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> “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.” ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

The point of the Turing Test is that if there is no extrinsic difference between a human and a machine the intrinsic difference is moot for practical purposes. That is not an argument to whether a machine (with linear algebra, machine learning, large language models, or any other method) can think or what constitutes thinking or consciousness.

The Chinese Room thought experiment is a compliment on the intrinsic side of the comparison: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

Most of the world provides funding for research, the US used to provide funding but now that has been mostly gutted.

`rm -rf /` does have a safeguard:

> For example, if a user with appropriate privileges mistakenly runs ‘rm -rf / tmp/junk’, that may remove all files on the entire system. Since there are so few legitimate uses for such a command, GNU rm normally declines to operate on any directory that resolves to /. If you really want to try to remove all the files on your system, you can use the --no-preserve-root option, but the default behavior, specified by the --preserve-root option, is safer for most purposes.

https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Trea...

Good thing that is part of the wikipedia entry:

> Any piece of digital information is representable as a number; consequently, if communicating a specific set of information is illegal in some way, then the number may be illegal as well.

There are illegal numbers in the USA land of the "free".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_number

> An AACS encryption key (09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0) that came to prominence in May 2007 is an example of a number claimed to be a secret, and whose publication or inappropriate possession is claimed to be illegal in the United States.

> The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim. ~ Edsger W. Dijkstra

LLMs / Generative Models can have a profound societal and economic impact without being intelligent. The obsession with intelligence only make their use haphazard and dangerous.

It is a good thing court of laws have established precedent that organizations deploying LLM chatbots are responsible for their output (Eg, Air Canada LLM chatbot promising a non-existent discount being responsibility of Air Canada)

Also most automation has been happening without LLMs/Generative Models. Things like better vision systems have had an enormous impact with industrial automation and QA.

It is not the only claim in the video.

There are at least the following claims:

- Inserts its own affiliate link (even when no discount is found, uses strategies to push for interaction like adding a dismiss/pay with paypal link that adds the affiliate association)

- Adds a very small kickback from the affiliate payment they receive as a rewards program. (Which, while scraps, makes content creators "lose" in economic terms in the affiliate offerings)

- Promises to consumers to find the best discounts available

- Promises to vendors to allow control of the discounts offered and the offer rate of said discounts

- Previous both promises are contradictory yet simultaneously offered

- An extra/upcoming claim around forcing non-affiliated stores to affiliate.

> we need to intercept cocky executives before they incriminate themselves in media res.

Please don't, just let them.

Never interrupt your enemy when they are making a mistake.

> 4. Rewarding employees who make value for the business and think like founders/equity owners, not employees.

That is simple to do but not something many companies want to do. Just give employees equity via mutualisation. (Real ownership not discourse ownership)

I thought that non-governmental business association was pro-competition; guess not.

Edit: it was a dig to the pro-competition façade some pro-business people put forward.

Repugnant imperialista thought; political reforms on a foreign government?

Take out the stick like in Latin America and the Middle East?

Laughable from the country that proclaims itself "leader of the free world"

Aren't you thinking about Twitter/X and Facebook/Meta?

One that promotes laissez faire capitalism and proclaims to the world the moral virtue of pure market competition?

Though, most of the world has quite the different experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI

If that was the case why not go for Ryzen + ECC memory?

If one release a hobbyist blueprint to put an electric motor on a bicycle and then a megacorp uses that (without any due care) to release a mass-produced e-bike marketed worldwide which ends up catching fire or otherwise producing injuries due to a design flaw:

- Why should one be held liable or have a legal obligation to the customers of the megacorp?

- Why would one even be afraid of being sued by the customers of the megacorp? (other than if we lived in an otherwise draconian society)

I am more worried about US stuff with the whole PRISM thing and other three letter shenanigans.

Aditionally the comment you are replying to is a dongle to provide a single board computer (or a computer in general) with ZigBee conectivity.

Ideally you would run a trusthworthy open source OS and hub software.

Scala 3 with Braceless Syntax (scala-native for x86)

https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/reference/other-new-featu...

Wish you all good health and fortune until 2.0 short billion

> Wednesday May 18 2033 03:33:20 GMT

Meanwhile working class people have lesser and lesser purchasing power to the point were renting and homeownership are out of their reach; subemployment / "gig" employment ("innovating" by removing without workers rights) is rampant.

Nothing like a system that produces a high amount of marginalized / vulnerable people and then blames them for going for "easy" money like drugs or prostitution.

I would expect the tech crowd here to be more inclined towards blameless postmortems / systemic safety.

Some good options might be

- LPIC-1 for Linux (More Ops)

- CKAD (Kubernetes / DevOps)

- Security+ (Security certs are slightly more useful/requiered for DevSecOps or AppSec)

There is a rule on mostly not editorializing titles and in this case that is the title of the source article.

> Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize.

China has been averaging a 9% wage increase yoy or about 41% per 4 years. This wouldn't be news in China instead it would be the average case.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/743563/china-average-yea...

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/average-salaries-in-chin...

And in the US they got civil forfiture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United...

> To get back the seized property, owners must prove it was not involved in criminal activity.

Some cases:

https://ij.org/report/policing-for-profit-2/grading-state-fe...

https://prosperityeconomics.org/stolen-savings-civil-forfeit...

> most of them have "var" or an equivalent which saves on typing

Do you mean type inference? Most typed-languages have that, even Haskell/Scala.

It gets iffy on dependent type systems like Agda/Idris.

Orbea has a lifetime warranty on frames + standard components + is a worker cooperative.

Disclaimer: Own an Orbea Vector and love it.

Removing the need of wage labor is not the same as promoting idleness.

How many people want to experiment and try new ideas but are stopped by economic insecurity? (In arts, crafts, engineering, and science)

How much _very valuable_ non-paid work doesn't get done because no one is paying for that? (Such as maintenance, community building, teaching, etc)

to each according to their need, from each according to their ability

That's called a long scale (also in use in LATAM) in contrast with a short scale (in use in the US and Canada)

According to github, 46% of new code of their organization clients is copilot written.

https://github.blog/2023-02-14-github-copilot-for-business-i...

So we get about 2-fold increase on code to debug and fix later.

A reserve to stabilize prices not unlike what many oil-dependent and oil-producing countries do. (Oil-producing countries reduce sales if prices drop, oil-dependent use their reserves if prices rise)