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Comment · 7 hours ago
A person has what is known as 'character' and 'personality'. These words indicate discenable patterns of behavior. Determinism in this discussion means that a given person will 'behave in an expected manner'. Further feature of humans in that you can coerce them to behave in highly constrained manners.

Entire institutions and organizations in humanity are based on this feature of human beings.

A heuristic software agent that will respond in a spectrum of possible ways and past performance is no guarantee of future performance. It is no way reassuring that your agent has 'never done x' since if 'x is in the space of possible responses' it can certainly do 'x'.

Comment · 16 hours ago
Vendor A publishes a public key on their site for authenticating any signature. There is an entire subset of cryptography dedicated to addressing these needs. This is just yet another software player, Cursor, taking the absolutely easy no effort path because otherwise they would be, I don't know, "losers". I mean only losers would setup a basic authenticated provinance for bits of code they are pushing to the world to be executed by all and sundry. Really, this profession has become a complete clown show.
Comment · 17 hours ago
I find it entirely irrelevant that contemporary comments on emerging technology of photography may have in part worried about the future of representative arts. 19th century featured a lot of blowhard know nothing know it alls.

As for today, we are discussing distinct means of producing the same thing: software. Painting remains because photography was at most displacing a subset of the field. Generative AI writing software may be displacing an entire profession.

Comment · 19 hours ago
Capital is becoming freer from labor worries and wealthier.
Comment · 20 hours ago
Photography and painting are two entirely distinct art forms.
Comment · 20 hours ago
Humans are deterministic and have personality traits. The first couple of times getting bs’d and that person is now a known quality.

Agents fail randomly. One day a stellar dev and next a bs artist.

So this idea that LLM hallucination is not unlike human failings is without merit.

Comment · 1 day ago
Conclusion: Do not trust your email security to the clownshow run by Andy Yen. That's almost 180 degree opposite of what direction a company dedicated to secure communication should provide to its developers.

And that "loser" comment. Looking at this Andy's mug on google image search and enjoying a mild lol moment. Really, Andy, take a good look in the mirror.

Comment · 1 day ago
Comment · 1 day ago
> Cursor: "This malicious version of the extension was not developed by Anthropic."

Wtf does that mean.

Comment · 9 days ago
translation: Current US admin is a fascist regime.
Comment · 11 days ago
The conflict is not over yet. The only question today is one of political will. Beyond that, should the two adversaries decide (at the political level) that they will continue this conflict, it ludicrous to even pretend that IRI is coming out of this as a functioning regime.

US is doing a slow kill since the current regime in US wants to bring to a conclusion certain matters and it is running against a clock. The main goal is to get the Arabs to make peace with Israel and sign that "Abraham's Accord". Weakening EU and also putting the fear of 'Chaos' in the Chinese who are, assuredly, dependent on a functioning geopolitical order, even if 'unfair' or 'unjust', as long as it works, and it hums, since China needs that to survive.

So right now, Russia is getting all the benefits (which is why Putin gaslighted the Iranians the other day congratulating them for their stand against the USA) and US is busy busy establishing the American Hemisphere, so basically for US, if shit is breaking, that is a feature not a bug.

Yes, I know. Some "professor" and some "ex" something are saying IRI is winning. And "US has never won a war since WW2". Yet the chronic 'loser' US is somehow the superpower hegemon. Not bad for a country that hasn't won a single war for 6+ decades. Hmm.

Comment · 13 days ago
The achiles heel of the documentaries as a form of propaganda & psyops (aka "narratives presented as reality") is that they have a profound dependence on aural cues for manipulating the audiance. It is difficult to be subtle regarding that intent when sound is involved.

So pay attention to the sound track and adjust your "suspension of disbelief" accordingly.

Comment · 14 days ago
I doubt the members of the Court that granted effective total immunity to the executive (which a sole member found profoundly wrong) are "uneducated" and perceptible to propaganda. That the masses are led by nose is SOP in every country, without exception.
Comment · 14 days ago
How did we end up here. Even Super Cringe can't possibly describe this administration and this unhinged con man and the money behind him who have been granted excessive powers by an irresponsible Supreme Court and are enshitifying everything about our nation. Super Intelligence.

This vote is critical.

Comment · 15 days ago
So the dude in the cave that invented fire on demand was chasing after "profits"? Progress and emerging "civilization" clearly could not have been motivated by profit. We could argue money has distorted a natural, inherent, human drive to improve his and group's living condition.

"AI" tech is actually a perfect specimen here: this could be a genuinely positive net for Humanity if only it wasn't controlled by the sort of scumbags that are only motivated by "profit".

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