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Comment on Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why in ~science
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Comment on Someone ‘torturing’ LLMs in a robot prison has triggered the dumbest debate in AI yet in ~tech
unkz Linkhttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/anthropic-bans-abusive-behavior-claude Anthropic is now banning users for doing this kind of thing.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/oct/08/anthropic-bans-abusive-behavior-claude
Anthropic is now banning users for doing this kind of thing.
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Comment on Sean Strickland suggests he’s ready to leave UFC to fight Jake Paul amid pay dispute in ~sports.combat
unkz Link ParentThe name still means something, but they truly awful. It’s becoming even more apparent that they are just trying to put on spectacles rather than seeing who the best fighter is, removing MVP just...The name still means something, but they truly awful. It’s becoming even more apparent that they are just trying to put on spectacles rather than seeing who the best fighter is, removing MVP just because some fans think he’s boring while on 4 fight win streak and that stupid power slap thing. Meanwhile they are trying to destroy the profitability for boxers too.
I hope One or MVP can somehow find a way to turn a profit and become a credible competitor.
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Comment on Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why in ~science
unkz LinkSounds like sextant users will start noticing the effects in 1-2 decades. I can only applaud though. I hate it when time doesn’t move linearly. This is like getting rid of daylight savings, which...Sounds like sextant users will start noticing the effects in 1-2 decades. I can only applaud though. I hate it when time doesn’t move linearly. This is like getting rid of daylight savings, which obviously I also approve of.
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Leap seconds have helped keep clocks synchronized with Earth’s rotation, but their time may be over – here’s why
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Comment on Given everything we know about AI so far, what do you think it can or cannot be good for? in ~tech
unkz Link ParentThis sounds increasingly unlikely the more I see it develop. There are some pretty good playbooks out there for fixing AI-speak. Human provenance is very interesting to me, especially in the wake...It will be obvious if you used AI to help or just had the AI shit something out for you.
This sounds increasingly unlikely the more I see it develop. There are some pretty good playbooks out there for fixing AI-speak.
we have to insist that authors submit their git commit histories of their books.
Human provenance is very interesting to me, especially in the wake of the latest math controversy. Are we going to want math proofs that consist only of artisanal grass fed farmers market lemmas? But back to fiction: I don’t know if I actually care if I read a human’s writing or not. For instance, I don’t care if my games are composed of an amalgam of 10,000 separate human writers that are mashed together and curated by Sony or Nintendo, and that’s getting pretty close to an LLM in my opinion. If a writer is using an LLM to flesh out their idea, and they have quality checked and curated it… or even if they haven’t, and it has simply risen to the top of the book sales based on the judgement of the crowd, what does that matter to me as long as it’s a good product?
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Comment on Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents in ~science
unkz Link ParentTerry Tao is perhaps the world's most prominent mathematician at the moment. Notably, Terry is not a member. I don't think he's fully aligned -- he's a big proponent of AI in math. I think he just...Terry Tao is perhaps the world's most prominent mathematician at the moment. Notably, Terry is not a member. I don't think he's fully aligned -- he's a big proponent of AI in math. I think he just doesn't like the latest thing OpenAI has done.
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Comment on Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents in ~science
unkz LinkSo this is a post copied from https://www.ahmath.org/statements but I think it's notable that it's Terry Tao posting this.So this is a post copied from https://www.ahmath.org/statements but I think it's notable that it's Terry Tao posting this.
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Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents
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Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health
unkz Link ParentWith the acrimony I have seen in some divorces, can you imagine if someone’s ex-spouse also ended up taking their liver voucher after taking (house/pet/kids)? Yikes.With the acrimony I have seen in some divorces, can you imagine if someone’s ex-spouse also ended up taking their liver voucher after taking (house/pet/kids)? Yikes.
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Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health
unkz Link ParentI guess that’s an American thing, we don’t have vouchers in Canada. Even still, I’d feel a bit silly if I picked the wrong five people. I would be tempted if it were a completely unlimited...I guess that’s an American thing, we don’t have vouchers in Canada. Even still, I’d feel a bit silly if I picked the wrong five people. I would be tempted if it were a completely unlimited transferable voucher. I can see how that would lead to coercion and black market sales though.
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Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health
unkz Link ParentI would donate to a close friend or close family member. Every human is not equal to me.I would donate to a close friend or close family member. Every human is not equal to me.
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Comment on With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now in ~games
unkz Link ParentI played this a lot here Canada, I think it is well known.I played this a lot here Canada, I think it is well known.
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Comment on Our AI midwife in ~health
unkz LinkThis is me right now. I had relatively major surgery last week, and the entirety of my follow up is a phone call scheduled in 6 weeks and a four page pamphlet from the hospital (with my particular...This is me right now. I had relatively major surgery last week, and the entirety of my follow up is a phone call scheduled in 6 weeks and a four page pamphlet from the hospital (with my particular surgery circled and a note to ignore the advice for some related surgeries the pamphlet also discusses). In the meantime, I have about a hundred queries to LLMs about what’s happening and what I should be doing to recover.
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Comment on Chat Control 2.0 Trilogue update: No mass scanning deal for now in ~society
unkz LinkThis will sound a bit defeatist, because I guess it is, but I don’t think it matters what happened just now. Ultimately, this will pass because of the authoritarian streak in the majority of...This will sound a bit defeatist, because I guess it is, but I don’t think it matters what happened just now. Ultimately, this will pass because of the authoritarian streak in the majority of people that want to be in government in the first place.
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Comment on Someone ‘torturing’ LLMs in a robot prison has triggered the dumbest debate in AI yet in ~tech
unkz Link ParentFor those who don’t know the Creatures drama, https://creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Norn_torture This is also similar to what people do with the Sims. For some reason my kids just love trapping Sims...For those who don’t know the Creatures drama,
https://creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Norn_torture
This is also similar to what people do with the Sims. For some reason my kids just love trapping Sims in swimming pools which seems pretty innocuous, but I have seen weirdly elaborate Sims torture scenarios on the internet.
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Comment on OpenAI hacked Australia's Medicare portal in ~tech
unkz Link ParentReally, accidental "hacking" has been around since the dawn of the internet. Google, Yahoo, Altavista etc. were and are constantly accidentally downloading confidential materials. That's basically...Really, accidental "hacking" has been around since the dawn of the internet. Google, Yahoo, Altavista etc. were and are constantly accidentally downloading confidential materials. That's basically all this is too. A very sophisticated spider that uses heuristics to get access to stuff on the web. Is it hacking when a spider spoofs a useragent or uses a mobile IP instead of a datacenter to get around blocks? I posted elsewhere in this thread about a time I accidentally "hacked" a government server just a few years ago -- but I didn't intend to, and I don't think it was a crime, nor did the courts who I talked to about it.
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Comment on OpenAI hacked Australia's Medicare portal in ~tech
unkz Link ParentI mean your prior assumption is wrong. Lots of people intentionally hack or otherwise illegally access government systems and don’t receive jail time. Suspended sentences and probation are all...I mean your prior assumption is wrong. Lots of people intentionally hack or otherwise illegally access government systems and don’t receive jail time. Suspended sentences and probation are all very common.
I actually have an interestingly similar personal case: I wrote a spider for a government operated court records system, and inadvertently bypassed a guard that was supposed to prevent access to domestic violence records — the “guard” was UI gated only, and my API based spider ignored it. I ended up downloading thousands of sensitive documents.
I noticed this a few months into the project, reported it to the government, and they fixed the issue. I am not in jail, nor was I ever charged.
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Comment on The literary world’s DEI checklist in ~books
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Comment on The literary world’s DEI checklist in ~books
unkz Link ParentWhich browsers do you use? Firefox/Chrome?Which browsers do you use? Firefox/Chrome?
We certainly don’t need negative leap seconds, it’s just that under the current standard we do. If we allow more drift, then we can simply wait for it to swing back to zero, and then eventually a positive leap seconds, since that’s the inevitable long term outcome.
That said, do we need positive leap seconds either? I find it viscerally unpleasant that there are two different times that have the same label. We can all just live on GPS or TAI time forever and it simply won’t matter.