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The creepiest 'sales demo' of all time(appenmedia.com)
97 points by slowin 3mo ago|54 comments
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by slowin 3mo ago
Thank you but I'm no saint. I joined Microsoft knowing that they were incompatible with my values. I just told myself that I wouldn't work on those types of projects and try to stick to my values. I told myself that I could just
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by slowin 3mo ago
AI is the end of the funnel and I actually think the mass surveillance at the beginning of the funnel is a bigger issue. The concentration of power is the problem. If you or I could defend ourselves against state level actors with AI weapon
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by slowin 3mo ago
AI helps people scale. If being "on target" means that you find people when they're eating dinner so you can kill their entire family, then using AI to scale that up is a terrible thing. That's exactly what Israel did wi
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by slowin 3mo ago
Props to the author. I left Microsoft due to their work with Israel to spy on Palestinians and record all of their phone conversations (in addition to other IDF collaborations). They ended up walking some of it back, but Satya was complicit
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by slowin 3mo ago
Anyone who's impact is more than just rampant financial fraud. Human's are the product of their environment and mostly just in the right place at the right time, but there's no criteria where you could put Elon Musk in a list
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by slowin 3mo ago
> You could say people like Henry Ford are on his level Since Tesla was started, they've sold ~9.6 million cars. In that same time period, Ford has sold 100 million. Musk is no Henry Ford, it's much more accurate to compare h
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by slowin 3mo ago
Yep, we're cool with it because changing the clocks twice a year is ridiculous . People should live in an environment they're comfortable in. We should also push for a culture of not having to wake up at absolutely insane times i
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by slowin 3mo ago
Sales engineers do post-sales work. Typically if they're going to do a significant amount of real work, they'd just be called "consultants".
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by slowin 3mo ago
And those people are optimizing for money, "prestige" or something other than having a healthy schedule. We definitely should not dictate the entire country's sleep around west coast financiers.
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by slowin 3mo ago
If you wake up in the dark you are ensured to use the maximum amount of daylight possible. You also have the added benefit of being able to sleep until you need to get up instead of being woken up early by the sun.
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by slowin 3mo ago
Start school and work later, "problem" solved. Also another great argument for WFH, don't waste an hour in commute, spend it in bed getting the rest you need!
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Trump's Ex-Campaign Manager Is Running an Israeli Influence Operation(time.com)
10 points by slowin 3mo ago|0 comments
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by slowin 3mo ago
> The Justice Department’s files include email correspondence between Gates and Epstein about philanthropic projects, calendar entries documenting dates they got together, and photos of Gates at events the two men attended. Incredible
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Buffett omits gift to Gates' foundation after Epstein ties disclosed(apnews.com)
6 points by slowin 3mo ago|1 comments
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by slowin 3mo ago
These used to be called "Sales Engineers" but Palantir wanted something more militant sounding. It's a shame others picked this gross term up and started using it.
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by slowin 3mo ago
We don't but our government does (or they're blackmailed to support them). They're actually trying to sneak a merger of our millitaries into law ( https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/us-israel-military-me
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by slowin 3mo ago
If Israel doesn't want US politicians monitoring them, they can stop taking our tax dollars, military resources and political cover. The best solution is to immediately cut all aid and support for Israel. They should be on their own,
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Section 219, the US-Israel Military Merger, Would Thwart American Democracy(commondreams.org)
77 points by slowin 3mo ago|34 comments
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by slowin 3mo ago
My taxes aren't "money given without strings attached". They are payment for services that benefit myself and others in the community. They're not a free gift for the government to hand out, that's theft.
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by slowin 3mo ago
You are entitled to a benefit from your tax dollars being spent. Otherwise, it's just theft.
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by slowin 3mo ago
Absolute classic. If anyone is interested, the Footloose soundtrack (which has Holding Out For a Hero on it) is probably one of the greatest soundtracks of all time. The movie sucks but damn, this soundtrack is incredible. https:/&#
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by slowin 3mo ago
The prior art you state is exactly why I think this is almost certainly happening. One difference is that a CEO cannot set off an atomic bomb, but they can use an uncensored AGI model. The side-effects would be impossible to trace. > I
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by slowin 3mo ago
I have to disagree. For the sake of argument say Elon Musk had his own personal, uncensored SOTA model. He has the cash and politics to make that a realistic goal. Would people want him to have that? Not really, hence secrecy as well.
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by slowin 3mo ago
> It strikes me as highly unlikely that Anthropic has developed another fable-class model where the only difference is that it doesn't answer questions in that way I'm curious why you think that's highly unlikely given t
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by slowin 3mo ago
Do we think that someone at Anthropic, OpenAI, the government... has access to SOTA models without censorship? "How do I build an effective weapon?", "How do I effectively control the masses?"... It's very concern