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Melllvar

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Seer of the tapes! Knower of the episodes!

  • Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?

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  • It's pretty much as clean going into the pipe as it is coming out. Water pipes are kept pressurized so that any cracks or breaks push water out instead of letting contaminants in.

  • What car did you learn to drive in?

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  • My mom's early 90's minivan. I think it was a Voyager.

  • When it’s none of your business, you should keep scrolling.

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  • Why is privacy important? Be specific.

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  • "Privacy" in the modern sense is less about protecting you from personal embarrassment or financial loss, and more about protecting society from the dangers of mass data collection.

    Historical examples of mass datasets that were misused:

    • The Nazis used demographic records (birth, death, marriage records, etc.) to identify Jews and other undesirables in conquered countries.
    • Japanese Americans were identified for internment in part through illegal use of census information.
    • The Rwanda genocide was facilitated by tribal information being printed on drivers licenses.

    In none of these examples were the data collected for the evil purposes it was eventually used for. In some cases, the evil purposes were completely forbidden by the rules governing the data, but they were used anyway.

    Information is a form of knowledge. Knowledge is power. And power in the wrong hands is dangerous.

  • What is your favorite quote, proverb, or piece of wisdom?

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  • When in doubt, shut up.

  • Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval

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  • The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it's bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

    otherwise we would just switch it off

    If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.

  • do it right now

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  • What, am I meeting the Pope or something?

  • Developer claims to have built an autonomous AI system that can earn money, pay for its own computing, improve its tools, and even copy itself without human approval

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  • A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

  • It is indeed

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  • Marjorie Taylor Greene Drops Bombshell: Trump ‘Fought the Hardest’ to Bury Epstein Files, Warns MAGA It Was No Hoax

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  • Pirate King: HE DID?!? ... oh... oh, yes so he did... I was there.

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    Do you agree Voting system?

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  • Who grades the test? Who judges the competition?

  • Ailing Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

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  • Yes

  • There is a movement to rename Halley's Comet to Eilmer's Comet as monk Eilmer of Malmesbury was the first to identify the returning comet.

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  • Halley is the one who predicted its return mathematically. I'd say that's more significant than seeing it twice in one lifetime and supposing that it's the same comet.

  • Morale is plummeting among ICE agents over long hours, quotas and public hatred: reports

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  • Sorry, I lost the world's smallest violin. This is the best I can do: 🖕

  • If you call someone rediculous it means they were already diculous

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  • No, it's "re" like the subject of an email. "Re: diculous"

  • Percent of Americans who depend on cars to get to work

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  • The cars belong to commuters whose car use would be reflected in their home county instead of SF.

  • Without vowels there'd be no singing

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  • 30 years ago my music teacher told me that in Chinese-language singing it's the consonants that are sustained.

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  • The modlog says for being a bot.

  • Killer

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  • The problem is that you're using Windows 95.

  • Jokes @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Wife trouble

  • Jokes @lemmy.world
    Melllvar @startrek.website

    Two hunters