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by zugi 7mo ago
Just 4 hours before this announcement, Cappy posted a video explaining that special forces may be planning to put some "boots on the ground" to take over that island: https://youtube.com/watch?v=5u8yCP5WQVw Whethe
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Instagram to discontinue end-to-end encryption for DMs(androidpolice.com)
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Is that PiPyPy or PiPyPI?
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The US Constitution authorizes Congress to enact copyrights with limited scope: > To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writing
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It's an interesting development because wars haven't traditionally been waged predominantly with software. But soon perhaps they will be. While the government is accustomed to complying with software licensing rules, indeed it is
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Interestingly Iran had moderately good relations with Russia, to whom they sold drones, and China, to whom they sold oil. But indeed not enough for either to help defend Iran. With Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran, the US is bottling up Russian an
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by zugi 7mo ago
Anthropic does not object to its use for war. In fact Anthropic explicitly allows its semi-autonomous use in war, e.g. for identifying targets. They just won't permit its use for full autonomous war, yet, because they don't be
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by zugi 8mo ago
And mastering a subject is changed to maining it?
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by zugi 8mo ago
Google Gemini often gives an overly lengthy response, and then at the end asks a question. But the question seems designed to move on to some unnecessary next step, possibly to keep me engaged and continue conversing, rather than seeking an
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by zugi 8mo ago
> " Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety " -- Benjamin Franklin The key phrase is "a little temporary safety". 250 years ago people under
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by zugi 8mo ago
Deleting paragraphs 2 and 3 and tweaking paragraph 4 could have made this a great and informative reply by Altman. That would favorably contrast ChatGPT's products, pricing, and market size with Claude's. Instead, well, it's
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by zugi 8mo ago
This will be an interesting case. Lemon has been adamant that far from "conspiring", he hadn't even known the target of the operation until he showed up that morning "to cover it." So I was sure the government had n
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by zugi 8mo ago
> I always assumed Meta has backdoor that at least allows them to compromise key individuals if men in black ask According to Meta's own voluntarily published official statements, they do not. * FAQ on encryption: https:/&#x2F
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by zugi 8mo ago
If your minor child breaks something, or your pet bites someone, you are liable. This analogy may be more apt than Tesla would like to admit, but from a liability perspective it makes sense. You could in turn try to sue Tesla for defective
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by zugi 9mo ago
Fair point. Maybe the requirement should be that the automated system provide an explanation that some human could review for fairness and correctness. While who receives the explanation may be a separate question, the drawback of LLMs ju
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by zugi 9mo ago
> I'm sure you could get an LLM to create a plausible sounding justification for every decision. That's a great point: funny, sad, and true. My AI class predated LLMs. The implicit assumption was that the explanation had to b
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by zugi 9mo ago
An AI class that I took decades ago had just a 1 day session on "AI ethics". Somehow despite being short, it was memorable (or maybe because it was short...) They said ethics demand that any AI that is going to pass judgment on
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by zugi 9mo ago
Yes, that was egregious and well-publicized. I've seen another case of a small-town sheriff arresting someone for a Facebook post that absolutely was not a threat of violence. Both were released and I believe the latter won a lawsuit
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by zugi 9mo ago
These are both true statements, but there's a huge difference in scale. The UK arrests 12,000 people per year for social media posts ( https://freedomhouse.org/country/united-kingdom/freedom-net/... ), f
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by zugi 9mo ago
> Its purpose is to scan That's its ostensible , purported , show purpose. The real purpose is to break end to end encryption to increase government surveillance and power. "But think of the children" or "be a
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Often institutions develop fundamental problems because individuals gradually adjust their behaviors away from the official norms. If it goes uncorrected, the new behavior becomes the unofficial norm. One strategy for correcting the insti
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by zugi 9mo ago
Thanks for the link, interesting article. The UK is among the worst in this regard. Regarding the article's Apple example: > The FBI eventually found a third party to break into the phone, but the tension between privacy and securit
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by zugi 9mo ago
> I dont view writing my vote on paper and scanning it to be paper voting if it's just immediately fed into a computer. The paper ballots are retained for recounts, and most places with this system automatically recount a random sub
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by zugi 9mo ago
True, but multiple security layers help both through redundancy and because they protect different things. Cell encryption is not end-to-end, so even with cell signal encryption I'm susceptible to snooping by: - the phone company - t
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by zugi 9mo ago
Many years ago browsers started alerting users to HTTP (vs HTTPS) connections and HTTPS sites using invalid or untrusted certificates. How is it possible that in 2026 we're not notified by default when we connect to a cell tower with
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by zugi 9mo ago
> I lean libertarian and I resent the nanny state, but ... I am sympathetic to restrictions for minors provided that the laws are well-written. Then you know that "but think of the children" is the most common fear-mongering ap
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And a few hundred years before that, parents complained their kids were off practicing witchcraft, instead of studying the Bible or working in the fields as they should be. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft_accus
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by zugi 9mo ago
And before sex, drugs, and rock 'n roll it was that sinful Lindy Hop those kids were doing.
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I heard a recent underground poll taken before these protests showed about 1/3 support the Shah, 1/3 oppose him, and 1/3 are ambivalent. The government of Iran has silenced all of its internal opponents, and the Shah is the m
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by zugi 10mo ago
I suspect the data from 50 or 150 years ago would be similarly distorted. "Old person dies of old person disease" does not make the news. Also the idea that homicide rates were much higher a century ago is colored by media and ent

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