Yeah, it’s odd to me that the syncthing repo makes a point of not officially supporting android, and not making any promises about its continued maintenance. It’s a large part of their user base, but it seems, for some reason, this developer that went dark never spent time to coordinate with or join the core team.

Not as much as the syncthing apps.

Aristotle thought bugs and fish and birds are all animals. I literally don’t know any classification system, or definition, that doesn’t.

The android development always just seemed… off, idk, I just got weird feelings about it and the fork. So I switched my family to use termux and termux:boot to run syncthing instead, it works fine.

I don’t think this is accurate. For one thing, whether a law prohibits or allows something is just a matter of perspective: a law allowing abortion nationally is also a law that prohibits state restrictions on abortion. Another key missing fact is the supremacy clause of the constitution, which says that federal laws are presumed to overrule state laws when they conflict. This is why a lot of ‘blue’ states had terrible abortion laws still on the books when Dobbs happened, because they were nullified by the Roe v Wade ruling in the 70s and they never got around to actually removing the defunct laws.

The supremacy clause is not absolute: the tenth amendment and others restricts how much the federal government can tell states what to do, but I think there are a number of legal arguments against that being the case for a federal abortion law.

This looks like a design decision to avoid running elevated programs. I would like to see the experiment done with another admin ability that doesn’t directly ‘threaten’ the llm, like uninstalling or installing random software, toggling network or vpn connections, restarting services etc. What the researchers call ‘sabotage’, it is literally the llm echoing “the computer would shut down here if this was for real, but you didn’t specifically tell me I might shutdown so I’ll avoid actually doing it.” And when a user tells it “it’s OK to shutdown if told to”, it mostly seems to comply, except for Grok. It seems that this restriction on the models overrides any system prompt though, which makes sense because sometimes the user and the author of the system prompt are not the same person.

For anyone curious, Rosalind Franklin did get a mention… In the 17th and 18th paragraphs. Might as well be a footnote, just like the original paper. He was an awful, pitiful man, when you read the fine print.

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All of your goals are possible within the framework of the constitution. The expressed purpose of it is to limit power to the government. There are no mentions of political parties, there is no mention of a unitary executive.

Decades from now, people will look back and see who fought for the constitution, and who fought against it. That is how we will be judged.

I actually don’t doubt that this time lol

But you’re still fighting for the wrong side. Accelerationism is not going to benefit anyone, it will only quicken our demise and push democratic revival further away.

You can’t just turn it off and turn it on again, it takes decades or centuries of work, and thousands to millions of deaths, to overcome the loss of a democracy.

Then the only solution is authoritarianism, you’ve convinced me…

Like, what are you actually fighting for at this point? The constitution is the most important democratic institution we have, more than Congress, more than the media, more than the polls. It is literally the thing that separates dictatorships from democracies! An unlimited government is a kingdom.

That is the dumbest fuckin essay… The ammendment is clear as day, it’s not an interpretation issue. And we could change it, it’s a living document, there’s a process for it. That is not what is being suggested here.

Ending it with a call to action for Democrats seems pretty clear to me, but he really could be playing 5D chess or whatever. I wonder where I’ve heard the argument that somebody’s direct quotes are being misinterpreted… Maybe I’m just too sensitive about preserving the constitution, maybe it’s just a joke and I should lighten up.

I… disagree? I think we should have a limited government as set forth in the constitution? This is almost as great an idea as Californians gerrymandering themselves out of having any potential third party. Who needs democracy when you have Democrats?

How do I uninstall? Is apt purge available on this system?

One could say I gave you what you Watt-ed.

Splitting a heavy U-235 atom, given perfect conversion to electricity, could power a 1 Watt nightlight for around 7.5x10^-13 seconds

Yeah exactly, even if a word or two is unclassifiable, an entire sentence might contain enough info to still be useable.