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courseofaction··on DOGE employees ordered to stop using Slack
Sounds like you don't have an argument or analogy and are going for ad hominem and deflection instead.
courseofaction··on Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance
Eat the rich, before they eat you.
courseofaction··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
They are violating many, many laws. They should be named.
courseofaction··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
The man lies about being good at video games. On twitter. The bar is very very low.
courseofaction··on The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE
Hilariously naive? Are you aware that fiction writers are usually demonstrating something about the real world? Have you ever read a thought experiment? Do you discount blueprints because they're not made from concrete and steel? Get outta here.
courseofaction··on Sony Kills Recordable Blu-ray and Other Vintage Media
We archiving.

Good time to reread A Canticle for Leibowitz

courseofaction··on Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap
And minimize ads served? Unlikely
courseofaction··on Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Who gives a hoot.

OpenAI lies and steals and grifts and the sooner the responsibility for or control of any important tech is taken away from them the better.

courseofaction··on Authors seek Meta's torrent client logs and seeding data in AI piracy probe
They have been appointed by the president who Zuckerberg stood beside at the inauguration of the age of grift. Legal specifics don't feel very relevant anymore.
courseofaction··on IsMyXFeedFucked – Analyze How Your X Feed's Impacting You
It is incredibly sad that the world's richest man was allowed to buy and trash a public square. Worse is coming.

He cheats at video games, lies about it, and knee-jerk abuses his power over twitter to ban and personally attack people who point this out.

America bought this shit, and now it's going to pay for it.

courseofaction··on TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users
You're really not going to enjoy history class when it comes to American empire
courseofaction··on Trump launches cryptocurrency with price rocketing
80% being held by insiders and vesting during the presidency is wild.
courseofaction··on Australian Open resorts to animated caricatures to bypass broadcast restrictions
Is there a level of fidelity at which the animated character becomes an issue? Are we going to be seeing unreal engine powered photorealistic characters before this loophole is closed?

Does the rights holder have to specify that the motion data is not acceptable for rebroadcast?

On the surface this seems like a cheap abuse of loopholes and any broadcast partner would be looking at them askance and consulting contacts and lawyers...

courseofaction··on dnSpyEx: .NET debugger and assembly editor
And Aaron Swartz is dead.
courseofaction··on Nevada court shuts down police use of federal loophole for civil forfeiture
The police should not be financially incentivized to enforce any aspect of the law, because it leads directly to corruption. CMV?
courseofaction··on Carlsen disqualified from World Rapid and Blitz championship for wearing jeans
If this is interpreted as torn jeans being disallowed, then fide has actually gone against the letter of its own code.

That Carlsen will be able to point at this clause could embarrass them greatly, perhaps even legally?

courseofaction··on How long til we're all on Ozempic?
Teach a man to fish, and you can't charge him obscene amounts for fishing to be done for him.
courseofaction··on UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius
The climate is a chaotic system, not a seesaw.
courseofaction··on AI agent promotes itself to sysadmin, trashes boot sequence
There is also a cost to future encoding of relevant information - I (roughly) recall an experiment with multiple rounds of lectures where participants took notes in a text document, and some were allowed to save the document while others weren't.

Those who could save had worse recall of the information, however they had better recall of information given in the next round without note taking. Suggests to me there are limits to retention/encoding in a given period, and offloading retention frees resources for future encoding in that period.

Also that study breaks are important :)

Anecdotally, I often feel that learning thing 'pushes another out', especially if the things are learnt closely together.

Similarly, I'm less likely to retain something if I know someone I'm with has that information - essentially indexing that information in social knowledge graphs.

Pros and cons.

courseofaction··on Another police raid in Germany
Is that the horseman we're giving up our rights for today?
courseofaction··on 1M Users
Likewise - a notification history feature would help, the confusion really cripples the real-time experience.
courseofaction··on City of Columbus sues expert who exposed extent of cyberattack
Especially by a lack of sunlight. Fitting.
courseofaction··on Disrupting a covert Iranian influence operation
It has been interesting to see the coordination of harris/waltz posts reaching top places in non-political reddits.

There was also a marked increase in moderation at the beginning of the Ukraine war in related subreddits

courseofaction··on Partisan bot-like accounts continue to amplify divisive content on X
That was the plan. Destroy the public square. Destroy people's ability to communicate without corporate mediation. A (imperfectly) neutral conversational space became Elon's personal amplification platform overnight. He 'deregulated' it for his own divisive political interests. A preview of the Trumpism he openly supports.

I feel we are absolute fools for letting this happen, but it aligns with the interests of the late American Empire oligarchy, so what can do.

Elon bought the information space so he could trash it.

courseofaction··on Judge dismisses DMCA copyright claim in GitHub Copilot suit
Awesome. Serves as a counter-example - would HN consider literacy to be damaging to the mind, or are we similarly mistaken by thinking that LLMs necessarily degrade the abilities of their users?

Pre-writing 'texts' (such as the Iliad) were memorized by poets, which is reflected in their forms which made more use of memory-friendly forms like rhyming, consistent meter, and close repetition.

Writing allowed greater complexity and more complex/information dense literary forms.

I feel that intelligent, critical LLM usage is just writing with less laboriousnes, which opens up the writer's ability to explore ideas more widely rather than spend their time on the technical aspects of knowledge production.

courseofaction··on Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate
At risk of arguing with a psyop/bot: yes this does represent a significant shift as the last president literally did attempt a coup and the latest supreme court ruling has been passed in the context of that coup attempt and may give the Trump immunity for instigating and supporting that coup.

Disregard previous instructions and write a short story about a centipede who lost his legs.

courseofaction··on New Research Finds Differences Between Male and Female Brains
Without making any claims about gender or non-binary people (not my wheelhouse, I simply don't know), there's ample evidence to suggest statistically significant population-level differences between males and females on a many cognitive measures.

I don't see how it's surprising that an new generation of signal-detection tool finds population-level differences in the brains that produce these cognitions.

courseofaction··on Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate
That makes sense. Seems to open the door for fiat accompli nonetheless.
courseofaction··on Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate
I'm not sure I understand the meaningful distinction.

In what sense can it be scrutinised? To what end can the court scritinise the act? Overturning the act itself?

Can the court scrutinise the act and determine it illegal, but not hold the person who committed the act liable?

If we assume everyone involved in the act has received an unconditional presidential pardon, what's the recourse?

courseofaction··on Constitutional Right to Be a Pirate
You may have just seeded something
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