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The New Panopticon: How AI Changes Accountability

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1 points·by Florin_Andrei·il y a 5 mois·1 comments

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Florin_Andrei
·il y a 5 mois·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
·il y a 5 mois·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
·il y a 5 mois·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
·il y a 5 ans·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
·il y a 7 ans·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
·il y a 7 ans·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
·il y a 8 ans·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
·il y a 8 ans·discuss
His enthusiasm is awesome. He loves science, and you can very easily tell just by watching him.
Florin_Andrei
·il y a 8 ans·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.