intended

13 ms·

211.
by intended 4mo ago
That distracts from the point in favor of what, in this context, is a detail. There are always incidents in all democracies with millions of people, that contravene the expectations of rule of law and integrity of its systems. The US has de
212.
by intended 4mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573332 Was discussed just recently, and there are multiple articles and surveys on AI sentiment.
213.
by intended 4mo ago
The long term goal of LLMs is to automate most white collar work, so wasn’t that a risk you faced anyway? Like Amazon basics, which took all the easy to replicate goods they saw on their marketplace.
214.
by intended 4mo ago
If I am reading you correctly, that ends in testing, or essentially doing science. That wouldn't satisfy the requirement to look at a claim and be able to tell if a claim was uncertainm roughly speaking.
215.
by intended 4mo ago
This would break reality. There’s some underlying physical law that prevents the existence of any algorithm of truth.
216.
by intended 4mo ago
> Even if the Finns don't need it, research suggests it makes a positive difference. Prof Susan Hallam from the Institute of Education says there is "hard evidence" that homework really does improve how well pupils achieve
217.
by intended 4mo ago
No? https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt... https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01947-1 https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content
218.
by intended 4mo ago
https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt... There’s another study by MSFT on a similar topic, and yesterday there was an article from Nature shared here on HN.
219.
by intended 4mo ago
> we could reasonably categorize engagement algorithms with certain properties as harmful to people and not subject to first amendment protections This is a hope, however I have not seen any effort that wasn't scuppered, until recen
220.
by intended 4mo ago
I am conflicted. On the one hand getting governments to wade into what is fair speech is absolutely a slippery slope. Yet, platform firms are not correctly incenvitived arbiters of speech either. Square this circle: 1) Big Social Media firm
221.
by intended 4mo ago
Seeing that he influenced the creation of the GDPR, the general sense of hopelessness in the rest of the populace, and the failure of the governing body to do it’s jobs - I suppose he is the only person who would be taking people to account
222.
by intended 4mo ago
Defending the value of these tools is perfectly fine, and well espoused here on HN. The fact that the average person deals with the harm and exhaust of these tools is a related but separate issue. That cost isn't the foremost issue whe
223.
by intended 4mo ago
The issue is, that most people outside of tech, don't want that. They would be happy to have the models just go away entirely.
224.
by intended 4mo ago
Overly dramatic? I personally don’t quite find my day to be equanimous when I see pictures of gore, and this is after having to moderate gore and NSFW content. I still have pretty clear recall of the dead baby images, or the people dying vi
225.
by intended 4mo ago
Apply the prompt in image gen . the gore version has been patched out.
226.
by intended 4mo ago
Also translates as “this is going to be enshittified and make your life worse eventually.” Whatever reasons there were to be excited about tech have been subsumed by the things to be worried about.
227.
by intended 4mo ago
How much real productivity gains do you think people saw. I know that lines of codes and PRs go up, but how much of that actually moves the needle forward?
228.
by intended 4mo ago
Yes - how exactly are you going to conjure new data to increase the model’s real world fidelity? The most common sense way will always need to have humans in the loop, because humans are being used as judges. If you try and entertain the id
229.
by intended 4mo ago
The American tech video is still surprising me.
230.
by intended 4mo ago
God that sent me on a hunt to find that video. I did rediscover this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmS9vcVNr5A&t=94s
231.
by intended 4mo ago
Oof, the section on the founders fund mafia video pointed out things I hadn’t realized about the degree of planning behind it.
232.
by intended 4mo ago
Cyber security has the maturity that trust and safety hopes to achieve at some point. Social media was being exploited from inception. Palantir had sales documents for sock puppet management software back in the PHP era. I don’t disagree th
233.
by intended 4mo ago
Safety is a cost center, the internal team who sends you the bills when you move fast and break things. I always thought safety was interesting in and of itself, but for some reason HN doesn’t have many people from the safety side of tech i
234.
by intended 4mo ago
HN is the builder side of the conversation, and in my experience, few safety people congregate here. The safety side of tech is a PTSD inducing shit show. Governments are more than happy to champion age verification laws, because parents, a
235.
by intended 4mo ago
But Nerd-dom was always merged with fantasy and sci-fi? Star Trek, Star Wars, Dune, LOTR, Asimov, Clarke, Hobbes, are all nerd-dom mainstays, like D&D.
236.
by intended 4mo ago
I understand finance well enough to discuss money. I read the first half of PG’s essay and was left wondering if I should read the whole thing, just in case there was something in half 2 that redeemed half 1. Most startups fail! Ignoring th
237.
by intended 4mo ago
You can continue to show strength of character, that isn’t something that stops. Things are measurably darker. Hell, we went from “do no evil” being a motto for Google to being removed entirely. Early Tech had a genuine claim on trying to b
238.
by intended 4mo ago
From what I recall, there will be no easy energy once our civ dies out. Whichever civilization rises after us, it will face a limit to what heights it can reach.
239.
by intended 4mo ago
I remember a ted talk about climate change denial, and the speaker humanized the other parties beautifully. On engaging with deniers, he realized that denial was the only rational choice those people had. Climate change meant that their way
240.
by intended 4mo ago
The voting populations of the world, are opposed by experts of every stripe, whose job it is to figure out how to persuade or confuse them on critical issues. Journalism has been decimated with advertising dollars moving to Google and Meta.

More ›