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by akersten 9mo ago
Consider that there is a large contingent of hackers on this forum who actually care about this stuff (the future of democracy), and are desperately upvoting it for visibility despite it continuously being flagged off by people who'd r
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by akersten 9mo ago
> The same is true of humans, What is? That you can run us on paper? That seems demonstrably false
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by akersten 9mo ago
I assume they mean "upload to drive and use the web based reader to view the PDF," not "upload to drive and download it again"
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by akersten 9mo ago
But you can't even download the allegedly infringing material from the .org site. You can just read about it? So they're abusing the All Writs Act to take down a site that they think is related to some undetermined future nebulous
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by akersten 9mo ago
Does it need a known and enumerated use case to be allowed? I don't like that implication. An AI that shops for a blind user, for one free example of the untold and unexplored uses of new technology.
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by akersten 9mo ago
Perfect I can't wait for the deluge of spam texts with real clickable buttons to trick me instead of just a 320x320 picture of one. Let's see, RCS: * needlessly complicated protocol, such that only a behemoth such as Google could
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by akersten 9mo ago
Weed
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by akersten 9mo ago
They are, there's a video on YouTube you can find where they interview someone with that job and they test 10,000 a day. Then they mention that they go home and vape some more
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by akersten 9mo ago
It's messy because media impersonation has been a problem since the advent of communication. In the extreme, we're sort of asking "should we make lying illegal?" The model (pardon) in my mind is like this: * The forger o
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by akersten 9mo ago
Unless they released a model named "Tom Cruise-inator 3000," I don't see any way to legislate that intent that would provide any assurances to a developer that their misused model couldn't result in them facing signific
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by akersten 9mo ago
We wouldn't have roads at all is my point, because no contractor in their right mind would take on unbounded risk for limited gain.
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by akersten 9mo ago
Foisting the responsibility of the extremely risky transport industry onto the road developers would certainly prevent all undesirable uses of those carriageways. Once they are at last responsible for the risky uses of their technology, lik
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by akersten 9mo ago
> open their password manager which also might need you to authenticate, type in their master password, search for the name of the said website, copy the password, paste it in This is one way to guarantee you'll eventually fall for
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by akersten 9mo ago
Behavioral (invisible) analytics alone is the secret trillion dollar industry that online advertisers want to distract you from by focusing on the morality of ad blocking. A good blocker should block many of those scripts too, but there&#x2
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by akersten 10mo ago
The problem, following your analogy, is seeing the consequences from the mishandled car but blaming the electric motor, in this case.
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by akersten 10mo ago
Close to 2/3 Americans also believe in magic so I'm not sure what these studies are supposed to tell us.
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by akersten 10mo ago
> What I'm wondering is, why couldn't the AI generate this solution? And implement it all? My read of the blog post is that is exactly what happened, and the human time was mostly spent being confused why 40MB/s streams do
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by akersten 10mo ago
This frames the issue in a fundamentally incorrect way. Since the dawn of pseudoanonymous communication, politicians have been trying to get their nasty little claws into it. See Clipper Chip in the 90's. They've tried many avenue
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by akersten 10mo ago
Sort by weighted upvotes vs time decay is an algorithm. You can review the psedocode here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1781013 Note that there is also "censorship" (!) - `gag_factor` - even in this free t
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by akersten 10mo ago
> Firefighters were using specialized carbon monoxide equipment to extinguish the flames on the first floor of the four-story building, A concerning miss in proofreading or am I learning about a new fire-fighting technology today?
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Judge: Louisiana law requiring age verification on social media unconstitutional(nola.com)
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by akersten 10mo ago
i don't know what it would take to remove all this OEM LCID 1252 ANSI nonsense from computing (well, just Windows) but if I were in charge of "make sure developers ever willingly choose to work on Win32 instead of any other sane U
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by akersten 10mo ago
Luckily we do not live in an allow-list based society where we need to ask permission for every new thing we invent. The burden is on someone to show that robot answers book questions is somehow bad, to justify outlawing it. And that has no
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by akersten 10mo ago
> Yeah, the "but what about a human" argument doesn't really work here. Scale of data matters as always. And an Ai for kindle has the scale of 20 years of literature I haven't seen a convincing argument why not. There
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by akersten 10mo ago
> Is the "clerk" scanning the books an digitizing them to generate other products using an LLM under the guise of "Answering Questions?" I believe this is the question being asked. That's what I mean by presumptu
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> what rights the company was relying upon to execute the new feature what rights does a bookstore clerk need to answer questions about a product on the store's shelves? what a presumptuous question
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by akersten 10mo ago
> They need to be advocating for good solutions, not No, fighting back against horrible proposals does not require suggesting an alternative proposal to the alleged problem. That only serves to benefit the malicious actors proposing the
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by akersten 10mo ago
> I think being sheltered from regular TV, TV ads, and TV news, has been tremendously positive for my mind and life. Not being exposed to "social" media sites, which are often not actually social, and often unhealthy when they
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by akersten 10mo ago
So, you haven't identified any actual problems with them being on social media though. For example, were this lament that parenting is hard written 50 years ago: > As the parent of a teenager affected by this ban (plus one who has a
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by akersten 10mo ago
Correct, in fact I strongly assert the benefit of being able to communicate with a global audience and participate early in the information economy far outweighs any alleged and poorly-articulated harm from the same.

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