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by intended 6mo ago
Trust and safety doesn’t have the same maturity as cyber security. Things like trend and signal sharing between tech firms doesn’t exist, except through informal slack channels and WhatsApp groups. The first major safety conferences for tru
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by intended 6mo ago
Eh - conspiracy territory. There’s been a massive evolution in phishing and spams with LLMs. > Evaluating Large Language Models' Capability to Launch Fully Automated Spear Phishing Campaigns: Validated on Human Subjects > https:
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by intended 6mo ago
I have no issue with firms making money, and I am sympathetic to the people who work on these problems. Not for one second, am I sympathetic to the firm, because it is simply a business acting on its incentives to minimize costs and maximiz
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by intended 6mo ago
HN is NOT part of the “masses” in the sense “masses” is being used here. A difference is being drawn between HN users who are interested in tech, and the everyone else. Most of humanity has little interest in Tech, and would rather spend th
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by intended 6mo ago
> but I am saying it's not a problem that has caused any problems with any Android user I've ever met. You are an HN user of some age. You might even be the family IT person. You may well be changing the experience of people in
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by intended 6mo ago
I agree with the direction, but not the blind spot. Your audience is going to shut you out if you don’t show you understand their reality. I reach out to people, and every tech and media person I know, is holding sessions on government over
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by intended 6mo ago
No. VR is not going to be huge, and it misses the entire point of tech. Think of something like a Bloomberg terminal. Ugly as sin, and incomprehensible to any one who hasn’t practiced using it. It also gets work done faster, and has a keybo
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by intended 6mo ago
I too, like my meat and not the killing that it requires. One day, someone will have to face the reckoning of our preferences vs our values. May I be the one with the courage to meet it; failing which, not be standing around when the bill i
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by intended 6mo ago
> the internet experience for a majority of the population > Just run an ad blocker, This reads as "I am fine, so you should be fine". The median internet user has a phone so chock full of cancerous malware. And if a tool ge
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by intended 6mo ago
I used to deal with what you call human slop, and had many ways to identify and curtail it. However, with AI slop, I can’t distinguish between assisted posts, thoughtful posts, human posts, effort posts, or crap posts. The direction matters
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by intended 6mo ago
Good idea, but models are only going to get cheaper. Unless governments add an information environment pollution tax. Oh hey, now thats an idea.
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by intended 6mo ago
Just because we get new norms, doesn’t mean the new norms are good. Feudalism had norms. AI is ending an era of large public communities which will likely never come again.
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by intended 6mo ago
The issue is that the physical world for someone in the hinterlands of Tibet is not the same as the physical world for someone in SF. People were finding each other online when they couldn’t in person. This isn’t to say I disagree with you.
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by intended 6mo ago
That two-party universe thing comes from the issue of having to moderate, and moderation is ideological by nature.
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by intended 6mo ago
Underrated take. Yeah, the “blast radius” for social media AI slop is 80%-99% of humanity. There’s many times even I cannot make out if something is slop. Hell, AI slop is going to be even better than reality for a portion of humanity, so i
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by intended 6mo ago
> was Yep. Was. This isn’t the internet you grow up on. This is an internet scoped for bots and organizations.
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by intended 6mo ago
I suspect that the HN crowd is somehow insulated from the river of crap and fraud that is the internet experience for a majority of the population.
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by intended 6mo ago
> Various protectionist self-serving policies are part of what made japan a threathening rapidly growing economic power untill the US and Europe strongarmed it with....protectionist policy. It's also what made China the power it is
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by intended 6mo ago
> At the same time the "middle class" purchasing power when it comes to important thing isn't that far off from that of the lower class of the past. yes they can buy big flat screen tv's for cheap now but more import
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by intended 6mo ago
> I don't want an even playing field. I want my country to have the advantage. Why the whole country? Are all your countrymen equally deserving? Do all of them work as hard, care the same, and give back to their nation the same? I t
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by intended 6mo ago
First off, I get the nationalist instinct. I don’t think it’s bad per se. However, it’s nearly the same global economy. At some point those issues in faraway places are the foreign policy issues in your localities. This is not a defense or
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by intended 6mo ago
> Because for a lot of things it works. Today. I have a setup > There needs to be a rigorous process behind it, and I think we'll agree on that too. I would simplify it to: “I have a setup” is the part that is doing the actual he
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by intended 6mo ago
Nope. Customer support and safety are cost centers. It doesn’t scale like software does and no one’s KPIs are going to improve dramatically if you provide support beyond a point. AI and LLMs are the cool tech, and the most important thing i
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by intended 6mo ago
> and you won't get human support or Claude – even if you are an enterprise paying out of your nose. And there's 0 redressal unless you go viral on social media. Sadly this sounds like par for the course when it comes to tech.
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by intended 6mo ago
> Liability, penalties, trust, and responsibility are means we use to try to influence the application of the processes that do. They do not directly affect reliability. They can be applied just as much to a team using AI as one that doe
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by intended 6mo ago
Thank you for sharing any info at all. > to be fair, everyone on my team has decade+ professional experience (many more non-prodessional), and we understand limitations of AI fairly well. I see this appear quite often in discussions on p
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by intended 6mo ago
The poster provided numbers and thresholds they used to evaluate the utility of a business product. With infinite time anything is possible, but since we live within constraints, discussing practical, real world thresholds or evaluation met
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by intended 6mo ago
We resolve that through liability, penalties, trust, responsibility, review and oversight. At the end of the day, if I am spending X$s for automation, I want to be able to sleep at night knowing my factory will not build a WMD or delete its
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by intended 6mo ago
> has a pretty high chance of working. for MVPs, mock ups, prototypes or in the hands of an expert coder. You can't let them go unsupervised. The promise of automated intelligence falls far short of the reality.
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by intended 6mo ago
Ok. So is that you are saying that the quoted section is setting up a situation where the firm has to prove a negative?

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