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Anonbrit
·3 giorni fa·discuss
Yet we still have tobacco and vape companies
Anonbrit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
In the US, there's a government shooting people in the streets, with jackbooted thugs operating with impunity in multiple cities, a leader who's started a war to try to drown our discussion of his pedophile tendencies, the highest court int he land has become nakedly partisan (and openly for sale), yet people are mad about the price of gas.

What an outsider thinks people should be mad about, and what they're actually mad about, are often two different things
Anonbrit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
I'd say instead that we value the commons and don't like companies making money by externalising all their problems to the general public.

If company Foo leaks my personal data, I suffer, they don't, so without regulation there's no reason for them to invest in protecting it. Same with pollution and similar
Anonbrit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
For encrypted disks, you've now got high-performance data shuffling between userspace and kernel space - a massive new attack surface
Anonbrit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
The thing with a jury is that there are motivated experts on both sides explaining the technical details in a (hopefully) easy to understand way, a judge to help ensure fair play, and an appeals process as an escape valve.

Where are any of those safety measures here?
Anonbrit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
You have a right under the GDPR to get a copy of all data associated with you PII data. Not just your PII data, but every table where PII is a field, or is transitively joinable. If they can provide somebody else something with your name associated with it, they have to provide it to you
Anonbrit
·2 mesi fa·discuss
Stock is worth exactly what people will pay for it. Ebay share holders get to vote to accept or reject this deal
Anonbrit
·3 mesi fa·discuss
Nearly a decade old story now
Anonbrit
·3 mesi fa·discuss
He can apply to the court for special permission - and probably use ADA to guide permission
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
People have been making the same complaint about Dr Who for at least 40 years, couched in the language of the day. Same with Star Trek.
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
The phrase "the key insight" now sets my teeth on edge due to how often it appears in LLM writing
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Nothing unites a group like a common enemy. If it does fall apart into civil war, expect past and random terrorism for years
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Was he buying from Ea-nāsir?
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
I don't think any commercial entity can be trusted to break the law on behalf of customers who only pay a small fee each
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Any chance of pushing it to GitHub? My swift knowledge could be written out on an oversized beer coaster currently, so I'm still collecting useful snippets
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
There are plenty of examples of AI being successfully used to emulated the email / messaging style of a specific individual already known to the target, for spear fishing attacks, and fake video and audio of family members tricking people. I think you're substantially underestimating the peak ability of AI these days
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Plausible but lacks suggested experiments or predictions. Seems testable in principle though, in both human and animal models
Anonbrit
·4 mesi fa·discuss
Humans also write endless amounts of convincing bullshit, and have done since time immemorial. False papers and faked results have been a growing scourge in academia before LLMs were a thing, and that's just counting the intentional fraud - the reproducibility crisis in science, especially medical and psychological science, affects even the best designed and well intentioned of studies.

Humans also make mistakes and assumptions while reverse engineering, so it will always need more engineers to go through the results, test things
Anonbrit
·5 mesi fa·discuss
You have to be careful when you edit comments - you can be seen as editorialising, which can lose you protection against being liable for defamation in some jurisdictions. Probably not a huge issue for a small website, but now risk than I'd like to take