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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I think there's no question that auditing open-source software is easier, but it can be harmful if auditing actually basically never happens yet people wrongly believe that all the open-source software they're installing must be a
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I would imagine what it means is that in practice open source just gives a false sense of security that someone must have looked at it.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I would wager a policy of only installing commercial software from well known vendors has a better success rate.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I would say that it's not just an academic argument that's being made about what is technically possible but a stronger claim about what is likely. If the claim is just you technically _could_ do it, sure, that's true by def
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I know. But the problem is that in reality the only way to get people to audit software reliably is to pay them to do it, so it's not really true as a general principle that open-source software is more thoroughly vetted.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
And how often do you do it?
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I've seen that people can get Claude and friends to say they're DeepSeek if they ask in Chinese. I think distillation is happening all the time.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
A lot of people are slow typists.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
No, I've not been "living on" such a principle but it was a big claim for "the bazaar."
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I have to say, the principle that open-source software can't do anything nefarious because the source is open just hasn't held up for a lot of reasons -- including that nobody has the time to inspect the code, let alone ensure tha
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
Yeah, it'd be easy, but the hard part is getting people to agree what the standard will be. Plus, frankly, a lot of people (myself included) who want a richer experience are pretty much just happy turning on emacs keybindings in VSCode
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
But where on the planet are you going to go and escape that?
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I'm sure they do genuinely have those problems but it's not like Western research has been free of such scandals.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
That's interesting on Deepseek. But I think as long as the models are still making noticeable gains with each iteration it's hard to say "good enough."
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
Amazon and Uber are other examples of businesses that looked like total basket cases for years. I remember reading, and at the time being persuaded by, articles arguing that Uber was doomed because there are no real economies of scale in l
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
> I think there is a real hole in the market for a simple solution that lets you deploy some containers to some instances in a declarative fashion without all of that complexity and does decent LTS versions. I imagine there’s something o
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
Everyone can decide where the line is for them, but I do feel like given the subject that's a bit of a hyperbolic repsonse.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
Yes, I'm sure in Germany nobody ever muffs an interview by offending the interviewer.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I mean, let's be real here. There is such a thing as too honest in an interview.
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
> People are consuming AI like they eat meat: some are embracing it, some are limiting their use of it, and some are avoiding it altogether. That's an interesting analogy as, despite the real ecological issues with it and principled
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by emodendroket 3mo ago
I assume it's because he is seeking to pay rent, food bills, and other expenses through employment.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
I picked the guy whose contribution was smaller on purpose to highlight the hollowness of the claim about “controlling the careers” of people who understand what’s going on.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
> As a brief aside, I am once again extremely disappointed in the myriad of Silicon Valley people who angrily argued that a Democratic led government would ‘pick winners and losers in the AI race’ are now completely silent or defending t
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Yet the guys in the lab coats worked for him.
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
OK. So? Would you say Harry Truman was a nuclear scientist?
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
> Would you rather they acted like the tobacco companies and downplayed known risks, e.g. all the times LLM output got in the news already for dangerously bad advice, sychophantic encouragement of mental health issues, finding previously
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
> Whether you agree or not, we have no reason to believe their statements about risks are insincere. I'd say their pecuniary interest is a reason one might plausibly doubt their sincerity, as are their continued efforts to build and
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
> Will we be the poorer for that, or will we be safer? I think poorer, because I hate being told what technology I can and can't use, but I'm not certain. Maybe you think the government should restrict strong LLMs. Maybe you do
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
To me the "open source" model implies something about community development and people sharing or otherwise using it. Otherwise what does it matter if it's open or closed source?
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by emodendroket 4mo ago
Yeah a striking thing if you read the Rhodes atomic bomb book is, actually the concept occurred to multiple people in multiple countries; the problem is the resources required to actually pull it off.

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