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It's a solved problem if you are someone that knows you'll be exposed to HIV in the very near future and you have the money and wherewithal to purchase PrEP before that event (and you can plan the event 7 days out). The power of a
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> If you think any sort of immigration enforcement is unacceptably authoritarian That's a strawman and a false dilemma.
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> Obviously this would be rather silly. Which is why it wasn't the point I was making. You did an uncharitable reading of my position and then did a straw man attack. My position is that any food regulation the likes of McDonald pr
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In order for model safety regulation to be effective, you need everyone capable of producing models to sign on to that safety framework. That will never happen. As such, there is no "solution" here. The best most perfect regulatio
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The FDA regulates physical goods. They require literal factories and shipping to get these products anywhere. They can put stops on these products pretty easily. But further, pharmaceutical companies like the FDA process in general becau
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I'm sorry, but if Dario's goal was to try and get international cooperation and he recognizes that china is one of the countries that he needs cooperation with, then putting in: > My primary concern is the risk that authoritari
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I'd argue it won't even stop people in the US from using those models. Unless we are going to put up a US firewall that makes the Chinese firewall blush and mandate every data center run US compliance software, there's not w
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> What are you suggesting as an alternative? This isn't something that can be regulated. Plain and simple. If a dangerous model can exist and is being developed by a foreign adversary then no level of US law will stop said model fr
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> So, if an open weights model was found to be very dangerous, what - just too bad? Yeah, it's too bad. I've yet to see a reasonable articulation of what a "very bad and dangerous" model would do in the hands of even
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> This is an ungenerous take Why should I give a multi-billion dollar company advocating for new regulations in its industry a generous take? I'd be similarly cynical if McDonald's proposed new health and safety regulations for
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> has anyone ever made this absurd argument? Yes, anthropic just put forward this argument. It's the whole point of the article. I agree, it's absurd.
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Nah, the statement is the mechanism for a ban. The proctor will be someone anthropic trusts and "surprise" as it turns out all the open weight models fail or aren't eligible.
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> Anthropic has never advocated for a ban on open-weights models. > All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing. Yeah, this is anthropic advocating for a ban on open weight models. Who
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PFAS (which is what makes nonstick nonstick) have tentative links to several cancers [1] [1] https://dceg.cancer.gov/research/what-we-study/pfas
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I agree, but what we aren't currently really seeing (at least I've not seen it) is a heat dome killing off a herd of cattle or a crop. That's the sort of event that becomes much more likely if not inevitable as the temperatur
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You are right, it is an exaggeration. I should have said "land life" as the ocean temperature doesn't shift that much with the above ocean temps. And I'm sure there's some random bacteria and fungus that can survive
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> Remember that 1.5 degrees Celsius is a nearly end-of-the-world scenario No, it's not end of the world. 3C is where things start getting bad. 1.5C is the target for the 2015 Paris climate agreement to try and avoid hitting 2C. We
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> Pasta and other carbohydrate-rich foods are nowhere near as bad as sugar for children. Sugar is as bad as it is because it's almost instantly absorbed. Plenty of carbohydrates are the same. Fiber is what separates healthy carbs f
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This is a very weird story. Religious infighting with 2 fundamentalist sects that somehow boiled down to some people digging a tunnel connecting 2 buildings because of... reasons? Like it seems like they thought that if they built the tunn
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> It was meant to efficiently automate systems tasks. Shell was designed to launch processes easily. Unix philosophy pushed to make every function an application. And that's ultimately what shell "syntax" is. There'
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These cameras aren't just invasive, they are expensive. Cities are paying a pretty penny to access a few web cams. Last I looked it up, $2500 per year per camera in the surveillance area.
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I looked it up, you are looking at 160lbs (75kg).
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Almost certainly these companies are using similar strategies as the Chinese models which they fear will be made illegal. It's also the case that it makes it hard to attract customers if your openweight model is banned. A major reason
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> I have no idea why HN still treats them like their the ethical good guy. I don't know that HN usually does. But they did buy a decent amount of publicity by (initially) telling the US government no in using the models for war.
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All at once? Sure, no good way. But there are ways to reduce headcount without causing waves. Those include things like simply not backfilling for people that leave the company or who are fired for low performance. Letting a bunch of peopl
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Not to mention the part where it appears that the entire department decided to try and scam these parents. > Jeremy Sugarman, a medical doctor and bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University, says it’s not unusual for a family to bear the co
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The issue here is CBP was (illegally) demanding he give them his passcode (5th amendment violation). Doesn't really matter if the reboot timer is triggered if the thugs have beaten your code out of you.
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This whole thing highlights how insane US border law is. Sam was physically in the US, but because he was on an international flight, he was arrested in a manner that would be unconstitutional anywhere else in the US. He was denied a lawye
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His rights were already being violated. He was falsely arrested and denied his rights to an attorney. They can prosecute him (and probably will) but he's got a pretty strong civil rights claim against the federal government for a fals
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Yeah, I agree with this take. When there's less capital floating around it will make these labs prioritize shrinking the models so less hardware (or older hardware) is needed to run a model with the same or similar capabilities. They

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