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The New Panopticon: How AI Changes Accountability

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1 points·by Florin_Andrei·hace 5 meses·1 comments

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Florin_Andrei
·hace 5 meses·discuss
If you use AI, the paper trail you leave behind may now operate at a much higher level. Here's why. Also, here are some mitigation techniques.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 5 meses·discuss
I think we're still at the stage where model performance largely depends on:

- how many data sources it has access to

- the quality of your prompts

So, if prompting quality decreases, so does model performance.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 5 meses·discuss
Some cleanup needs to happen, when the dust settles.

It's just not clear to me who, or what, will do it.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 5 años·discuss
In the (now not very) long run, programming was a job meant for computers, anyway. The future will look back at "programming" the way we now look at Charles Dickens characters toiling in soot-filled factories. It's not what people are best at, and it looks like soon there will be better ways to accomplish this job.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 6 años·discuss
> I could never run a scalable service on the cloud without Kubernetes.

I find this statement quite bizarre.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 7 años·discuss
> it seems like these drugs affect the brain in a way that's more akin to a super-placebo

When the only thing that's changing is a state of mind, then placebo is actually the real deal.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 7 años·discuss
> learning the hard way that you can have newlines in filenames

Speaking as someone who is using Unix-like systems since the days of Santa Cruz Operation and Linux on a 50 MB disk partition - not everything that is permissible is auspicious.

And most often that's because the permissions were too lax to begin with. That's what you get when a bunch of pot-smoking hippies (X) draw your OS specifications.

I avoid using even spaces in file names, for this specific reason.

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(X) - and I say that in the best way possible, though some may be inclined to disagree.

"...he and brethren were attempting to make a small fortune for themselves by secreting away an item - a printed book - that was easy enough to get in 1640 but near impossible to get in Tristan's age, making it of great worth."

"So you're thieves and chancers," said I approvingly.

"No," he objected.

-- The Rise And Fall Of D.O.D.O. by Neal Stephenson and Nicole Galland
Florin_Andrei
·hace 8 años·discuss
Sure, but the specialized subreddits are a little too "baseline". For my hobbies, I still go on the actual forums when I need to speak with someone about issues beyond entry level.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 8 años·discuss
His enthusiasm is awesome. He loves science, and you can very easily tell just by watching him.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 8 años·discuss
Sounds like the minimum level of automation that would work is full blown AGI + autonomous robots that could at least match humans in terms of skill and strength.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 9 años·discuss
> There is definitely an education bubble.

Right, and people in poor countries stealing money to feed themselves is a "food bubble", with the solution being a reduction in food consumption.

How come there is no "education bubble" in countries where college is essentially free? That would be guaranteed to create the biggest bubble of all.
Florin_Andrei
·hace 12 años·discuss
I can't say I've fallen in love with it, but it's okay. The Mac app provides decent notifications - but I actually don't use it that much, I've installed the Android app on my phone and that works pretty well.

The notifications are clever enough to not ping me again on the phone if the Mac app is already running.

Integration with other things is dead simple - I had Sensu alerts sent to Slack in a matter of minutes.

I don't know. It's instant messaging, it's not like they've reinventing rocket science from scratch, but it's a good implementation of the concept, multiplatform, well integrated.