How slanderous

Combustion products are always bad for your lungs, but cigarettes supposedly have stuff in them that is uniquely bad and especially carcinogenic.

I don’t understand why this should be inherently impossible. If you buy a separate device, and use that exclusively for one thing and do not cross-contaminate, that should work to avoid fingerprinting right? And this is all information that your computer is voluntarily providing, and is I assume possible to change independently from the hardware. So why not?

I’ve heard about this sort of technique being used, but an important step I usually hear about isn’t present here, which is to first translate the text to another language before translating it back. Simply asking a LLM to

Rewrite the user’s text so it sounds natural and human-written. "

"Preserve the original meaning exactly.

seems likely to leak things like your word preferences and grammatical quirks, a 7b model isn’t going to be super creative about this and will want to take your lead on things. There needs to be an initial layer of stripping your statement of what makes it unique.

Is there any way to browse the web without being fingerprinted, short of literally using a separate computer

Yeah but then you wouldn’t be using technology from Star Wars spinoffs

Supposedly it’s really expensive and takes a long time to build new factories for the basic essential components, and nobody wants to commit to doing that because of the risk that the current spike in demand will not sustain and they will have to sell what they produce for cheap.

If there is a gap in the meantime, consumers will be incentivized to move away from hardware they can’t afford which could have long term effects on what kind of computing they are used to, ie. using less PCs, more mobile devices relying on cloud servers.

I have really long hair and another benefit of doing them separately is, it’s easiest to brush it right after applying conditioner, and harder when it has shampoo in it. So there’s that on top of really needing the conditioner to work well.

https://www.redfin.com/city/14233/LA/New-Orleans/housing-market#trends

I guess it hasn’t sunk in for most people yet

I’d be worried people would end up thinking that is where all the pirated media is buried

Maybe they should have thought about that before taking away the little bags of pretzels and cookies

Take the bong, but bring some weed and leave it behind, so if they kill themselves it will be wasted

It’s an anonymous space where you are de-facto not allowed to admit not being a cis white male, so definitely not

I would like to see some ROBOT9000 esque oddball meme communities overtly based on heavy algorithmic moderation, can be LLM but wouldn’t have to be. Weird rules strictly enforced by robots, could be fun.

Occasionally people have meltdowns and accuse/threaten other users for daring to vote a certain way, presuming specific motives for doing so

Oh no, nuclear is so scary, we have to warn our possible descendants 100,000 years in the future even if all cultural continuity is lost because we care so much for the distant future.

Even if it isn’t that relatively impactful these kinds of monuments are still really cool and whatever experts in culturally independent communication they are getting to do it totally deserve the funding

tbh I don’t think the world is actually going to be saved by action movie heroes either

Index funds have been considered safe for a long time, but it relies on market prices being an accurate source of information about how profitable companies are, because you are blindly buying everything. If too much money is invested that way, the signal becomes weaker and more irrational, it may not be guaranteed to always be a good long term bet. If all the biggest companies end up with valuations that are entirely fake, you’re pretty screwed. I have money in an index fund because I think it’s probably going to be fine and safer than other options, but it isn’t right to think of it as a sure thing.

“When people are worried about surveillance, of course, there are huge dangers there,” Karp said last year on The Axios Show, “but you know, you will have far fewer rights if America’s not in the lead.”

Said the CEO of fucking Palantir, when local AI is the only option to not be surveilled and most of the competitive local models are coming from China because US companies don’t publish their models.

oh damn, I figured it was some kind of rubbery material but its metal