eveninghere

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eveninghere ,

We aren't naive. We all knew this will happen. But, as it happened, it was better than banning AI in the free world and giving dictators advantages in AI tech.

eveninghere ,

The reality is, passing this huge amount of data was the only way these crazy current AI models work as powerful as ChatGPT. With a restriction like you fantasize, the AI programs would have been dominated by bad actors and the west would not have a counter technology for a decade if not longer.

Regulating the outputs of AIs would be a separate story. But it's still overwhelmingly difficult. OpenAI is actually advanced in this region in the sense that they have in pocket the single best technology to politically balance the replies by a chatbot.

eveninghere ,

I already write one reply to tell my main point. But whatever argument you come up with, I don't think that'll match the reality as viewed by AI researchers. If you give me specific short questions I'd be happy to engage in a discussion, with conditions on time.

In any case, I won't listen to metaphoric arguments like yours with guns because metaphoric arguments are very difficult to do scientifically. Every situation is different. I mean that anybody can always end the discussion saying "that's oranges vs apples", and everything time this happens you'd not have an objective way to counter that.

eveninghere ,

I can say it's both on point and not. For the not, you can ban the gun in the UK and it will be very difficult to bring one from the continent. Peace. But the same is not true for AI. If the UK government bans AI, Russia can still bring it through the internet.

And then I can still counter-argue that one, and then counter-argue this one also. See what a mess a metaphoric arguments bring.

eveninghere ,

This is just labeling. You can label everything as bad at will. I'm fine with that, it's called "you're entitled to your opinion". That's not objective though.

eveninghere ,

I think one has to gather more proof before concluding that the gap is due to LLMs. It can also be that the engagement was lost due to third party app drop. We don't have stats to distinguish them.

eveninghere ,

I think you should clarify the problem first.

Privacy? You lose your privacy the moment you publish your blog anyway.

Is it visibility? You never expected Google to show your blog in most cases.

AI training? You could self-host and hope companies respect your robot.txt. But what's the actual problem if you released your blog to the public in the first place? Anybody could've copy & pasted your blog also before this AI era.

eveninghere ,

But... have we ever had privacy with blog articles? I mean the public ones.

eveninghere ,

The moment of a historic hand shake

eveninghere ,

Yup, the megarich owns, what, 99% of the wealth? 99% of people are just negligible errors in statistics, depending on how you measure the economy.

eveninghere ,

The governments are abusing researchers. How do institutions even help them?

eveninghere ,

This is great, I can show all my 4k porn collection to my managers doing Teams screen sharing!

eveninghere ,

Well, so, you use password generator, the password screenshot is saved.

This makes most password generators useless because they show the password for user feedback. You can turn this MS AI off, but I will have no idea if there was a bug.

eveninghere ,

Technically, being open source or free ala GPL isn't enough. Protocols aren't enough.

You need a guarantee that you own your data.

eveninghere ,

Corporations are bad and yet still follow laws (in the west). The bigger issue is state actors. Especially the non-democratic ones.

eveninghere ,

sometimes-correct summary without needing to click on a single result

Crazier than it sounds. We don't see the page contents AT ALL by default.

Are there any WYSIWYG html editors? just curious

Hello, i was looking for a wysiwyg html editors i could use for my personal website, perferrably just as a simple open source desktop program on linux (though anything else is fine). i DID find something called KompoZer but i was wondering if there's any other ones, thanks

eveninghere ,

The trend of wysiwig editing moved onto web services from desktop apps. Those aren't FOSS. Weebly is good.

jekyll / hugo are the FOSS option imho. There's also wordpress but I don't know if it's open source.

eveninghere ,

Imagine you damage the brain cells to quit the game. Instant isekai irl.

eveninghere ,

This post shows why I prefer fediverse over Reddit. On Reddit this post would be flooded with rants going like"people who don't vote Biden over antisemitic protests are the problem!!!"

eveninghere ,

Yes. If that looks bizarre, they've forgotten his Presidency.

eveninghere ,

That's apparently how Russia works.

eveninghere OP ,

Honestly, though, I wonder why memes don't flood out to news magazines.

eveninghere OP ,

That meme I'm talking about is actually from Biden supporters.

eveninghere OP ,

Maybe, hard to see the stats as an end user but I agree with you.

eveninghere ,

Browsers should suggest to refuse to jump to a URL whenever Musk is found in the target webpage.

eveninghere ,

You just reminded me employees in my company who are mostly like that.

eveninghere ,

Are you sure your mother will charge her watch everyday though

eveninghere ,

I wonder why nobody makes a phone specialized for elderly people these days. Those smart gadgets are absolutely horrible for elderlies. They can't do literally nothing because the UI is too complex for them.

Something simple like a speaker + mic with a set of big buttons together with stickers of who to call is everything they need. No Whatsapp, also probably no email. Then add a forced call mode that only carers and families can activate.

Biden needs Blue Wall victories to win 2024 Electoral College map ( www.politico.com )

While polls broadly show Biden continuing to fall behind former President Donald Trump in swing states across the country, they consistently show the older, whiter states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as the most competitive for Biden. Trump has larger leads in the Sun Belt states, in large part owing to...

eveninghere ,

I bet he listened to zionist patrons for campaign funds, and that was the last straw.

eveninghere ,

Not cool

UN declined offers to assist Uyghur asylum seekers detained in Thailand because they feared "China would get angry and reduce cooperation or donations to the agency" ( www.thenewhumanitarian.org )

The UN’s refugee agency rebuffed requests from the Thai government to assist 48 Uyghur asylum seekers from China who have been detained in life-threatening conditions in Thailand for more than 10 years, according to internal UNHCR documents seen by The New Humanitarian....

eveninghere ,

You know what it's called? Corruption.

eveninghere ,

Depends on how much Google pays for this, but, yeah, I don't think the ex-employees net-benefit.

eveninghere ,

No, because security. Look up how oauth works and why.

Instagram Advertises Nonconsensual AI Nude Apps ( www.404media.co )

Instagram is profiting from several ads that invite people to create nonconsensual nude images with AI image generation apps, once again showing that some of the most harmful applications of AI tools are not hidden on the dark corners of the internet, but are actively promoted to users by social media companies unable or...

eveninghere ,

This one's fixable. Just hold Meta accountable. It should be illegal they don't manually filter ads when submitted.

eveninghere ,

LLMs don't generate that sort of templated response for conversation (although they do for software code).

It's more likely a traditional ad, using some classical algorithms perhaps.

eveninghere ,

Someone has to rewrite this...

You have to read thousands of words past Executive Summary to see what's going on, which eventually turns out to be the usual left-right culture war (aargh...) The worst is that this actual theme is hidden in the links and is never directly mentioned in the letter.

The letter also stops short of taking side between left and right although the links clarify it's obviously the former.

It instead accuses the NixOS platform of having "systemic" problems in "leadership," "structure," etc. etc. I was like, "just say it, you simply believe in a more progressive NixOS team."

They only say "bad behaviors," then define bad behaviors with abstract terms using one paragraph. That's shortly after the text uses the metaphor of "missing stairs in a staircase", without explaining what these missing stairs are about.

So abstract, without examples for all this depth of abstraction.

They go on with their "bad behavior", bad behavior, bad behavior, and finally there are links. If you click on the first (?) of these links, you finally see that this one example was about minority representation in NixOS development. In the rest, you see examples of the usual conservative vs. progressive culture war.

There are proper ways to do this.

eveninghere ,

So... why don't they just write that people (or they) want a more progressive NixOS management?

Would be more to the point.

Edit: if you doubt, just check all the examples in the letter.

eveninghere ,

Not the person you wrote to, but TB has native code in C++, so I don't really think the speed will change. The official website also doesn't advertise speed improvements. It argued that Rust is (almost) as fast as the current native C++ part in TB, and that's about it.

eveninghere ,

It was the academic way of politely expressing that she's a fascist.

Sadly, Congresspeople ain't academics.

eveninghere ,

People there are happy to continue with WeChat. I'm not sure if they know what it means for WeChat to be never taken down while others are.

Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract ( www.nbcnews.com )

"Google issued a stern warning to its employees, with the company’s vice president of global security, Chris Rackow, saying, “If you’re one of the few who are tempted to think we’re going to overlook conduct that violates our policies, think again,” according to an internal memo obtained by CNBC."

eveninghere ,

Why did you put the question marks there?

eveninghere , (edited )

They believe they will not be thrown under the bus. They are against socialism, after all.

eveninghere ,

But weren't those canceled by Supreme Court?

eveninghere ,

No way Republicans will shoot down Israeli budget. So...

eveninghere , (edited )

How do people even find the legitimate sites for Win apps these days? I mostly can't. Even the legitimate github repos occasionally link to Sourceforge wtf

eveninghere ,

Well, actually, anybody can edit Wikipedia and the page updates immediately.

eveninghere ,

Yup, this is why I didn't buy. I didn't smell a good intention. (Although, I refrained from judging whether the price would go up or down.)

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