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Comment · 11 months ago
To avoid spoiling a 30 year old movie: ROT13 `Gur Hfhny Fhfcrpgf`
Comment · 1 year ago
> his employees (also non-US and under no affirmative obligation to learn the laws of every country in the world just because they run a website)
Employees of financial businesses are absolutely obligated to learn the laws of every country where they provide services.
Comment · 1 year ago
The "surprise" is not that the agent can respond with private repository details, it's that it can receive and act upon prompts issued by someone other than the person running the agent, hence "prompt _injection_".
Or to come back to the SQL injection analogy, no one is surprised that the web app can query the database for password hashes. The surprise is that it can be instructed to do so when loading the next image in a carousel.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think OP is commenting more so on the reversal of the developer’s relationship with rules of syntax than their personal capabilities.
Comment · 2 years ago
What on earth are you talking about Saul Kripke and modal logic being some kind of cultural studies tool for “unmooring people from the authority of math”? And your lumping of Wagner, Marx, and Nietszche with Hubbard and Osho as “inventors of religions” is baffling.
Comment · 5 years ago
I was curious as well and found this video explanation[1]. The idea is that tapping on the back of the controller pushes it up into the player’s thumb which is resting on the D-pad causing a button press.
Comment · 5 years ago
I think we might be due for an update to Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment:
"Every program attempts to expand until it can process _payments_. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can."
Comment · 5 years ago
You might enjoy "Chess960" (or Fischer Random Chess): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fischer_random_chess
The order of the back-rank pieces is randomized (but identical for both players).
Comment · 6 years ago
Change that `except Exception:` to just a bare `except:` to catch KeyboardInterrupts as well and prevent Ctrl+C from killing any of them while it expands.
Comment · 7 years ago
This reminds me of a passage in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter discussing the Golden Record[1].
""" [C]onsider a meteorite which, instead of deciphering the outer-space Bach record, punctures it with colossal indifference, and continues in its merry orbit. It has interacted with the record in a way which we feel disregards the record's meaning. Therefore, we might well feel tempted to call the meteorite "stupid". But perhaps we would thereby do the meteorite a disservice. Perhaps it has a "higher intelligence" which we in our Earth chauvinism cannot perceive, and its interaction with the record was a manifestation of that higher intelligence. Perhaps, then, the record has a "higher meaning"-totally different from that which we attribute to it; perhaps its meaning depends on the type of intelligence perceiving it. Perhaps. """
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you! That makes complete sense when I consider the 4 color example of a world map. I didn't even consider that most graphs would have "overlapping borders" on such a map.
An extra thank you for apparently creating a new account to assist me. (I think that's what the green username indicates, at least).
Comment · 7 years ago
Thank you! That makes complete sense when I consider the 4 color example of a world map. I didn't even consider that most graphs would have "overlapping borders" on such a map.
Comment · 7 years ago
Could somebody clear up my confusion with these two statements that appear contradictory?
"Do four colors suffice to color any map? — took more than a century to answer (the answer is yes, in case you were wondering)."
and
"Returning our attention to colorings in which connected nodes are supposed to be different colors, we have no guarantee that the five colors in our palette will be sufficient to color the graph G"
How can it be that 4 colors is sufficient for any graph, but for our hypothetical graph G we can't be sure that 5 colors are sufficient?
Comment · 8 years ago
“[A] lot of these jobs he talks about are what I call "zero-sum jobs" - it sucks that they have to exist, but if any individual firm stopped having them, that firm would be behind.”
This part of it all, in particular, reminds so much of “Meditations on Moloch”[1] . If anyone hasn’t read through this, I highly recommend it. It’s an inspiring look into how human society gets trapped into these games where no one wins, but to stop playing is much worse.
1: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/