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> If you saw creatures behaving like this in the wild, you might attribute some rudimentary intelligence to them.

> But we’ve just shown you how this apparent intelligence arises from the bottom up, with just four neurons and two connections. There’s no magic here. In this view, behavior emerges from neural circuits.

Isn't the conclusion here that very simple behaviors like the sparks are intelligent? I would say even a single neuron has some tiny amount of intelligence, and what the author means by "no magic" and "emergent behavior" is just a different perspective that minimizes it.

They could still implement these things in the app and put them behind a switch for users who care about independence more than one specific type of anonymity. Explain the tradeoffs on the settings screen.

The only valid reason to be against an optional feature is the maintenance burden, I don't think it's too much here but I also can't speak for the Signal team.

Might be stolen content, it links to a mobile game company blog that decided to become a gaming news site for some reason.

Why select over generations when you can fix things directly? That's what medicine should be focusing on. Ways to safely edit our genes, metabolism and immune systems. Growing new body parts to replace broken ones.

All of this being used in practice might be more than 50 years away but there is no biological reason why it should be impossible. Just a lot of work, too much for any single company or government. It will take global coordination, massive investments and maybe the end of capitalism but I think we can pull it off as a civilization.

Bluesky inherited Twitter's toxic culture and most of its users switched over for political reasons. That creates an echo chamber full of the worst "2020 cancel culture liberal" types who think they're radical but are really just annoying.

There are parts of the community where it's a lot better (atmosphere and open source devs, some digital artists who are not vocally pro/anti AI) but most people will see the front page that's almost exclusively US politics and get turned off.

I don't know how to fix this. Maybe create a new site that starts out focused on a specific large, politically mixed group like gaming or football fans and then expands to a general audience. Or use a personalized algorithm by default and initialize it randomly so new users see more diverse content.

Where do you see the industry getting monopolized? GitHub is getting overloaded because there are too many new projects. That's the opposite of a monopoly and most of them are from independent developers. No corporate control in sight.

I don't have a problem with me or anyone else giving away our labor for free. It's not like strike breaking in a unionized industry. This is only taking money from companies like Adobe that get their expensive tools replaced, and giving some of it to AI providers.

Companies that put profit first and have no ethical boundaries usually grow faster because our economy is built to reward them. Becoming a successful politician takes a lot of money. Selfish and unethical people are more likely to be right wing.

When you put that together it's obvious. Being a bad person leads to getting rich and having strong conservative views, and if you have both you become a right wing politician easily.

It would be the default setting. That's it. No one will go out of their way to turn it off when it's very little benefit to them and harmful to other users.

It was always a DDoS tool. AI scrapers just send so many requests that it's effectively a permanent DDoS if your server is not smart enough to reject them or fast enough to serve them all.

Artists ideologically opposed to AI are not the intended audience, they picked it up to show everyone they really mean what they say.

We should do it again but the right way this time.

Give literal zero interest loans from a state bank based on social value and economic priorities, just like they do in China. And set up an extreme progressive tax (90% top bracket) on returns that are paid out to owners to make sure everything gets invested back into production.

More investment is the driver of economic growth. All the bad parts of ZIRP came from letting companies use the money for unproductive activity. If it's used efficiently the downward pressure from higher product supply will be stronger than inflation from more money in the system. And you get more demand in the labor market leading to higher wages.

Moving faster is good. But only if it means sending more agents (and humans, that part is important) to do the same amount of testing in less time. Dropping critical work is not that.

> Turns out anyone with a 401K is also invested.

The problem with that thinking is not everyone is invested equally or in proportion to how much they pay in taxes. It's a transfer to people who can afford to invest more of their income, paid by everyone else.

Decompiling into readable code that gives you the exact same binary and probably matches what the developers wrote is a lot more complicated. You need a human expert or equivalent AI to do it. Deterministic tools will almost always give you code that looks like trash or doesn't compile at all.

Not every pirate site is dangerous. And this is not even a backdoor just a standard auto update mechanism coded in a insecure way.

Redundancy in a central node is an oxymoron. Safety critical systems need to work 100% of the time if any single node fails, and stop safely if there are multiple failures and it can't work properly. Doesn't matter if each individual node is 100% reliable by itself because connections fail too.