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throw_nbvc1234··on Announcement: AI generated answers are officially banned here
Surely google will implement their own version ChatGPT before this is an issue right?
throw_nbvc1234··on Power substations vandalized in Washington state
What's the point of that distinction? Are you allowed to shoot them on sight or something?
throw_nbvc1234··on Thousands trapped on Pine Ridge burn clothes for warmth in wake of storm
Do any governments or institutions have a live(ish) updating model of "what would happen" if trends continue? People reference studies all the time but what's the currently accepted model/outcome in the scientific community?

I remember hearing that melting of the ice caps will stop current flows in the ocean and bring about an ice age. Is that actually a thing or just fake news?

throw_nbvc1234··on Wells Fargo to pay $3.7B for mistreating customers
Treating the "homelessness" as a single problem is naive. I live near homeless encampments and near people who have been quietly living out of their vehicles for 5+ years. Some percentage of the homeless population can be fixed with cheaper housing. Some percentage of people can avoid being homeless altogether with cheaper housing. And some percentage will be homeless regardless of how cheap the housing is (i guess unless it's free and they agree to not break whatever rules/laws apply to them).

Meanwhile both sides just shout at each other and funnel millions of dollars into groups that don't make any real progress and have no accountability. It's the same useless polarization that exists in politics except I'm not even sure it's a political issue at this point given how 1-party the place i live in is.

throw_nbvc1234··on Peter Norvig critically reviews AlphaCode’s code quality
Coming up with novel content doesn't necessarily mean it can reason (depending on your definition of reason). Take 3 examples:

1) Copying existing bridges 2) Merging concepts from multiple existing bridges in a novel way with much less effort then a human would take to do the same. 3) Understanding the underlying physics and generating novel solutions to building a bridge

The difference between 2 and 3 isn't necessarily the output but how it got to that output; focusing on the output, the lines are blurry. If the AI is able to explain why it came to a solution you can tease out the differences between 2 and 3. And it's probably arguable that for many subject matters (most art?) the difference between 2 and 3 might not matter all that much. But you wouldn't want an AI to design a new bridge unsupervised without knowing if it was following method 2 or method 3.

throw_nbvc1234··on ElonJet Is Now Suspended
https://www.reuters.com/technology/amazon-restart-advertisin...

Big names not sure about spend

throw_nbvc1234··on The United States of America vs. Samuel Bankman-Fried Indictment [pdf]
Wouldn't FTX-US be required to KYC all of their customers? I assumed that was the (part of) the reason why these exchanges had us and non us versions.

(edit links) https://help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027668192-Individu...

https://help.ftx.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048666713-Account-T...

throw_nbvc1234··on Transistors are civilization’s invisible infrastructure
Reminds me of the Cloudflare lava lamps

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ssl/lava-lamp-encryption...

throw_nbvc1234··on Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staff Leave
Do you treat truth and authenticity as the same thing? A camera can take and sign a picture while proving it's not compromised. That picture is authentic but depending on the context the picture is presented in may or may not be true.
throw_nbvc1234··on Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staff Leave
I'm a bit confused by what you're saying. It sounds like you're implying there's 3 different objects here but then you talk about only 2 in your opinion. Accuracy/authenticity of the digital content, authenticity of the distribution of that content, and the interpretation of that content (using external context).

I'd think the first is a mathematical/cryptographically solvable problem, assuming you trust (human decision) whatever hardware/software generates the content. The 2nd is solvable in a decentralized way when the first is solved. and the latter is probably always a human/societal decision.

But why does the need for social trust impact technological solutions to the first two? Especially when deep fakes become more and more relevant in society.

throw_nbvc1234··on Andreessen Horowitz Tech Site Future.com Shuts Down, Staff Leave
Is an archive.org entry admissible in court? Is there a legal precedent for this?

Would it be admissible as evidence of Russian war crimes in the Ukraine war for example? Evidence of ear crimes put up on social media, taken down because they violate terms of service, but still preserved in a way that validates they're legitimate.

throw_nbvc1234··on DoorDash lays off 1250 employees
Because a large percentage of Germans probably speak English so you can still communicate with them without learning German. This is not the same as a single language country.
throw_nbvc1234··on Twitter in chaos as employees accept Musk’s invitation to quit their jobs
Good thing there's not a peak event like the world cup starting in a few days that will possibly stress test all their services that no longer have any devs owning them.
throw_nbvc1234··on The rise of influencer capital
I wasn't looking at this through the lens of creating content but rather starting from the point you "land in some shelf where it can be found". From this point it's about getting customers/audience which is where push/pull comes into play.

I see ads as purely a push based model; to the GP point, if it was worth looking for why wouldn't you already be looking for it via a pull based method. But you obviously don't know what you don't know. Either 100% push or 100% pull won't be optimal. This is where I see recommendations and being able to swap between a spectrum of XX% push and YY% pull algos is helpful.

For example physical music, i can walk into a record store and decide to buy a handful of records; the store owner can then see those records and recommend more that I could also enjoy and even ask me questions to make those more accurate. This isn't 100% push or pull and also has an element of human curation that inherently doesn't scale but is possibly the most effective approach. I can do the same thing online via discogs and get some automated recommendations. I have a choice between the two and depending if it's a genre I'm familiar with (human recommendation might give me something new) or a new one I'm trying to explore (most popular records recommended by discogs are a good starting point) i can choose one or the other.

I see solving this problem as a key one for the whole creator long-tail, 1k fans, etc... problem-space. Don't have the answers but those are some general ideas.

throw_nbvc1234··on The rise of influencer capital
Sure but do we need a push or pull based model. Ads are pushed into our attention. Google searches and "research" are pull based. If you solve the pull based model the king's doctor just looks it up, discovers something exists, and obtains the treatment.

Recommendations are similar to ads in this regard as well. Maybe blurring the lines between the two depending on how the algo is designed. I'd personally be in favor of recommendation type approaches with combinations of human curation, and an adjustable spectrum of push/pull based results; and the ability to swap between these on a whim as needed.

throw_nbvc1234··on Twitter to start layoffs -internal email
> would they just let the company continue to perform mediocrely and continue to bloat its burn just for the sake of not laying off people?

Who's more important the workers or the company? I bet the answer to that question will align with people's views on the layoffs.

throw_nbvc1234··on How rate hikes are affecting the economy
Is the a cost benefit decision to be made by businesses regarding use and/or scale of ML during a recession?
throw_nbvc1234··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Would you also be outraged if those engineers were given an extra day off instead?
throw_nbvc1234··on Saudi woman jailed for 45 years for social media posts
Yes but why not both? It's this same logic that lead to German dependence on Russian natural gas.
throw_nbvc1234··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
> In my opinion, the content of a tweet (is it spam ? is it abusing the platform ?) matters way more than wether it’s a bot or a human doing the spamming/abuse.

What about replies and retweets? EX: If you have high quality (or good faith) content that's supported/attacked by bots vs real people.

throw_nbvc1234··on Meta Earning Results Q3 2022 [pdf]
2nd best of two giants still a decent place to be. See iOS vs Android.
throw_nbvc1234··on Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
Was mentioned in an onsite interview i had with them a few years back. Maybe i misunderstood but it seemed that internal teams didn't integrate with the same API as external customers. Not sure the other reply means that the "wrapper" doesn't exist or the wrapper's are just named the same as the underlying service or i just misunderstood the point.
throw_nbvc1234··on Why doesn't Stripe use Stripe Billing?
I shuddered a bit when i heard that some GCP services are just external wrappers over internal systems. Feels like a bad setup for everyone involved: customers, wrapper owners and internal system owners.
throw_nbvc1234··on The State of AWS Security
Who is supposed to understand this then if not everybody? If you think of this as a "security focused engineer" problem then you've already lost.

If an engineer doesn't understand how to write secure software then they will continue to write un-secure software and there will be leaks and compromises. You're just externalizing risk and costs to your customers.

throw_nbvc1234··on Git making me want to pull my hair out yet again
git reflog --help

Probably not what you want to use day to day but if you want to undo things i find reflogs better then commits for tricky situations.

throw_nbvc1234··on HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies
The point is that they don't "need" to respond with nukes. They can trigger article 5 and start a conventional war and achieve the same or better outcome; possibly without even putting boots on the ground. For example, NATO could (likely) sink the remainder of Russia's Black Sea fleet within a few days of triggering article 5. And/or they could actually establish a no fly zone and be fully justified in doing so.

Responding with a full on nuclear assault because someone first strikes with a Nuke that's smaller then those used in WWII doesn't make sense. You can probably do more damage with chemical, biological, or cyber warfare then a nuke like that (unless targeted at a dense population center).

throw_nbvc1234··on HHS purchases $290M worth of drugs for nuclear emergencies
Launching a nuke only makes sense if Putin just wants to try and end the world? A tactical nuke isn't likely to change the strategic direction of the war, it's just escalation for the sake of escalation. He's already losing the war. Launching a nuke in Ukraine or NATO does not mean that NATO respond with nukes. They can respond with conventional weapons and end the war within a week.

Plus there's a non-zero chance that the chain of command refuses to carry out the order and undermines all internal authority that Putin has.

throw_nbvc1234··on 60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine
I'm confused from how we got to "USA potentially had the ability to prevent the war if they had..." to "This means long before we can talk about Russia maybe feeling threatened by NATO expansion they need to stop the war they started."

USA/west could have made concessions that weren't really concessions (taking Ukraine NATO off the table) before the 2022 invasion. Those concessions may or may not have worked. We're now just supposed to ignore that fact and pretend that it never happened until some point in the future that may never take place?

throw_nbvc1234··on 60-80% of Tweeters posting on Russia-Ukraine war are bots, 90% pro Ukraine
Why do you believe the diplomatic situation is the same pre war as post war?
throw_nbvc1234··on Fed raises rates by another 75 bps to fight inflation
> borrowing quite so enthusiastically

Why do they have to care about the consequences? Corporations have the market. Persons have their families, lives etc... Why do elected government officials need to care; especially in this polarized, 2 party, ~~world~~ country.

I'm pretty sure the closest thing we have to accountability in government are blue checkmarks twitter dunking on politicians from the opposite party and then being ignored by all the followers of that party.

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