[–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Unlikely. The US executes people when there's so much new evidence after sentencing pointing toward them not being guilty that the original prosecutors plead for them to not execute. The Dem establishment's complaints against ICE are mostly just procedural; they just argue for things like more transparency for these detention centers, not their abolishment.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Been a while since I played one, but Stunt Rally was/is really good. It kinda blew me away with how many tracks there were, and how fun they were, for a game I've never seen mentioned anywhere. Red Eclipse is cool too; like that they have an easy to use in-game level editor (with multiplayer!).

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    AI (frontier LLMs) are capital intensive. In that way, it's unlike many other kinds of software. I don't think near-frontier open source models will be a thing for very long. Even if you have the papers that describe everything, it will take many millions of dollars just in compute to train frontier models, and then a small army of people doing reinforcement tuning. The people who invest that capital will want to maximize returns and will be hostile to the idea of open source.

    Another capital intensive industry that arguably does a lot of good, and probably has a lot of idealist researchers is pharma. It's also one of the most predatory industries.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Tesla FSD is not safer than real drivers. All robotaxis are level 4 at most, so it's an "apples vs oranges" thing. It's like saying trains are safer than real drivers. By all accounts, the Tesla robotaxis are the worst that exist, and they're barely being used where they've been rolled out.

    I will give credit that Tesla forced other car manufacturers to innovate, but they're outclassed in every way now.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah, pretty weird thing to do if there wasn't prior literature suggesting that dose. This demonstration (it wasn't a trial or experiment), doesn't really carry much scientific value, IMO.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Typing shit into spreadsheets isn't something software engineers typically do... And usually shit that's typed into spreadsheets has to be accurate. There are major consequences if not, and AI is not reliable enough for that kind of work.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Imo, the primary function of criminal justice should be restorative justice, not retributive justice. So, sentencing should be as long as it takes to rehabilitate a person. Retributive justice can act as a deterrent, but that doesn't really apply to people who don't act rationally.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago*

    The game still was somewhat of a technical marvel, especially for its time. I don't think I've seen anything like the creature editor where it would allow you to create fairly arbitrary creatures, try to automatically detect what was the head, torso, legs; and try to animate them all correctly. Then, entire creature definitions were encoded into small PNG files using stenography, which could be shared with minimal data usage.

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