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Aaron Swartz's most famous book recommendation, in a now 20 years old blogpost ( http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany ), Chomsky's Understanding Power, contains many examples of such cases of those in power, big corporations and the government getting away with crimes. I should probably reread it, even though it can be depressing - but not quite as depressing as Manufacturing Consent.

RIP Aaron.

They lived before Boltzmann so it makes sense to call those the origin (dawn in the article).

If it's a highly profitable footgun why not?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_industry_price_fixing#202...

I would have thought it's public repos that got the most AI slop recently as a form of gathering karma and boost CVs. It would be nice to know if private repo commits increased instead.

The whole hysteria about 'fake news' 10 years ago was apparently an outrage against the public being duped, whereas is was in fact frustration that spreading fake news has been democratised.

While there was legal slavery in some countries well into the second half of the 20th century, capitalism and workers' rights movements are definitely older than 100 years.

A trip to the third world or even easier to a ghetto/favela/poor rural area in your own country is realistically achievable and may lead to an even more profound appreciation. A real life Chaos Monkey is easy to interpret as gamified or temporarily slowed down modern life, so may even be fun sometimes.

Even on a site like HN, where rational and logical thinking is held in high esteem, and where few could be suspected of climate change denialism, a factual statement such as this one from the article:

"On average, animal-sourced foods are associated with eight times more carbon loss and 14 times more biodiversity loss per calorie than plant-sourced foods."

is very likely to be countered by listing personal preferences, anecdata, concern for vegans' health or mockery of that lifestyle choice, and generally nitpicking.

Honest admissions like 'I am part of the problem and will maybe try doing something about it' are very rare.

And which do the vast majority consume because that is the only one satisfying industrial scale consumption needs?

If he were not such openly against open models and China, his potential hiring pool would include more idealistic people.

"Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!" — Edgar Dijkstra

Similarly, security post-mortems will show only the rogue AIs that were caught.

I wouldn't be surprised if supervised or escaped agents would now be hacking firmware labs and finding ways to squeeze their backdoor right next to the existing state-sponsored ones in chips that will get deployed in every phone/car/smart appliance.

"We're heads‑down building, and will have products to show by early 2027."

By then frontier models may be able to do this by prompting. Even now it is very easy to get one of the chat interfaces to keep quizzing you and adapt to your level, answer your questions, and in general behave how I imagine a tutor behaves. It lacks integrated stats/progress/gamification/long term memory but those can be added by a simple vibecoded app or are usually unnecessary for actual learning.

I thought it was image recognition but RFID makes more sense. However just last week I accidentally 'hacked' it by having two small identical products thrown in the bin and their cardboard boxes fell right next to each other, so the system saw only one. I had to manually move them apart to have both appear on the bill (that is why I suspected image recognition, RFID should be two separate IDs no?)

homo sapiens could avoid wandering in the skies for 200k years, yes we can avoid it. Finding joy in life should not really be correlated with flying often to faraway places.

I doubt you'll find many people here who are in alignment with a bigoted and criminal regime such as Iran's and its military.

What may be misinterpreted as sympathy for them is sympathy for the suffering Iranians, and antipathy for the criminal and bigoted US foreign policy especially in the Middle East. This did not start with Trump's recent idiotic game; Iran's only democratically elected president so far was toppled in 1953 by the CIA at the request of Churchill, because they felt Iran's oil does not belong to the Iranian people but to British Petroleum.

Time for OpenAI and Anthropic to close the gap by spinning up Kimi K3 on vLLM and running a distillation attack.

>But perhaps we're the only intelligent species in the entire universe. That is also a possibility. Some big names in astrophysics, such as David Kipping, suggest strongly that we should not rule out that hypothesis

They may be planted by alien AI to lull us into false sense of security.

apps took off before browsers had the capabilities required for native-like behaviour (fast graphics, hw functionality, notifications) and then were used even for apps that could have been web-apps.

While the majority of comments are absolutely right in recognizing and lamenting such situations plaguing our industry, let's not forget this is an ultimate first world problem. It can be stressful and frustrating but we are a privileged bunch to be able to call this 'pain'.

It's no coincidence cigarettes were named 'torches of freedom' to get women to start paying up for the privilege of using them a hundred years ago.

A website stating the obvious, given small target audience it will probably reach, and a call to arms consisting in emailing a random unknown person.

We're saved /s

Instead of doing a vanity site with a shelf-life of a few days, see where the action already is in online local LLM research and communities and contribute.

The obvious question is, how many of those were the sort that writing in a memory-safe language would make impossible?

They should prompt one of the more adventurous LLMs to find security bugs and with some luck it will deviate from the prompt and rewrite ffmpeg in Rust.

Small government has always been a euphemism for a government working on less distribution of wealth. Governments always intervene in the economy one way or another.

To what extent are the mechanisms you identified causing companies to go bad the same for non-profits, associations, political parties, etc.?

Since that is valid for every model from any country, it's a good idea to review the code the agent creates :)

They forgot to add 'make it as simple as possible' in the prompt is one possible cause.

On a more serious note using a react-like lib for TUI in the hope you'll share the codebase with the web version is a more likely explanation. Still not the best idea.

How experienced were you at that time?

Being able to finetune is part of 'the gains of AI shared globally', so it's ok.

"How can we ensure the gains of AI are shared globally? We do not have a mechanism for this" Somebody inform Anthropic about open models and research.

it wasn't about industrialization, but about not being complicit, the machine was the metaphor for the system (this was the 1960s)