5 weeks ago:
When I see this type of thing my default assumption is the actual source is ChatGPT. The article is attributed to “the editorial team” but that link just goes to a list of other articles and credits no-one. But somehow they’re putting out like 20 a day, all of them similarly lacking sources or authors, and only linking to other articles on the same site.
- Comment on Fml lmao 5 weeks ago:
It’s ok, Bush made sure the government backs a lender’s investment by ensuring those loans are an inescapable weight students can never escape, no need to do risk analysis.
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 5 weeks ago:
it’s in their own interest to not divulge the whole picture.
Could you give an example? Do you mean they will fail to report or falsify the real prices, or something else? I’ll admit I like the idea of actually decentralized betting markets more (wish Augur had gotten big instead of platforms like Polymarket), but something that egregious seems like it would be tough to get away with without people noticing.
- Comment on Should we treat environmental crime more like murder? 5 weeks ago:
What the author seems to be proposing is something like true crime media but for environmental crimes.
And if you’re tempted to turn around and say that environmental crimes don’t happen because of individuals, but because of “the system”, I hear you. Social structures, ideologies and politics have a profound impact on human behaviour. Using this term – the system – can feel like a profound contribution to a difficult discussion, underpinned by the desire not to over simplify. But exactly who, or what, is the system?
A serial killer also lives in a society, and we can blame society for any hardships they may have faced. But if on a true-crime show I were to simply cite “the system” as a motive for murder, people would want me to be more precise. We understand that choices are involved, and motives are personal, not just systemic. Otherwise, wouldn’t we all be criminals?
Seems like a cool idea.
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 5 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you mean, in this case the definition of public would be anyone who can see the state of the market (everyone), and so can see when insider trading visibly moves the price. The idea being that doing the insider trading unavoidably leaks the information in this way, they can’t hide it unless they can manage to actually prevent all insiders from trading on their inside knowledge.
- Comment on New Study: Global Fertility Rate Decline Now Linked Directly to the Commodification of Housing 1 month ago:
All of the source links have
?utm_source=chatgpt.com
at the end, pretty sure the article itself is just a LLM bullshitting, especially with how vague it is and never directly cites anything.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
That definitely makes it worse
- Comment on Same betting app you can bet on the impacts of climate change, promoting gambling on a collapsing government 1 month ago:
An argument I’ve heard for allowing this is, at least it means the public will have more reliable advance information, since insiders are incentivized to bet on what they know will happen in order to take everyone else’s money, which happens before that information gets into the news.
- Comment on Anyone remember Heroes of Might & Magic 3? A remake is coming 1 month ago:
I remember spending a very long time trying to download a demo of that game over dialup, was absolutely worth it
