jmcgough

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by jmcgough 9mo ago
Tobacco paid billions of dollars, and we've heavily restricted where it can be used, where it can be advertised, and who can buy it.
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by jmcgough 9mo ago
Having an issue with users uploading CSAM (a problem for every platform) is very different from giving them a tool to quickly and easily generate CSAM, with apparently little-to-no effort to prevent this from happening.
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by jmcgough 9mo ago
Many? Look generations after wars and economic depressions.
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by jmcgough 9mo ago
I think we all knew this would happen quickly. Clearly there's a demand for personal AI agents - does anyone have thoughts on what it would take to make a more secure one? Would current services like email need to be redesigned to acco
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by jmcgough 9mo ago
You might be okaying actions hundreds or thousands of times before you encounter an injection attack, at which point you probably aren't reading things before you approve.
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by jmcgough 9mo ago
> No matter what we do, the coming wars will be horrific. Billions will die. But that’s what is beautiful; diversity is messy. On a cosmic scale, this period is just a blip, it isn’t what matters. Does anyone know what geohot is talking
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by jmcgough 9mo ago
Worse, people have a limit to how many cheeseburgers they can eat at once. You can spend all day on your phone.
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by jmcgough 10mo ago
Every time we think Lamarckism is finally dead, we get stuff like the article.
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by jmcgough 11mo ago
Varies depending on the field and company. Sounds like you may be speaking from your own experiences? In medicine, we're already seeing productivity gains from AI charting leading to an expectation that providers will see more patients
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by jmcgough 11mo ago
Stock was flat, but revenue more than tripled from $25B to $78B. MSFT is a dividend stock.
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by jmcgough 11mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots If you read through that list and dismiss it as people who were already mentally ill or more susceptible to this... that's what Dr. K (psychiatrist) assumed
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by jmcgough 11mo ago
There were a lot of that type who were upset when chatGPT was changed to be less personable and sycophantic. Like, openly grieving upset.
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by jmcgough 11mo ago
Most people who develop AI psychosis have a period of healthy use beforehand. It becomes very dangerous when a person decreases their time with their real friends to spend more time with the chatbot, as you have no one to keep you in check
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by jmcgough 11mo ago
Tim Cook at Apple was like Steve Ballmer at Microsoft. They scaled the company and made stock owners happy, but weren't true visionaries. I suppose there's a need for both types of leaders.
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by jmcgough 11mo ago
Still much more accurate than some other books like Console Wars.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
Kids aren't the ones spending $12k on rare skins, they're buying keys to open lootboxes.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
The guidance counselor does not have the training or time to "fix" the trauma you just gave this kid and his friends. Insane to put minors through this.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
The people building these things are good friends with the bullies and scammers now.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
Related, but not the reason for it. DHH has been posting increasingly racist blogs.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
It's hard to know for sure, but many people are reporting that rules are being enforced unequally to silence news critical of the current administration.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
NYC has roughly the same stats - 40% of the residents there are foreign-born. This is more to do with low birth rates by natives, so population growth in NYC and London is entirely driven by immigration. The biggest problem is that it'
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by jmcgough 1y ago
The brain-blood barrier typically only allows small, non-polar molecules to pass through into the brain, which complicates a lot of neuro/psych treatments.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
> Scientists need better messaging or else we're going to stop having breakthroughs like this Sure, but it's really sad that scientists need to justify their funding to the public - they already spend so much time justifying it
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by jmcgough 1y ago
Basically every Western major city is becoming like this.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
Fascinating that all of his examples of free speech seem to involve white nationalists.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
The ruby community has been putting up with DHH's behavior for 20 years [1]. He's just become worse and more of an outspoken bigot lately. [1] https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/dhh-says-f-you/57797
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by jmcgough 1y ago
I really like that my job has me working with lots of different people from lots of walks of life, and we are too busy saving lives to think too much about politics. However, if I found out that one of the physicians I work with doesn'
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by jmcgough 1y ago
Nah, DHH has too much power and authority to be "cancelled". One person pulled his donations - a very generous continuous gift - because he didn't want to fund Ruby Central if they continued to platform bigotry. Ruby Central
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by jmcgough 1y ago
If you have an issue with how he donates his money, you are welcome to donate $250k/year in his place.
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by jmcgough 1y ago
> I don’t really care if you, or others feel I should exist or not. Or whether they think I should or shouldn’t have rights Yes, but you don't really need to worry, because those things aren't a real threat to you. Imagine if y

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