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A $4 million fine? That's so much cheaper than the cost of archiving!

Which article are you referring to? I didn't see it in the parent.

Yes, I have a friend who does this for a living. The trick is apparently to get a high enough rating that companies give you software pre-release, and you can vacuum up the low hanging fruit before everyone else.

He claims legacy car companies are bad at security and pay a lot.

"Anyone can break up a showing of an enemy propaganda film by putting two or three dozen large moths in a paper bag. Take the bag to the movies with you, put it on the floor in an empty section of the theater as you go in and leave it open. The moths will fly out and climb into the projector beam, so that the film will be obscured by fluttering shadows."

I doubt anyone tested how difficult it would be to acquire three dozen large months and fit them into a paper bag, then smuggle that into the movies. I'd like to try though.

I really hope we're able to use LLMs to understand animals in the near future. They are communicating, and we should be able to communicate back.

Neuromancer was published in 1984 and I think we are finally on the verge of creating constructs.

The future of GPT could be like a construct, or an AI embryo. Something you can purchase that will consume every piece of data you have ever produced - every text, comment, journal or blog. Then it will consume every piece of data you have consumed - every book, movie, song or headline. An AI that can be taught to respond as if it believes what you believe and loves what you love. Something that can be a convincing copy of you to represent you to the outside world.

People who only interacted with you online might never know the difference.

Just reducing the weight of the product by 90% is interesting, it makes it more efficient for delivery by drone.

'Lays of 400 Employees' has a different meaning to 'Lays off 400 Employees'.

So this is pretty similar to the Continuity AI from William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, except it doesn't really maintain continuity. Crazy that this is where we are already.

Given that you absolutely never swear (or even waste words) on the radio, I wonder if beginning the transmission with an expletive is actually optimal: it is short, sharp, and immediately conveys the urgency of the command.

At one time I was living in a very nice apartment, and the building next door had a private dentist. Absurdly expensive, but convenient. So I got a toothache and booked an appointment for the next morning, but the next day my toothache was gone. After taking the x-ray and examining it with me the dentist asked me which side the toothache was on. For some reason I said the left. He pointed at the left side of the x-ray and explained why I needed a filling. Then I remembered it was the right, and corrected myself - he looked at the x-ray again and started to explain why I needed a filling on the right side.

I left in disgust and haven't had a toothache in the ten years since.

The worker is also forced to beg for the money that they have earned. It's demeaning. Nothing about this interaction is positive.

1/3 isn't bad.

I'm hoping Notch responds to this, or at least reconnects with Julian in some way. I remember when he purchased that mansion because the story was posted to HN and Notch answered some questions about it.

One robot's struggle with the imperfections of the physical world.

This is the line of thought that got me to abandon strict atheism, as if we are in a simulation (something I allow to be plausible if not probable) surely the computer running the simulation would be God.

Anecdotally I think this is normal? I've heard actors and musicians can continue to get stage fright throughout their careers, but it fades after a minute or two.

I read an article (or watched an interview) a few years ago, where they were saying that because cancer is unique to the individual, to truly cure cancer you would have to target each cancer individually. Hence CRISPR. But they also warned that this kind of control could also be used to target individuals or groups of individuals. The example they gave of what could theoretically be possible was 'making women of a certain racial group hyper sensitive to sunlight'.

Was this hyperbole? I can't find any references to it today.

And then they keep collecting them for research until there are no more to be found, and we can once again classify them as extinct. "Subsequent visits to the same locality did not yield any additional shells or living animals."

Reading what happened to Ouchi makes me think two things: 1. Anyone who has not gotten that far, skip the "Ghastly deaths after the blue glow" part. 2. Euthanasia for someone exposed to lethal radiation should be the recommended treatment. Give the patient a choice, but also the option.

How insane is it that women are risking death by burning a hijab, and as you say 'willing to sacrifice themselves for what they believe in'.

LISTER: Do you mean they had a war over whether the doughnut diner hats were red or blue?

HOLLY: Yeah. Most of them were killed fighting about that. It's daft really, innit?

LISTER: You're not kidding. They were supposed to be green.

It's strange that they would give a security clearance to someone in a bad financial situation. I would think it's quite rare for the FBI to run a sting against an NSA employee... perhaps he wasn't targeted at all, but went out looking for someone to sell information to.

Wait, what? Why would you eat goldfish?

The only unbelievable part of this short story is that they wrote a compiler in assembly! Very enjoyable. Reminds me of Rob Miles' AI tasked with acquiring stamps.

Huh, tried the impossible burger and a normal one side by side, and I preferred the impossible burger. I still think it's the best thing on their menu.

So I think the problem is not the taste, it's simply that people who eat healthy or vegan don't go to burger king in the first place.

Agadmator covered this game and explains a disgusting computer line quite well. Note that under time pressure, a human can only calculate so many lines. They will immediately see a range of possible good lines, explore them to some depth and choose the best looking one. This engine line takes a bad looking path which comes good only after 19 moves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64o62MrhvXc&t=1400s

59. You will nerd

Wikipedia: The first documented appearance of the word nerd is as the name of a creature in Dr. Seuss's book If I Ran the Zoo (1950).

I realise it is a typo.

If you sell devices secretly modified in China to the military and it comes out that you knew about it... I wonder if this constitutes treason?

No, the developed world.

That was far more complicated than I would have imagined. Thank you for linking it.