daveshistory

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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Most computer users have very few real demands to make and it suffices.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Perhaps Gemini's been training on sources too young to listen to Radiohead.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Honestly, I didn't tell it to add that gun to the picture, it did that on its own!
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
That's a fair point.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Well, it's okay for them.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
I don't know why you'd read literally the last 25 years of leaks from mass surveillance programs and think for one moment that they've just, gosh, overlooked the opportunities.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
After 30 days and before the heat-death of the universe?
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
I saw a Discman in a museum a few years ago. A Discman. They couldn't even use a Walkman.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
I go back and forth on it a lot myself; and it's not just in the office context. Grandkid's sports club had an AI-made song about the group at Christmas. It was "good enough" for that. Did they steal the job of a local b
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
I think technically it's referring to the advice, which is in the singular. "These AIs are usually right about things I don't know anything about" sounds like the textbook example of risky thinking though.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
I would imagine it is like transcribing, an industry I was in for a little bit when I was younger. I saw the same transition there and imagine it will be elsewhere. First it's a bunch of people saying "AI can't take our jobs,
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
I raised my kids with physical books. But when I was growing up we had a record turntable, and then a tape player, and I do remember having some kind of physical connection with my favorite music because of that. It IS more inconvenient to
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Pretty much. The most depressing thing about the bland slop produced by LLMs is realizing that this is what they "think" of us.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Where do you think the LLMs learned it from...
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
That's exactly how I feel although I do wonder if a lot of younger people, if any still become readers, will just a different, less physical relationship with their books than I do or you do. It's probably a bad example but I don&
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
If all else fails resort to old-fashioned letter. As long as it's certified you will have proof of delivery. And then, if they continue to make unauthorized charges, it is your credit card company's problem. They are awake during
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Certified mail? I know it's old-fashioned but then you could hold their feet to the fire if they kept charging you.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
They may. I think the point was not that they were intentionally making a dangerous product, more that "Look how dangerous our model is according to some of our tests!" works as a kind of guerrilla marketing. (Not sure that is the
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Hardly a new hypothetical scenario, that Wargames movie is probably 40 years old now.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Many companies would say that's the best kind of risk-reward balance. For them, anyway.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Companies of all sizes should have insurance to cover such scenarios. You need to get tradesman's insurance on your repair work, or you need to ask yourself why the insurance companies won't insure you.
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
And then there's a whole truckload of case law about liability that comes into play. We haven't yet written those laws for "AI."
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
It's Shrek logic. "Some of you are going to die, and that is a sacrifice I am willing to make."
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
You're asking that question in 2026?
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Not wrong, that format requires a regular parade of guests with some kind of subject matter expertise, and if it's a military or national security topic, most of those subject matter experts are inevitably from a military or at least m
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Don't know if it's just my settings (spoiler: I read the Guardian) or it's by tracking IP addresses, but at least for me, when I go to the Guardian, it defaults me to a US-specific home page. I assume British people see a dif
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Well sure, of course they should. I'm just telling you how it is. All anecdotal, but in my experience, if you ask a liberal or progressive American for a foreign newspaper they sometimes read, at least four times in five, they will tel
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
I sort of disagree with this. I bet if you asked liberals and progressives in a country like America for a foreign newspaper they read -- if they do read one -- in most cases it is probably the Guardian. So it may be only the best of a bad
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
They are anticipating a flood of complaints from various well-connected groups and individuals that it's an unfair hit piece. They want to be able to point to all the "Hey, we didn't say this ACTUALLY MATTERED" disclaime
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by daveshistory 4mo ago
Yeah, mine was about the social meaning of distances when speaking to people (not exactly my specialty!).

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