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by salawat 1y ago
...amongst elites maybe.
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by salawat 1y ago
Note I said minimal. If manufacturers were content to just restrain integrated circuits to those purposes without widespread telemetry or phoning home, or creating software lockouts we'd meet my definition of minimal. Just what it ta
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by salawat 1y ago
I am not willing to grant the same level of exculpation on the basis of reasonable forseeability to a software/AI dev that I am to a carpenter making a chair. The history of our trade has in it found great joy in how to use things in w
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by salawat 1y ago
Head of Quality Assurance is often also treated as ablative armor for existing management.
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by salawat 1y ago
If Trump is willing to undermine the National Labor Relations Act in it's entirety, I see no reason to honor any of the restraints that have been put on labor either. Let the general strike commence.
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by salawat 1y ago
Such a pity there is no way to get an electronics minimal car control unit. Funny how conspicuously unimplemented functionality works.
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by salawat 1y ago
>With this ruling, we may be seeing the final blows dealt to the NLRB, and a signal that companies need not even fear later reprisal. This is great news, actually. If Trump is going to debase the National Labor Relations Act by nullifyin
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by salawat 1y ago
I want to say the answer to this is "not all lurkers/posters", because at this point I'm more treating this place as an early warning system for how the hellhole dystopia will come about. The amount of self-censoring I&#
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by salawat 1y ago
This, right here, is why I take the stance I do. Too many ethical blank checks get written ultimately if you don't keep the moral stain in place. If you make a surveillance tool, release it to the world that didn't have that capac
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by salawat 1y ago
You build the tool, you're culpable ultimately. I've made it a rule in my life to conduct myself as if I will be held to account for everything I ultimately build, and it's externalities. Helps keep my nose cleaner. Still man
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by salawat 1y ago
That can easily be explained away in that the wealth concentration was a symptom of vertically integrated hard network based implementations (railroads, logistics, shipping, extraction), and the Gold Standard may have braked some level of w
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by salawat 1y ago
Dosage response curves != Individual biochemistries and neural architecture/metabolisms. Some people it'll just hit different.
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by salawat 1y ago
>Then we could just go Google it, and/or skim the Wikipedia page. If you wanted more details you could follow references - which just made it easier to do the first point. Except at this point, market forces and going whole hog on n
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by salawat 1y ago
Everyone talks about unemployment when what we should be talking about is the inability to get seed capital or expertise to start a business, and given you actually get one started the casting of value moats by hyperscaled firms that brin
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by salawat 1y ago
All of those interestingly apply to Software engineers and AI/data scientists too.
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by salawat 1y ago
My ethics curriculum while getting my CS degree basically highlights the last decade+ of big name tech companies as "things that should not be done for obvious reasons". So I avoided all of them, looking for some of the most borin
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by salawat 1y ago
Seconded. Stop making shit you can't trust people with. That easy.
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by salawat 1y ago
Forces me to fork your shit and remove privacy invasive parts. Consider my computer my home, and your telemetry a camera or microphone you're adding to my place. If you don't ask me for permission first I have no reason to trust
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by salawat 1y ago
s/invitation/obviation
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by salawat 1y ago
>Training LLMs is closer, conceptually, to raising children than to implementing regexp parsers, and the whole "small simple set of universal constraints" is just not really applicable/useful. That this can be said, and th
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by salawat 1y ago
Because they see AI as the gateway to your invitation of course. Money only cares about money/ROI. A bunch of tech CEOs in finance circles have hyped up AI to drive adoption, more "conventional" business/management types
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by salawat 1y ago
I could see this as an accidental test case to see how much one can get away with memory holing, and what portions of the Internet are instrumental in resisting the process of memory holing.
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by salawat 1y ago
>They can turn off your bank account. Ding ding ding. And you can't disintermediate without becoming a felon.
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by salawat 1y ago
>There's no sense to these systems, you can just be cut off with no warning and the payment processors have no obligation to care or tell anyone anything. You can thank the Bank Secrecy Act as amended by the PATRIOT act for that. It
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by salawat 1y ago
Firearms regulations. Abortion regulations. Marijuana legalization. It's been in the political vernacular for a hot minute if you know somebody who takes issue with Wickard v. Filburn. Which might just be me I guess. But yes, other tha
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by salawat 1y ago
The trigger was pulled because a ferric material, probably the firing pin, was brought into an intense magnetic field, bypassing any of the normal safeties typically involved with a mechanically actuated firearm. You do not under any cir
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by salawat 1y ago
Human still killed human. Gun did not walk into MRI. It was carried in. Man kills self by eschewing due care when in close proximity to MRI should be the headline.
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by salawat 1y ago
And why shouldn't they be? The Xenials and late boomers intellectual chops got funneled into an industry specifically intended to attack and monopolize their attention loops and data. To their credit, they're probably having a hea
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by salawat 1y ago
>You don't get a pilot hopping on a 767 and flying a bunch of people around solely because Boeing used autopilot in a deceptive marketing ad, then getting the surprise of a lifetime when the autopilot doesn't avoid flying into
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by salawat 1y ago
>you get 5 strikes for your ownership duration). It isn't ownership of the device disables things against you. That's licensing at best.

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