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by sgift 3y ago
"We only have to be lucky once. You have to be lucky every time." has never felt more true than now.
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by sgift 3y ago
Well, as usual, the answer is a mix of cost and usability. I don't know if people outside of Germany remember it, but there was a big splash when it came out the NSA hacked Merkels phone. Our chancellor! Why doesn't she have a s
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by sgift 3y ago
Sounds like something they could try. We'll see what happens. It's not like I expect C++ to "roll over" and just declare that they don't care anymore if people use the language.
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by sgift 3y ago
If he had, we would all be better off.
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by sgift 3y ago
No, it could be a very stupid reply to Rust vs C++ since people do write in Rust. Bigger programs get written in it all the time and - what a surprise - people who use it have things they are annoyed about, which is why it gets improved
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by sgift 3y ago
> I wonder if the other end is a person who'd rather have stacks of physical objects as their task list: read what the issue is, write down how to fix it, hand it over to someone who'll run and fix the problem, and give the rep
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by sgift 3y ago
By fax. So, a normal day at a German court. If you need some machines, Kansas, we have spares. (Yes, I'm bitter.)
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by sgift 3y ago
Huh. This got me into a (short) internet trip to look up what he's doing these days - still on the research track: https://labs.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=labs:bio:0:120 (Links to publications of various types b
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by sgift 3y ago
The problem is: We don't know, because .. it was censored. If instead it had "What follows is probably dangerous, to not try this without cross-checking" as a warning and then the recipe we could check it what it was.
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by sgift 3y ago
Spirituality, religion, "searching for the meaning of life" or whatever you want to call it are always part of the human experience, yes. Not being able to act on them can certainly be very detrimental to ones life.
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by sgift 3y ago
Imho, that's an argument to not censor the models. Censoring will train users to assume that anything wrong has already been filtered, which means if something slips through and they get misinformation they will be more likely to unc
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by sgift 3y ago
Maybe they'd preferred a sword as their murder weapon. It's a very personal thing after all. More serious: I agree. If an app tells you that it will update your image based on the traits and you put in murderer then there's r
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by sgift 3y ago
Ubuntu had the goal to replace Windows since it's inception. It's literally Bug 1 in their database. And yet, it still hasn't happened. Do you really want to argue that billions of people are all mad, stupid or have a "p
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by sgift 3y ago
The water ban came later for a different reason, namely the "Liquid bomb" plot, which involved bringing liquid bombs onto planes and detonating them mid-flight. I'm not saying the ban was an especially good reaction, but cock
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by sgift 3y ago
aka "This is a risk-based intervention. We don't know if it will happen, but there's a real risk and better start now than scramble later."
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by sgift 3y ago
Thanks. Really. This attitude of "if it's not perfect in face of some ridiculous scenario, it's useless" is why people go full "one password for everything, hanging on my screen". Each time someone falls into o
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by sgift 3y ago
> Please don't assume what I wanna force or not. That's why I wrote that if you want to force people you should argue for it and not that you do want to. Please, don't accuse me of things I didn't write. Personally,
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by sgift 3y ago
> it's easily the most useful scrum ceremony, IMHO. Agreed. I would kill almost anything else from scrum (maybe weeklys can stay too. Sometimes they are useful), but sprint retros stay. And also agreed about the uselessness of sprin
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by sgift 3y ago
> There is one good way to solve climate issues: consume less. Instead, kurzg says "we could consume, but someone will solve our issues with new great tech, like carbon capture". No, kurzgesagt says that given that people won&#
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by sgift 3y ago
Having read the word soup of contradicting weasel words that make up Claudes "constitution", 'superior safety approach' has so many asterisks it could be a star chart. The only thing the garbage Anthropic has produced is
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by sgift 3y ago
> Starship launches are clarifying events. Pretty quickly after liftoff you find out who understands the rocket business, and who are the casual observers bereft of a clue. I love it when opinion pieces open with the equivalent of "
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by sgift 3y ago
Since they throw me "Google recommends Chrome!" adverts in my face for various of their services, even when using a chrome-based browser it's not a case of only testing for Chrome/Safari. It's active work against ot
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by sgift 3y ago
> Doubt many brilliant researchers would want to be Employee number 945728123 of Microsoft when the market is theirs at this moment. Yeah, it's not like Microsoft has one of the most renowned industry research groups or something li
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by sgift 3y ago
> If Sutskever remains at the company, OpenAi can continue to improve its ChatGPT models and produce model 5.0? I think the more important question is: Is Sutskever interested in a model 5.0 anytime soon? If he really ousted Sam A. becau
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by sgift 3y ago
The new research focus demanded by the board in the name of safety will be an CEO AI, which will be aligned to humanities interests - the benchmark to show this will be if it does whatever the board wants. It's the only way to make sur
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by sgift 3y ago
They thought so. Now, they know that instead they work for one aiming to satisfy the ego of a specific group of people - same as everywhere else.
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by sgift 3y ago
> I dunno man, not sure why you're so cynical. I've seen the "We are motivated by higher goals, trust us" plot play out one too many times, just with different actors. At some point I stopped assuming the best and ins
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by sgift 3y ago
Usage is not the driver. It's the prosecution of drug production and distribution. Netherlands "allow" (yes, it's more complicated, but close enough) drug use, but producing drugs is forbidden. So, who supplies the drugs
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by sgift 3y ago
> What's wrong with the idea that AI should be developed with the goal of being safe and for the benefit of all humanity? Nothing. I just don't believe that's what will happen here. All I see is two sides trying to steer t
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by sgift 3y ago
Only if we define safe as "controlled by Ilya and/or some clique of 'great men'". But at least they are good at PR. After all, who could say something against safety? And no, I also don't believe that Sam A. h

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