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by avivo 7y ago
I would love to see an experiment that randomly granted people Netflix or YouTube Premium, and explore health/wealth/etc. impacts going forward. This could also be added as feature to existing large scale longitudinal studies.
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by avivo 8y ago
The reason I ask is because I specifically am interested in those who have the professional confidence to be held responsible if something goes wrong (even in complex situations; e.g. a warped chassis).
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by avivo 8y ago
Is it possible to have someone experienced do this for you or your company in San Francisco? Either cleaning out the dust, and/or applying new paste? (how much would it likely cost if so?) (also, does it apply to a MacBook Air?)
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by avivo 8y ago
Zeo
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by avivo 8y ago
Fascinating. Feel free to email me to followup later (info in profile); might be relevant for a study some colleagues are working on this space.
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by avivo 8y ago
Whoops. Good catch. Edited to make more sense.
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by avivo 8y ago
It's interesting how this sort of discussion is actually leading HN to be more of an echo chamber. Most of my female friends in tech completely avoid it now because it seems that discussions that get voted up tend to ignore or belitt
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by avivo 8y ago
Are you building on the web annotation standard? Or otherwise connected to the prior work here? https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/ It applies to PDF's also. More context: https://web.hypothes.
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Live updates|Pakistan says 2 Indian Airforce jets shot down, India rejects claim(hindustantimes.com)
2 points by avivo 8y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 8y ago
This was only a matter of time. For the DEFCON AI Village in August I talked about the implications of this sort of tech, and how that impacts how we release "exploit" code / think about "cognitive vulnerabilities":
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by avivo 8y ago
Another classic in this genre, though more focused on world impact, is Charlie Stross's "Why I want Bitcoin to die in a fire" (2013) http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/12/why-
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Client-Side Context: A defense against misinformation in the encrypted WhatsApp(medium.com)
2 points by avivo 8y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 8y ago
If you want to understand more about the money laundering world, check out the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP). They've impacted > 5B$ of assets. Great people, they accept donations, and they are often looki
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How to Stop (E2E Encrypted) Misinformation Without Sacrificing Privacy(bloomberg.com)
6 points by avivo 8y ago|0 comments
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by avivo 8y ago
The OP is accurate—but it's missing two more critical reasons why newspapers are dying. 1) Ad fraud. It reduces the value of advertising. https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/328730/advert... &
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by avivo 8y ago
I just discovered I can't downgrade because I have at least one repo with over three collaborators. Has anyone figured out a quick way to determine which are the problem repos? (I have a lot!)
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by avivo 8y ago
I think this frame of market capitalism as a set of feedbacks and delays is crucial. Though I expect that there will just be different ones with alternative systems in practice.
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by avivo 8y ago
I wish this were true. Sadly, evidence may not bear this out. If it did, then e.g. YouTube wouldn't be in a constant battle to take down ISIS recruiting content...
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by avivo 8y ago
Forgeries do have significant impacts. Everything from beef being photoshopped into meals leading to violence (e.g. in Hindu regions), to significantly impacting the burden of proof required for prosecution of war crimes. And that's
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by avivo 8y ago
I think this is a valuable framing. In other words, is there any computation problem which physics implicitly solves in the process of generating an image or video—and which is: 1) computationally intractable to forge. (e.g. requires simula
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by avivo 8y ago
Forgeries have had significant impacts. Everything from beef being photoshopped into meals leading to violence (e.g. in Hindu regions), to significantly impacting the burden of proof required for prosecution of war crimes.
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by avivo 8y ago
There is almost always a bias toward values. For example free speech. At various times, those values have come in conflict with particular groups in power (and their source of power). So in those cases their can be a sort of bias that is ha
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by avivo 8y ago
Paging Kenton Varda and the company/product/system he and his team created that does something very similar called Sandstorm: https://sandstorm.io/ . (Kenton also led the protocol buffers team at Google which is th
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by avivo 8y ago
Are you sure the "private profile data" wasn't aggregated before it was sold? Either way, selling private data is not something Facebook is actually known to do much (outside of misunderstandings by confused activists/
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by avivo 8y ago
The term was popularized from reporting by Craig Silverman which he had been going on for years as described here https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/i-helped... . It started to become widely used
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by avivo 8y ago
Center for Social Media Responsibility | Engineer/Researcher | San Francisco, Ann Arbor, or remote | Visa (H1B Cap Exempt) | Full-Time (or Part-Time/Fellow for the right person) | https://www.si.umich.edu/research
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by avivo 8y ago
Lots of details to be worked out, but yes there are models in other fields. You bring up a real concern and there are ways to address it. I'm not suggesting stopping research on this. But the way in which that research is communicated,
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by avivo 8y ago
Unfortunately, even if we can pull it off "cryptographically signing a video" doesn't "solve" the problem. How would that verification be presented to a user? How/why would it influence their beliefs/actio
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by avivo 8y ago
It's not a totally lost cause — I wrote a piece on what we can do about this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/theworldpost/wp/2018/02/... It's a first step, and my thinking has also ev
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by avivo 8y ago
This and Facebook's equivalent are great. But what about Google/YouTube...?

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