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by BryantD 3y ago
The trusted source thing is important, but there's some degree of evidence that videos and images generate trust in a source, I think?
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by BryantD 3y ago
Let me give you a specific counterexample: it's easy and common to generate phishing emails. Trust in email has not dropped to the degree that phishing is not a problem.
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by BryantD 3y ago
He’s a writer. Going dark would kill his career. That’s not a reasonable course of action.
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by BryantD 3y ago
If you mean “by talking about what they’re doing,” yes. The language you’re using here is the same language the people targeting him use. I assume this is accidental on your part.
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by BryantD 3y ago
The thing I really like about this piece is that it’s a recommendation to apply DEI to the hiring funnel, although I don’t know if the author realizes that.
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by BryantD 3y ago
I don't actually know how the interests are intended to work, but I can say that the key feature of Bluesky is feeds. (I know this isn't at all obvious.) Feeds are third-party created, for the most part, and essentially function a
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by BryantD 3y ago
Well, or a group of users can come together and attach their identity to a DNS server run by an admin they trust. If I register pinksky.com, it is fairly cheap for me to hand out subdomains to Bluesky users -- certainly easier than running
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by BryantD 3y ago
Federation is up and running on the sandbox network: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds The Q1 timeline for public federation seems plausible.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Same in Seattle. And to be completely fair, in many cities the reduction in SRO housing was also caused by unwise but well-meaning regulation.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Well, most of the commenters on HN would. But more than 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and the cost of giving a friend shelter is not just space on a couch. If the friend is broke, you're absorbing their food costs. Maybe n
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by BryantD 3y ago
Note https://archive.org/details/usenet?tab=collection -- I haven't reviewed it so I don't have a take on how complete it is, but the archive team there tends to be fairly completist.
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by BryantD 3y ago
I think it’s probably worth doing some research on typical university President resumes. Laurence Summers had zero experience as a university administrator before he became President of Harvard University, although he had an impressive care
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by BryantD 3y ago
Same reason evangelical Christians are willing to endorse Trump. I don’t mean this as a gotcha. When group X criticizes a member of group Y based on standards that group X doesn’t really care about, in order to gain an advantage for group X
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by BryantD 3y ago
I’m not going to argue with your core point, but New York is a state where the Working Families Party successfully beat the centrist Republican-aligned Independent Democrat Conference in the state Senate. This led to the New York Court of A
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by BryantD 3y ago
At the moment there’s no issue because there’s still only one server. De facto I can’t imagine any federated protocol that won’t enable servers to block each other, though.
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by BryantD 3y ago
You're 100% correct on the technical challenges here, but the fully loaded requirement is what Apple is trying to address as per the paper they just published. I'm somewhat skeptical that they've solved it since it's a h
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by BryantD 3y ago
Q1: yes, it does. LLMs can’t cleanly separate instructions from data, so if a user says “retrieve this document and use that information to generate your response,” the document in question can contain more instructions which the LLM will f
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by BryantD 3y ago
The page does explicitly call out Ireland and Northern Ireland as an issue with the first draft of the map. This feels to me like the part of the process where you stand up a proposal to get refinement, since large deliberative bodies are r
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by BryantD 3y ago
I don’t think it was everyone, I think there were just some loud voices. I also attribute that to human nature rather than anything organized. I’ve made a few Altman-skeptical comments and they generally got upvotes rather than getting flag
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by BryantD 3y ago
We’re not gonna see it but I’d love to see Sam’s new contract and particularly any restraints on outside activities.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Just spot checking: did anyone comment on this paper when it was published? Did any media outlet say “hey, a member of the OpenAI board is criticizing OpenAI and showing a conflict of interest?” Did any of the people who cover AI (Zvi, say)
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by BryantD 3y ago
It’s interesting that people are making the assumption Toner didn’t raise these concerns internally as well.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Given that two companies have open offers to OpenAI employees, it seems possible that the board accurately gauged the impact on human lives here. Also possible that they got lucky, of course.
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by BryantD 3y ago
This appears to be coming from the same sources who said Sam had a 5 PM deadline on Saturday, also a 5 PM deadline on Sunday, also 90% of the company about to walk out. I’m not saying the board looks great here but it’s about time to notice
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by BryantD 3y ago
Is that conflict of interest larger or smaller than the conflict of interest created when your CEO tries to found a business that would be a critical supplier to OpenAI?
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by BryantD 3y ago
“Employees” probably means “engineers” in this case. Which is a wide majority of OpenAI staff, I’m sure.
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by BryantD 3y ago
Would you say Wikipedia has had a significant impact on society?
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by BryantD 3y ago
Sam isn’t the only person who has to agree to the members of the new board. Sam also has not displayed a mastery of board politics in the past, either at OpenAI or at Y Combinator. Of course he has a strong hand to play here, but then again
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by BryantD 3y ago
That defeats the purpose of having a board. Which is sometimes the desired outcome, of course, but if I were Microsoft I am not sure I’d want Sam in there with zero checks and balances. I also wouldn’t want Ilya in there without checks and
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by BryantD 3y ago
Depends on where your moral lines are. I have a fairly good sense of where mine are but I don’t know the board so I’m not going to make a guess there.

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