jkf
16hr ago
It's still a real hassle getting something as simple as a scope for a hunting rifle from the US to Canada -- which IIRC is ITAR (the hassle is on the US side, and there were some big fines for exporters before people started paying attention), and has been the case for a number of years.
Certainly an actual AGI would be a bigger threat to US national security than a nice cheap scope from SFRC, so I guess it makes sense?
jkf
1d ago
I wouldn't say it's common usage in Canada, but you certainly hear it from time to time. A non-USA quirk maybe?
jkf
8d ago
Miscellaneous would have been better in fact -- organized crime is a thing in India, and these groups are purposely bringing in flunkies on fake student visas to run drug and extortion stuff in Canada for quite a while now. There's also a tradition of pretty extensive drug dealing and such by ethnic Indians in the suburbs of Vancouver and Toronto going back 30-40 years -- but this was mostly the children of first-wave immigrants and carried out in conjunction with local pre-existing gangs, so kind of a different thing.
jkf
20d ago
It's also typically presented in a pretty oversimplified/watered down way -- like, "what if a computer could talk to you and you couldn't tell that it wasn't a human -- wouldn't that computer be reasonably described as 'intelligent'?"
In Turing's actual paper, he proposes a very specific and adversarial game -- with which I think current AIs would struggle greatly. Not that Turing's arguments that winning would mean AI are all that convincing either (as I recall he knocks down a bunch of strawmen for like 2/3 of the paper) -- but his game itself is deliberately very hard to win.
jkf
21d ago
I'm showing my age perhaps, but I swear there was a time when double-clicking a word in windows selected just that word -- I understand that sometimes people would also want the trailing space, but now even if you drag-select, that gets helpfully added in many programs (eg. Word).
Clippy lives on as a sloppy ghost in the machine...
jkf
21d ago
Even when it does point you to the right thing, it is also showing you other things now -- in the deep(ish) past, if you put something in quotes it would only show results containing that string. Similarly (although I think this went away first), a search for -(thing you don't want to see) used to result in zero results containing that term -- now if you search for "used cars -chevy" it probably shows you fewer chevys than otherwise, but you are still going to see some. Particularly harmful when you are looking for something with one extremely common straightforward set of results (that you are not interested in) and an alternate niche interpretation. (the thing you want to find!)
AI influence seems to be making this a bit worse, I suspect since the "this is probably what he really wants" is more strongly weighted -- but it might be corpus frequency effects too I suppose.
jkf
21d ago
Verbatim and minus have just meant "more/less of this please" to google for years now -- well before LLM influence. I'm not sure why exactly, but corporate policy seems to be that (even setting aside sponsored results) the algo knows what you want better than you do. And the algo is getting worse.
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Staircase goes at the back; perpendicular to the long axis of the house and either facing the entry or above the basement stairs. (which would then be facing the entry, probably behind a door)
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The traditional mudroom is behind the backdoor (which is probably on the side of a colonial); front doors are for guests, and you should be taking their coats for them and laying them on the bed in the spare room! However, you could build something like #2 or #4 here in which the exterior wall of the house (including the front door) is bumped out about 3 feet in some part of the porch area, the roof of which extends something like a further 3 three feet). This creates space for hangers inside the entry and funnels people into the living area; there's a nice spot for a closet if you have winter coats. (or just want to piss @ToaKraka off)
Like this:
(stairs are up here somewhere)
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Optional wall --> | | | (some other room here)
(nice place for hooks tho) | | |<--closet
___________ | |__|___________
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jkf
22d ago
There was somebody from the Yukon who came down with symptoms upon return and is quarantining IIRC!
jkf
26d ago
"anything that comes to your specified location on a 3T+ truck" to be clear; construction materials, cement, water hauling, stuff like that (plus freight I assume -- although I don't deal with that often). The installers/resellers of these things usually just roll it into the price at the consumer level. I think ferries may add a line on your ticket at times though?
jkf
26d ago
In the short term, I think we're going to see a lot of industries try to normalize a "fuel surcharge".
Assuming you're in the US, I'm surprised this isn't already a thing -- it's been normalized for all manner of things in Canada since... I wanna say 2008? The last time we had a big sudden spike, anyways.j
Amazon etc. probably won't do it because they don't need to -- they will just tell their supply chain to eat it, and it will.
jkf
1mo ago
you just paid for one ad a year in the plumbers section.
Those ads were pretty expensive too though -- thousands a month for a decent sized (1/2 - 1/4 page) 'attractor' in the yellow pages IIRC.
jkf
1mo ago
Out of curiosity, I disabled all user personalization, removed the NHS thing, removed Dase
Notably it seems to think that almost everyone might be Ilforte -- which is weird because he's got a pretty recognizable and unique style actually.
I'm guessing that corpus frequency is a big factor here -- have you tried posting less/shorter?
jkf
1mo ago
you'd need training programs for, with like, budgets and performance evaluations.
"true, this dog won't hunt -- but he's very rapey..."
jkf
1mo ago
If you can abolish one (presumably arguing that "bear" != "carry"!?), then there's no reason the next guy can't abolish the other on some similar pretext.
jkf
1mo ago
I can't be arsed to do it, but it seems pretty trivial to plug whatever parameters you like into some simulation code and let it run a few million times? Some cases you will take one box but the alien predicted wrong and you get nothing; sometimes you take two and he was wrong and you get 1M + 1K. So long as he is mostly correct I don't see how the EV is not strongly driven by the cases where you pick the mystery box and get $1M -- no loss of free will required.
jkf
1mo ago
If it's possible for someone to get away with two boxing and get both boxes, and you can put yourself in that scenario, then you can win by two boxing.
Let's put a number on it -- what successful prediction rate would Omega need to have for you to consider taking both boxes? Depends how badly you need a thousand bucks I guess?
jkf
1mo ago
Too late for voting, too early for shooting -- we're at an awkward moment, but it will work itself out one way or another...
jkf
1mo ago
I understand that that's the story -- I just don't believe it. (as with the earlier story that you are particularly likely to die a horrible death from sweeping out your cupboards without putting on a bunny suit first)
jkf
1mo ago
It's been around since forever in western North America -- endemic in deer mice IIRC? This new one is a different strain I guess, but now that I think about it the mouse droppings thing was a very early nudge towards me being radicalized by public health morons.
"You need to be Extremely Concerned about cleaning up mouse poop in your cabin" -- which you and everyone else has been doing on a yearly basis since Time Immemorial, riiiight...
Eh, there is a new-ish 'de minimus' exemption on paperwork for lots of things, but scopes are not those things AFAIK.
Many companies don't want to mess with even the low-value exemption in any case due to people getting hammered with huge fines in the past -- but without the exemption it's pretty onerous AIUI -- to get an export permit for a scope you need to (IIRC) fill out various convoluted permit forms on the US side, which also demand import authorization from the Canadian side -- which is not a thing that Canada cares about, but that makes it worse because there's nobody in charge of processing the forms that the US side is demanding!
There are people in Canada with associated FFLs in the US that will do it for a fee -- but that fee is like $300 bucks, which gives you some idea of the hassles involved. (again, pretty much all on the US export side -- Canada doesn't really make it too hard to import actual guns even, so long as they are otherwise in compliance with our somewhat Byzantine rules around whether they are legal to have at all)
Actually militarily useful technology is right out though, even if it has relevant consumer applications -- any sort of night vision would be a common example. And an AGI that lived up to the hype would certainly be better for harming America than some shitty NVGs...
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