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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
Thanks for responding. 1. I don't think crime can really be prevented per se, but location-based crime can be discouraged and deterred . Having cameras in public, highly visible places, might make violent criminals (especially profess
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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
They're putting people in pens and then murdering them, and using Flock cameras to round them up. I don't want this either. Might this be better attributed to politics/administration/policies? So maybe you're oppo
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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
I'll acknowledge that there might be some abuses of the use of Flock data by authorities (thanks for sharing citations). I would argue that this is an access control problem: do police departments have broad, unrestricted, unmonitored
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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
Where do researchers go instead of USA then? Genuinely curious
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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
Why are they giving them away for free?
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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
Maybe they should require a warrant and log access? Do you think this could be solved with access control?
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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
That sucks. Sorry to hear it
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by sciencejerk 7mo ago
I personally know 3 victims of brutally violent crime. Flock would have detected, but maybe not prevented, two of these cases, where violence occurred in broad, open daylight near main roads and highways. Crimes occurred in left-leaning, an
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Do you own one? How is camera and audio and geolocation support? Decent?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
The threat model I imagined here was: 1. Initial access to physical machine, most likely via phishing malware, reckless employees downloading untrusted content, or bad luck. 2. Malware looks for browser cookies, hoping to steal temporary cr
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
On January 13th, I woke up to the news that Meta had another round of layoffs and my role specifically as a research engineer had been eliminated. Sorry to hear that! Hope OP got a good sev package at least?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
The GA functionality is already here with a crafted prompt or jailbreak :)
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Internet Operator License: Coming soon to a government near you!
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Link to the critical blog post allegedly written by the AI agent: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Maybe cars are not cheaper, just easier to finance due to the modern credit systems?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
we have routers that you can monitor traffic on Most traffic is encrypted with HTTPS unless you can root every single device you own we have microphone use indicators on mobile, and I would imagine it would be pretty clear if an app was
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
You think AWS is better?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
From 3rd party AI app use?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Evidence for this claim?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
That's some pretty good verbatim Claude Opus 4.6 if I'd say so myself
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
An internal scaffolded version of GPT‑5.2... Any reason to believe that public versions of GPT-5.2 could have accomplished this task? "scaffolded" is a very interesting word choice
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Instacart has these, or at least it used to. You pay an annual membership, thinking that it gets you out of fees, but the FULL invoice (very hard to locate!) show a mysterious service fee of $3-6.
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Can you explain the "same instance" and user isolation? Can context be leaked since it is (secretly?) shared? Explain pls, genuinely curious
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Interesting. Specific examples of what was censored?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Often abbreviated to simply "Regulation is hard." Or "Security is hard"
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
The conversation is old, from Novemeber 12, 2024, but still very puzzling and worrisome given the conversation's context
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
We keep delegating knowledge of the natural, physical world for temporary, rapidly-changing knowledge of abstractions and software tools, which we do not control (now LLM cloud tools). The lack of comprehensive, practical, multi-disciplinar
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
>If all grocery stores and restaurants run out of food for a long enough time people will starve. This isn't a problem in practice though... I fail to see how this isn't a problem? Grid failures happen? So do wars and natural d
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Which do you use/recommend?
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by sciencejerk 8mo ago
Have confirmed that many of these AI agents and Agentic IDEs implement business logic and guardrails LOCALLY on the device. (Source: submitted similar issue to different Agentic LLM provider)

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