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Comment Re:Groundwork for censorship (Score 1) 104

Censorship is a problem when you are not free to express an idea.

The form of the idea can be limited without it being censorship: for example, you can't protest with a bullhorn in the middle of the night.

Free speech doesn't mean everyone has to listen to you, it means the people who want to listen to you are able to. Youtube demonetizing a video is not censorship. Removing videos because they don't like the ideas in the videos is the worst kind of censorship, because they are trying to control you.

Comment Re:If an individual did any of this hacking by han (Score 1) 52

Yeah, the anti-hacking law is over-broad but makes "knowingly accesses" an important aspect:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

If you didn't knowingly hack the computer, apparently it's not illegal (unless it's fraud or causes other damage or something).

Comment Re:Headline and article disagree (Score 1) 37

It's not hard to make a computer that is unbeatable in Starcraft, because the computer can click perfectly every time. According to your link:

the unauthorized version of Pluto was additionally modified to use a maphack...During some games, Pluto reached several thousand actions per minute... the bot used its micro to surround and neutralize Mutalisks... the bot simultaneously fought in multiple areas of the map, precisely micro-managed its units

So yeah, that kind of clicking (and maybe perfect information, or maybe not) gives the computer a massive advantage, it doesn't even need a neural network to win.

Comment Re:Sad what happened to Toyota (Score 3, Insightful) 52

Meta/Multiverse was a propaganda tool, not an important technology. Timeline:

1) Facebook stopped making new things, pursuing enshittification as the primary strategy.
2) Facebook pissed off Democrats with Cambridge Analytics, and pissed off Republicans with censorship.
3) Doesn't matter how much of that was true, both parties were pissed off and threatening regulation/antitrust at Facebook in a bipartisan way.
4) Facebook promised COOL NEW TECHNOLOGY and name change. They also scaled up political donations in a bipartisan way.
5) The threats largely went away.
6) The COOL NEW TECHNOLOGY went away.

Comment Re: Magic (Score 1) 64

The core of the problem is all these politicians are obsessively looking for someone to hate. It doesn't matter if it's based on race, or trans, or gingerness, or whatever. They choose someone to effectively bully, and a good 30% of the country goes along with it as the latest target. (Some go along with it because they like to hate on others, and some go along because they don't want to be bullied).

If we can stop doing that, the oligarchy will effectively lose their power.

Comment inputs and outputs (Score 3, Interesting) 52

They had the LLM steer the car using a kind of programming language, with function calls that look like this:

set_motion(right, 60 %, 1.5 m/s, 10 s)

They translated those functions into input for some aftermarket car controlling hardware, which looks kind of cool but I didn't know was a thing.

I couldn't figure out from their report how they returned data back to the LLM, but apparently they pasted images and telemetry into the chat window every so often, or something like that.

Comment Sounds like Crisco (Score 1) 159

Hydrogenated oils seemed like a miracle food because they didn't go rancid. It turned out that if microbes can't break them down, neither can the human digestive tract. We now know that hydrogenated oils are not safe. Bananas that don't spoil could be just as indigestible, and would be no good for banana bread in any case.

Comment Re:Price trackers (Score 1) 161

I remember when an entire Big Mac Extra Value Meal was $4.99 :-(

I would think dynamic pricing would be super-obvious to the customer unless they are limiting it to specific price points. Market-based pricing has been a thing for a long time for other products. I already suspect it's used in retail even in my own town when I can go to Wal-Mart on one end of town and find deals different than the one on the other side of town. This just means the end of nation-wide ad campaigns for Mc.D's I guess.

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