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> If these models are such an existential threat to humanity, why are they controlled by two private companies?

The government routinely contracts with private companies to create arms and munitions. Or do you think the bombs are delivered without payloads?

I personally appreciate very much that this site doesn't have such a feature.

The patent was filed in 2009 https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en

What's the incentive now and why would that change, in your view?

It's called the xy problem already.

Just say the AI did it on its own and you'll be off the hook.

Why do they say it's white hat hackers?

That was practically a different era.

Is this just from your direct experience or do you have data to back that up? Are you talking about credentialed engineering like mechanical or civil engineering or just software developers?

From what I can tell most people do something like me@myname.whatever or hi@domain.

The government has a monopoly on regular mail though (at least in the US). Should email be treated as a utility?

There are many opportunities to start the your own invisible company. I once started a small business ($33k/year) that sold exactly one product to one company for a few years. One thing the article glosses over in the Steven Ross discussion is that this guy was clearly entrepreneurial: he was able to see the gaps and find or build solutions to fill them. You can in fact build a business around solving a "simple" problem for one business, and because it is a small scale you are essentially invisible to the would-be competition.

They are already doing the camera thing with flock.

The only reason Anthropic and OpenAI make money is by saying AI will replace workers? Not from selling access to their models?

What do you use that for?

I love this! Years ago I had an idea to catalogue "bathrooms around the world" which would include some very strange urinal positions. We need to expand to Europe and get Crown and Treaty imaged.

What are you talking about? You can buy a cell phone with internet service completely anonymously in the US.

The creator of a specific technology getting acquihired doesn't stop others from competing with the original. If anything, acquihire is a validating signal and probably leads to more entries into the market.

This is also listed in TFA, fourth paragraph.

They lost me when they threw everything out and moved to Chandler. Now they're throwing everything out again. I love the idea, maybe it's time to vibecode an alternative.

As someone who as extracted dmt from mimosa hostilis, more people should do it than buy god knows what RCs on the darkweb.

Tech development is hindered in the USA?

What does this comment add to the conversation? Is it just flame bait? Seems you have a habit of making this pointless comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49189670

Why would they need permission to use a currency?

I was thinking about it more like if cops didn't have discretion, they would have to arrest for every minor offense and let the courts sort it out. After more reading it seems there are differing interpretations of the "Take Care" clause. Thank you for taking the time to explain.

> Beyond these constraints, the Clause raises several vexing questions. For instance, must the President enforce those laws she believes are unconstitutional? Some scholars argue that Presidents must enforce all congressional laws, without regard to his or her own constitutional opinions. Yet modern Presidents occasionally exercise a power to ignore such enactments on the grounds they are not true “laws” subject to the faithful execution duty. In so doing, they somewhat mimic the arguments and practice of President Thomas Jefferson, who refused to enforce the Sedition Act on the grounds that it was unconstitutional.

https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/art...

They mentioned the pixel phone so probably using https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/platforms/android...

I think this version has a certain charm to it, reminiscent of Wall-E. I think avoiding the uncanny valley is better than trying to cutemax and failing.

Isn't discretion a foundational principle in the exercise of the executive's functions? Or is discretion reserved only for the judiciary?

I asked if it was always bad. It seems you agree that it is not always bad.

So to use paypal you actually have to reduce the security of the phone?