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by Terr_ 8d ago
> Stop treating [them as] unconstrained, above-the-law actors. With apologies to Baudelaire: The greatest trick exploitative powers ever played was convincing the people that it was impossible to imagine anything else. Sometimes blinkeri
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by Terr_ 9d ago
I think you just accidentally described what's already been happening for 7000+ years. Though if any followers still exist, they probably wouldn't agree that 𒀭𒂗𒆠 was just a fad.
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by Terr_ 9d ago
Also, when we humans are tricked into perceiving a remote mind, we automatically assume it has a memory like us, or at least like large animals. In other words, there's a story-document between a SherlockHolmesBot and UserPlaceholder t
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by Terr_ 9d ago
The "See Also" has "Wax thermostatic element" [0] which seems focused on automotive applications, so perhaps it was there and grew large-enough that it got split off. > Its principal application is in automotive the
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by Terr_ 9d ago
> Ok like Jim Cramer but for bots "...but I repeat myself." /rimshot-noise
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by Terr_ 9d ago
You won't even need to predict the "mainline LLM" if you can instead spam covert poison-data around which helps you choose what it will do in advance. That might be to boost a stock you already own, but if you can obfuscate
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by Terr_ 9d ago
Much like how you shouldn't ask the LLM to solve a (repeated, logical) problem, but you should instead prompt it to generate code that you can inspect/test/fix/reuse.
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by Terr_ 9d ago
Right, defense against internal "oops" accidents looks rather different than defense against purposeful sabotage. While the local backup service uses an API-key with limited privileges, I need to go back to the bucket/storage
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by Terr_ 9d ago
> stored exclusively in Now I'm thinking about legal/contractual rules that might force that kind of geographic risk. I mean, logically you could have the Allowable Location send pre-encrypted backups to anywhere in the world
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by Terr_ 9d ago
> That is stupid. Which is more likely, that a useful heuristic sometimes misfires or that “our product might kill you” is a clever way to sell it? Death threats are a poor marketing strategy. To consumers , maybe, but there's also
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by Terr_ 9d ago
I pretty much instantly wrote off physical media because I know I won't reliably move it to a separate location. If I'm going to have backups, I want ones that are not within fire/flood range of my computer. In terms of preve
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by Terr_ 9d ago
> sometimes do wild things in the callback that take a lot of mental effort to understand And even when they don't, you have to spend effort to determine that they aren't.
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by Terr_ 9d ago
Sure, I'm up for some bike-shedding. [0][1] Unless performance demands otherwise, I prefer map+filter because: 1. It's cheaper/faster at communicating intent to humans reading your code. Since a reduce call can do all sorts
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by Terr_ 9d ago
In addition to the reliability/security aspect, there's the claim to expertise and unwarranted confidence. We also don't (usually) fool ourselves into believing that the manager has gained the skills and expertise of the wo
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by Terr_ 10d ago
> Ninety-two trapped antiprotons have been transported outside the Antimatter Factory along a 7.5-km route without particle loss or measurable degradation of the trap vacuum. It's amusing how this is one of the few contexts where we
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by Terr_ 10d ago
I think the difference involves how many layers of stuff someone claims is "theirs" and whether that claim of credit and expertise is valid. Imagine a coworker writes some decent C code, but then at a meeting they start taking cre
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by Terr_ 10d ago
Hm, if Russia were to seriously deploy that logic to justify sabotage in European countries (insofar as a kleptocratic dictatorship is ever serious or logical), it could backfire a bit: 1. If France is a sabotage-justified enemy, then so is
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by Terr_ 10d ago
Right, but somehow a bunch of companies still made them into a "prove who you are" factor, and (if we assume incompetence instead of malice) that means a bunch of decision makers still considered the a trust factor.
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by Terr_ 10d ago
Right, I don't blame the SS administration, they knew what people shouldn't do and warned everyone about it... the problem was private companies were desperate for security-theater and were never punished as they built an entire g
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by Terr_ 11d ago
> difficult to know which brands are still actually quality anymore I haven't verified its accuracy, but I had a tab open for this from HN a while back: > The Brand Ledger tracks 397 brands, from the tools in your garage to the p
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by Terr_ 11d ago
> IDscan was never cryptographic proof you were who you said you were. Maybe better than “enter your name and SSN” With the benefit of hindsight, we'd have all been better off if SSNs had been so obviously flagrantly public that n
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by Terr_ 11d ago
> the notion that "identity theft" is the consumer's responsibility/obligation to prevent or resolve, not the entity that actually had the data stolen. You may enjoy/find-useful this Mitchell & Webb radio-ski
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by Terr_ 11d ago
> Most people don't even lift. Those that do, dont mind taking off jewelry. I dimly recall some folks promoting silicone wedding bands, although at that point I think it's more about social-signalling "I'm in a relati
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by Terr_ 11d ago
Had this happen on Reddit, and the kafkaesque injustice rankles. No reason, no communication, just one morning 10+ years of posts and comments all gone as well as anyone who had ever replied. The "appeals" page said my appeal (f
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by Terr_ 11d ago
What I mean is that today "technology" connotes activity in certain fields (and not others), and this leads us (normal people, today) to discount large less-in-vogue fields of human endeavor as... just stuff that is done, but no
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by Terr_ 11d ago
Oh, I see, I thought you were saying that Oracle's financial woes would have a ripple-effect that's negative for everyone else, as opposed to the mergers being a bad thing regardless of Oracle's financial situation. Yeah, A
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by Terr_ 12d ago
> it would utterly destroy the American movie industry I don't understand, if Oracle etc. has financial problems, why would movie-making bits be destroyed as opposed to sold to new owners? If the American movie industry got "de
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by Terr_ 12d ago
I remember when I (naively, but not alone) thought that the Personal Computer would let us--consumers, individuals--express our own agency and priorities and control, a kind of democratized capital mini-factory anyone (or group) could tailo
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by Terr_ 12d ago
With respect to bikes (with or without pelicans) there's a strong natural bias because people displaying bikes tend to want to show off the side with the gears. More-generally, I suspect an influence from how left-to-right languages (i
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by Terr_ 12d ago
There are certain bodies of human knowledge and practice which aren't usually referred to as "technologies", and I think that leads us to underestimate their complexity and importance. In particular, I'm thinking of text

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