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duringmath··on Japan to open up Apple and Google app stores to competition
Android already allows sideloading
duringmath··on European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries
Stop micromanaging everything what the hell
duringmath··on Tell HN: Google search sucks even more during Reddit blackout
Any specific examples you can share?

I haven't experienced any decline in quality so maybe I'm not searching for the right things.

It makes sense that when a bunch of content goes dark it would have an impact so a few specific examples would be appreciated.

duringmath··on Ask HN: Is the EU AI Act coming too slow?
They're coming in way too fast if anything.

These regulations are largely an overreaction to non existent problems. I guess the EU is pivoting from bleeding out innovation slowly over time to nipping it in the bud.

duringmath··on EU Artificial Intelligence Act
I don't think you should base regulations on these particular instances, the defamation one is describing a bug, it happens in every piece of software and I don't even want to address the first one.
duringmath··on EU Artificial Intelligence Act
Why is everyone in a hurry to regulate AI?

I can't think of one example where someone was harmed by an LLM.

Besides "AI" is largely a marketing term, most software has "AI" elements and that has been the case for a while now, this thing has "unintended consequences" written all over it.

duringmath··on US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI
Please don't fall for these dumb gimmicks.

Regulating emerging tech only benefits the incumbents.

On a side note, that guy used to be a state attorney general before he became a senator which is not an uncommon trajectory unfortunately, his kind (prosecutors) aren't equipped to formulate meaningful laws and regs they're mindset is that of banning things outright and supporting prosecution and long prison sentences to generate headlines and further their careers.

duringmath··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Incumbent love regulations they're very effective in locking out upstarts and saddling them with compliance costs and procedures
duringmath··on The EU AI act is coming, this time for real probably
Funny how all these EU rules come at the detriment of US companies.

All they do is keep piling on regs and they're doing it for emerging tech with exactly zero proof of harm.

duringmath··on Banning AI saved humanity in ‘Dune.’ So why can’t this work for us?
You want to ban people from programming and doing statistics and math? How would that work?

I'm more concerned about this kind of luddism taking root

duringmath··on Google, Meta executives push back against Canada online news bill
Unlike hosting content on third party platforms publishers get to make money off the traffic social media/search platforms send their way this bill is about having it both ways and bastardizing web linking while they're at it.
duringmath··on Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing
That's a different issue from what is described here.
duringmath··on ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real prof as accused
Not really, you get a bunch of links right there.

Also you can't "prod" ChatGPT for the truth it'll just generate plausible sounding nonsense again because that's just how it works.

duringmath··on ChatGPT invented a sexual harassment scandal and named a real prof as accused
At least Google gives you a second opinion. 3rd, 4th and nth opinions too.
duringmath··on Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT
Longer instructions? Which part of "less is more" do you not understand?
duringmath··on Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT
I just don't want to be hit with a wall of text every single time, it gets the point across with minimal padding (high signal to noise ratio), ChatGPT feels like it gets paid by the word and they do actually charge by token if you use the API.

As for the UI it's a take on the tried and true chat UI same as ChatGPT's, it spits the whole answer at once instead of feeding it to you one word at a time, it has an alternative drafts button, the Google it button is a nice touch and it feels quicker.

duringmath··on Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT
Bard is only a week old and has a large "experimental" sticker on it. Besides its UI is better and the answers are succinct which I prefer.
duringmath··on Google denies training Bard on ChatGPT chats from ShareGPT
It's not a TOS violation if you don't use the service directly.

Besides who cares, train your models on whatever makes them better, tenuous TOSes be dammed.

duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
What about when previously criminalized acts like consuming cannabis products become socially acceptable? It's still illegal on the federal level so that's a huge mess not to mention the harm that was done by enforcing those laws over the years.
duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
> In any given year, 98% of criminal cases in the federal courts end with a plea bargain — a practice that prizes efficiency over fairness and innocence

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...

Can't help but be cynical when presented with these numbers.

The laws are written by prosecutors for other prosecutors to generate headlines and votes.

duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
Just stop criminalizing shit.
duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
Broadly written laws encourage abuse.

Edit: it was written by prosecutors for prosecutors. Please stop voting AGs into congress.

duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
Many more would plead and that's the problem.
duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
Nope. Didn't even click it.

Prosecutors use the arduous court system to force their victims to accept pleas.

duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
I'm sure you're aware that realistically most people would just plead guilty and accept some kind of deal rather than go through the court system.
duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
Having 20 year sentence on the books for something that isn't rape or murder is barbaric in my opinion.
duringmath··on TikTok Ban Bill Is Patriot Act 2.0 Trojan Horse [video]
Is that supposed to reassure people?! Million dollar fine and 20 years in prison for using a VPN is beyond excessive.
duringmath··on Rand Paul blocks the fast-tracking of TikTok ban
He's a decent facsimile.
duringmath··on Rand Paul blocks the fast-tracking of TikTok ban
It's not about dems or repubs it's just that 2 parties can't possibly represent all the diverse groups and agendas in this country and a libertarian option would go a long way to remedying that.

But like you said whether it's on principle or not the reason for his objection is beside the point.

duringmath··on Ask HN: How did we go from wanting AGI to asking a 6 month pause on it?
AGI isn't even imminent it's just the Twitter AI hype cycle has gone out of hand and is spilling over and producing this kind of silliness.
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