Why is this guy being such a weenie?

A minor sized town near me uses these types of blocks regularly to block off the main street for pedestrians.

I’ll also say I’ve seen Philadelphia just park garbage trucks to block off roads.

Dark empaths sounds like something made up to make life seem more dramatic and mysterious

You’ve got a point, but I’m not sure many johns want to be filmed in the act…

It’s an interesting example how something that most people wouldn’t want if they knew about it still gets implemented.

One reason I want worker cooperatives to become the dominant type of business is that it would reduce the number of powerful actors which are unaccountable to the public. Democratic entities still make bad decisions, but fewer, and there’s a mechanism for error correction.

I’m a coding hobbyist, it’s been very helpful in analyzing bugs, giving quick info about syntax and converting formatting for long sections where manually typing would be time intensive.

Point taken by someone else here saying continued use of AI may mean decreased functionally for stack exchange et al. That said, the advantage of AI is that it’s answering your question specifically, instead of spending time sifting through semi related answers.

Outside of code it’s good at aping the form of various genres. So if I need to answer an RFP question in a sales proposal, I might feed it the prompt to get a starting point. It always needs editing since it doesn’t know the details of our business and because it’s writing style is bland, but it’s helpful to get a first draft.

Sounds pretty good. From what I understand because of the massive compute required to train LLMs the only groups that can afford to do it are large corporations or states. And with this model because it’s open source maybe less energy use from a bunch of different organizations creating their own models.

Dressing wildlife is illegal? The nanny state at work again

What would become tedious, eliminating crimes from the books? I’m not saying we need to go on some campaign, just here’s a law that isn’t being used, isn’t just, and they’re getting rid of it. That’s good.

We should reduce as much as possible laws that make something illegal but aren’t enforced. It creates uncertainty about your position and allows authorities to threaten citizens for unrelated reasons.

Right, there’s also a constitutional amendment saying insurrectionists can’t stand for office

Well I don’t really expect someone in prison to win, but I don’t believe there’s any law about the location where the president gets sworn in. If a majority of voters chose that person, they could get sworn in in jail, immediately pardon themselves and off they go.

Eugene Debs, the must successful American socialist candidate for president, was at one point running for office while in prison. Of course he lost so I can’t imagine it helped

I think it would have helped for the person who posted that to include context, but I would guess they were linking because it also talks about how Kagi isn’t privacy focused.

The linked post goes into detail about why the author views Kagi as not privacy oriented, and that in the author’s opinion Kagi is overly focused on AI. (And was originally started as an AI company)

I didn’t come up with the advice, just relating what I’ve read a few times. So maybe that’s not representative of the current advice.

That said, moving downhill isn’t really random. Gravity is a universal rule, and water moves downhill. Humans for our entire existence have needed water for survival, and eventually for agriculture. So we tend to gather around it.

I’ve also read if you’re lost advice to stay where you are, but that’s in a scenario where you expect people to know where you are and to come looking for you. Probably a tough call to make in this case, plus the guy had his dog with him.

Specifics of this situation aside, I don’t think 20 miles is that hard of a push. I’d expect to be able to do that in a day or two.

This thread on mastodon is a nice summary of the case and its benefits

My man Krasner!

I’m just a hiking enthusiast, no expert, but I’ve read that if you’re lost in a remote area with no chance of rescue that you should move downhill. Eventually you’ll find a stream or creek. If you continue downhill following it eventually you’ll reach a human settlement. Better to focus on finding people in the first couple days than securing food/water.

You’re right, cameras can be tricked. As Descartes pointed out there’s very little we can truly be sure of, besides that we ourselves exist. And I think deepfakes are going to be a pretty challenging development in being confident about lots of things.

I could imagine something like photographers with a news agency using cameras that generate cryptographically signed photos, to ward off claims that newsworthy events are fake. It would place a higher burden on naysayers, and it would also become a story in itself if it could be shown that a signed photo had been faked. It would become a cause for further investigation, it would threaten a news agency’s reputation.

Going further I think one way we might trust people we aren’t personally standing in front of would be a cryptographic circle of trust. I “sign” that I know and trust my close circle of friends and they all do the same. When someone posts something online, I could see “oh, this person is a second degree connection, that seems fairly likely to be true” vs “this is a really crazy story if true, but I have no second or third or fourth degree connections with them, needs further investigation.”

I’m not saying any of this will happen, just it’s potentially a way to deal with uncertainty from AI content.