Decimen Lets You Send Files Through Light, Not a Network

I mean, that’s a new interface type, but it is a network.

If two machines are exchanging data, that’s the definition of a network.

I don’t think AI generated images can ever beat the trove of ridiculousness that is stock photos.

The current examples of AI could never be described as a general intelligence let alone Superintelligence. These LLMs are definitely just a typing monkey (that was eloquently put).

They are literally generating text word by word with a next-word-prediction methodology.

With some tweaking they can be made to produce mostly coherent code and apparently also equations that balance. This does not make these algorithms geniuses. A calculator can also balance an equation, so that alone is not impressive.

The techniques LLM designers use to leverage statistical models in order to generate coherent sentences are actually rather impressive. It is legitimately quite a feat to make LLMs work as well as they do. But that does not mean that these outputs are anything like “thinking”, they’re just outputs. Data goes in, the machine churns, does some mystery math, and different data comes out.

These systems are not worth anthropomorphizing.

I’m a man with a very particular set of skills…

It’s not that hard. You keep it in your backpack, and never take it out the whole day while school is in session.

Well for one thing, the Internet used to be cool and interesting. Now it’s shitty and sad.

No, I said remote…

Yeah but tell me about this tool for Plex remote streaming…

We just need a blanket ban on generative AI. The societal costs are just too high, we can’t bear it. We can continue on our path like this for years and dig ourselves into a deeper hole before admitting it, or we could just admit it now and save ourselves the pain.

I know what I would vote.

So this sounds like a bad thing then…

Like if having gpl code in free bsd forced all these companies to be more open with their software, and now they can be more closed with it, isn’t that bad?

I mean, it’s possible, if you really fuck it up in some way, but not from regular use.

Replacing the compressor once is still going to be cheaper than replacing a fridge every 5 years.

In my basement I have a freezer from the 60s. It needs to be defrosted every year or two, but aside from that it’s never needed servicing, not once. I’m telling you, the older it is, the longer it will last.

I hate to say it, but this is somewhat common for security measures. Anything that has low level control over a system is inherently an additional vector for attack, it increases your “attack surface”.

Now if designed properly it can certainly be helpful and reduce your vulnerability, but bugs in the system could also leave a user more vulnerable than they were without the additional “protections”.

I don’t believe you can be compelled to provide a password. That does after all (at the very least) constitute speech. And freedom of speech is also freedom of non-speech, they can’t make you say something.

They will however try to make you do that… In many situations authorities are allowed to lie to you. So that’s sucks. They can tell you that you’re required to unlock your phone, you just have to know that your not actually.

Also they can’t make you say anything, but they can make you do things, like for instance “put your finger here” or “look into this camera”, which is why biometric unlock is unsafe around cops.

Honestly, fridges are a total crapshoot these days. If you have a 15+ year old fridge, never replace it, get it repaired, the quality level in new fridges is terrible.

There’s actually a rational reason to not worry about LEO space mirrors becoming potential space junk. They just have an extremely high surface area to weight ratio, meaning they’re going to experience relatively high drag. If something like this is abandoned in low earth orbit, it would probably deorbit relatively quickly, like in a matter of months.

I’m not suggesting that this mirror is a good idea, it’s unclear what the use case even is. But I am saying that it’s not any more dangerous than any of the dozens of smallsats launched by University robotics programs. People don’t tend to have any problem with that kind of satellite, though they’re probably more likely to be abandoned relatively quickly and they would stay in orbit longer than a satellite that has what is essentially an enormous sail.

Well, it wasn’t my metaphor, I’m not really defending it.

That said, you do seem to have missed the point of a metaphor. Nobody is arguing that mosquitos in a house are more of a problem than satellites… Comparing the two directly was not anyone’s intention.

Great film, I recommend it.

If you assume anyone who says something you disagree with or don’t understand is stupid, you give up any chance of expanding your perspective. It’s not an intelligent strategy, certainly when compared to a perfectly civil discussion.

Oh, I see. I actually hadn’t heard that term before. I googled “matrix headlights” and what I got was a brand selling aftermarket bright headlights. So I assumed that’s what we were talking about.

That’s a legit complaint, this doesn’t help cyclists or pedestrians. Though selectively dimming lights is definitely cool as fuck and a good idea.

I think with further development this could in fact be a good solution.

Another strategy could be, rather than trying to identify various non-road objects, and avoid blinding those, to instead try to positively identify the road, and only illuminate that. If it’s actively trying to not shine on anything it isn’t certain is road, that could work. It’s at least an avenue worth exploring.

Also, if you’re already putting lidar in vehicles for collision avoidance, the headlights are one more area where that capability could be utilized.