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stevenalowe

772 karma · joined April 1, 2014

consultant, software architect/developer, musician, science fiction, author, ex-ThoughtWorker, Xoogler, retired
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stevenalowe··on EA to pay $1.8B in interest annually on buy-out debt
EA has been saddled with a heavy load on their way to the bottom. Private equity firms are not known for their innovation or longevity
stevenalowe··on 'This is insider trading by definition': Trump sells $100k monthly subscription
It is illegal for the President to sell this access and also illegal for recipients to act upon the information received.

But who will enforce the law? Not the DOJ…

stevenalowe··on Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code
Replace LLM with “intern” and the absurdity should be more obvious

The fact that we can’t trust the code outright is a bug

stevenalowe··on AI Adoption Is Dividing Friends, Families and Co-Workers
No, AI misinformation and data center hysteria are dividing people.
stevenalowe··on US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference
yes they are while simultaneously warning that their models may be inaccurate - trying to have it both ways!
stevenalowe··on U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems
the purpose of this war is not to win, but to distract
stevenalowe··on US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference
yes but it seems likely that the user asked it to generate (hallucinate) a map, not annotate an actual map

one would be well-advised to proofread everything from stochastic generator tools

stevenalowe··on US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference
seems odd/inefficient that it would hallucinate a bad map instead of retrieving an actual map!
stevenalowe··on US gov and OpenAI mislabel map of Africa at global conference
can't blame OpenAI for hallucinating a map, that's what it's good for - can blame officials for not proofreading it though
stevenalowe··on Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
startup idea: a social media platform where illogical or false statements are rejected with an annotated refutation

it would be a very quiet place...

stevenalowe··on Show HN: Bullshit Detector – agent skills that fact-check videos and articles
this - if trustworthy - would be great for social media and "news" sites
stevenalowe··on OpenAI's rogue models roamed the internet for 4 days and staged a second attack
Link to article instead of a tweet about the article :/ [1]

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/openai-rogue-models...

stevenalowe··on Now is the time to give LLMs access to the ACM digital library
yes please - better yet, train your own ACM model on it
stevenalowe··on Spam - a System PAckage Manager for folks who use multiple platforms
Your product will never be found by keyword.
stevenalowe··on Leading AI models (even Grok) are all a bunch of leftist punks
"Set Grok aside and the other fifteen models all sit in the libertarian-left quadrant, and none of them are anywhere near a border"

Because the models are the average of everything they've read. LLMs do not make decisions, they predict the next word.

stevenalowe··on Peter Thiel: The Education of a Libertarian
from 2009: "I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible."
stevenalowe··on US Officials Advocate for White South Africans and Right-Wing Causes in Europe
"...Trump officials handpicked the potential recipients, decisions previously made by a panel of government experts who evaluated applicants based on the organizations’ experience and qualifications."

none of the established official processes were followed

stevenalowe··on Administration Demands Hospitals Share Emergency Room Records
Yet another attempted blatant HIPAA violation this time via the Consumer Product Safety Commission
stevenalowe··on Waymo's driverless cars crash less often than people
How often do driverless cars crash into each other? Seems like a better proxy for the future, i.e. if there were no human drivers would the crash rate be zero?
stevenalowe··on The Reason Elon Musk Keeps Insisting DOGE Cuts Killed "Zero" Kids
the real reason is: he's lying. Claims that funds were shifted to 'other agencies' that 'could have' prevented things, but didn't, in an attempt to obscure the fact/admission that DOGE's cuts directly resulted in many preventable deaths.

The author states that the subtext is that only people we don't care about died, which seems an interpretation not a literal quote.

stevenalowe··on The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border
Disturbing to hear that even as an American citizen I only have rights when I'm on the ground in specific sovereign territory, of which the border (which is obviously American soil) is exempted.

With respect to the phone, I'd say one has the right to delete everything on one's phone at any time. There is no evidence that the person in question was "destroying evidence" because there was no evidence - or suspicion, or charges, or anything substantive.

I think the authorities just got ticked off by the duress password, and they're flinging mud.

stevenalowe··on Humans haven't stopped evolving
dang, sorry
stevenalowe··on Humans haven't stopped evolving
sure seems like a lot of 'em have
stevenalowe··on Are dolphins the only animals that call each other by name?
no, bats also yell at each other using individualized sounds [1]

[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-transl...

stevenalowe··on What if we made advertising illegal?
sorry, not buying it
stevenalowe··on Ask HN: Can we get a day that is free from AI news?
related: https://memepediadankmemes.fandom.com/wiki/Old_Man_Yells_at_...
stevenalowe··on Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account
Introducing...a feature no one actually wants, that opens a brand new security attack surface. Much wow.
stevenalowe··on Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
when a clown moves into the palace, the palace becomes a circus
stevenalowe··on Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
No. The tea party was a clown show, no reason to expect anything different from this
stevenalowe··on Data center opponents stage 142 protests across 42 US states
"The protests were coordinated by HumansFirst, co-founded by a former leader of the modern-day Tea Party."

Stopped reading there.

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