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by Cthulhu_ 7d ago
Responsible, no (as someone else pointed out). I don't know anything else. AI technology was used to target Palestinian / Hamas targets (and often their families), ultimately there was a human behind the wheels that would do a thu
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by Cthulhu_ 8d ago
It just feels like the companies behind AIs are spinning their own poor monitoring and criminal (digital) trespassing into something they can't be held responsible for. Even though they are, of course. In the hugging face incident, Ant
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by Cthulhu_ 8d ago
If nobody knows exactly how, then "at random" sounds about right and the results should be treated as such. That is, in this case, it should not be used to influence decisions that can start a war.
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by Cthulhu_ 8d ago
So why is there so much outrage now when Google and other search engines did it 30 years ago? They literally said their objective was to collect and index all the world's knowledge, and when they scraped the internet clean a thousand t
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by Cthulhu_ 8d ago
I never liked it myself, but this looks like an extension of Zed's own systems of collaborative coding (remotely), which in turn is built on top of the ideas of Extreme Programming, and / or intensive pair or mob programming. It&#
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by Cthulhu_ 8d ago
I think this is the long-term reality of LLM tech and one of the objectives of engineers implementing solutions, finding the right fit for the job - the right model and cost to achieve high enough accuracy at the lowest price. But that&#x27
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by Cthulhu_ 8d ago
Brave New World (and probably many other sci-fi) basically skips this problem entirely by having babies be mass-produced in bottles.
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by Cthulhu_ 8d ago
Happy to see measured results that isn't breathless glazing, and I suspect this is the kind of thing happening everywhere all at once. The other thing to consider is "burnout", in quotes because I mean that the work you descr
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by Cthulhu_ 9d ago
I feel like I've seen that same thing for 20, 30 years now, lol
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by Cthulhu_ 9d ago
Sails plus the regular engines, for a % in fuel reduction that adds up at scale.
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by Cthulhu_ 9d ago
"Daddy, what does cr*p mean?" Kids aren't stupid and this self-censorship isn't protecting anyone from anything. (if a platform is serious about Bad Words for whatever reason (moral?) they would also forbid character rep
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by Cthulhu_ 9d ago
I think it's easy to underestimate how many smaller outages there are in any period of time but which do not affect anyone or only a small number of people due to all the mitigations, due diligence that developers and SREs do, and the
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by Cthulhu_ 9d ago
I'm going to give this a "maybe"; the challenge with large scale software isn't in authoring new code or whatever, it's in managing complexity. I think AIs / agents (and more importantly how we are learning to
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by Cthulhu_ 9d ago
Thing is, if one piece or suite of software doesn't try to be everything (in a fairly consistent way), businesses that need certain functionality will end up with various different tools from different suppliers, which is at the very
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by Cthulhu_ 9d ago
> They must have got some things very right in the original architecture to be able to do that. I'd argue they (and many larger, older, established etc systems) may not have, but it's part of how it works so while it may not be
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by Cthulhu_ 10d ago
What they could do instead is record a video while taking a photo, the subtle movements (at least if handheld) might have enough information to get an approximation of depth (parallax).
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
I think the AI companies want a slowdown because they can't keep increasing the rate of improvements - or the amount of hardware it requires can't be built fast enough. Of course, while they may be competing against each other, th
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
I think you're less free than you think you are. Do you have the freedom to lose your job? Because millions don't due to e.g. losing access to health care (to name a popular / populist talking point). Do you have the freedom
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
And "censorship" in this context is fine. Many things are censored, as they should be, because true free speech is bad. I can't say everything on this platform because I will be banned.
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
Thing is though, I think that the argument of "we don't understand how it works or what it does" doesn't hold up - everything an LLM does is observable. And if it's scary, we turn it off. If it starts to act like a
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
> What we're going to do when that tech will cease to cool us? Move. This is already happening, with water shortages forcing people to move. Climate change will (likely) cause famines and many deaths, but the bigger effect will be m
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
But warnings (e.g. not apocalyptic but damaging or having any effects) have come true, by and large; people warned about the effects of pollution / co2 emissions / global warming over 150 years ago [0], to name a popular example.
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
This is Pascal's Wager, which kind of brings us full circle again to AI doom predictions.
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
The solution is simple, hold them responsible. It's software, and people running and developing software are responsible for what it does. If I write a virus I'll get the various cybercrime units on me. The LLM companies don'
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
I wouldn't trust AI with real money though. (I barely trust myself with it lmao)
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by Cthulhu_ 12d ago
If this is based on bird spotters, I'd say the national bird spotting organizations don't report or watch for the same birds.
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by Cthulhu_ 15d ago
This assumes all layers of cybersecurity are broken - We call self-replicating software a virus, and we have protections against it. Same with stolen API tokens, just rotate them. Suspicious behaviour, nothing new, we have detectors for it.
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by Cthulhu_ 15d ago
I can imagine some people feel like it's cheating because they did it the hard way. I have much respect for those people and their skillset and I hope AI doesn't discourage them.
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by Cthulhu_ 15d ago
Yeah, same cables but different specifications is a danger; I've got old HDMI / DP cables for example, they're backwards compatible and still fit into modern systems of course, but won't do 4K / 144 hz (or whatever)
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by Cthulhu_ 15d ago
Exactly why people turn to AI, which I think is good enough for "casual" mental health advice (the kind people can do themselves by reading self-help books or talking with empathic friends). Arguably it's safer than talking t

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