contagiousflow

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by contagiousflow 4mo ago
> what processes do you have set up to backstop automated decisionmaking? The companies releasing these models actively encourage the act of automated decision making by them. The entire value proposition is the automation of decisions a
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by contagiousflow 4mo ago
See: when they banned guns because of the black panthers.
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by contagiousflow 4mo ago
Correct. They will never not have a social bias. Which leads to the question of, who controls these tools, and what biases are they okay/not okay with specifically training for. Currently they can be seen more as a reflection of broade
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by contagiousflow 4mo ago
> You might be able to be maximally productive some times of the year, but usually you were waiting on Mother Nature to do her thing. I don't know what that means. When did we have to stop waiting for crops to grow? The only thing t
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by contagiousflow 4mo ago
Yeah, that's one specialized piece of automation in a long line of automation throughout history. I'm not sure why taking humans off of the assembly line is a larger deal than taking humans out of agriculture, textile production,
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by contagiousflow 4mo ago
> ~50 years ago is when automation started to become more than a curiosity in industry Where did you get that idea from?
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
Except with the advent of LLMs, scams can run at an unprecedented rate.
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
US: Threatens own democracy, invades other nations, threatens sovereignty of long standing allies. EU: Slowly makes laws with consideration of how much power the largest companies have over consumers. Surely you can tell the difference betw
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
Can you think of a good way to encode intent into a system?
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
In this race to the bottom, how is quality compared between vendors by consumers? What are the market forces that will cause thousands of virtual vet vendors that give incorrect information, to beat out the vendors that provide quality work
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
Can you explain the differences between using AI "properly" and "improperly" for learning?
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
What makes you think that LLM vet companies wouldn't bend to the same forces of "over charging"
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
> is the same nowadays When did that change?
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
> this just ends up with Toronto and Montréal (and to a more limited extent, Vancouver) So, where most Canadians live?
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by contagiousflow 5mo ago
Why would you want that?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
So I asked for examples because there is a large difference between "We used to hold parents liable" meaning "we used to, socially, hold parents accountable for raising well adjusted humans" (which I would mostly disagre
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
Oh man where I'm from they'd probably just laugh and put them to bed. jkjk To be honest I did some brief searching and couldn't find anything! The parent will be liable if someone at your home drinks and drives home drunk, bu
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
Correct me if the US is different, but in the country I live in the onus is on the bar or liquor store if they sell alcohol to a child, not on the parent. Why would it be different for a social media ban?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
I don't really see how that is relevant? Isn't that law making a parent responsible for actions their child commits that hurt others? Child protection laws like preventing child labour, not selling alcohol/cigarettes, etc are
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
Can you give an example for this?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
Give "correlation between immigration and crime" one search. Or don't and just continue to hit on your bigoted dogwhistles
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
> Stopping crime is a horrible business model You've obviously not read the 13th amendment...
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
If you take a look externally to other countries and cities, do you attribute their relative safety to good policing?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
So why would Apples AI features change their minds on either of those points?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
Why do you think "creatives" have a "seething hatred of AI"?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
Where are these "things" you're speaking of? Which governments are deep into leftist ideology right now?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
> I remember hearing the phrase "that's not an EFF issue" spoken much more frequently in the earlier part of my time at the organization. I'm not saying that isn't a valid critique, but from 2001 to 2019 so much
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
I can't believe such a nonpolitical organization would do this!!! Come on, you either have to be lying or you were never paying attention. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/activists-sue-san-francis... http
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
You think the EFF was not political before 2024?
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by contagiousflow 6mo ago
Why would they return "better" results?

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