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by Terr_ 5mo ago
The trick is to somehow ensure all the other officers (A) care about avoiding the cost while (B) are not motivated to collectively lie for one-another. It's not hard to imagine: Officer X does something bad through incompetence, Offic
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> manage a McDonald's Dystopia vibes from the fictional "Manna" management system [0] used at a hamburger franchise, which involved a lot of "reverse centaur" automation. > At any given moment Manna had a list
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> Some business leaders warned startups to take the offer with a grain of salt. Jason Calacanis, an investor and cohost of the All In podcast, described Altman’s move as “the classic platform playbook,” and advised founders that “if you
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> It’s typically more than a month after an arrest before your first meeting with a client. [...] This is why the bond system is a form of blackmail. The ACLU has a nice FAQ on the evils of "cash bail" here [0]. > [Public De
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I was going to lift out some choice quotes because of the paywall, but this is a pretty long thing, so I'll paraphrase: Generative AI was huge, students were early and intense adopters, and it may have something to do with a broader co
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Old McDonald had a click-farm, EIEIO...
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
IMO we must take it a step further: In this context "the LLM" we're all automatically thinking-of doesn't exist, it is a fictional character we humans "see" inside a story being acted-out or read to us. (In con
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I think this is one of those cases where the typical usage is distinct from the technical origin. > Brewing: to prepare (beer, ale, etc.) by steeping, boiling, and fermentation or by infusion and fermentation https://www.m
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I'd like to preemptively draw a line between two different kinds of hypothesis when it comes to hygiene: 1. The immune system is not being exposed enough to wild or even infectious content, and it needs more threats to fight off. 2. (&
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
TLDR: Data sources include ships at the time that made records of temperatures as they traveled; coastal weather-stations kept pressure records indicating how strong the big weather pattern was; biological indicators from tree-ring growth,
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I imagine there's also an important difference between: 1. We depend on X but could gracefully migrate to an alternate in a week if we really needed to. 2. All data is mirrored instantly so that we can do seamless fail-over in case X h
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
Submitted for your consideration: Laws are how we codify and enforce shared assumptions. Imagine someone sells my neighbor a spy drone that ends up hovering outside my window. There's a spectrum between "we just sold it" to &
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I think the argument for hedging is further weakened by how large actors have other (better?) ways to hedge, such as with futures contracts or insurance policies. Those may have the added benefit of protecting you from price changes. If I n
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
> It means your CEO sitting across from a skeptical reporter and engaging with specific concerns about job displacement, creative rights, privacy—on those terms, not by retreating to the cosmos. I suspect a big factor here is that there
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
There's also a bloc that's been working to try to retroactively redefine what "Net Neutrality" means. Instead of the usual stuff like "consumers have rights" or "ISP monopolies are bad" or "utili
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I like where you're going with this. "The solution to pollution is dilution, except when accumulation is a violation upon creation"?
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
In some cases it still is, but we need to emphasize the exceptions , which can be rather serious. For example, we can hardly "dilute" CFCs or CO2 any more than we did, by putting them into a whopping 5.15×10^18 kg of the entire a
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I'm imagining an influence campaign where someone weaponizes targeted advertising and recommendation engines against Mr. Trusted Maintainer, so that it's a The Truman Show effect, where the background of their entire digital bub
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
I think some of it ties into incrementalism versus "great man" theory. I believe we dramatically underestimate how much of any new thing is (A) not actually as new as it looks and (B) absolutely required a thousand smaller things
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
P.S.: To clarify, I'm not saying AI-ness is necessary or even desirable in the HN submission, the other backfiring design aspects are quite interesting enough on their own. I'm just remarking that TFA seems to be using the term in
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
So where, precisely, is the "AI" component any of this? The main problems highlighted involve misaligned incentives between humans. > The complaint says DoorDash drivers began waiting to batch multiple orders together after gai
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by Terr_ 5mo ago
And maybe some comics with both? https://existentialcomics.com/comic/234
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
I'm not making a subtle or complicated point either. I think the start of it is that we had different ideas of what "worse" was being compared to. You're saying "It's hard to tell a story where the wall is maki
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
To paraphrase how I see things going so far, plus one: 1. tptacek: "It's hard to imagine how Cloudflare's lava-lamps could ever make the cryptography worse." 2. Terr_: "Well, technically it could make it worse, if
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
Perhaps you missed where I mentioned a constant "budget of bits." Your second h(x,y,z) is implicitly using more bits in the calculation, rather than "sharing" with x. In other words, these are the two functions that
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
I'm not sure what you mean, deterministic hashing does not create more entropy than you started with. Lower-quality inputs means lower-quality results. You only want to use low-quality sources if the good stuff is too scarce or expen
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
> I think it's hard to tell a story where they make things worse [...] mixed into the [...] CSPRNG I think it's easy to tell a story where it's slightly worse. I mean, for any budget of storage bits and CPU cycles, any &
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
> Ankh-Morpork! Brawling city of a hundred thousand souls! And, as the Patrician privately observed, ten times that number of actual people. -- Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
I see it more as a mix of grandiose promotion (to investors) and and vague empty promise (to everyone else.) "We're gonna be so big and powerful that we'll be giving free stuff to regular people someday , so tell your repres
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by Terr_ 6mo ago
> Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information). Yeah, that's about the amount I expected. :p Firefox, nothing super-obvious in console beyond a spate of "DOMException: T

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