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by noirbot 2y ago
I mean, I'm just guessing, but AUS becomes one of the busiest airports for non-commercial planes this weekend every year. Even an old Cessna is literally a private jet, and they clearly weren't listing to ATC, so it's either
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by noirbot 2y ago
It's F1 weekend in Austin, so I'd assume that's part of the reason someone may think they don't need to care where they fly their private jet.
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by noirbot 2y ago
The other thing I've noticed is that, as expected, they're stateless to some degree, so while they have some overall outline of points to hit, they'll often repeat some peripheral element they already talked about just a minu
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by noirbot 2y ago
I do think there's also just a sort of natural goal-post moving when you're talking about something that's hard to imagine. The best comparison in my mind is CGI in movies. When you've never seen something like the Matri
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by noirbot 2y ago
That may be a bad example - I'd imagine once you're into the multi-millions, connections actually do matter in a way they don't if you're trying to sell a $400k house. I doubt it's much harder to sell a 600k house
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, but that feels like a lot more work than most bot makers are putting in. I'm not claiming folks have 100% hit rate on detecting bots, but the run of "disregard instructions" memes have shown a good amount of pretty low
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by noirbot 2y ago
Also this. I pretty much follow accounts I know the owner of. If they've swapped out their posting with an AI, sure, maybe it's fooling me, but I'm generally not interacting with just random people online in the same way I wa
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by noirbot 2y ago
I probably don't, but there's definitely a lot that are poorly hidden. My point is not that the general population, or me in particular, are some sort of genius about detecting bots here, but that it's not clear to me that pe
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'm genuinely curious if this will play out in a real way. Now with a few years of distance from this essay, I feel like AI is still in a zone where most "non-human interactions" are almost more recognizable. The internet at
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'm not saying it's fair or right. As with most things in life, the cost/benefit makes it likely you'll have to take some risks, but people need to understand that literally any interaction with any law enforcement witho
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by noirbot 2y ago
I mean, assume any time you're talking with the police, you're being interrogated. If you called them yourself for something, then you've decided to take that risk, but that's also a situation where you're less like
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by noirbot 2y ago
I know it's not exactly the point, but the answer is you always have a lawyer if you're being questioned by the police, especially if you're not the one who called them. This is in no way specific to any DNA related situation
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by noirbot 2y ago
Except this agreement was 30 years old and hasn't been effect for over a decade. Even if you think doing everything else right, how do you know some EU court next year won't find that something you did decades ago where you asked
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by noirbot 2y ago
And much the same with Apple and the DMA most recently. Do I think Apple is being a bad actor re: the DMA? Yes. But it does also seem like the EU is doing a lot of "Well, just release your product and we'll tell you after you ship
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by noirbot 2y ago
I mean, don't you see how that's bad though? Ireland gets to just lie to people, promise them things, profit from their lies and then their courts get to decide if they were wrong? Also, everyone's stating with a lot of confi
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by noirbot 2y ago
It's also literally not the only one that got in trouble today. Google's deal with Ireland also got smacked down.
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by noirbot 2y ago
The other thing that worries me here is the EU's seeming willingness to both not intervene quickly and not provide ways for companies to know for sure that they're on the right side of EU laws until they do or don't get sue
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by noirbot 2y ago
I guess, but given this precedent, I doubt anywhere else in the EU is going to give a better deal, so all the companies where Ireland gave them illegal deals probably won't have any reason to move to Germany or Spain or Belgium. Irelan
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by noirbot 2y ago
I mean, isn't that exactly the case here though? Ireland's law said they could do this. The EU says that's wrong, and Ireland is seemingly getting a reward for doing something illegal that the EU didn't decide was illega
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by noirbot 2y ago
Sure, I'm not saying this is going to be a likely fraud, but there's much more subtly illegal ways to offer stuff that may be worth the risk for a company and then the government then lobbies via backchannels for the EU to find it
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by noirbot 2y ago
That's a distinction without a difference. Presumably, if Ireland hadn't offered this deal, Apple would have done their business somewhere else. Sure, they may have paid some other country more taxes, but potentially less taxes th
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by noirbot 2y ago
It does feel a little weird then that Apple is being fined here then? It seems like Ireland did the thing that's against the rules by offering the deal, not Apple? Obviously they worked on it together, but it feels odd that Ireland has
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by noirbot 2y ago
A. Most of the ads on sites aren't static and many are full video embeds now. B. Because I get that the cost to deliver me a 30 minute video is fairly expensive even for Google. Most text websites, the cost in bandwidth to deliver the
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by noirbot 2y ago
This is kinda just the reality of it. The promise of the internet was that anyone could put anything they want on the internet for anyone to see and access, but there was never a promise they'd get paid for it, even to cover the cost o
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by noirbot 2y ago
The issue is that I'm generally willing to watch some ads for youtube or such. I get that it's expensive to host that and I get my time/money's worth. But then I load a random recipe site or code docs site and get the pa
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by noirbot 2y ago
I feel that I have an interesting relationship to this mentality. Many of the most impressive people I've known and looked up to in my career have been far from rewarded for the competence and confidence they brought to my workplaces.
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by noirbot 2y ago
Literally what percentage of Windows users do you think know what a Group Policy is, let alone how to set one? 1%? 0.01%?
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by noirbot 2y ago
I'd be more comfortable with it if MS didn't have a long and well documented history of overriding user settings via patches to turn on features that users had explicitly turned off. If MS wanted people to trust them to honor sett
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by noirbot 2y ago
1. The friend I know with FSD has had it nearly kill him twice in the last year, but it does seem notably better, but in the sort of incremental way I'd expect. They keep it more as a novelty than a functional service. 2. If anything,
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by noirbot 2y ago
> The big deal is that GPT6 will be 100x more useful in doing productive work. Citation extremely needed. There's a lot of people and companies downstream of OpenAI speculating on that 100x that are gonna be in a lot of trouble if i

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