johndhi

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by johndhi 5mo ago
This is such a dumb topic to me - and I work closely to this issue. The blog post talks about criminal surveillance and gag order possibilities - but has no examples of these being meaningfully applied. Eu govt also spies on citizens. Obvio
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by johndhi 5mo ago
Huge fan as a kid and enjoyed even the disc world computer game. But when I pick it up now I find the writing too ponderous to enjoy.
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by johndhi 5mo ago
20% is a crazy number. This is scary, as someone who works in this industry.
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by johndhi 5mo ago
why? I'm interested to know, WHY is PC so open? what led to that?
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by johndhi 5mo ago
I guess I'm the lone person who likes Sacks here. I do think it's probably true that his influence flagged after Mythos. But he'd already been moved to the science board when that dropped. It's very over stated and looki
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by johndhi 5mo ago
Hell yeah. Observation: people act like this challenge is unique to the young generation, but it certainly affected me (millennial). It was a long, scary process of getting comfortable talking to people. It's still hard! And I have to
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by johndhi 6mo ago
Possible that there aren't measures that will actually achieve long-term safety while maintaining a highly popular platform?
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by johndhi 6mo ago
Another way to phrase this might be that LLMs make better resumes no?
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by johndhi 6mo ago
yes, this!
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by johndhi 6mo ago
Do they train Gemini other people use based on this or just generate images for me?
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by johndhi 7mo ago
The article posits that sycophancy is inherent to how models are trained. I think there's a simpler explanation. Every leaked system prompt from every model pretty much includes instructions to "be helpful," and the models ar
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by johndhi 7mo ago
sorry for disagreeing with everything on social media, but... in my experience it's actually a bad thing for industry to add very specific requirements for them to follow
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by johndhi 7mo ago
Gates has pledged 200 billion - 99 pct of his wealth - and has already given 60 billion (close to half of it). Is that generous or not?
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by johndhi 7mo ago
Excess greed is a different thing than excess wealth. Bill gates is giving away all of that wealth - is that a greedy action?
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by johndhi 7mo ago
The govt can't spend money well
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by johndhi 8mo ago
Yes! I want this so bad. But for the weather or my calendar for the day.
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by johndhi 8mo ago
Where do you guys come up with these ideas? Simply having a lot of money makes someone evil? Why? They are obviously all quite competitive in business but the philanthropy they've done is pretty crazy. Gates for example is giving away
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by johndhi 8mo ago
It's way less your choice what happens with a photo of your face in pretty much every other situation. When your face is on your LinkedIn profile, anyone can download it and do whatever they want with it. Legally. Here, the vendor has
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by johndhi 8mo ago
Er wait is retinal cancer a thing?
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by johndhi 8mo ago
love it - is this a thing that's mostly used in government contracting, or do people encounter SBOM stuff more broadly than that?
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by johndhi 8mo ago
I could be wrong and would be happy to be so but it seems like this to me: If someone did a few months of house arrest for "pleading guilty to solicitation of prostitution involving a minor" it would be incredibly easy for that pe
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by johndhi 8mo ago
that's a grand jury charge, not what he actually pled to, right?
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by johndhi 8mo ago
good call! hadn't read that.
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by johndhi 8mo ago
he was convicted of soliciting prostitution (not of minors), right? why do we assume that the people he was hanging out with knew the details of what he did wrong?
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by johndhi 9mo ago
But can't computers play several hundred thousand poker hands easily in a couple of hours ?
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by johndhi 9mo ago
There are a lot of tools to address the problem that some people have bad intentions. We publish common sense laws, and we have police officers and prosecutors, and then we have a court system to hold people accountable for breaking the law
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by johndhi 9mo ago
Sorry to be this person, but I don't really agree with the first sentence: --> "Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life." People are the backbone of our civili
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by johndhi 9mo ago
as a lawyer, I'll just note that the legal system has standards for this. specifically, you can't delete stuff that poses legal risks to you once you reasonably expect a lawsuit about it. but you can delete it as part of normal bu
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by johndhi 10mo ago
This is fun though I sort of wonder if it's attacking a straw man. Are there any reconstruction folks who defend these?
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by johndhi 10mo ago
Makes sense. This is basically how skilled painters of miniatures (Warhammer) do it.

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