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by Terr_ 4mo ago
That might work for static videos and music where the thing isn't interactive, but I don't think it maps cleanly to things like games with an online component, or "we won't sell your private data" SaaS promises. For
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Justifying some control does not justify all control. Voting is a "privilege" too [0] but does that mean any state government should be recording an exact log of your ballot-choices? Surely not. [0] It should be a far strong
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
One approach is to reduce discontinuities and spoiler-effects in voting, which in turn reduces the incentives for a politician to accept—or someone else to offer—a devil's bargain. As it stands now, there's lots of potential for:
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> A certain kind of person loves markets because they provide decisions on complex questions at scale. And like, that's not NEVER true, but it also takes for granted a lot of rational thinking It also tends to assume a certain hypot
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
If the Copyright Office doesn't have enough funding/infrastructure, a compromise would be that the company regularly provides encrypted copies into the public domain in advance, and the decryption key is in escrow.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Also: Those ownership/privacy obligations to customers should come first in bankruptcy proceedings, ahead of other debts. IANABankrupcyLawyer, but I believe the status-quo is that various promises like "we'll open-source the
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> If you thought that economic inequality or political polarization were bad, cognitive polarization will be truly terrible, dividing society into what might begin to look like two different species. The high-need-for-cognition people w
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
"That new hire tested very well. It only took five minutes of AI interviewing before he threw the monitor out of the window."
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Cold: the metal boxes going Hard: the tracks on which we roam Panels when the dark's not coming Feel the weight of what we tow
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
As I said, the appeal was granted, or at least that's the message I got in reply. However everything remained in the nether-realm and the appeals page claimed that my account was normal, and that therefore couldn't be used No resp
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
If you mean in terms of political party leaning, we've had many years to observe how Rich vs Poor can override Right vs Left.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
If that isn't just anti-immigrant snark, it is at least not reading TFA.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
According to the graph in the article, NYC is doing about average, and LA/SF are the other front-runners.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
That's equating regular social engineering versus LLM prompt injection and clicking a sneaky URL, I don't think those are equivalent scenarios or risks.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Right, it doesn't have to be a technical attack to be a trust violation. Imagine an inbox summarizing tool, where a malicious email can cause important security notifications to be buried. Or a summary of upcoming tasks where users in
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
That sounds a bit like "nobody would ever fall for a phishing email." I don't think we should overestimate the technical sophistication and unceasing vigilance of the average YouTube user. Even if it's just a non-clickab
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Yep, and worse because the entire product relies on injection to operate, because everybody's excited about the "flexibility" of just telling it what your want.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I'm not a doctor, but I would consider it in terms of flow and throughput , rather than,—metaphorically—the amount of water the pipe can hold.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
1% (10,000 ppm) is enough for the person to become aware something is odd through drowsiness or an elevated heart rate. I don't think it's too far-fetched for a quarter of that to cause subconscious cognitive effects, that could b
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I don't think that's safe to assume at all, for two reasons: 1. CO2 has effects on the human body of its own that aren't simply a lack of oxygen, and vice-versa. [0] 2. The baseline proportions involved aren't close, so
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> Unregulated capitalism always trends towards concentration of wealth/power. Even pretty basic economic models which start in a fair state with unbiased rules can easily converge on gross inequality. The article seems to be subscri
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Right, it's not just a matter of demoralization in the sense if being unhappy, but also, er, de-imagination , where people consciously or unconsciously assume objective limitations and ceilings which don't actually exist. Pretty
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I see it as implausible, and I find myself thinking of Godel's incompleteness theorem(s). Somewhere out there are "correct" thoughts we can't practically think without changing how our brains work.
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
It also prevents the addition of content onto the disk, providing tamper-protection in addition to secrecy. For example, spyware/remote-control software would open new routes to penetrate your employer's systems, or steal money
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I'm not scared of trying to unfuck LLM code per se , but I'm very afraid of doing it in a company that's still simultaneously adding 10x more...
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
So wait, a good deal from an ISP requires just the right Goldilocks zone of not-too-rural and not-too-urban, and for some reason almost nowhere in the US qualifies even though it's more-common in other countries? That doesn't re
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> The capital was either directly given to businesses, fraudulently and unnecessarily in many cases Especially concerning when a bunch of politicians were in on it, ensuring that the money went out willy-nilly and that $700+ billion in &
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
I think I liked Infinifactory the most because: 1. It had the least overlap with my day-job work. 2. It's somehow more-pleasing to watch a mechanical (albeit simulated) 3D machine do work, contrasted to the flickering playgrounds of Ex
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
> there is no abstraction for which we lack the capacity to comprehend. How could this ever be tested/falsified? It feels a bit like "there is no idea we cannot think of." If we can't comprehend it, then it won't
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by Terr_ 4mo ago
Tangentially: Microsoft telemetry collects the serial# of your devices and reports it (with your IP and MS account) back to the mothership, and some printers embed their serial# in printed pages. So take countermeasures if you print somethi

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