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by pjc50 5mo ago
> will still have investigative journalism, public debate, trustworthy institutions, etc. All of which are under serious threat from social media, buyouts by billionaires, and simple smear campaigns. Not dependent on AI, but effects whic
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by pjc50 5mo ago
We could do with establishing whether that's covered by the injunction; the article also says that _Hay_ stopped selling it for the same reason. People are probably too young to remember the "Spycatcher" fiasco: https:/
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by pjc50 5mo ago
One who understands the power of nondisclosure agreements. You might find it surprising that an executive signed a long-lasting non-disparagement agreement, but obviously they wouldn't have got the job otherwise. These are a very real
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Verifying how the model works against the real world is the difficult, dangerous bit. There might be some interesting side effects from making simulation software , which is currently either an expensive niche or quirky university project
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Low trust societies are poorer because everyone has to spend much more effort on verifying everything. People give up business opportunities because they can't trust their partners. It becomes more nepotistic because people trust famil
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by pjc50 5mo ago
The death of consensus reality is also the death of democratic politics. Too many people regard that as a positive.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
On the other hand, without social media, there might not be a Trump government in the first place.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Does take a rather different tone when you consider the FB whistleblower: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48353965 But I think the conversation people aren't having is the reverse of this: when is it time to ban p
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by pjc50 5mo ago
There is apparently a court order involved: "Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, secured an emergency legal order on the eve of publication preventing her from publicly discussing aspects of the book, and she faces fines of $50,00
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This is what AOL/Compuserve were in the very old dialup days. Curated spaces.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Note that Microsoft "cl /clr" also does this. It's a bit of a niche use case.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Why would you replace it if doing so is uneconomic? Panel lifetime is very high. The scope for efficiency improvement is not huge (unless there is a cost breakthrough in multi band photon capture). It's not a car, phone, or computer. I
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by pjc50 5mo ago
People tried to hold gun manufacturers liable for dead children, and the law was simply changed to exempt them. Robots and AI have too much money to be held liable.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
I am not convinced that the "dark factory" / "gas town" people are actually shipping anything that isn't also part of the AI ecosystem. At least the noise/ship ratio is incredibly high.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
You'd be surprised. I think Waymo have already proven this; not perfectly safe, but below the care threshold. And the demand for childcare is huge . Of course, what then happens is how the ensuing child neglect case falls out. We&#x27
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by pjc50 5mo ago
It's probably easier to handle as civil negligence. Criminal damage has an intent component. Of course it would hinge on discovery - as soon as you find an email to the effect of "we know this will cause damage, let's test it
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> Customers expect some products to be dangerous and rely on product reviews to determine which ones. .. which are of course the easiest thing to fake. > then overpriced incumbents use their influence over the laws to target any new s
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by pjc50 5mo ago
And in other blue collar union environments, following the book is known as "work to rule" and considered a mild form of sabotage/industrial action.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Some of this just needn't apply, especially from a UK perspective; you can operate as a sole trader with very little paperwork until you make £85,000 and have to register for VAT. You don't need a company shell or a business bank
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Not really, no. The product launch was a group buy of minimum 400 units. You can choose one of "compete with China" or "expensive product testing requirements for small-run products".
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by pjc50 5mo ago
This is one press release. It tells us nothing about how much other enforcement action has taken place, much of which is supposed to be local. The EU does not care about individual corner shops, report them to your local trading standards b
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by pjc50 5mo ago
> "Neptune Deep will start delivering natural gas in 2027." This is a "forward-looking statement", and presents special problems because you cannot really evaluate it until that date. You can only assign "likely
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by pjc50 5mo ago
If you can consistently construct "true but misleading" content, you may be qualified to work at a major newspaper.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Agents. An agent is a system for spinning up processes that use tokens, talking to other processes that use tokens. I wonder how many megawatts that waste represented. Just one guy, worse than a small air force of private jets.
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Interesting that this is under the DSA, since if they're the "importer" by mailing parcels to the EU it would also be covered by long standing rules on CE marking. It's good to know that someone's actually checking
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Probably a mini Iran-Contra. Get approval for paying $40m to [SECRET] to carry out acts of pro-US terrorism. Steal the gold. Tip off the enemies of the group so they fail/are killed/arrested. Then report to your superior that the
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by pjc50 5mo ago
Private defined-contribution schemes which can only be accessed after a certain age and have tax breaks on contributions still count as pensions, yes.
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That is the traditional "null hypothesis", yes.
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The buyer generally runs the service in a much worse way, so it's their management which comes under attack.
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They do (and will generally track the index themselves), but PE offers a higher risk/return profile and diversification.

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