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  • ‘AI is reliant on mass surveillance’ and we should be cautious, warns head of messaging app

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  • I use LLMs just about every day. It's better than web-search for certain things, and is useful for some coding tasks. I think they're over-hyped by some people, but they are useful.

  • 'It's inhumane.' Despite how hot it is, Tennessee renters don't have a right to air conditioning

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  • I think the best you can do passively is keep the home at the average daily temperature, which is still uncomfortable in some areas at some times of the year. Average daily air and soil temperatures where I live are typically in the 90s in August. I guess that's better than the 100F-110F highs though. I think I've read it's better to insulate homes from the ground in areas where it's hot or cold both day and night. AC can be pretty efficient in well-sealed highly-insulated buildings.

  • Tea Time

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  • I've never used it, but the idea is that nutrient uptake will be faster than if someone just dressed the top of the soil with compost. The extra aerobic bacteria could also be beneficial.

  • Elon Musk Begs Advertisers to Return as Twitter's Revenue Plunges

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  • Most CEOs are also conmen and not any smarter. It's mostly just a nepotism racket at the executive level.

  • ACAB.

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  • I still find ACAB cringe inducing, and a bad slogan, but that's an interesting origin I did not know about. I agree with most of what you're saying.

    I think the phrase "All Cops Are Bastards" seems to focus on cops/people, and not the institution of policing. I'm not sure if it's effective messaging or not. Maybe it helps with striker or protestor solidarity, IDK.

    I think police hold back organized crime (currently, in the U.S.). They maintain a "monopoly on violence." I think if all police suddenly disappeared, other gangs would quickly take over the job. I.e. forcing people to pay them for "protection," and stuff like that. This currently happens in many parts of world, and has happened in the U.S. in the past, so I don't think it's some far-out idea. As bad as the system currently is, I think a mafia or cartel controlling things would be worse. U.S. police, generally, don't engage in racketeering or execute you without a trial (it does happen, but is not generally the case).

    Don't get me wrong, I think the current system is evil too, and it needs to be torn down and rebuilt in a radically different way. I agree with thr concept that police currently function mostly to protect capital and the ruling class, and are, themselves, a gang of sorts. But, I think a society will always need to maintain some kind of "police" to remove people who cause harm to others (who would then be rehabilitated, if possible).

  • ACAB.

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  • When there's a power vacuum, gangs even worse than the police tend to fill it. Don't get me wrong, the entire U.S. criminal justice system is rotten to the core, and causes large amounts of pointless suffering. BUT, there needs to be some sort of "police" to enforce the laws of society (and ideally, all those laws would be just). Even the Zapitistas had a form of police.

    Also, I find "ACAB" cringe inducing. Sounds like something an edgy 14 year old came up with. And I'm not sure focusing on individuals (cops) instead of the institution itself is helpful.

  • Trump floats eliminating U.S. income tax and replacing it with tariffs on imports

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  • Trump is currently favored in polls and in betting markets. Few people care about the convictions. People who would vote for him definitely don't care about impeachments. The far-right has a very effective and expansive propaganda machine (old media, alternative media, and social media) that can counter any negative ("fake") news. Biden is a very weak candidate because of his physical and mental health, and the Democrats are ineffective at "controlling the narrative" compared to the Republicans. I think it'll probably be a close election, and if I was forced to bet, I'd bet on Trump winning.

  • hippies unite... HEYOOO!

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  • Decarboxylation happens when heat is applied (smoking or vaping, for example), turning THCA into delta-9 THC.

  • hippies unite... HEYOOO!

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  • Delta-9 gummies are the real-deal. I can't tell the difference between THCA flower and regular flower (I'm pretty sure it's just uncured bud). They also make THCA concentrates.

  • Holocaust survivors urge young EU voters to shun far right

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  • AfD is far right. They are ethno-nationalists that believe only ethnic-Germans belong in Germany. A leader has defended the Nazi SS. They have discussed re-migrating German citizens out of Germany. How do you compromise with people who would like to carry out an ethnic cleansing? Only forcibly relocate Muslims for now, and wait until next year to expel the Jewry?

    Most far-right politicians do not debate or operate politically in good-faith. IDK about the people who vote for them. I think it usually takes years of slow progress for people to move away from extremist positions, and it takes a change in their environment to start the process (new social circle, life experiences, media consumption habits, etc).

  • I watched Nvidia's Computex 2024 keynote and it made my blood run cold

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  • A lot of the "elites" (OpenAI board, Thiel, Andreessen, etc) are on the effective-accelerationism grift now. The idea is to disregard all negative effects of pursuing technological "progress," because techno-capitalism will solve all problems. They support burning fossil fuels as fast as possible because that will enable "progress," which will solve climate change (through geoengineering, presumably). I've seen some accelerationists write that it would be ok if AI destroys humanity, because it would be the next evolution of "intelligence." I dunno if they've fallen for their own grift or not, but it's obviously a very convenient belief for them.

    Effective-accelerationism was first coined by Nick Land, who appears to be some kind of fascist.

  • Democrats decry Biden executive order turning away some asylum seekers | US-Mexico border

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  • Wouldn't this just cause people to become undocumented immigrants instead of reporting to a port of entry?

  • Democrats decry Biden executive order turning away some asylum seekers | US-Mexico border

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  • I'd bet most residential construction workers are immigrants.

  • ‘A catastrophe’: Greenpeace blocks planting of ‘lifesaving’ Golden Rice

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  • IDK. Nuclear looks like it kinda sucks.

  • Zelenskyy says Ukraine has taken back control in areas of Kharkiv region, aerial attacks continue

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  • There's this map: https://liveuamap.com/

    I haven't been following the war very closely, but AFAIK, they've been in a stalemate for many months with neither side making any significant gains.

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  • We're close to peak using current NN architectures and methods. All this started with the discovery of transformer architecture in 2017. Advances in architecture and methods have been fairly small and incremental since then. The advancements in performance has mostly just been throwing more data and compute at the models, and diminishing returns have been observed. GPT-3 costed something like $15 million to train. GPT-4 is a little better and costed something like $100 million to train. If the next model costs $1 billion to train, it will likely be a little better.

  • Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

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  • LLMs do sometimes hallucinate even when giving summaries. I.e. they put things in the summaries that were not in the source material. Bing did this often the last time I tried it. In my experience, LLMs seem to do very poorly when their context is large (e.g. when "reading" large or multiple articles). With ChatGPT, it's output seems more likely to be factually correct when it just generates "facts" from it's model instead of "browsing" and adding articles to its context.

  • US to impose tariffs on Chinese EVs next week

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  • I think part of the problem is that new cars are bought mostly by fairly well-off individuals; with other people buying used cars. Economy cars sell poorly in the U.S.

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    TikTok sues the US government over ban

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  • China can't arrest people in the U.S. The U.S. and state governments can.