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by advael 3y ago
And to be more explicit, people already are, and the results are fucking terrible in some places. But we're already in an economic context where terrible products and services up to and including things that are explicitly scams go on
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by advael 3y ago
I too have a lot of cool ideas that turn out to be much harder to make than to talk about. The very best case performance of code assistance tools as they currently exist seems to be that they moderately increase the productivity of develop
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by advael 3y ago
Yes, you can indeed make sentences mean different things by omitting entire important clauses from them. You have clearly misread what I said. Microsoft did indeed fuck up skype, and try to attack android, and this is in fact consistent wit
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by advael 3y ago
So wait, you're trying to interpret me saying "Microsoft tries to close up or eliminate anything it takes an interest in" to mean "Microsoft never loses"? Very different things. You can't trust Microsoft to act
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by advael 3y ago
Everyone who has ever bet against Microsoft trying to enclose or eliminate something it takes an interest in has been wrong. Why should this be any different?
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by advael 3y ago
I have to also wonder what percentage of each of those web logic figures come from code that's there to silently do telemetry rather than part of e.g. a UX framework
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by advael 3y ago
Yes, and the point about security through obscurity is what I was addressing in my response. Security through obscurity is, especially by itself, bad security. By bad I partially mean ineffective: Attackers (e.g., to continue using your exa
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by advael 3y ago
Yes, and there are lots of predictions about when that would happen that turned out to be very wrong. Even if there is a clear path and specific people assigned to do a thing, it is famously always more difficult than expected for those pe
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by advael 3y ago
Friend, it was your analogy
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I won't comment on whether I believe those researchers hold those views as you describe them, but as you describe them, I think both those descriptions of the state of AI research are untrue. The capabilities demonstrated by transforme
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by advael 3y ago
I think the mobile duopolies would be a lot less bad if there weren't so many compliance moats for cellular infrastructure. For example, I was trying to use the pinephone for a while but ran into unreliability issues with SMS. It turne
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by advael 3y ago
Even granting that there may be some nuance to whether and to what degree secrecy is valuable in some contexts, the policies used for automated content moderation on large platforms and the policies by which AI systems are aligned are not g
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by advael 3y ago
Yea, I think we're in kind of a vicious recursive cycle of imperfect-metric-reinforcement (reward-hacking I suppose, though often implemented in economics as well as code) rather than one of recursive self-improvement in a more holisti
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by advael 3y ago
I don't claim it's impossible, just that there isn't a clear path from what exists now to that reality, and that the explanation presented by the above commenter (and I suppose OpenAI's website) does not clarify what the
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by advael 3y ago
This misunderstands what is meant by the concept. The mechanisms and the public policies that dictate how they are used are not obscured. To borrow and improve another commenter's analogy about locks and keys, the lock on your door is
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by advael 3y ago
To be honest, I think a lot of smart people are willing to believe in magic when they've demonstrated some strong capability and the people funding their company want magic to happen.
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by advael 3y ago
Your analogy is also bad. I agree that perfect security is impossible and that is completely irrelevant here. What platforms like this do by not publishing their policies is more akin to insisting you use their special locks on your door th
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by advael 3y ago
The use of "security through obscurity" invited the comparison. It is a better comparison when using automated tools instead of human decision-makers. That said, even if we are talking about policy rather than security, policies t
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by advael 3y ago
This is simply a bad approach and a bad argument. Security through obscurity is a term whose only usage in security circles is derogatory. People figure out how to get around these auto-censors just fine, and not publishing them creates mor
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by advael 3y ago
It's kind of crazy that everyone freaked out about "piracy" in the 2000s but every form of music filesharing in that era was materially better for music artists than what is by far the dominant platform for streaming music to
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by advael 3y ago
I use bandcamp, which is vastly materially different from spotify (at least for now) in both its value proposition to me and its commitment to fairly compensate artists. It offers phone apps on which I can trivially stream any music I'
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by advael 3y ago
Mixed bag. Some would say more development is more churn is more risk, some would say that bugs are inevitable and a slow development velocity implies that vulnerabilities are unlikely to be fixed quickly. This is one of those questions we&
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by advael 3y ago
This is correct. For any law to function, responsibility needs to propagate through the use of any tool. If a company is the legal entity responsible for making the decision to deploy a chatbot as a support service, they must be responsible
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by advael 3y ago
It's pretty ridiculous to think we can win a cat-and-mouse game of surveillance mitigation as individuals against some of the world's largest corporations. Some web services/sites are even starting to create nuisance hurdles
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by advael 3y ago
I feel like LeCunn often gets it half right and then gets overzealous/has a conflict of interest. I think there are good reasons to be less than perfectly optimistic that OpenAI's claims will bear out (The kind of errors SORA make
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by advael 3y ago
People are obviously already pointing out the errors in various physical interactions shown in the demo videos, including the research team themselves, and I think the plausiblity of the generated videos will likely improve as they work on
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by advael 3y ago
O. My mistake, thanks for letting me know Also, if you're not being facetious and actually didn't notice, they do have a youtube embed of the full documentary made in 2022 at the bottom of the linked article. I haven't taken
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by advael 3y ago
I loved lemmings as a kid, and bits of the soundtrack get stuck in my head to this day (I know a lot of it is just chippy arrangements of otherwise famous public domain music, but the arrangements were great). Even at the time it was a real
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by advael 3y ago
One time I made nearly 20 times my money in one night of playing poker I mean, I used to have a poker game pretty regularly with some friends and friends of friends. We'd basically just play until one person got all the chips, but we a
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by advael 3y ago
This is a nonsensical argument UBI has three basic properties that the CARES act fulfills none of 1. Covers cost of living for some basic standard (debatable, but should include food, water, and shelter at minimum) 2. Is available to everyo

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