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ArbitraryValue

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  • In high school the computer drafting teacher glued all the mice closed because students kept stealing the mouse balls, and then of course all the mice got clogged with gunk and stopped working.

  • The greatest injustice in modern British history has just taken place, and we should all be terrified.

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  • They got sentenced to about five years each, except for the guy who hurt a police officer and got two years more. That on its face does not seem unreasonable to me for causing over a million pounds in damage even without any sort of terrorist connection. How long are people in Britain responsible for hundreds of thousands of pounds in damage each usually sentenced for, given that this sentence is so outrageous to the author?

  • Iran shuts Strait of Hormuz over Israel's attacks on Lebanon, deepening the Middle East crisis

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  • I don't even know what the good outcome here would be, given the terms of America's surrender. Maybe it would be better if Iran pushed too far and forced Trump to re-enter the war.

  • Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything

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  • What's the point of this article? It's talking about the same thing that has always been true about Windows 11 since its release - there's no new requirement or "creep".

  • The World’s Leading Deepfake Expert No Longer Trusts His Own Eyes

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  • Would having experts capable of telling real videos from fake ones even solve the main problem, that being the problem of public perception? The experts would have an important role in, for example, intelligence agencies, but the public is still going to trust its eyes, and in the presence of multiple contradictory videos, its biases, especially since there's always going to be someone claiming to be an expert to back them up.

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    how you prepare to survive during the 4th Industrial Revolution (AI)?

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  • We're barely past the Wright brothers' plane stage of AI right now, so predicting when the technology will level off is very difficult and just extrapolating forward from the limitations that the technology has today is unlikely to be reliable. I think you're right regarding what we'll see in the next few years but I have about thirty years until retirement. By then things will probably be very different and that's something to keep in mind when choosing a career (or deciding to have a child).

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    how you prepare to survive during the 4th Industrial Revolution (AI)?

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  • I wouldn't bet that physical robotics will lag behind for long if AI does get to the point where it takes most knowledge jobs. Automating software development has turned out to be both easier and more profitable than automating plumbing, but that doesn't mean no one is ever going to automate plumbing. So as a software developer, I'm earning and investing money while I still can, and I'm doing the things on my bucket list in case we get the worst-case scenario. I think that in the long term, the outcome in which I still need money but have no way of earning it is less likely than either the "good end" or the "bad end" in which no one needs money anymore, so sometimes I feel silly saving up money I think I will probably never spend, but better safer than sorrier.

  • ‘You Will Not Speak on Flock Tonight’: County Commissioner Refuses to Let Residents Opposing Flock Speak at Meeting

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  • It's more reasonable than the headline makes it sound. The commissioner pointed out that he's not in charge of the decision to use Flock cameras and told the group of people who wanted to express their opposition to him anyway to pick one representative who would do so.

    I've been to meetings where people repeatedly express the same negative opinion of a policy to someone with no control over that policy and I guess that's what the commissioner wanted to avoid.

  • The tanks in Cushing, Oklahoma, are hitting bottom. The oil market is about to hit a tipping point | CNN Business

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  • What I don't get is why prices aren't already rising more than they have. It seems like literally everyone except the Trump administration itself expects the strait of Hormuz to remain blocked for a long time, so shouldn't that be priced in already?

  • Policy on the AI Exponential

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  • I'm not sure it's better to have AI regulated by fools than it is to have AI unregulated. It's ironic that I actually trust Amodei personally more than I trust the American public and its elected representatives. (I trust both that his intentions are better and that he has more of the wisdom necessary to carry them out.) That's not to say that I trust him very much in absolute terms...

  • What's something (offline) that made you laugh recently?

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  • I saw a turtle and I tried to photograph it, but the picture came out blurry, like the turtle was moving too quickly.

  • What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

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  • And they seem to be doing ok so far.

  • What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?

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  • I think the author underestimates the extent to which Japan will be able to innovative, or to copy innovations from other countries with shrinking populations. Dramatically falling birth rates are a global issue and so is hostility towards immigration (although generally not to the same extent as in Japan). There is going to be a vast amount of effort invested into developing new technologies to compensate for that.

  • America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance

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  • Maybe some damage is irreversible but the goal should still be a return to the liberal status quo that was actually working quite well before American voters decided to break it anyway. I don't concede that the goose that laid the golden eggs is quite dead yet despite voters' attempts to kill it.

  • days of future past

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  • The choice to compare data centers to canals rather than to railroads seems rather arbitrary.

  • Don't be late

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  • Note that the reduced delay after lunch happens if (as is usual) the doctor skips lunch. Medicine seems like a miserable profession for most specialties. Maybe my career is going to end soon because of AI, but I'm still so glad that I'm a software developer. I get paid a good fraction of what doctors get, but I'm treated so much better.

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  • A life form perfectly adapted for hitting below the belt.

  • cursed cat

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  • Jucika buys a gift

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  • It's interesting to see old comics like this or Archie in which people date (or are implied to date) more than one person at a time, so that one person they date can see them on a date with someone else and feel jealous, but the situation isn't considered cheating. According to my grandmother, who is about Jucika's age (based on when the comics were first published) and grew up in the Soviet Union, that really was normal when she was young, to the extent that she would deliberately go on dates with other guys to make my future grandfather jealous if she felt like he wasn't paying enough attention to her, but it was associated with a very strong expectation of waiting until marriage before having sex.