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by lores 2y ago
I would bet a fair amount that the Cabinet Office / GCHQ provide anonymisers for high-ranking public servants and orders not to use pm@gov.uk as an ID. ChatGPT takes rich text, though, which is a lot easier to de-anonymise than random
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by lores 2y ago
It does, and from what I've seen the UK public service are pretty diligent in making sure the rules are enforced... but I don't expect ministers only use recorded accounts and machines.
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by lores 2y ago
Those seem like non-idiotic, reasonable uses of ChatGPT. Reassuringly disappointing. My bigger concern is that a company like OpenAI has the resources to identify requests by bigwigs of interest, and a unique window into their head. With US
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by lores 2y ago
It's the same as bookies, right? They are often seen as predicting the odds of an event happening, but that's actually the odds they estimate so that the bets are roughly divided 50/50, to limit their exposure, which is prett
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by lores 2y ago
That's not unlike IR35 rules in the UK, where the government got sick of contractors acting as employees behind a limited company veil, paying a lot less tax overall. Companies wishing to hire contractors must absolutely not treat them
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by lores 2y ago
I hope you find peace.
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by lores 2y ago
A human being is not a car, and your reference to 'emasculation' is very worrying.
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by lores 2y ago
As far as I know, muscle is only used when fat reserves are depleted or you don't eat enough protein for the brain's personal amino acid supply. I'm not particularly knowledgeable about this, though, maybe an expert can weigh
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by lores 2y ago
That's where French law actually makes sense: after 5 years, it's your kid, even if not biologically, not a random kid. I don't think I would be chuffed, but I understand it's not the kid's fault, too, and I'm
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by lores 2y ago
I'm on them too, and after being seriously grumpy for a while it dawned on me that not being hungry doesn't mean my body doesn't need satisfying food. I think it's easy to fall into 'don't need to eat, won&#x27
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by lores 2y ago
That's the original meaning of "artificial", something that occurs through art or skill. Humans have always distinguished themselves from the rest of nature, it's part of that. It's not a useless distinction, but it
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by lores 2y ago
The drug does not directly affect muscle mass (unless you are already very lean), but heavy people are doing resistance training against their own body weight all the time, so they are strong in the absolute, even if not relatively. Weigh l
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by lores 2y ago
In most countries, including France, you are on the hook for child support if you named yourself as a parent. In France you may contest it by applying to court during the first five years, after that only a prosecutor can take the steps to
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by lores 2y ago
You're on Hacker News, therefore a rational person. Shouldn't you be forming opinions from statistics rather than extrapolating from individual cases?
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by lores 2y ago
"System owner, we need to spend $10K to sanitise requests or a kid can destroy our business overnight". "System owner, we need to spend $10K to clean up the database and code so that null and "null" are not the same
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by lores 2y ago
> $req = "insert into people (name) ('$name')"; > $db.exec($req) Now you have "null" as strings in the DB in any language that interpolates null as "null". > select * from people where name i
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by lores 2y ago
Unfortunately, the chances that DOGE's actions are about cutting unnecessary staff are vanishingly remote. They did not even have the wherewithal to check that the contracts they cancelled were for the amounts their hot take made them
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by lores 2y ago
I don't disagree... In most cases, it's not your system, though, it's someone else's.
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by lores 2y ago
You can make a good case to spend time sanitising requests to avoid catastrophic failure, but the "null" problem is one that quickly becomes a lot of work and risk to fix after the fact, for no obvious benefit except what's s
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by lores 2y ago
Any time "$var" is interpolated without check into an INSERT, and any maintainer finds it easier to just check for null as a string rather than ask a DB admin or committee to update the DB after a lot of red tape and risk assessme
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by lores 2y ago
I really struggle to think why restricting car development in light of environmental concerns would have been a bad thing. Much milder climate change? Better-designed, more pleasant cities? No leaded gasoline? Sure, economic growth would ha
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by lores 2y ago
For me the best film of recent years is Hundreds of Beavers - not because it will revolutionise cinema or human thought, but because it was clearly made by people who love what they are doing and had nothing to lose but a tiny budget, so we
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by lores 2y ago
Not only are EU and US on a similar corruption index, the EU does not have a culture of widespread, legal corruption called "lobbying".
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by lores 2y ago
You're moving the goalposts to leave your internal narrative unchanged. Look, I've worked for huge corps and for the government. There's no particular difference in efficiency between the two; efficiency goes down with scale
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by lores 2y ago
"To save the village, we had to destroy it" comes to mind. Except the nuking irradiated the whole country, too.
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by lores 2y ago
Yep. Sulla didn't come out of nowhere, marching on Rome was only possible because the Senate had been corrupt for a long time, and institutions had already started decaying - but it was the arson that put an end to any hope of restorin
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by lores 2y ago
Why this isn't front-page news in every Western country is the press' failure to understand technical matters, or perhaps the public's utter disinterest in unglamorous infrastructure. This is the US' own Sulla moment, an
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by lores 2y ago
It's not just AI/AGI, it's its mixing with the current climate of unlimited greed, disappearance of even the pretense of a social contract, and the vast surveillance powers available. Technological dictatorship, that's w
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by lores 2y ago
It strikes me there's no particular reason a modern Nazi should hate Jews when there are plenty of other groups to be scapegoated, like immigrants or liberals. There was historical prejudice against Jews then, there is against others n
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by lores 2y ago
Yes... Both would be terrorists if that's the appropriate word, it would just take a bit longer for people to call Pichai that because he hasn't defined his public image to be "Nazi edgelord" and minds need to adjust.

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