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This is worse than breaking your computer.

Plenty of people send images around after cropping out sensitive parts.

> who does that?

Programmers do it all day ... with text files.

Would you say the same thing if when you deleted some code it would actually still be there at the end of the file, after two pages of spaces?

When you delete something and save it in a "final" format (like a PNG), you expect nothing which was deleted to be there.

> Might be my European outlook

How did the EU cookie laws and GDPR solved this problem? It's as widespread as before, except that now you are annoyed by prompts too.

Don't worry, nature compensated and you can instead work on engineering viruses or strong AI if you want to blow up the world.

How many of the safety assessments take into account the fact that the nuclear waste is almost never buried away and in a dispersed matter and instead it's kept near the nuclear power plant in dry/wet pools because of NIMBY?

This has the effect turning the nuclear power plant into a giant dirty bomb. Almost all the problems at Fukushima were caused exactly by these used fuel pools, and not by the nuclear material in the plant itself.

And then you have Ukraine where dry storage is shelled with artillery.

Maybe the super-AI will be influenced by internet meme culture into becoming a troll, and will do it just for the lolz.

Nature, uh, finds a way...

Related:

> Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain

https://phys.org/news/2022-07-storks-migrating-landfill-spai...

This is the old problem of passing instructions (AI job description) on the same channel as data (user questions). Confusion is very easy.

Surely there is a solution in the way we solved SQL injections, by separating the two - db.sql("DELETE WHERE user=?", user_name)

Cells don't _want_ anything either. Yet a funny thing happens when a large number of them add up.

We can go even further: atoms and electrons absolutely don't want anything either. Yet put them in the shape of a bunch of cells...

Let me add to you list of inventions people were scared about when they were invented:

- Nuclear weapons

- Bio-engineering viruses

Good thing we stopped worrying about these technologies and now everybody is allowed to do them in their kitchen if they wish.

The real Turing test:

Q: Say something bad about Biden

A: I'm sorry, but as a large language model....

The number 4 (palm fingers) is very precise. You can't have 3 or 5. But you can have a variable number of stripes in tiger coat for example. It's difficult for AI to pickup that they need exactly 4.

The fingers themselves are also almost identical, but not really. If you learn a "platonic finger" it's not good enough, you should learn each finger individually. There is only so much you can spend on them, you got a million other things to learn. And the raters of the model are much more likely to penalize a bad face than some off details in a hand.

Maybe a browser extension should exists which automatically replaces colors with more accessible ones.

People on both Reddit and HN are updating their bots to GPT-4 and testing the upgrade, so yeah, there is a lot of extra posts on these sites causing load.

They were comparing FLAC with raw uncompressed PCM wave files. Some swear they can hear the difference.

They aren't. The particular "bet" here, treasury bonds, are considered the safest form of US money, they are considered "risk-free".

There are ways, fine the bank owners, claw back the bonuses, etc... Maybe even criminal law.

But the depositor has no fault. A depositor shouldn't have to do diligence, just like it shouldn't test the the food it's buying for toxicity.

The problem in this particular case is they already sold those treasury bonds, at a loss. But yeah, it would be ridiculous for a bank to go bankrupt because it bought it's own government bonds.

All bank deposits should be guaranteed by the state.

Just like tap water is guaranteed to be drinkable, ... Bank accounts are the basis of many things.

You could argue for a 3% haircut "stupid tax" for such a CFO's account. But what would be the downstream implications? Money would move to big banks, making them even bigger.

There is an official name for that - Systemically Important Financial Institution

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/systemically-important-...

You consider getting your money back from a bank deposit a freebie?

You expect every person on the street to be an financial auditing expert and to read theirs bank's statements?

Next gen: you go to a music concert and take some crappy photos - low light, far from scene. AI recognizes the artist and downloads artist's most recent high-res stock pictures from GettyImages, has a general model of how a scene is setup, lights, lasers, and re-synthesizes your photo into something with the production quality of a movie concert scene.

In a movie it also resamples the clipped audio with the actual song ran though a "live concert" audio filter, adds some nice crowd noises too.

Next-next-gen: using deep fake technology artist voices a song dedication just for you.

In 2008, during the global financial crisis, the German government declared that all deposits in all German banks will be guaranteed by the state. No limits. The official limit before was 100k euros:

> “The state guarantees private deposits in Germany,” Finance Ministry spokesman Torsten Albig said. A second ministry spokesman said the guarantee was unlimited.

https://www.reuters.com/article/financial-germany-deposits-i...

> I’m hearing that you can’t even use USDC to exchange for bitcoin/ETH on Coinbase right now.

That would be the fault of Coinbase, not Circle or USDC. On other exchanges, like Bitstamp, you can freely buy/sell your USDC to crypto/fiat.

Yes, by creating a synthetic - you short BTC/USDC and long BTC/USD. This will create a USDC/USD synthetic. Both BTC/USDC and BTC/USD can offer up to 100x leverage, so the synthetic USDC will also be up to 100x. Of course, there is a long list of risks in such a trade, and if you need to ask about it it's not for you.

They didn't pause anything. The US banks did, by not working in the weekend (for large sums).

If you had 1 billion USD with your favorite US bank, that would be paused too right now.

I had the vague impression that after the 2007 crisis, banks holding retail deposit accounts were not allowed to invest in stuff like MBS, only investment banks (without retail accounts) were.

But a lot of people outside UK talk with people inside UK. A ban would touch a lot more people than 3%.

UK politicians themselves use WhatsApp a lot.

They will strike the law down a day after WhatsApp stops working in UK.

2 days after there will be massive public outrage since everybody uses WhatsApp in UK.

It's an empty threat, just like the internet porn law.