rockskon

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by rockskon 5mo ago
My sources are the prior leadership of the NSA's public statements, the specifics of the legal opinions released by the FISA court, PCLOB reports, and me actually paying attention to what intelligence officials have stated in public te
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Never say never. Germany seems to have recovered quite a lot of trust following World War 2, to provide an extreme example of bad foreign policy.
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Intentionally collecting everything to include millions of U.S. persons data, say the collection was "incidental", put the computer equivalent of a removable sticky-note over their name to say it's been "minimized"
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by rockskon 5mo ago
That's not going to work out the way you think it will when a student won't even know how to ask questions.
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by rockskon 5mo ago
But then you're not acting as a billboard promoting AI. Isn't that partly the point?
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Sounds like a punishment. Extra-paranoid work culture and be mistrusted by your counterparts on the outside.
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Well, to be fair, the public has been going through a multi-year forced beta-test of AI all while CEOs keep going on national television and posting on social media how there will be mass unemployment because of AI. To say nothing of all t
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Somehow I don't see arguments comparing powering AI with producing food to go over well with them. Many opponents to AI do not view the tech as having a net benefit. Comparing it to food production would serve to make you look more
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by rockskon 5mo ago
No, but there's rough heuristic that are generally reliable. Psychologists talk. If a problem is recurring - they talk a lot amongst each other regarding the prevalence of the problem. I don't recall there ever being a trendin
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Statistical anomalies exist, sure. But if there was any meaningful negative impact at scale, you'd think it would've shown up over the decades in trending therapy topics, to people bringing up traumatic memories of the old Intern
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Hope you were never a part of Helldump or FYAD on Something Awful, then.
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Large-scale exposure caused no discernible degree of trauma. That's not a small phenomena that seems to have been ignored by policymakers and those who inform them.
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by rockskon 5mo ago
As others in this thread have commented - there are scammer hubs where a single person controls hundreds if not thousands of phones at a time. The people who this method is most hoping to stop are the least likely to be impacted by it in th
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by rockskon 5mo ago
Much to the often-reported chagrin of judges across the country.
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by rockskon 5mo ago
The xz utils issue very likely included intentional efforts on the state actor to burn them out. That isn't something a culture change among users can fix.
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by rockskon 6mo ago
Sadly the law Maryland passed contains enough loopholes and preemptions that it is literally worse than having passed nothing at all.
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by rockskon 6mo ago
The endless copilot integrations and promotions and insistence of nudges from Microslop, Google search mandating AI usage without going well beyond what most users know to avoid it, misleading YouTube video summaries.....these are all examp
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by rockskon 6mo ago
Funny how Gemini generally takes into account all the words you type whereas Google search tends to ignore most words you type or otherwise direct you to results for thematically (or grammatically or semantically) similar words to what you
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by rockskon 6mo ago
Someone discovering and making this public it doesn't mean others haven't independently discovered it.
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by rockskon 6mo ago
I am not positing any sort of conspiracy. The sentiment is also frequented by people who have no commercial incentive to say it - possibly a result of a successful marketing campaign, possibly a conclusion they came to independently, or po
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by rockskon 6mo ago
I'm not sure half the country would agree!
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by rockskon 6mo ago
How am I supposed to respond to someone who directly contradicts their own argument immediately after making it? "I'm not shaming! Not embracing AI is comparable to people who didn't embrace smart phones or the Internet thou
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by rockskon 6mo ago
And was there this massive, aggressive effort by a tiny handful of companies to mandate software developers use the Internet? Because I seem to recall people generally willingly choosing to use it as opposed to the aggressive efforts by bl
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by rockskon 6mo ago
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by rockskon 6mo ago
I am so very tired of people who compare AI to smart phones or the Internet as large. There were never such wide scale and, above all, centralized efforts to coerce and shame people into using the Internet or smart phones in spite of their
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by rockskon 6mo ago
It was sold though it sure as hell wasn't to Rupert Murdoch. In 2016, Univision Communications bought a controlling stake in The Onion (during the election season) and later sold to private equity company Great Hill Partners in 2019.
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by rockskon 6mo ago
A marketer's definition of anonymized is worthless. It's a fantasy they want everyone else to believe in. If it can be "de-anonymized" then it was never anonymous to begin with. "De-anonymized" is quite literal
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by rockskon 6mo ago
Does it map to a single, identifiable person or something close enough that the distinction is meaningless? Then it's not anonymous. Simple as that.
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by rockskon 6mo ago
There is no such thing as anonymized location data when you have the location of something where and when they sleep and work. It's a rhetorical fiction the ad industry tells itself.
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by rockskon 6mo ago
I will double down on this. Cynicism is the refuge of the ignorant that wishes to take comfort in their helplessness. It isn't helpful.

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