mossTechnician

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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
Partway through this article, Winbuzzer asks me to "Install Winbuzzer Prompt Station." I don't think this is a legitimate source. It looks like most of the article is a rehash of this Windows Central article from a day earlie
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
I believe Microsoft can skate for a long time with just bug fixes and security updates. It makes the drop in Windows' quality all the more baffling.
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
You're entirely right, but they need to maintain Windows in order to promote those services. The OS and their various applications have a symbiotic relationship where they prioritize each other. If Microsoft discontinued Windows and
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
GitHub copilot was released in 2021, and Cursor was released around October 2023[0]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37888477
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
Crucially, the headline says Microsoft will provide the key if asked by the FBI , which implies a state entity with legal power that extends beyond a typical person's assumptions of "rule of law" and "due process,"
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
> we're adding browser-level guardrails (think IAM for agents) This sounds interesting, but where would I go to see these guardrails and their implementation? I tried searching in the repository and couldn't find them.
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
Energy costs have already risen substantially[0], but the increase has been slower, and it's garnered a bit less media attention than the recent leap in PC hardware prices. [0]: https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
I agree with you in spirit, but I find it hard to explain that distinction. What's the difference between mass web scraping and an automated tool using this agent? The biggest differences I assume would be scope and intent... But becau
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
PauseAI's official proposal recommends[0]: "Only allow deployment of models after no dangerous capabilities are present." Their list of dangerous capabilities[1] does not include deepfakes, but it does include several unreali
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
Why would you rather it not exist? In a vacuum, I agree with you that there's probably no harm in AI-generated nudes of fictional women per se; it's the rampant use to sexually harass real women and children[0], while "causin
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
If it makes sense to handle all of these issues, then couldn't these organizations just acknowledge all of these issues? If reducing harm is the goal, I don't see a reason to totally segregate different issues, especially not by d
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
"AI safety" groups are part of what's described here: you might assume from the general "safety" label that organizations like PauseAI or ControlAI would focus things like data center pollution, the generation of se
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
I read the Dilbert Principle when I was young, but still old enough to appreciate a lot of its humor. Later, when I discovered Scott was online and had a blog, I couldn't believe it was the same person. To me, the Scott Adams of comic
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
About half a year ago, I ran into an instance of a user who requested more openness[0] regarding the sources Kagi used - initially there was a list that was available, and then it was removed. I know it's not exactly the same, and it&#
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
> if you close a youtube browser tab with a comment half written it will pop up an `alert("You will lose your comment if you close this window")`. It does this if the comment is a 2 page essay or "asdfasdf". Ideally t
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
It could be really beneficial for Anthropic to showcase how they use their own product; since they're developers already, they're probably dogfooding their product, and the effort required should be minimal. - A lot of skeptics ha
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Dell admits consumers don't care about AI PCs(pcgamer.com)
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by mossTechnician 9mo ago
I don't think they'll be able to sell at a loss, because they are effectively selling desktop computers, not dedicated game consoles. It would be easy for a company to flash Windows onto them and deploy them in an office space, fo
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
ChatGPT sort of fits the friend analogy. It's been marketed as an expert and a sort of companion. If a real-life person with the level of authority and repute of ChatGPT was caught encouraging minors to commit suicide and engage in oth
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
Altman estimated that approximately 1,500 people per week discuss suicide with ChatGPT before going on to kill themselves. The company acknowledged it had been tracking users’ “attachment issues” for over a year. I didn't realize Al
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
METR has some substantial AI industry ties, so I wonder if those clarifications (especially the one pointing at their own studies describing AI progress) are a way to mitigate concerns that industry would have with the apparent results of t
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
My first thought was the Protestant work ethic - a very American phenomenon
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
That's a slightly different question, but an important one: the presence of a group criticizing a feature doesn't mean the absence of a different group requesting it! When Mozilla initially made the Connect forums, it was to soli
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman once boasted that the company hadn’t "put a sexbot avatar in ChatGPT yet." Two months later, they did[0]. Interpreting the Mozilla CEO the same way may not be charitable, but it is certainly familiar. [0]: h
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
We know for a fact that whenever Mozilla solicits feedback for AI additions, it heavily leans negative. https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/building-ai-the-f...
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
"Trust" is just community goodwill, and Mozilla has steadily been chipping away at that goodwill by pivoting to AI and ad businesses, and occasionally implying that it's the community that wants things like AI, and it's
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
Windows virtual machines are much slower than bare hardware, especially for things GP mentioned like games. I have also found Linux lags behind in many areas that matter to me in functionality, performance (even compared to Windows 11) and
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
Additional information about Forbes' downward trajectory: https://larslofgren.com/forbes-marketplace/
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
Since AI companies haven't been able to lock down customers (if one company raises their prices, users can just switch to another), maybe the next tactic is to lock down intellectual property. Reddit already chose OpenAI; now Disney is
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by mossTechnician 10mo ago
I've seen AI image generation models described as being able to combine multiple subjects into a novel (or novel enough) output e.g. "pineapple" and "skateboarding" becomes an image of a skateboarding pineapple. It

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