chaircat

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[–] chaircat 5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Your phone keyboard statistical engine is not a very insightful comparison to the neural networks that power LLMs. They're not the same technology at all and just share the barest minimum superficial similarities.

[–] chaircat 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I hate the cynical nihilism around here so much. It plays into the Republican and big business hands so well it might as well be propaganda.

We had net neutrality before under the Democrats. The Republicans got rid of it when they took power.

Bothsidesism is juvenile bullshit.

[–] chaircat 12 points 2 years ago

Good article, but it doesn't support your thesis that the sanctions are about China hacking at all. The idea they've managed to achieve this through hacking to steal technology is completely non-existent in the article.

[–] chaircat 3 points 2 years ago

Wouldn't this justify vandalizing any type of machine whatsoever? Get in an elevator and nobody is looking? Stab the control panel so they have to get a human in the future making the elevator. See a car and no one is looking? Set it on fire so they have to use a human pulled rickshaw instead.

[–] chaircat 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Wow that seems like a strange permission to have as default. It doesn't seem like very many apps have a legitimate need for listing other installed apps unless I'm missing something.

[–] chaircat 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

How are they managing to do this? Surely it requires a permission in Android to access the list of installed apps, right?

[–] chaircat 3 points 2 years ago

That's an axiom that people always just themselves by their intent and others by their actions.

This leads to excuses for themselves and harshness on others until proven otherwise.

I've been trying lately to internalize my understanding of this to fight my natural impulse to fall into this universally human trap. Basically, be a kinder person by judging the actions of others by considering plausible reasons they may have had for doing something that rubs me the wrong way. Also the opposite, and being understanding when someone flips out on me for something I did because they don't have access to all of my mental state that led me to that point.

[–] chaircat 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

There are a lot of bed frames that are solid, though, including the one I use at home. If it causes any ill effects on the mattress I haven't observed it personally.

[–] chaircat 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I recall Dorsey publicly coming out in support of Elon's Twitter well after the sale. Maybe there was no ethical conflict for Dorsey and he likes what he sees.

Yeah, maybe all of this wouldn't have happened if the equity was split among the employees.

[–] chaircat 16 points 2 years ago

This is an astonishingly well written, nuanced, and level headed response. Really on a level I'm not used to seeing on this platform.

[–] chaircat 24 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I don't think waving away being a Luddite just by saying so makes it so.

I can't think of a single angle of principled moral theory that makes this okay. Vandalizing or stealing someone else's property they paid for. Hurting both the restaurant and the customer by depriving them of their food. Holding back progress on an invention that can reduce the need for humans to engage in a type of work that is hard, dangerous at times, and low paid.

From a purely rational on paper view, it doesn't look terribly different than saying vandalizing or stealing from delivery vehicles driven by people isn't wrong. What possible justification could there be for this view besides Ludditism fuck robots?

[–] chaircat 21 points 2 years ago

Unsolicited notification spam ads is in pretty poor taste for a major brand. Doesn't seem wrong to me to infer their sales department is getting desperate if they're resorting to that.

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