ErigmolCt

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by ErigmolCt 6mo ago
A lot of "doing nothing" advice gets framed as clearing the mind, yet sometimes the valuable part is finally letting the mind choose its own direction
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by ErigmolCt 6mo ago
Maybe the useful framing is: just don't optimize the break
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by ErigmolCt 6mo ago
Yep, I think it's basically meditation with the branding stripped off
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by ErigmolCt 6mo ago
I've found the same thing with short walks without headphones. The first few minutes feel almost irritating, like my brain is looking for something to latch onto. Then after a while the mental noise settles and work feels less aversive
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by ErigmolCt 6mo ago
Yep, there's some bad incentives and some rushed work, but calling it mostly incompetence or malice kind of ignores how much the underlying system has changed
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by ErigmolCt 6mo ago
But I'm not convinced the old consistency was purely a design victory... it was also a result of heavy constraints
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
In practice, I think it comes down to what you value more
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
This is how we keep the lights on
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
I do think projects like Waterfox are valuable precisely because they push back on some of Mozilla's product decisions
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
The non-trivial part isn't contamination per se, it's that the contaminant is chemically and spectroscopically similar enough to evade standard discrimination
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
Lots of signal, lots of noise, and slowly figuring out which is which
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
How tricky the whole topic is
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
When your methods get really sensitive, you stop just measuring the world and start measuring your own process too
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
So the takeaway is: we've been accidentally adding "microplastics" with the very gloves we use to avoid contamination. That's almost poetic
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
On the credit card point though, cards don't work perfectly as age verification either. Plenty of minors can access prepaid cards or family cards
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
Whether these systems are a good idea is still very much being debated
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by ErigmolCt 7mo ago
The uncomfortable part is that both sides are right: there are real harms to kids online, but tying real-world identity to routine internet access fundamentally changes what the internet has been for decades
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
Good press is helpful, but public investors also care about regulatory risk
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
"Didn't sell its soul" is a pretty high bar for any large AI lab taking government and enterprise money
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
Nott really, the dispute is that Anthropic wanted to keep restrictions against domestic mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons, while the Pentagon reportedly wanted the models available for any "lawful" use
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
It probably boosts their reputation with one segment of the market while making them much less attractive to another (just my thoughts)
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
This feels bad for the industry. If every AI company learns that having explicit red lines gets you blacklisted, the incentive is to keep safety language vague and negotiable
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
I suspect that's why experienced officers sometimes intervene like in the OP's story
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
Clearance forms are weird in that they're not just legal documents, they're inputs into an investigative process
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
A lot of that comes down to what's objectively verifiable vs what's discretionary, and also what's culturally normalized inside the org.
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
The danger isn't just being risky, it's being anomalous
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
So something uncomfortable about clearance processes: they're not purely about truth, they're about interpretable truth
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
Yeah, I wouldn't bet on this being a single bad Gmail export; it smells much more like the accumulated scars of multiple mail systems doing "helpful" things to the same messages over time
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
This ended up being way more interesting
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by ErigmolCt 8mo ago
That's exactly how you end up with mystery missing characters in something that's supposed to be evidence

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