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by wulfstan 1y ago
Technically correct (the best kind of correct), but if I set a thousand users on to a website to each download a single page and then feed the information they retrieve from that one page into my AI model, then are those thousand users not
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by wulfstan 1y ago
He's that widely respected that amongst those who repair bikes (I maintain a fleet of ~10 for my immediate family) he is simply known as "Saint Sheldon".
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Yeah I'm not so sure about that. If Perplexity are visiting that page on your behalf to give you some information and aren't doing anything else with it, and just throw away that data afterwards, then you may have a point. As a
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by wulfstan 1y ago
This is not one person complaining about another’s behaviour - these are two people who are alleging the same thing about the same person. Either a) they are colluding or b) this is a pattern of behaviour by the accused person that needed t
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by wulfstan 1y ago
> OK, but this is pure speculation. I prefer not to bear such in mind. Quote from the second accuser: Because of similarities in our stories as well as the stories Jon Pretty told us himself, we have reasons to believe that other people
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I think it’s selection bias - a y-combinator forum is going to have a larger percentage of people who are techno-utopianists than general society, and there will be many seeking financial success by connecting with a trend at the right mome
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I'm afraid I don't accept that you can split this into "experiencing something traumatic" and "making the accusation that you have experienced something traumatic". The claim that "almost the entire commun
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by wulfstan 1y ago
> But this is not the case at all, unless you intended "these kinds of accusations" to mean both making formal charges and writing accusatory blog posts -- but the whole reason for this article is to point out the massive amoun
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by wulfstan 1y ago
If both people are telling the truth, then it sounds like you're saying that although very sad, a community "gatekeeper" sexually exploiting a vulnerable newcomer is just part of life and we should move past it. I'm not
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by wulfstan 1y ago
No - and in fact in my view this is the core problem with these kinds of situations - there isn't a long established process validating a set of accusations, that if true, fall short of criminality but should result in your exclusion f
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I do not accept that this is "naked bias". If the accusations are true, then this is yet another example of a pattern of behaviour played out so regularly, across cultures, centuries and communities, that it is boringly predictabl
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by wulfstan 1y ago
This is exactly right. Criminality is a very high bar! There are many behaviours that fall well short of criminality that we shouldn't accept in communities.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Criminality is a very, very high bar for removing people from a community for misbehaviour, and much sexual misconduct isn't criminal. I don't think "leaving things to the police" is good advice in situations where a vul
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Yes; that is correct. They are admitting they made an accusation without evidence or an investigation to support the claim. This is a civil matter and says absolutely nothing about the truth or otherwise of the claims made.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I have no idea who is telling the truth in this situation, and unless you are the person who has been accused or those who are the alleged victims, neither do you. For situations like this where the allegations fall short of criminal miscon
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by wulfstan 1y ago
If you're tired of this BS can I encourage you to make: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ Your default search engine. AI overviews begone.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
If that ends up being the case then we could all genuinely agree that good has eventually emerged from the compute/inference infrastructure that LLMs paid for. I hope that comes to pass.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
In July 2023, I wrote this to a friend: "...being entirely blunt, I am an AI skeptic. I think AI and LLM are somewhat interesting but a bit like self-driving cars 5 years ago - at the peak of a VC-driven hype cycle and heading for a sp
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I keep saying to people - "if you have a good idea that can make use of large amounts of really really cheap GPUs to do something genuinely useful - get ready for a massive glut of spare capacity". I still haven't thought of
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by wulfstan 1y ago
> Except not every society is such a compromise. Some are fully under authoritarian control, and serve as a warning for others who are tempted by authoritarian ideas. Every society is on a continuum, and so represents some compromise b
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by wulfstan 1y ago
It requires decryption by means beyond the sole supply of a user-owned key. That doesn't require a manufacturer to be capable of decrypting it. I suspect that there are many ways that can be achieved, all technical ;-)
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by wulfstan 1y ago
> Do you think that this can be done without introducing massive security weaknesses into systems that cannot have them? Yes, I do - or rather, that is the point of the discussion. We currently allow central authorities to indicate our p
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I get the hostility towards it - as I've said elsewhere, it's practically an article of faith in our community that strong encryption == unalloyed good. And clearly it needs a lot of thinking to address potential abuse. But we&#x2
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Again, as a thought experiment, what legal protections can we put in place - an encryption ombudsman or independent authority - that would allow an arms length, controlled and expiring mechanism that allows limited access to a user's d
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Well that's your view - but these demands aren't going to go away, and what I think is sensible is for us a technical community to consider reasonable alternatives. Every society is a compromise between anarchic freedom and author
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Apple's iOS firmware encryption key hasn't leaked, as far as I am aware. Do you know otherwise? There are already very good solutions for ensuring that key leakages are very difficult to do and limited in effect.
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Yes, several times. But in the same way that as a society we allow physical privacy (and freedom!) to be removed under certain circumstances, we should consider allowing digital privacy to be removed in the same way. 1984 imagines a world w
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by wulfstan 1y ago
> In those cases, you need a judge or someone to approve the seizure. With a backdoor that can be opened at any time, you should consider that nothing will be private because there is no one who is going to be monitoring it 24/7 to
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by wulfstan 1y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Obviously the application itself needs to support the business logic described, in the same way as your web browser needs to notice that a certificate has expired and tell you there's a problem with a websit
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by wulfstan 1y ago
Then setup the system to be more analogous. Make the publication of key issuance under this mechanism public after a period of time. Again, I see us falling back into an "all or nothing" view of privacy and I just don't think

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