[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 month ago

indefensible: voting for laws
sensible: gambling for laws

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 2 months ago

Nice, the language itself also looks pretty cool, which you love to see.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

To be fair, the typesetting of the papers is quite pleasant and the pictures are nice.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 8 months ago

Oh, sorry, I got so absorbed into reading the riveting material about features predicting state name tokens to predict state capital tokens I missed that we were quibbling over the word "next". Alright they can predict tokens out of order, too. Very impressive I guess.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 17 points 8 months ago

He's a renowned AI researcher in the same way as Andrew Wakefield is a renowned doctor.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 10 months ago

I distinctly recall a lot of people a few years ago parroting some variation of "well I don't know about Bitcoin specifically, but blockchain itself is probably going to be important and even revolutionary as a technology" and sometimesI wish I'd collected receipts to say "I told you it's not".

Here we are, year of Nakamoto 17 and the full list of use cases for blockchains is:

  • Speculative trading of toy currencies made up by private nobodies
  • Paying through the nose to execute arbitrary code on SETI@Home's evil cousin
  • Speculative trading of arbitrary blobs of bytes made up by private nobodies

And no, Git is not a fucking blockchain. Much like the New York City Subway is not the fucking Loop.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 11 months ago

As an advocate of free software, it would be better if the so-called AI systems were free and open source software. I don't think this is feasible. The models are trained on data that is, in part, incredibly proprietary. To "open source" these algorithms would mean to "open source" all media on the internet. Imagine convincing Disney to release all their movies under an open source license. Now imagine making everyone else do that too. That is what it would take to "open source" AI as it exists.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 17 points 11 months ago

Not that I expect anything better from the fucking lawnmower but the flippant attitude on display is little short of amazing. How bad is it when Business Insider of all publications calls your vision a "surveillance dystopia"?

Every police officer is going to be supervised at all times, and if there's a problem, AI will report that problem and report it to the appropriate person.

Body cam footage of the officer-involved shooting was not available, as the AI system supervising the involved officers was coincidentally disregarding its previous instructions and instead writing a minstrel show routine at the time of the event.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 17 points 11 months ago

Attractive Gullibility Inducer

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yea who would want to live in a dusty, arid, brown and yellow wasteland city like that? Certainly not the "Occupy Mars" guy.

The dark theme is nice, btw.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 18 points 1 year ago

You can totally hack a plane using a buffer overflow. C airlines don't check how many tickets they sell on a single flight. Usually if you overbook a flight, they will simply reallocate some of their buffer into business class. However, if you buy a bunch of tickets to one flight at once, you can craft a scenario where you overwrite the pilot.

[-] bitofhope@awful.systems 17 points 2 years ago

The market can remain irrational for longer than you and I can remain ~~solvent~~ sane.

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