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Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic's red lines in Pentagon dispute(thehill.com)
62 points by rectang 7mo ago|11 comments
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by rectang 7mo ago
> Altman says OpenAI agrees with Anthropic’s red lines in Pentagon dispute https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5758898-altman-backs-a...
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by rectang 7mo ago
You can't discuss this topic without broaching the idea that the government is acting in bad faith — that they don't actually believe that Anthropic is a supply-chain risk and that this action is meant to punish the company. But
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by rectang 7mo ago
With an integrated insurer/provider, they just have to make primary care scarce so that it takes months to get an appointment, and then offer AI Doctor as an option. Not all patients have to use it for it to be cost effective.
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by rectang 7mo ago
If the AI gets attached to a health insurer (not the case here as far as I know), I would expect it to make decisions that are aligned with the company’s incentive to weed out unprofitable patients. AI is not a human who takes a Hippocrati
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by rectang 8mo ago
Are you talking about a new, empty WordPress instance running the default theme? Because if so, that doesn't match my anecdotal experience. If you're talking about a WordPress instance with arbitrary plugins running an arbitrary
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by rectang 8mo ago
> I mean, is that a consequence of people being innately, for it's own sake, cheap to a point of farce? Yes. The price-driven market segment will never disappear and is an emergent property of human nature and the dynamics of a ma
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by rectang 8mo ago
In the airplane industry, KPIs and beancounting are just a response to a mindbendingly price-driven marketplace — to the extent that consumers need to be protected by regulations from flying in unsafe planes. I agree that there's an is
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by rectang 8mo ago
We should be spreading our cynicism over both management and customers. There is almost no level of service so terrible that people won't buy cheaper airline tickets. Let alone losing luggage, you could dial up the risk of death and
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by rectang 8mo ago
Applying cost-cutting analysis as an intellectual exercise... Airline ticket sales are so price driven that for much of the market, losing some percentage of bags won't change purchase decisions. I wonder if it's possible to ident
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by rectang 8mo ago
Your proposed architecture also achieves the goal of discouraging content-distributing entities from holding hard identification data, so it sounds good to me.
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by rectang 8mo ago
> Better the nanny state than Nanny Zuck. why-not-both.jpg Maximizing corporate freedom leads inevitably to corporate capture of government. Opposing either government concentration of power alone or corporate concentration of power al
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by rectang 8mo ago
I'm reminded of the Gene Weingarten's 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning article, Fatal Distraction , on parents whose children have died from hyperthermia after being left in cars[1]. Similar to this case, some people believe that such
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by rectang 8mo ago
No one wants to admit that their child was raped, even if they are open to the possibility — so your assertion reduces down to "there often is a realm where they should have known". Because the article doesn't give detail,
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by rectang 8mo ago
As I speculated elsethread, one of the authors did this without the knowledge of the other. That speculation could have been proven false, but it turned out to be correct. I'm content that reserving judgement was the right call — as o
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by rectang 8mo ago
I agree that the singling out of the mother for condemnation in this comment section is conspicuous and dismaying — thank you for pointing it out. Nevertheless, I would offer the father the same grace that I think the mother deserves, and
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by rectang 8mo ago
No, parents do not always "know" about child sexual abuse. I cited a study about this elsethread[1]. And "Lucy" was young (no older than 12, possibly as young as 7) when the rapes began, which correlates with a reluctan
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by rectang 8mo ago
From Maternal Perceptions Of And Responses To Child Sexual Abuse https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4845772/ : > But it was estimated that from 30% to even 80% of victims do not purposefully disclose th
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by rectang 8mo ago
Bringing the full weight of the legal system down on all parents whose children were harmed by third parties, regardless of whether the parents even knew anything about it, is monstrous cruelty.
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My heart breaks for parents who learn that their children found themselves unable to confide in them about rape.
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by rectang 8mo ago
> Frankly, I hope the mother was also charged. Would you want her charged if she didn't even know? There is nothing in the article suggesting that the mother conspired with her boyfriend, or that she even knew he was a sex offende
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by rectang 8mo ago
> While many see that as blaming the mother Yes, that's how I see it. > it is such a huge humanitarian problem that it’s worth educating women better over that specific problem, and taking sanctions if necessary. "Sancti
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by rectang 8mo ago
There's also a lot of "WHY AREN'T YOU FOCUSING ON THE MOTHER?" whataboutism in the comments, which I find appalling. The article was about something else, and who knows what her circumstances were.
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by rectang 8mo ago
It doesn't matter if the voice is a perfect facsimile — it only matters whether a court can be persuaded that the result is derivative. As the article notes, the AI doesn't even have to be trained on Greene's voice for him to
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by rectang 8mo ago
If a business model only works by copyright washing is it a bad model? > No business has an intrinsic right to exist. Do AI businesses have an intrinsic right to exist?
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by rectang 8mo ago
We do not yet know just how the story unfolded between the two people listed on the byline. Consider the possibility that one author fabricated the quotes without the knowledge of the other. The sin of inadequate paranoia about a deceptive
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by rectang 8mo ago
There are apparently two authors on the byline and it’s not hard to imagine that one may be more culpable than the other. You may be fine with damning one or the other before all the facts are known, zahlman, but not all of us are.
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by rectang 8mo ago
There is no need to rush to judgment on the internet instant-gratification timescale. If consequences are coming for journalist or publication, they are inevitable. We’ll know more in only a couple days — how about we wait that long before
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by rectang 8mo ago
I refuse to join your lynch mob, sneak. Let’s wait for the investigation.
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by rectang 8mo ago
When such things have happened in the past, they've led to an investigation and the appointment of a Public Editor or an Ombud. (e.g. Jayson Blair.) I'm willing to weigh a post mortem from Ars Technica about what happened, and to

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