BrenBarn

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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Another reason to ban indiscriminate dissemination of so-called "AI".
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
A charitable way of interpreting "best effort" is that it's similar to what I said: we need standards. But the problems with our notion of "best effort" are: 1. The standards aren't clearly defined (i.e., you
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Right, that's the problem. There need to be standards that govern what can ever be released to customers/the public in the first place. When violations of those are discovered, the penalties should be based on time from release,
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I guess if I imagine the ideal world, it would be that you report it to the authorities and they impose penalties on the offender that are large enough that the company winds up significantly worse off than if they had just grown more slowl
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Reminds me of this post from a week or so ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46027290
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I'm less and less sure that when a billion-dollar company screws up this bad, the right thing to do is privately disclose it and let them fix it. This kind of thing just allows companies to go on taking people's money without fac
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Let's think about why we're in a world where someone wants to sell you a camera to put in your toilet.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I dunno about the last 15 years, but my sense is there is a fairly widespread perception that drivers have become more reckless and oblivious since COVID. This isn't just about car standards (although there is probably a connection te
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
The problem we have is precisely that we consider things like this "policy disagreements" even when they're happening on a massive scale and causing enormous harm to society. If we're talking about some small company wh
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> that is irrelevant to company management That's right, that's why a lot of company management needs to be smacked down and if necessary fined and jailed. That laser focus on productivity is a cancer on society.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
There is a middle ground though between "employees can't be trusted" and "all is well". It's possible for there to be a genuine difference in affordances such that people are more productive in some places tha
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> if i've got any of the above wrong please just say, rather than downvote :D Maybe it's not necessarily that any of those are wrong per se as that they just don't address several other important issues raised in the artic
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Yeah, I think this is true and it's unfortunate. I think it's one of the areas where what seemed like the plan for Matrix hasn't totally worked out in practice. And it's even just the intricacy of managing it; some of
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> I wonder how easy it is to backup a Matrix accounts's data. Conversations and files. Not as easy as you might hope. The Element client has an export feature, but you have to manually activate it on each room/chat, and the ex
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> it leads to gross misalignments between the communities in top and the infrastructure providers underneath Yeah, this is a great way to put it. We see this a lot with the mod experience. So much of the mod tooling is "run this b
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
That doesn't have any practical effect, though. It's just part of the name and the room can still be used even if that server disappears forever.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
There are many cases in between, though, in particular those where you're using messaging for "serious" purposes like business, but not so serious that the other users are your enemies. Sometimes for instance you want to let
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
It can be mandated, it's just that the mandate can't be enforced.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I would say the biggest issue is not any of those things, it's that issues of this magnitude (including many of the ones fixed in the last year) are still being identified and requiring things like a "transition from legacy apps&q
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> As a more general commentary, I find this type of moral crusade very interesting, because it's very common in the rich western world, and it's always against the players but rarely against the system. I wish more people in th
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I don't think that's necessarily what money is, but it is kind of what sufficiently unregulated capitalism is, which is what we've had for a while now.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
It is simpler and more consistent with fewer arcane incantations. Its philosophy is less inclined toward rewriting history. It also has TortoiseHg which is a great GUI front end.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
We also need laws . Releasing an AI product that can (and does) do this should be like selling a car that blows your finger off when you start it up.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
> he’s playing the “principled stand” game on a budget that cannot sustain it, then externalizing the cost like a victim No. It is the AI companies that are externalizing their costs onto everyone else by stealing the work of others, fl
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
In contrast to others, I just want to say that I applaud the decision to take a moral stance against AI, and I wish more people would do that. Saying "well you have to follow the market" is such a cravenly amoral perspective.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
People do do that in some limited cases, but it's often impractical. Two common cases are a) there is a need for urgent/emergency care; or b) the patient is generally frail and infirm. In these cases it can be impossible or impr
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
If we start to think about who "actually needs" things, we need to question whether any of the very wealthy "actually need" their wealth. I would be fine with seizing all of anyone's income (including unrealized ca
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
Maybe not but it does include some countries with very large economies.
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by BrenBarn 11mo ago
I agree it's sad. There were a lot of positive aspects to the SO community.

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