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by skygazer 3y ago
I suppose it could be a adblockers (or ytdl) vs Youtube situation. But it's hard to build a paid service on a cat and mouse game, particularly if fixes require new client updates, and the people you chat with can't even SMS you d
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by skygazer 3y ago
I have a hard time believing that just pulling publicly available web data would instill a professed identity of an openAI creation, rather than a gen-x hipster or zoomer, or whatever. Seems so much more likely they trained predominately on
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by skygazer 3y ago
I think the persistent issue is the identifying US/non-US partipants and the co-mingling of US/non-US participants within exchanges, and the need to understand context to make sense of it. This seems inescapably fraught. And furth
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by skygazer 3y ago
iMessage seemingly was found exempt because too few Europeans use iMessage for business. Although to be fair, I have a hard time imagining a world where this ever happens. So large companies have to proactively share information on all thei
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by skygazer 3y ago
I guess (based on the skeptical reactions) your experience is atypical now-a-days, but based on your comment, I did find a 2014 wired article saying that while previously unheard of, iMessage now [then] accounted for 30% of spam, from email
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by skygazer 3y ago
I mention SMS as a natural contrast to iMessage and to illustrate the annoyances which may burden iMessage if opened up blindly to any bot — a different variety of burdensome.
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by skygazer 3y ago
In my experience, incoming SMS are mostly spam, and other low trust notifications, while incoming iMessages, even if unknown to me, are likely to be real people. Buying an Apple device is an expensive signal, and Apple will quickly shut dow
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by skygazer 3y ago
Or for simulating crazy impossible dynamic camera shots from a few fixed cameras. Or for creating a gods eye security view of a premises, with virtual move/pan/tilt/zoom. Reality TV as if you have a camera man in the middle o
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by skygazer 3y ago
Does that challenge seem to come from Apple or Beeper? I hope Apple. That would largely allay my concern. I guess I should have given Apple more credit, because this “vulnerability” would likely have come to light much earlier otherwise, as
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by skygazer 3y ago
Does this mean it’s trivial to spoof iMessage from arbitrary phone numbers not already registered with iMessage, or hijack any non-iPhone users SMS messages by tricking the iPhones they communicate with to send replies via iMessage to the s
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by skygazer 3y ago
I think Twitter’s survival may depend on Twitter employees conspiring to convince Elon his company-destroying tweets are publicly viewable, where instead they’re really “tweeted” into a Grok generated simulacrum of Elon-sycophantic Twitter,
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by skygazer 3y ago
See also New Coke: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Conspiracy_theories
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by skygazer 3y ago
I was just addressing the notion that the simplicity of the conspiracy theory was evidence of its veracity - it is not. If you're asking if I have evidence against the nonsensical conspiracy theory that third party praise given about a
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by skygazer 3y ago
ironically, that’s too simplistic. Simplicity is only virtuous in an explanation if the explanation itself is not contradicted by reality. Unbound from reality, simplicity is dangerously seductive because it’s easy and wrong.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Besides explaining the haphazardness, that would also nicely explain why they didn't want to elaborate publicly on why they "had" to let him go -- "it was either him or us" wouldn't have been popular given his
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by skygazer 3y ago
He had dual overlapping roles, a duty to the promote safe AI to the world, and a duty to prevent own-goal sabotage to the LLC. Ideally those roles wouldn’t conflict. He probably didn’t care if such a paper was written, but to have a board m
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by skygazer 3y ago
Oh, I was perhaps unwisely playful: “disclaimer” (a denial or risk) and “full disclosure” (adding context) are different but occasionally confused.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Why do you have to disclaim that? It’s nothing to be ashamed of. I have friends that are also not American, and I’m even okay being seen with them in public. You can feel safe fully disclosing!
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by skygazer 3y ago
I think it’s just a small recent update covering the last several days. That’s why I called out the several points I hadn’t seen elsewhere in those bullets.
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by skygazer 3y ago
I’ve read elsewhere that management at the company and the investors were doing the negotiating. Although I have no idea how Ilya is involved, since he’s both.
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by skygazer 3y ago
I think the “big tech is evil“ and “SV start-ups will save us” groups both still exist but remain distinct and haven’t coordinated the triggers that make each group become vocal. I don’t think there’s a lot of overlap in their membership,
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by skygazer 3y ago
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sam-altman-openai-board-open-... - Discussions involve Altman, board member Adam D’Angelo, and some OpenAI investors. - The board initially refused to communicate with Altman following hi
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by skygazer 3y ago
That’s interesting. Of course we can’t 1:1 equate wealth with high-status, but I guess there’s often significant overlap.
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by skygazer 3y ago
Ironically, the poor are typically more ethical than the wealthy in research. You may be among the ~.5% of humans unconcerned with harming others, regardless of wealth level.
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by skygazer 3y ago
https://archive.li/qzR7n It’s mostly just a summary of what those that were keenly watching hn/x since Friday already knew, with no original reporting and more questions than answers.
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by skygazer 3y ago
X/Twitter say that media matters followed both “nazis” (or whatever) and also major brands, and their feed did indeed show major brand ads next to nazi tweets. Apparently no real people subscribe to both nazis and major brands, they sa
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by skygazer 3y ago
It’s also weird that he’s not admitting to any of his own reasons, only describes some trivial reasons he seems to have coaxed out of the other board members?! Perhaps he still has his own reasons but realizing he’s destroying what he love
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by skygazer 3y ago
I did find a detractor: https://twitter.com/geoffreyirving/status/172675427022402397...
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by skygazer 3y ago
I think you may be hallucinating reasonable reasons to explain an inherently indefensible situation, patching up reality so it makes sense again. Sometimes people with puffed up egos are frustrated over trivial slights, and group think take
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by skygazer 3y ago
They’re fools, and thought they could oust Altman over petty grievances and that no one would care, and when it blew up, they struggled to find a solution that saves face and their careers and avoids adverse legal judgments against them ind

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