rockskon

We're in an uneasy truce with regards to mandatory backdoors.

They're not demanded because targets are just so easy to pop.

If we did secure software across the board with AI, there'd likely be a resurgence of calls for mandatory backdoors.

I'd argue the overwhelming majority of consumer-facing AI products aren't serious products to consumers.

I'm mostly referring to needless AI chatbots shoehorned into various places.

The military could just use different AI models for the purposes Anthropic does not want its models used for.

Purposes Anthropic already spelled out in contract form.

And now we have junior programmers that don't understand the code being generated and submit pull requests with garbage code.

Countries trying to impose their laws on other countries that affect residents of other countries seem like they're raising a question of territoriality.

Seems like that's a more appropriate venue for international discussions between governments to figure this out rather than a situation where each country is trying to pass laws that affect much of the rest of the world.

So why not apply the age verification check to known VPN services and leave residential IPs alone? Laws from one country can only apply to another country to only so much of a degree.

I did not limit my statement to "people providing their government ID are at risk" or some equivalent for a reason. Bootstrapping the service for accounts it flags as adult now completely leaves all future services who have no pre-existing userbase to behaviorally profile - facilitating an industry norm that age/ID verification should be expected going forward is, and I repeat, a risk to the safety and privacy of all users.

Don't strawman an argument next time as "uninformed" lest you reveal just how many false assumptions you were making in arriving at that conclusion.

This is the type of issue I was referring to, yes.

It will be trivial for pedophiles to figure out which accounts aren't tagged as verified adults.

And knowing how these sorts of dynamics work - it'll largely be children in third world countries that will be the primary victims of pedophiles in this manner.

Unacceptable.

There is no legitimate reason to impose age verification on users in jurisdictions that do not legally mandate it.

It is a risk to the privacy and safety of all users on the platform - it provides an easier way for pedophiles to identify underage users and provides more doxable information.

Discord has no business making this decision on behalf of jurisdictions that do not legally mandate it.

Are any of those people not investors?

Sometimes there's a fuse you can pull to disable the telematics (or whatever the heck a given car company calls it).

They were just bringing levity to an otherwise depressing topic.

What a fascinating video. What a treat to hear him talk.

Much of my excitement has been dying off due to the commercialization of the hacker community, the culture war, and the constant legislative losses for privacy and effective ownership of goods you purchase because they've code in them you often cannot legally circumvent the "digital lock" on.

I'm curious what can be done to get it back. It seems the more I care, the more I get jaded due to the constant loss of freedom with tech.

Do you have a specific example on the wiki you can cite for your grievance?

So long as it wasn't something that changed due to a firmware update after purchase, sure.

One of the most common grievances on ConsumerRightsWiki is when the terms of the sale seem to change after you've already purchased the product.

Because if you want to convince someone away from believing it's an addiction so severe it needs an act of government to address, presenting an argument that all-but-panders to their "people spend so much time on it that it must be an addiction!" priors is counter productive.

"You can stop smoking at any time"

"You can stop gambling at any time"

As much as I may agree with you, you need a different argument.

"Too good of a product" is an odd way to put it when you could apply the same logic to slot machines.

Seems a bit premature to attribute that solely (or even primarily) to Flock.

It also begs the question of if there is a deterrent effect from cameras to commit homicide, couldn't that deterrent be achieved with a far less controversial technology?

Hard disagree. Checking the accelerometer to disable tactile functionality when moving would have been a more intelligent way to go about discouraging this behavior over mandating use of a historically unpopular technology (Siri) in order to use a popular one (Maps, Bluetooth music streaming).

This reeks of the metrics-gaming desperation that we've seen in Google, Amazon, and Microsoft as well.

Shoehorn unpopular technology to gatekeep popular technology. Either way the consumer's quality of life goes down.

Nice strawman you're attacking. Kinda weird that you're arguing with yourself at this point.

Newer websites are filtered through what is acceptable from a corporate lens.

The old web culture can't exist because advertisers won't let it exist on modern platforms.

Additionally the spread of information is significantly less organic because of relentless pushes to use algorithmic feeds along with far worse distractions from content than there used to be.

I noticed that website doesn't show the absolute numbers involved in search engine use.

And you ignored the part where I said "they use the default".

That's for multiple reasons - many of them directly being Google's fault with intentional choices made towards this end.

Bing because it's the default on their web browsers they've used in college and work.

But moreso - whatever the default is what they use. They have zero attachment to Google.

Do you think there's a realistic future where the money paid for EA could possibly be recouped with product placement?

Once upon a time it would've been unthinkable for Google search to become awful and nearly worthless due, in large part, by Google's discretionary choices.

Related - interns these days don't seem to have any particular preference for using Google for finding information...

Cultural influence though?

Are you going to have MAGA Madden?

The Socialist League?

What a waste of Saudi money.

Who exactly will be cleaning and sanitizing these self-driving cars that are getting this 50%-or-greater utilization?

ETA until a drone pepper sprays an innocent student or teacher?