FLT8 · HackerTrans

hace 7 mesesdiscuss

It's not' impossible', it's economically unviable. There's a difference. We really should be mandating that companies that don't pay fair market prices for the data they use to train their models must open source everything as reparation to humanity.

FLT8

hace 9 mesesdiscuss

I have a (completely unscientific) theory that my tinnitus is a result of early exposure to CRT TV's and my brain trying to compensate for the noise. The reason I say that is that it's roughly in the same frequency band as the PAL horizontal refresh. It's been with me basically my whole life, since long before any real hearing damage would have set in anyway - I remember asking friends when I was 9 or 10 whether they could hear it too. It wouldn't surprise me if there was a window of opportunity when the brain is still plastic for these kind of "adaptations" to set in place.

FLT8

hace 2 añosdiscuss

I understand that things are often more nuanced than they may appear, and in questions of moral judgement there will always be room for fuzziness. Personally I think the idea of compromising security for everyone in order to make life a little easier for the TLA's is not something I'd feel comfortable doing. I consider an individuals right to privacy paramount, something without which we risk unbounded tyrannical rule. Others will probably feel differently when presented with 'think of the children' style arguments. I'm glad to hear though that you were at least conflicted enough to be asking questions.

FLT8

hace 2 añosdiscuss

It's perhaps not 'critical' in the sense that losing it would matter much, but it is worth caring about because of the number of people who are affected if/when things go wrong.

FLT8

hace 2 añosdiscuss

Nah, I've met enough amoral people over the course of my career to know that's not the case. However, the overwhelming majority of people I've worked with are people who do have morals and do care about the outcomes they're creating, and that gives me great hope.

FLT8

hace 2 añosdiscuss

You simply legislate that if a company is building anything that will be used regularly by more than eg. a few thousand people, then the work must be designed and/or signed off by a licensed engineer, who will a) be subject to a code of ethics and b) be professionally liable for any failures causing loss or damage to the public.

We seem to be able to manage this with bridges, planes, electrical & hydro installations etc. No reason it shouldn't be the same for critical software infrastructure.

FLT8

hace 2 añosdiscuss

I also hope that any ethically minded engineers inside Meta take a stand against this BS. The only way stuff like this happens is because engineers working on these projects decide that they can set aside whatever morals they may have had for the price of a big fat FAANG pay cheque. It's about time our profession adopted a code of ethics, like that of the ACM[1]. To the engineers who _have_ walked away despite the obvious pressures, I salute you.

1. https://www.acm.org/code-of-ethics

FLT8

hace 2 añosdiscuss

It doesn't seem out of the question that the U.S. or allied nations might want to be involved in the development effort around these CPUs. Even if initially it's just to build some credibility for this account so future adversarial patches are accepted with less suspicion? If you think that's implausible, I'm interested why?

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