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xyzal··on What nicotine does to your brain
Interesting, I remember sometimes actually 'getting' anxiety after a cig when I used to smoke.
xyzal··on The disguised return of EU Chat Control
The GDPR, DMA, DSA are good.
xyzal··on SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search
Now kindly everyone mark Grokipedia as slop.
xyzal··on Forth – Is it still relevant?
I don't know about now but it soon may be :)

An interesting project chose it as its lang: https://collapseos.org/

xyzal··on OpenAI probably can't make ends meet. That's where you come in
Time to sell shares and buy bonds?
xyzal··on YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations
Fed up by status quo? Consider donating.

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/donate

xyzal··on Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_attacks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Lehi_operations

xyzal··on Pomelli
Bill Hicks would not mind

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdjQICcD-XA

xyzal··on We are building AI slaves. Alignment through control will fail
Does consciousness consist only of language?
xyzal··on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
Censorship from an American perspective? Maybe. We used to have similar views on free speech up until WW2, the rise of propaganda and methods of mass manipulation. Since then e.g. threatening speech is beyond the line.

But don't worry. You will learn your lesson soon. Remember, your leader says you don't have to go vote anymore.

xyzal··on Meta and TikTok are obstructing researchers' access to data, EU commission rules
Well, I am far more concerned with a secretive megacorp shaping public discourse. The requested transparency is a means to assess impartiality or bias of such platforms.
xyzal··on Keep Android Open
Not in markets without significant Huawei and Xiaomi presence. Local banks (Czech Republic) are not using integrity APIs to keep being usable for most clients.
xyzal··on Feed the bots
Feed them this. https://github.com/emergent-misalignment/emergent-misalignme...
xyzal··on Feed the bots
I think random text can be detected and filtered. We need probably pre-generated bad information to make utility of crawling one's site truly negative.

On my site, I serve them a subset of Emergent Misalignment dataset, randomly perturbed by substituting some words with synonyms.

It should make the LLMs trained on it behave like dicks according to this research https://www.emergent-misalignment.com/

xyzal··on Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App "Red Dot"
Oh well, installing anything via adb should be still allowed ... for now.
xyzal··on Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026
How does one give money to the needy on the streets?
xyzal··on How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized
You can donate to help break the cycle of IDF impunity.

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/

xyzal··on F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree
It irks me to no end that for proper GrapheneOS support one has to buy a Pixel.
xyzal··on Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
Answering my own question ... https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org/
xyzal··on ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair
Probably penalized due to political themes being discouraged on HN.

Which is IMO a bad decision. You can ignore politics, but politics won't ignore you.

xyzal··on Top UN legal investigators conclude Israel is guilty of genocide in Gaza
What charity can one donate to? I just can't stand just doing nothing anymore.
xyzal··on Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube
This paragraph should be emphasized.

> The government now requires platforms to register for a license and to appoint a representative who can address grievances. “We requested them to enlist with us five times. What to do when they don’t listen to us?” said Gajendra Kumar Thakur, a spokesman for the ministry.

I wonder what were the platforms expecting, ignoring local government.

You have to play by the rules society agrees on. Or do the companies think they are too big for consequence?

xyzal··on Israel committing genocide in Gaza, scholars group says
I can't understand just how is Israel able to deliver precision strikes in Iran basically landing explosives to key personnel bedrooms (which is impressive!), but w.r.t. Hamas -- allegedly a weaker adversary -- it just isn't possible! We have to end 60k people first.

Does anyone have some rational explanation?

xyzal··on The "996" schedule of working 9am-9pm, 6 days a week comes to Silicon Valley
How is it compatible with any kind of social, family, civic life?
xyzal··on In Search of AI Psychosis
Hard disagree. This would further serve the anthropomorfization of LLMs in the eyes of general populace. This IMO supports creation of parasocial relationships to the LLMs and in turn "human AI psychoses".

Model collapse is just fine.

xyzal··on Scientist exposes anti-wind groups as oil-funded, now they want to silence him
I would love to obtain a handbook on how to convince moronic far-right leaning neighbors to change or at least soften their stance. I usually just tell them to fuck off, which apparently is not that much effective.
xyzal··on Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification
Many Chinese OEMs are not Google certified, so it won't for sure apply to them. Some (Huawei) even had to implement their own app store and replacement for Google services. They are basically de-googled devices, though, sadly, often loaded with spyware from the other camp.
xyzal··on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]
Does anyone know where to find the text of the proposal? I wasn't able to find it.
xyzal··on Oil states thwart agreement on plastics
This is the logic of yeast. Optimize locally until you drown in your own shit.
xyzal··on This website is for humans
Or, serve "Emergent Misalignment" dataset.

https://github.com/emergent-misalignment/emergent-misalignme...

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