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Er... No that's not a meaningful critique. There's no framework that doesn't assume it's a random process. The point is to find out how likely each step is to occur, randomly.

All addressed in TFA. The author writes multiple times that this is experimental, would be a drop in the bucket, and brings its own power cost to implement - and that GAW is in no way intended to directly "fix" web power consumption.

I've rebuilt multiple gatsby projects in NextJS recently, and mostly it's actually been pretty nice. However, the crazy high level of abstraction and black-boxing does mean occasionally we run into bugs caused by undocumented behavior and have no idea what is the right way to handle them.

Since I don't use LLMs to directly code for me, I'm going to (mis?)place my trust in Kagi assistant entirely for the time being. It claims not to associate prompts with individual accounts. Small friction of keeping a browser tab open is worth it for me for now.

Seems the same thing. They're giving plausible deniability, but knowing they'll still scoop up a worthwhile amount of data/profit from some % of users.

public/private isn't a binary, it's a spectrum. we Americans mostly sit in the shithole middle ground where our data is widely disseminated among private, for-profit actors, for the explicit purpose of being used to manipulate us, but it's mostly not available to us, creating an assymmetric power balance.

I have more complaints about this shitty article than it is worth. At least it's clearly a human screed, not LLM generated.

Just say you won't honor it and move on.

I'm not questioning the credentials of your coworkers - I didn't know they existed!

Just so I'm clear then, because this adds a lot of context: Nobody else worked on the 2 softwares you mentioned, but you are on a team? Are the softwares part of a business, one that's making money?

> From the outside, it would appear to any domain expert that at least three other people worked on these giving the pace at which they got completed.

Did several domain experts tell you this or are you making it up?

> I can't imagine how anyone, in any field of information systems, is not multiples more effective than they were five years ago.

Perhaps "they are massively more complex than anything I've done"

The question was framed that way but in fact this conversation isn't about your personal resistance to a particular scam vector.

Many sites do offload 100% of their emailing to 3rd party trackers. Therefore nobody can use those sites without engaging in 3rd party tracking. Therefore these sites have created an environment favorable for this scam vector.

Yes, safety is a limiter on development velocity one way or another.

I don't know whether "plotting harm" is a critical ability for passing some invisible threshold in not-well-defined intelligence. But building AI to avoid being harmful is incentivized against because it takes resources away from building AI to be more capable.

Like many situations in the current world, it's all a problem. Those with profit incentives to do so will create as many problems for society as they can.

None of it is merely a distraction, we just don't have the capacity to defend against all of it.

It is fair to say we might be practically better off focusing on one form of attack and sacrificing defense against another, but the only way to actually be safe is to stop your enemy from attacking at all. Either we shut down breakneck AI development (nearly impossible and guaranteed to have its own bad outcomes) or we slide rapidly into a more and more dangerous world.

it is believed by some to be inevitable, yes.

sexism aside, they did say exactly what they meant.

unless the product manager decided the link in the email is

track.monkey.exe/sus/path/spyware?c=behhdywbsncocjdb&b=ndbejsudndbd&k=uehwbehsysjendbdhjdodj

or something 2x–3x longer

That's all been thought of, yeah.

No, AGI isn't a good thing. We should expect it to go badly, because there are so many ways it could be catastrophic. Bad outcomes might even be the default without intervention. We have virtually no idea how to drive good outcomes of AGI.

AGI isn't being pursued because it will be good, it's being pursued because it is believed to be more-or-less inevitable, and everyone wants to be the one holding the reins for the best odds of survival and/or being crowned god-emperor (this is pretty obviously sam altman's angle for example)

sic semper operarius.

you will never be given your time back by an employer. you have to take it. you might be able to ask for it, but it won't be freely given, whether or not you become more efficient. LLM chatbots and agents are, in this sense, just another tool that changes our relationship to the work we do (but never our relationship to work).

2 years ago i replaced my last win10 installation with linux mint and i literally never think about going back. i am a pretty technical person and i still run into issues sometimes that take a few sessions to resolve though. i wish it was an easier sell to my friends. i began to feel extremely creeped out by my computer running windows which was was ultimately motivated me, but i not only avoided the evils of microsoft, i feel much more in-control and capable of doing more on linux.

it's crazy to me when my friends will say shit about configuration and i'm like, what's the tradeoff? configuring windows to just work like a normal computer is MUCH more work. the only way to put in no work is to be farmed for data and treated like a child by your own computer.

hell, i'm actually even ok with a browser openly having a political stance[1] and i also hate the way firefox communicates. the colorway thing (not the word itself; that's standard design terminology the OP ranter isn't aware of) especially is disgusting. literally no-one is empowered by selecting a color theme for their browser. i know disabled artists and other "independent voices" and i promise none of them is saying "i finally feel free since i switched to firefox and got to make my browser green." it's quite offensive all around.

[1] the OP rant is also pretty obviously wrong in assuming the non-mozilla companies they support don't have/push political stances