DirkH

Did anyone else involuntarily let out multiple expletives when they saw it and it dawned on them how hard this must have been?

This is insane to me.

I don't understand how jailing CEOs doesn't place pressure on CEOs to steer a company to follow the law thereby leading to better long-term outcomes for society as a whole. It also creates an incentive structure where the corrupt systems that currently exist are harder to entrench because there is no bystander effect where everyone can just "blame the system" and go along with things without culpability.

My evidence for my view is basically pointing at all countries with strong rule of law and institutions having less corrupt systems. In so many countries bribery is just considered "the way things are done". Add robust systems for punishments to those with the most authority instead of blaming some abstract entity and watch as all of a sudden the whole system creaks towards accountability. Hasn't this happened reliably in basically every country that enacted and reliably enforced democratic laws?

Proposition:

Please promise to come back to this comment in 2030 and playfully mock me for ever being worried and I will buy you a coffee. If AGI is invented before 2030 please buy me one and let me mock you playfully.

Most certainly yes

This is something I agree with. The world would be more secure if we made SMS obsolete and Apple making a push away from it is arguably net positive.

Sounds like a "make better warning messages" issue.

Most users are not able to root their device due to the number of steps needed and will give up on an app that needs root access. Make it so that you have to do something other than just clicking a warning message to enable using your Pebble then.

Warning messages can be made idiot proof with some thought.

If they block access to all Pebble watched AFTER it has been shown to be opening a dangerous gateway to spammers despite valiant attempts by all to engineer it to be safe, then that would be a lot less of a scandal.

If they further block it by default but allow Pebble users to bypass the block with some very scary warning message then My God there wouldn't be a scandal at all. People who know and accept the risks can use the thing they paid money for as they please then.

Wasn't the word still nonetheless unjustifiably weaponized? Would it not be extremely reasonable to be upset if a sitting US president prior to the US getting involved in WW2 criticized Churchhill and strategically called him a dictator to delegitimize him?

Big take given how much AI companies hate alignment folks.

Just explicitly tell it not to write code? I do that all the time when I do not want code and it's never an issue.

Why illegitimate? The Americans voted for him.

Do you have reading material you can recommend on this for someone that wants to learn enough to get an informed opinion on this?

People keep forgetting anonymous and private are two different things

Consider a homeless person stole from a food bank to sell the food to make money - and nowhere acknowledged where the food came from or that others can get the same food for free; and moreover claimed "this is fresh food I have meticulously sourced myself!"

Everyone from the foodbank to other homeless people would justifiably be furious at this scam artist when they learn more. That's the morally repugnant situation we find ourselves in with Honey.

Copyleft infringement is perhaps better thought of as stealing from a foodbank than government corruption.

I legitimately don't see how your point meaningfully connects to the comment you're responding to

It is way worse for juniors now. There was a time where merely reading CtCI printed your job offer at Google right out of school.

Incrementally stir shit to desensitize everyone to their doing shit. It is basically them mocking and openly defying the US-led rules-based world order. It sends a "see, what a useless world order if I can just do this with no recourse" message.

A friend of mine visited Germany and talked to Germans about the threat of nuclear war and what they may or may not be doing. She said there was a very bizarre "it will never happen" vibe wherever she asked. Germans basically laughed at her for taking it as a serious concern worth discussing, even smart Germans with solid academic backgrounds. In the US it is a very different story. Whether a Stanford alumni or a rando at a bar Americans are much less likely to laugh you off for taking the prospect of nuclear war seriously.

So everything you say seems to fit to me.

Sounds like a cop out response. Placing blame on individual employees is not mutually exclusive with placing blame on a company's board.

I disagree. Or at least I do for myself. It is the same reason studying physics theory alone is sometimes not enough to "get it". Often to really learn something you need the dirty real-life demo.

You don't have to excessively see hours upon hours of such footage.

But a single harsh and gruesome traffic death footage sure as hell made me more careful in traffic. No amount of crumpled car metal was going to properly internalize in me how sudden and unexpected death can be and how fragile life really is.

"The job market will adapt and horses will simply find employment elsewhere now that we have cars"

The industrial revolution is not an apt analogy. Humans were still too essential to getting factories to actually work. Horses becoming useless - by no fault of their own - is an apt analogy. We are rushing to a world where humans can be fully replaced.

This "humans will always be in the loop no matter what" is just Cope. We simply don't know what will happen or the what the upper bound of AI capabilities will be. But 100% automation and humans as knowledge workers being as useless vs AI as horses vs cars is no longer sci-fi. We don't know if it will, but this is a future that actually could happen within our lifetimes.

Marketing probably

Wow, we are getting Cyberpunk lore in real-life? The CIA, FBI, NSA, and DEA all conspired to overthrow the US government in Cyberpunk lore - though not as a united front and they also fought with each other iirc

Delivery drivers/taxis just text me when calling fails. The upsides far outweigh the downsides of blocking all calls not in my contacts. Humans and institutions adapt to new normals. Some just slower than others.

Don't come here with your nuance! It'll confuse people and they won't know what side to take! The horror!

I mean, there is a reading here where the cop - though self-righteous - was trying to avoid you getting a ticket which for some (if not most?) people is a worse outcome than having their time wasted

Either way, you have a good mom lol

The week thing is a myth. Either that part is blatantly false or someone violated MAID law. It can't happen that fast legally.

I agree with you that it isn't necessarily net-negative.

I cannot begin to tell you how much more respect and care I give to the road and cars after witnessing so many videos of how violently and suddenly car accidents can take a life. Many of the horrors of these videos are burnt into my mind and I am confident this is for the better.

We live in the real world. It is important to see the real world as it is.

There are if course mental health limits to this. I never want to be desensitized. But in moderation I think it can be net-positive.

It would not surprise me if most people could not tell whether some story about the human condition is human or AI generated. Excluding actual visual artists that have specific context of the craft, most people already can't tell AI art from human art when put to a blind test.

It's an empirical one born of Dutch evidence