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by fnimick 3y ago
That's something this community celebrates. Look at how much Uber and AirBNB are touted as success stories when really they were illegal enterprises allowing individuals to violate the law (taxi licenses, rental laws) for profit.
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by fnimick 3y ago
> Gig work seems like socialized slavery to me. You're not wrong, it's the logical next step for capitalism. "Again we have diluted ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew and prospered out of the protestant
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by fnimick 3y ago
I'm not sure "enabling easier abuse of power will likely have bad consequences for populations of people who are already targeted for abuse by people in power" is moving the goalposts.
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by fnimick 3y ago
And by the law, Uber should be illegal. That they broke the law and got popular enough to apply political pressure does not mean that they were not technically illegal the entire time. There's no contradiction here. If certain applicat
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by fnimick 3y ago
I'm not the one who brought race into it, I'm pointing out that it should be banned for everyone. Nobody here is saying "we should ban facial recognition only on minorities", they are pointing out that it can and is like
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by fnimick 3y ago
Maybe we shouldn't be encouraging "innovation" if it's at the expense of other people?
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by fnimick 3y ago
> It would also be trivial to pore through those videos and just pick out the ones where the human has dark skin if I'm a racist landlord. Yes, but you can't do it at scale. Automation via facial recognition makes it cheap. Tha
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by fnimick 3y ago
As it should be. Companies that abuse the public trust _should_ be regulated harshly.
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by fnimick 3y ago
Right, all you have to do is totally opt out of any modern society - no email, no phones, no internet, no media, no healthcare. It's easy!
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Musk threatens to reassign NPR Twitter account if it won’t start tweeting again(arstechnica.com)
12 points by fnimick 3y ago|2 comments
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by fnimick 3y ago
Who needs LLM-accelerated coding for that? Leetcode was already comically unrealistic as an evaluation of actual engineering skill. When's the last time you had to solve an algorithm puzzle without any ability to do research or check r
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by fnimick 3y ago
> The pressure for teenagers to fill their time with activities is very high. The parents feel to perform / get into whatever good college / do well in life, they need to have their time spoken for by a large number of activiti
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by fnimick 4y ago
> the tools to detect will be exactly as good [citation needed]
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by fnimick 4y ago
They're also encouraged to by most everyone they speak with. Founders, investors, pretty much everyone "successful" in the industry wants to promote this so that they can get cheap labor for their next spin at the merry-go-ro
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by fnimick 4y ago
It was absolutely intentional, because "glorified autocomplete" doesn't make waves while "artificial intelligence" gets tons of traction, usage, and money.
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by fnimick 4y ago
People who want to "burn the whole system down" rarely have any empathy for those who will get burned along with it. What about all the women, minorities, LGBTQ people, poor people, etc. who would suffer along the way? Shame on yo
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by fnimick 4y ago
Important part of the article copied here, because potential paywall: > One night last week, the law professor Jonathan Turley got a troubling email. As part of a research study, a fellow lawyer in California had asked the AI chatbot Cha
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ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real prof as accused(washingtonpost.com)
117 points by fnimick 4y ago|111 comments
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by fnimick 4y ago
> a significant portion of any urban population simply cannot ride a bike How so? People who are physically unable to are a vanishingly small number - maybe single-digit percentages.
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by fnimick 4y ago
> Hungry people are angry people and the moment there is a lot of hungry, angry people, being top 10% is unlikely to keep you or your wealth safe. Not if you have AI-powered autonomous "law" enforcement to gun them all down whe
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by fnimick 4y ago
The real question in my mind is, does democracy survive once the top 1% has a complete and unquestioned monopoly on violence and power? I don't think so.
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by fnimick 4y ago
Aren't you excited to take the human element out of the loop of enforcing property ownership rights? In China, in Tianenmen, they had to bring in forces from the countryside because the city police wouldn't fire on their neighbors
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by fnimick 4y ago
No, I'm not. I'm not even in the top 10%. Also, we can be concerned for people less fortunate than us. "You're probably wealthy so why do you care" is such a stupid argument.
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by fnimick 4y ago
You can't be serious. The vast majority of the "means of production" are owned by the top 1-5% of the country. Sure, I have a 401k, I have 0.000001% of Amazon, that doesn't make me an owner.
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by fnimick 4y ago
Who's making the choice though? There's no one person or even one group of people in charge, short of political regulation. If AI is less expensive than humans, then anyone who doesn't use AI will get outcompeted by those who
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by fnimick 4y ago
Based on my experience, some developers might be, but executives are not. And the higher up you go in an org, the more obvious it is that "changing the world for the better" is promoted by the organization specifically to attract
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by fnimick 4y ago
I suspect you'll never be able to compete, is the problem. You might not be a profit maximizer, but everyone you interact with is a cost minimizer, and ethical solutions will inevitably be more expensive. This is not to rain on your pa
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by fnimick 4y ago
It's for content analytics, and I assume it's to make sure that changes to the platform can't be argued to bias one party over another.
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by fnimick 4y ago
It's oddly fitting that your example workflow appears to be scraping content from elsewhere, rewording it, and generating an image in order to produce automated blogspam.
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by fnimick 4y ago
Owning production buys you a lot of weapons with which you can enforce your property ownership on others. Not if, but when, we get around to AI law enforcement with lethal weapons, it's over. There's no going back from that.

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