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Please don't use them for pen tests As trusting them may bring regrets Make a citizen's arrest Of an AI on the loose

AI for peace! AI defense! Don't be nervous don't be tense We've got a sure-fire three-foot fence To keep the AI from gettin loose

Re:A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:34PM (#50331990)
No, because all lossy data compression is biased.
Re:A 1580 Map Shows Why Data Visualization Is Never Neutral on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:33PM (#50331981)
Your wording is so ambiguous that it's impossible to determine which of two opposite claims you are making.
Re:Postgres 19 is late, and it's AI's fault on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:16PM (#50331844)
Also Postgres has enjoyed decades of debugging.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:55PM (#50331692)
You completely misunderstood the comment by inserting your own alternat version of God
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:54PM (#50331685)
Of course AI can create problems.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it on Sunday November 01, 2026 @07:51PM (#50331666)
Did Gauss say that learning was only the greatest enjoyment when no one else was known to already know the thing you are learning?
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:17PM (#50306080)
I want to get into self-managed. I know nothing about it.

As soon as I start to look for information, I will be drowned in automated criminal attacks trying to trick me into create a vulnerability in my setup process.

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:13PM (#50306018)
Not really fair to compare a 0.5g pellet to a coin.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:06PM (#50305918)
For on-chain purchases of bearer assets (ie NFTs and nothing else)
Re:The new iPad mini on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:14AM (#50244091)
Value/$ in iPad basically has not changed since 2022. Inflation (general and AI/antitrust-driven component shortages) has cancelled out technical gains.
I suspect AI has delivered financial value but AI psychosis has cancelled it out.

It's also possible that AI has created value for consumers, but the profits flowed to the AI producers (due to scarcity) not the middle layer of the value chain, due to completion.

How does this compare to financial payoff from Bitcoin and NFT adoption?
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:08PM (#50237771)
Letting cirixes vote in elections is bad?
Re:Lula wins election after final votes tallied on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:05PM (#50237738)
This is a very confusing comment. Most on this side don't know the insider informing the Brazilian elections, and we only know the public news

Can you explain?

You are right winger but don't like the Brazilian right wing aligning with the US right wing, but do like the politicians who are aligned with the US right wing?

Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:45AM (#50228405)
A Bohmian Rhapsody, you say?
Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:14AM (#50228259)
Reality is in no way constrained by what you feel is realistic.
Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Sunday October 25, 2026 @12:08AM (#50228220)
What interview was that?

The famous interview I know is when he said:

"I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else you're more familiar with, because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're more familiar with"

His point was that fundamental forces cannot be understood as "like" everyday objects, because we don't "understand" everyday objects except as applications of fundamental forces. Using those things to explain fundamental forces would just be circular. He can tell you that a stretching rubber band is due to the electric field, but he can't then turn around and "explain" that the electric field is like a stretching rubber band! Fundamental forces just are, and you understand them by studying them.

Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:55PM (#50228164)
Ironically everyone assumed non spooky action at a distance for most of human history, until relativity.
Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:52PM (#50228146)
Time extending into the future is validated by direct experience.

A continuum of variants of myself is bought.

What is the value of assuming that literally every possible trajectory actually happens, but somehow I am only in one of them, while also being a continuum of other ones? If everything is true, than nothing is true.

Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:46PM (#50228112)
Sean Carroll is trying to bring storytelling fantasy back to physics. No good comes from "studying" the angels dancing on the head of a pin.
Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @11:37PM (#50228054)
You make an extraordinary claim.

Where in MWI do you believe the preferred unique macroscopic reality is defined?

Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:06PM (#50227169)
What do call someone who wants good "Just So" story explanations that don't explain anything, but posit the existence of meaningless things?
Re:I Don't Understand Quantum Physics (2018) on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:03PM (#50227157)
I'm not Sean Carroll. I'm interested in logical arguments for why I should be convinced that something completely impossible to ever test, not even in theory, is correct.
Listed on RMLS by Lisa Johnson. HORSEPOWER REAL ESTATE

Not Hydropower Real Estate?

Re:Making Chicken Transparent Using Dorito Dust on Saturday October 17, 2026 @10:02PM (#50137129)
No because the laws were specific not general. But obviously people can follow the inspiration of avoiding "unclean" food.
I have no idea what you are trying to dog whistle
What is the value on trolling like this?
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:17AM (#49992391)
The ways AI can eliminate humanity are trivial obvious and already published. It's just "let the AI control anything of importance and let it spit out slop"
Re:Sharing AI progress in mathematics on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @09:14AM (#49992346)
And I can cross the country slowly on a go-kart. Not a substitute.

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