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pylua··on Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike
I suspect the truth is, that in a war of equal super powers, the winner will decide what was ethical and right.
pylua··on Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike
I wish this weren’t the case but autonomous ai warfare is the future. We should accept that fact. Likely attribution for war crimes will be hard to pin down responsibility for.
pylua··on Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school
This is just the beginning.

When autonomous weapons are deployed the scale will be too large and no one can be held accountable to prosecute like Nuremberg.

Personally I have my own opinions here about moral obligations but it is best to keep those to myself.

pylua··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
What’s your main issue ? The compliance audit being lax or the compliance not being assertive enough ?
pylua··on 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees
PCI compliance works pretty well.

I would like to see restricted access to only us workers for us citizens data though.

Transferring us customer data outside the country should be illegal

pylua··on AI chatbots give wrong answers to financial queries 'most of the time'
Your tax consultants name is Claude ?
pylua··on If math is more than proof, we need to better celebrate the rest of it
Dumb question— why doesn’t proof proposal construction (not the solution) in lean get celebrated more ? That seems central to understanding.

If these proofs are so important why is there not a central repositories of the proposal in a formalized language ?

pylua··on After Math
It’s not the execs, it’s the economic pressures. If they don’t cut cost someone else will.

For the record I feel like I dm in your position also.

pylua··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
I completely understand and respect that , but the reality is that the U.S. governments opinion matters, even if you don’t like the leadership.
pylua··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
The correct name depends on your context. I know it’s unpopular but it’s true.
pylua··on Everything you do is being recorded
It gets it wrong a lot and is automated. How would you feel about being falsely accused or misunderstood ?

Also, it lays the groundwork to absolutely crush dissent in the future .

pylua··on Our position on open-weights models
True. It has been a race to the bottom for lowest cost as long as the quality meets the bare minimum. LLMs can go through and find all the nails sticking out pretty easily.
pylua··on Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
Yes, they scan your photos and text and look for reasons to report you to a government agency. They can completely misinterpret or fabricate what you have with no real controls other than good faith.

For somethings I think they are legally obligated to do this. It is creepy.

pylua··on Our position on open-weights models
I have been, yes. For a field that has engineering in the name there sure has been a lot of critical mistakes.

You have to call a spade a spade — the profession accepts this sort of tradeoff in the name of speed and cost.

A well designed system would have never allowed those mistakes to occur. I feel like using an llm to catch these sorts of things is just because it wasn’t built right in the first place.

I think ai systems will be able to build systems of abstraction that are formally verified, and we won’t be needed(eventually).

Right now it’s being used as a bandaid.

pylua··on Our position on open-weights models
The software industry should be ashamed by the number of exploits that ai can find in software. It’s really an embarrassment.

The software has to be built better.

pylua··on Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
Not always, it can be run at static code analysis or the container repository (not the prod one)?
pylua··on Our position on open-weights models
At the end of the day it hurts U.S. consumers to not have Chinese cars mainstream in the market. We lose out on features and stagnate on innovation because we are not pushed to compete.

I can’t imagine this would be any different — banning open weight models would hurt us in the long run. The point is to beat the competition, not suppress it.

There should be no limits on open or custom models. Too often safety is a synonym for surveillance and control. It’s a natural consequence, intended or not.

I am curious… why can’t distillation be stopped?

As a side not Im not against protectionism, but it has to be across the board and the same in all industries with no excrptions. We’ve let all these industries die on the vine due to cheap cost in foreign countries. It could very well happen to ai.

pylua··on Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server
This is the real answer to the op.

It’s incredible how overblown these sorts of things can become

pylua··on Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
Yes— they spy on every pic and text upload. They literally are big brother.
pylua··on Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July
You mean mortars ?
pylua··on My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress
Seems like the reshaping of an industry and is disconcerting for those of us who work in it.
pylua··on My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress
Yeah, I agree. It will be like serverless but for code : codeless.

It’s a disconcerting future.

pylua··on My AI-built PHP engine in Rust passes 17% of PHP-src tests, renders WordPress
Does anyone know why we write code anymore? Why not pass through to an llm that generates the page on the fly (ssr)?

Is it cost ?

pylua··on Postgres transactions are a distributed systems superpower
Just post to the database then asynch send to message queue. Messages should still be idempotent by the consumer but at least this follows rest and is transactional.

It’s simple and easy to follow. At scale use multi tenancy.

pylua··on One million passports leaked online
Every time I send a work email I leak my pii. We should all use government issued uuids on linked in / facebook.
pylua··on Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
Yeah, I agree completely. This is very worrisome and is creating a multi class system.
pylua··on Everyone feared AI taking over; the real danger is AI serving just the few
Small business owner in the U.S. ?
pylua··on Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
Yeah, not many industries can compete but I don’t understand the fixation on only preserving auto.
pylua··on Feds deny Polestar authorization to sell cars in US from model year 2027
I wonder why the U.S. is only interested in protecting its car industry and not others.
pylua··on Americans Have Grown Dramatically Anti-Data Center
Yes. Don’t build the data center unless you can support that. What’s so strange about it?
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