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by brookst 21d ago
Oh great now you’re outsourcing the “where the hell did the other sock go and why are there always odd numbers coming out of the dryer” existential crises to AI. Is there no aspect of the human experience you won’t cede to machines?
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by brookst 21d ago
I genuinely don’t understand this binary thinking. You could easily turn it around: if we’re cutting down on inefficiencies, laundry folding robots will give people more time to exercise. Or, why bother going to the gym if you don’t eat hea
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by brookst 21d ago
So you’re saying the CFAA should not require any intent to break the law, only the outcome? Are we really saying the Aaron Swartz prosecution was actually correct, after all these years?
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by brookst 21d ago
It’s a good thought, but the tricky part is that few tools in the physical world are Turing complete and general purpose enough to do any job. The agent isn’t the model; it’s a layer on top of the model. So it’s kind of like saying that all
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by brookst 21d ago
“Can’t” seems incorrect here. Plenty of people murder people. You can’t murder people and expect life to go on as usual. But the act itself doesn’t seem to be eliminated by legislation.
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by brookst 21d ago
Because being too blatant will galvanize the public and create support for open war. The goal is to ensure all reasonable people know, while keeping enough deniability that Russian-funded right-wing groups can sow doubt about attribution an
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by brookst 22d ago
Any evidence, or just vibes?
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by brookst 22d ago
Great, you’re the attorney at the CEO’s trial. To get a conviction, you’re going to have to show that he willfully committed this specific crime. There are no negligent or stochastic hacking laws, you have to show this specific crime was a
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by brookst 22d ago
Can you show intent? There is no negligent hacking statute, and HN of all places I would expect people to be sensitive to the implications of creating one.
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by brookst 22d ago
Who had criminal intent here? Or are you suggesting a new crime for negligent hacking, which wouldn’t require intent from the perpetrator?
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by brookst 23d ago
Maybe we travel in different circles. I still hear about Covid vaccines having 5g chips in them and all sorts of other crazy stuff. Rough guess, maybe 10% of what I hear is plausible, and maybe a quarter of that is likely.
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by brookst 23d ago
Sure. I’m not saying you should pay for search just saying it is not economically feasible to monetize it directly. I pay for Kagi, but that makes me part of a very niche market.
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by brookst 23d ago
Yeah an electrical fuse for telemetry seems really odd. Even without malice it would be strange if disconnecting power to some part of the computer only affected telemetry. I could see a fuse for cellular comms, be presumably that would als
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by brookst 23d ago
What you don’t want a file named `reboot`?
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by brookst 24d ago
Pretty much sums up why Google’s business model changed. Everyone wants good search, few are willing to be even $10/mo.
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by brookst 25d ago
Pejoratives aside, it’s also bad news for AI companies. Anyone who knows the story of the US auto industry in the 1970’s and 1980’s knows how excessive government protection for an industry works out.
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by brookst 25d ago
> more often than not Any data on that? Because to me it sounds like “because they are sometimes true, we should assume they are always true” But I’m open to data.
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by brookst 25d ago
“Suspicion is the same as fact”
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by brookst 25d ago
That’s pretty much the heart of conspiracy theories and paranoia, yes. See apophenia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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by brookst 25d ago
And really the only upside to minor accounts is building loyalty, which is not nothing but also not the same as a paying customer. Easy to see how Anthropic could decide it’s not with the exposure to liability and regulatory actions.
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by brookst 25d ago
Are you saying I should have asked the theater to project subtitles?
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by brookst 25d ago
Tobacco exec says smoking falls by half with low-nicotine cigs.
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by brookst 26d ago
As someone else said, it’s a developer kit. It was supply constrained and priced accordingly. IMO it was a mistake to not just call it a developer’s kit, abd promoting it as a consumer product was just weird. But I guess the downside of the
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by brookst 26d ago
I agree with you, but the critical thing about AVP (just like iPhone, just like iPod, just like Mac) is the user interface. The device is just hardware to deliver the UI. Apple’s UI work on AVP is under-appreciated. It’s been improving over
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by brookst 26d ago
I mean a Keats / Cleese mashup could be amazing. LLMs doing that are in the peanut butter / chocolate quadrant.
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by brookst 26d ago
I can’t make heads or tails of your comment. You seem to by implying wrongdoing or incompetence or something, but your chosen synopsis is that the models behaved dangerously in the lab so public use was restricted? Which shows… IDK?
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by brookst 26d ago
How does OpenAI’s respect (or lack thereof) for the setting change whether the people involved could say whether they had opted out of training? They comment you replied to noted that none of them had shared that info. How are they blocked
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by brookst 26d ago
Walk me through how the sofic result OpenAI publixhed profits OpenAI but had no benefit to humanity? Why were Thom and others working on it if it had no value?
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by brookst 26d ago
Not defending it but in academia credit and attribution can be big deals. Some people are motivated by money, some by fame, some by satisfaction from doing the work, some by recognition, most by some mix.
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by brookst 27d ago
Man I love live translation. I was traveling in the Middle East and went to see a movie and… it worked. My Spanish is mid, my Italian is barely there, my Arabic is near zero. It’s hard for me to imagine not wanting language barriers to disa

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