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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Nothing about the Snowden revelations presented such an easy target. There was no obvious action against it for juries to nullify. If there were companies whose bottom lines we could target, it's not clear which companies they were.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
I'd call it a bug. If we don't fix it, I think that our habit of creating incentives towards outcomes that nobody actually wants will eventually kill us.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
You're assuming that the invaders can't just buy, hack, or social engineer, access to the cameras from Flock. Lately it has been social engineering: https://www.404media.co/floridas-wildlife-cops-are-searching...
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
> So what do you do when the majority of the systems you use on a daily basis to function in a normal life, require you (or atleast the majority of the populace) to compromise on morals? You replace those systems, one by one, with system
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
If your bank requires you to use a device that is pre-compromised by Apple or Google, get a different bank.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
There are a lot of answers to this, but since we're likely coders in here, there's a software design answer worth pointing out. Watch how police states behave. What tools do they use? Typically, it's roots of trust. They t
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
On the other hand, a few heuristics will get you pretty far: Don't build technology that interacts with people in ways they did't consent to. Don't build skinner boxes. Let the user decide who gets whatever data they genera
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
You can run wasm components in tauri apps, and tauri supports building for android. I haven't figured out how to make them talk with each other though. I imagine that's the place where I'd notice this lack of support.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Deep down it's all just people telling stories. If the AI sector's story is setting the price, and yours is not, then theirs is the real real one, not yours. It's a totally broken way to practice economics, but alas, it&#x27
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Agreed, which is a shame. I'd love to see people with highly developed QA skills using AI to push the envelope. There's so much that's possible now that wasn't 15 years ago. For instance "formal verification"
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
If the shareholders are backing outcomes that make life worse for the rest of us, they deserve to lose money.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Nothing new here. Except for the most trivial of bugs, finding and reliably replicating the bug is almost always harder than fixing it.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
I don't think it's universal. People have been using sound waves to communicate for millena and so far nobody has capitalized on it. Medium and Substack aren't mediums, not like spoken word or watercolor or dance. They&#x27
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Well, at the base layer I think we need a CRDT of some kind. For my prototype I'm using a GSet of tuples, union for merge. Overtop that, an API which ensures that applications conform to the CALM theorem. This is a major restriction, b
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
The internet is fine. It's the web that sucks now. It matters, because we can build a different web without throwing out the internet. We'll have to walk away from the attention economy, that'll be a journey that each has t
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
> I don’t think that a glitzy marketing campaign with a positive spin (which some have advocated that Anthropic do) is the way to win back that trust — at this point, saying that AI will cure cancer is more a cliche than it is inspiring,
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Presumably for the transition of biotech from the US to somewhere else. I don't know what kind of favor buys you the sabotage of an industry, but it must've been a good one.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Oh it is, but the job won't be done until we have solidarity across sectors. I'm looking to shut services off if companies ask too much of their workers.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
I learned it in latin class. It looks like I may have gotten it a bit wrong. It's not that they killed every tenth member of whatever village they were adding to the roman empire that day, but rather than they conscripted some of them
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
It should depend on whether you've taken other steps to constrain the output of the LLM. I've been building some pretty elaborate test harnesses (which I test independently beforehand), to ensure that I get something that does wh
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Didn't the Dutch East India Company go public in 1602? Also, in ancient Rome, coinage with Caesar's face on it was traded above its bullion value. They'd kill 1/10th of your population repeatedly until you agreed to thi
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Let's celebrate its 100th birthday by moving labor day to Friday! Every Friday.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Wow, what fun! On a more boring note... I could imagine using this pattern for documentation screenshots. It would be a neat sanity check during PR reviews to show whichever screenshots were changed by that PR in context with their surroun
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
That is, unless there's a contingent out there considering hurting him for this. Probably not justified in this case, but maybe we'd get better leadership if it were a tad more common.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Sure, if the thing is worth doing in the first place. How many of us can say that about our jobs though?
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
I'm reminded of my father in law, who when asked what superpower he'd want, it was flight, so he could get to work without waiting in traffic. If all of your employees are AI's, clarity of vision trumps choosing boring. And
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
"Fake elements," feels right to me. They're allegedly in there but we can't find any of them. It's funny that these elements comprise the majority of the "real" numbers.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
Ads are a type of malware, they're often used to bootstrap more aggressive types of malware. The door to door sales person wants to unlock your door so they can sell the info to somebody else who shows up and steals your TV.
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
I've been having a great time using haxe & reflaxe macros for code generation. You can have some minimal haxe code and build tiny compilers that use it as a source of truth for generating a http client, http server stub, cli entryp
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by __MatrixMan__ 2mo ago
I'm saying that the bad behavior you're talking about is the status quo. If we want to overcome it, we'll have to defend against it. Our earlier communication technologies merely had to work... at all. The next one will hav

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