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Humans display a reduced set of consistent behavioral phenotypes in dyadic games https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

Community interaction and conflict on the web https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03697

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anigbrowl··on Trump says anyone who uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" is "the enemy"
I know that. I was referring to pre-registration of numerous .si domains in advance of his original announcement.
anigbrowl··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
I love IoT. It's the greedy corporations I hate. Everyone who implements this kinda abusive stuff, from the CEO down to the people building and installing the firmware, are scum.
anigbrowl··on Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
LOL

Legislators are cheap to purchase

anigbrowl··on Trump says anyone who uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" is "the enemy"
consider that this impacts every company applying for or fulfilling a contract with the federal government that uses AI. Failure to comply in their advertising, communications, or business materials could be asserted as grounds for terminating the contract. Sure, they could win in litigation but how many companies literally want to make a federal case out of it vs complying for the sake of not rocking the boat?
anigbrowl··on Trump says anyone who uses the phrase "artificial intelligence" is "the enemy"
.si domains and also it's a flex to provide pro-MAGA propagandists with a very low-cost rallying point.
anigbrowl··on President says those using the term 'Artificial' Intelligence are 'THE ENEMY'
Any company that is applying or fulfilling a federal government contract does.
anigbrowl··on Competitive and tiny decision model from Danger Labs
Nice graphic design, but I'm not going to spend half an hour weighing 50 different benchmarks trying to figure out what makes your offering special.
anigbrowl··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Those are not good examples. OP is asking about things like military coups, where the seizure of power comes from within the existing establishment.
anigbrowl··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
Hire relatively stupid people, pay them well, have several security organs and nurture a sense of competition between them.
anigbrowl··on California closed the Montana license plate loophole
Ah, the grifter's lament
anigbrowl··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
Just expand the HN comment box. Some of my greatest bangers started out with a large blank canvas that I then felt compelled to fill.
anigbrowl··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
No, it just shows you've fundamentally misunderstood the issue.
anigbrowl··on Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
A Chinese technology/military propagandist I follow asserted today that Huawei is getting net revenue from Qualcomm on this deal, marking a change from being a buyer/licensor of western technology to a provider. I don't know if it's true but this individual historically promotes the Chinese state view via selective presentation of facts rather than made-up claims.
anigbrowl··on Qualcomm licenses patents on Huawei’s LogicFolding chip tech
I suppose you could say it's an obvious thing to try but not to implement. I remember proposing something along those lines here >10 years ago but I didn't have a good comeback for how you'd address the heat dissipation problems, or enough know-how to justify trying to research it more seriously.
anigbrowl··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
It kinda is, actually. If the LLM had responded with 'woah, are you serious? That sounds like a crime and I can't just ignore that, it's made clear to the customer that such statements are out of bounds even if they were meant hyperbolically or humorously. But if someone crosses the guardrails and the system silently reports them, that's very much spying.

Obviously, it's hard to judge exactly what was appropriate there because we're being asked to extrapolate from a two word quote about the customer intending to "shoot up" the sheriff's office. Consider the following two statements, which express quite different levels of intentionality.

I got a $200 ticket from a sheriff's deputy today for throwing away an apple core. I'm so mad. I'd like to shoot up their office!

Those sheriff's deputies have exhausted my last reservoir of patience. I'm going to shoot up the department. They'll be sorry when they're sprawled all over the floor bleeding out from saucer-sized shotgun slug wounds. I can't wait to hear the screaming and crying of their miserable families!!"

I'm guessing that the diary entry was a more casual expression similar to the first statement, or they police would have quoted more of the statement to emphasize the apparent severity of the risk but it's hard to say without reading the charging documents.

anigbrowl··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
I certainly think a police officer that stumbled across such a thing would be justified in asking follow-up questions like 'hey, what's this about you going to shoot someone?' and then maybe making an arrest based on your replies/demeanor.

'Probable cause' should involve a degree of certainty, because 'possible cause' would be altogether too loose of a standard. It's possible that you're intending to shootme and you just mentioned saulpw to throw other HN users off the scent. Possibilities are only limited by the assessor's imagination.

anigbrowl··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
I have a hunch she wins the case, on the basis that an LLM isn't a person and an (assumed) private expression of anger to a machine assistant doesn't meet the statutory threashold which requires that a threat be communicated to some other person.

Of course, that could change if there's evidence that she took action in pursuit of a goal, like buying ammunition or repeatedly driving around the entrance to her alleged target.

anigbrowl··on Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage
Not sure why this is being downvoted. If you noticeably distort the local economy then people are naturally going to want to know what resources you're consuming.

but trade secrets

I think all data centers and other industrial concerns above a certain size should have to publish that.

anigbrowl··on Religious scholars met with Anthropic
I feel fine about the Chinese doing it. They have a habit there of handing out sever sentences to CEOs for corruption and self-dealing, and I feel like the possibility of actual negative consequences is more of a check on industry than any number of breathless op-eds.
anigbrowl··on We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
I would just not sign up for a service without price transparency, or pre-calculate my liability based on available information before pushing the (metaphorical) Deliver Now button.
anigbrowl··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
Well poisoning fallacy
anigbrowl··on We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Counterpoint: if you can automate API calls on the client side, why can't you automate billing caps? If you want a machine that can run 24-7 and make money for you while you sleep (which let's face it is the motivation for a lot of AI takeup), isn't the onus on you to install cicuit-breakers?
anigbrowl··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
Originally that list included Israel, the US, and Russia, who supported the establishment of the court but subsequently withdrew when they perceived that being member states would constrain their strategic ambitions.

reality is more complciated than the simplistic characterization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_and_the_Internat...

It's very clear that there's a tension between soveriegnty and accountability at work here, with the US seeking to both have its cake and eat it. Many of the objections to the Treaty of Rome stated by US commentators are equally applicable to the Nuremberg tribunals post WW2, for example.

anigbrowl··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
You talk as if the ICC had just appeared and asserted its authority out of nowhere and then started kidnapping people to charge them.

In reality, it was established by treaty, and 125 countries have chosen to vest authority in it. Originally that list included Israel, the US, and Russia, who supported the establishment of the court but subsequently withdrew when they perceived that being member states would constrain their strategic ambitions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Statute#/media/

anigbrowl··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
The use of quotes indicates that that's the US perception of her under the current administration. You can read the relevant executive order/public statements if you need insight into why Trump and his appointees feel that way.
anigbrowl··on ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts
The ICC was set up specifically to prevent national-scale criminals from hiding behind vague concepts of sovereignty and immunity, such that once someone scaled or inherited the heights of power they effectively had free rein to do whatever they want without fear of repercussions. The incentivized dictatorship as internal opposition was the only legal check on atrocity.
anigbrowl··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
The headline is phrased as a conditional, this is perfectly normal usage
anigbrowl··on 500k facial scans at UK stations yield no arrests, 1 false positive
Why don't you just fly drones directly over people's heads and monitor them that way?
anigbrowl··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
Yes, fruit grows on trees. Did you assume the comment was necessarily about grapes?
anigbrowl··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
I didn't mention racism. I pointed out that prejudice can still exist even when ethic populations are 100% culturally and linguistically integrated.
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