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ggjkvcxdddon OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment

Thanks for posting this. Suchir was a good dude. Nice, smart guy.

ggjkvcxdddon GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house

Are we forgetting that this only happened because they got in huge trouble with regulators and had to withdraw their cars from the street for like a year? I wouldn't take their statement at complete face value and don't see any reason for pessimism for Waymo.

ggjkvcxdddon Family poisoned after using AI-generated mushroom identification book

The fact that this exact thing has received media coverage increases the likelihood that the post is fake.

Of course the story remains plausible, and it certainly has an air of truthiness, but I'd give it very good odds for being fake.

ggjkvcxdddon Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Leaked Stanford Talk

It's ludicrous to lay this at the feet of individual employees and assert that they're all just lazy with no drive etc.

Google has severe cultural problems and the responsibility for that should be assumed by the leadership.

ggjkvcxdddon Professional poker players know the optimal strategy but don't always use it

An AI that plays a fixed exploitative strategy will end up getting figured out relatively quickly and counter exploited pretty hard. This actually happens in real life sometimes when people attempt to deploy poker bots online.

Any exploitative AI also needs the ability to adjust in real time to a different exploitative strategy, which also needs to be not easily predictable, etc.

ggjkvcxdddon LosslessCut: The Swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing

They're not mistaken. They're different programs for different tasks.

ggjkvcxdddon The Internet Archive's last-ditch effort to save itself

That doesn't make sense. Of course it's a "single point of failure". I don't think anyone could have ever thought otherwise. A competing archive service would undoubtedly be great for humanity.

ggjkvcxdddon Chess puzzle, but you are what you capture

ECHO CHESS Mar 21 (E)

♟

2:26 sec 1/8 tries 14 moves

Fun little logic puzzles for sure. Nice job!

edit: HN stripped the emoji but I did solve it, lol

ggjkvcxdddon Gemini can't show me the fastest way to copy memory in C# because it's unethical

There's a pretty vast gulf between "unwilling to answer innocent everyday questions" and "unwilling to produce child porn".

ggjkvcxdddon Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs

>I just don't understand why people would use Chrome.

Really? That seems hard to believe.

I stuck with FF until around 2016 or so before being compelled to switch. The performance was just very clearly worse than Chrome's at the time. Not sure what the state of things is now.

This is HN, so another huge reason to use Chrome is for the devtools, which I've always had a very good experience with and know pretty well. I've always found other browser devtools miserable to work with in the past, though I admit I haven't invested serious time into learning them.

All that said, the adblocking fiasco may well get me to try out FF again as my daily browser. But personally I had very clear reasons for abandoning it originally, it wasn't just cargo cutting