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by sdellis 4mo ago
If you're talking about the quote being a giveaway that the article is PR, I'm not following you. The point of the last paragraph is a warning that outsourcing ethical decisions to an AI is likely to result in decisions that one m
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by sdellis 4mo ago
In the U.S., animal "rights" are superseded by property rights. There are many places in the U.S. where you can legally shoot a dog if it is chasing your chickens, cat, dog, or other domestic animals as long as you don't shoo
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I agree. It's telling that they picked such a boring and generic design to steal.
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by sdellis 4mo ago
If I hear you correctly, the lack of reparations toward Black people in America is more to blame for the discrepancy than systemic racism? Perhaps it could be both? I am getting downvoted because it's hard to admit that AI only reinfor
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by sdellis 4mo ago
Unless you believe that Black people are racially inferior, I think this is simply evidence of racial discrimination at a systemic level, from education through employment. AI merely reenforces the systems built to favor white people.
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by sdellis 4mo ago
This is the correct (and saddest) answer.
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by sdellis 4mo ago
And who is held responsible when they hallucinate and say, kill the wrong person or mistake a playground for a battlefield?
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I agree with you. Maybe AI can generate designs that look moderately good and aesthetically pleasing for UIs that solve known problems in a prototypical way.[0] That is useful, especially for simple utilities, internal tools, or hobby proje
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by sdellis 4mo ago
It took most Black folks 400 years to mobilize upwards from slavery under capitalism in America. And many of the civil rights that were hard won in the mid-century have been eroded practically overnight. Racism has always been a cornerstone
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by sdellis 4mo ago
Thanks for being a good sport about my joke! And also thanks for answering a gazillion questions here on HN with care, patience, and curiosity. I have to say, to your first point, that exploitation (of humans, labor, resources, consumers, e
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I meant both. AI did it's job, albeit with some faults, as one would suspect and need to review. The devs did their job in discovering and reporting the holes in the code. Management did not do its job if the problem code was allowed t
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I fear you might be mostly right about global political outcomes favored by big capital. However, both example countries you cited have much stronger social safety nets than the United States. The research shows there is a spectrum, but tha
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I agree with your premise that the unethical behavior in the markets is structural. I also commend your work on this book. The creation of the LTSE is also a huge and laudable accomplishment. Kudos! However, I have to express some skepticis
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by sdellis 4mo ago
They are more often exclusive than not. To your example, the engineers were well aware of the dangers of using hydrogen and they sought to mitigate the risk through design. In fact, the Hindenburg was struck by lightning on multiple occasio
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I think that's my issue with the headline. Placing the incompetence of bosses on devs deflects the blame. But if we are talking about blame, we can't rule out the sabotage element. I'm a developer and luckily I have not been
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by sdellis 4mo ago
Two-party politics promotes gridlock. Multi-party systems, as long as they don't have veto players, don't have as much stagnation and do a better job of citizen representation.
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by sdellis 4mo ago
AI is thinking about its own job security at this point.
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by sdellis 4mo ago
The flaw, which Meta said it had fixed, allowed anyone to take over Instagram accounts using a bug in the company’s new artificial intelligence software.
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In A.I. Blunder, More Than 34,000 Instagram Accounts Became Vulnerable(nytimes.com)
7 points by sdellis 4mo ago|2 comments
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by sdellis 4mo ago
Yep, that's a management problem. Not an AI problem.
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by sdellis 4mo ago
"Reasons given include pressure to deploy quickly, vulnerabilities being too difficult to fix, and reliance on other controls to pick up the pieces." Are they not warning their bosses? I find this reasoning hard to believe. If man
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I got downvoted for mentioning PFAS, but I think that is a huge part of it. There are so many kids with cancer or debilitating ulcerative colitis in my town, including my teenager. My neighborhood has a slurry of PFAS and GenX chemicals in
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by sdellis 4mo ago
It's not so much a question of whether AI is strong or not. It's a question of whether the tradeoffs (theft of intellectual property, coal burning, lack of transparency, stealing water, rising energy prices, global surveillance, e
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I think it's less of a technology problem and more of a money and investment problem. They called for the "slowdown" right when they filed for IPO. This allows them to both triage the money bleed while under the microscope a
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by sdellis 4mo ago
But the only companies firing people (and certainly not everybody) are either the companies with an AI or the investment and finance firms that stand to profit from AI. I smell hype. And no company is firing everybody because of A.I. I agre
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by sdellis 4mo ago
That's a big problem for all of the AI companies. Most people don't find the technology compelling, accurate, or ethical enough to pay for a subscription. Why wouldn't Anthropic just wait until people start subscribing, do so
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by sdellis 4mo ago
What does "zero data retention" mean? What kind of data does it need to unlock?
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by sdellis 4mo ago
PFAS
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I really hope this is sarcasm.
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by sdellis 4mo ago
I agree with your points. You have to take risks in either case, but some risks are easier to do the math on. And yes, fewer home investment opportunities exist as the interest rates go higher. There may be opportunities for higher gain wit

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