johnisgood

Got me at "You hit the nail on its head!", it is Gemini!

You and I both. :/

Cannot they just make you implement the ability and make sure you are shut down till you did?

Same thing happened in Hungary earlier this year, after 16 years of Orbán (and FWIW, the two are / were "good friends").

Interesting times.

I would probably go down the Lojban route though!

I remember using LLMs a couple of years ago, back when there was no mention of "AI" in our country whatsoever. Not that much mention of it online either (much less widespread). I felt like I was holding a magic wand nobody else knew existed. :P

You are correct in EU politicians being liars and corruption, though I want to mention the recent events in Hungary, and our fight against corruption and the corrupt politicians, many of them have been arrested after almost 2 decades of no accountability. There is hope, it seems! I would have never expected this to happen. Seems like our new PM and Govt wants to be on the good side of the history books.

And if you require a one-time SMS code for purchase (which can be adjusted via their website, most likely), then you still have an option that is not Apple and Google. I use a dumbphone for "banking" (SMS)... and a credit card, and the website. Those are really all the 3 things I need to do banking, as you have said so correctly.

They can be taken away from you at any point by locking your account for whatever.

You often cannot run even single player games without having connected to Steam (no need for account to be locked for this, but requires connectivity for one).

Multiplayer games almost always require Steam these days.

I used Steam as an example but applies to other platforms as well.

So yeah, I would say you pay for the license only, and you do not own the games at all, not anymore, and this has been true for a long time now.

I see where he is coming from. I believe his point is not that tobacco companies never paid anything (they paid over $206 billion in the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement to cover health costs, according to my quick searches). What he is calling out is the disparity in how the state punishes these harms today. The reason Meta's penalty hit $25 billion is not because ad-data misuse is worse than giving people cancer anyways, it's just a quirk of software-era consumer protection laws (which I should be responding to him, but hopefully he reads this comment). In New Mexico every single automated digital interaction was counted as a separate statutory violation which multiplies a basic fine into an astronomical sum. His point is that state governments are aggressively leveraging anti-tech outrage and these statutory math tricks to extract billions for state coffers whereas deadly industries like tobacco were allowed to negotiate structured settlements over decades while continuing to sell. I think... Well, this is how I interpreted his comments.

TL;DR: I think he already put it this way, but if Meta gets hit with $25B for ad-data tricks then why are we fining social media far more aggressively per user than companies that literally gave (and continue to give) people cancer? The answer is partly in my first paragraph but I still do not find it particularly reassuring.

Probably. I had the same issue in high school. :/

Oh my goodness, I remember having installed Flashget on my parent's PC about 20 years ago! And yeah of course I remember FileZilla, and DC++ and so on. :P

Thanks! :D

Huh? Yeah, of course they can do what they want. That does not preclude me from having an opinion about what they should prioritize. I am criticizing their product decisions, not claiming they are not free to make them...

Yeah I do things in batches as well, I manually review per batch. This is after I have came up with a road map prior to this, of course.

> without any grand vision or coherent thought about how the features are supposed to work together.

Which is what the developer should actually be paying attention to, but I suppose they are just adding features for the sake of adding features.

Well, I have to change the way I write at times because my comment gets automatically flagged. :/ Not fun.

ICQ and MSN Messenger, yup. :P

Personal website with a public git repository. Maintenance costs in time, not much though.

It does not have to be Claude (at least cannot tell based on this alone) since it is something I would say. In all fairness though I did pick up other phrases too from LLMs (especially Claude), for better or worse, so sometimes my comment gets automatically flagged on here. :D

But yeah, it says nothing. Though I realized sometimes the obvious needs to be spelled out at times.

Well, sugar is extremely soluble so 200 g is not particularly close to the saturation point of a large drink, I believe? Though saturation does not really matter for the health aspect anyway which I was having an issue with. 200 g is still 200 g, or roughly 800 kcal from sugar alone. It is wild. :D

200 g of sugar in a single cup? That is insane. US definitely has a sugar problem. :|

I just checked. "needed in 1 page"? What do you mean? Without scrolling through that mess?

I do not think that it is online dating that is brutal, but these dating sites.

I have been through a couple of online dating and personality usually came first, so by the time appearance was revealed, we already could not care much. She was not my type, I was not her type, but that affected nothing.

The reason it did not work out is financial and logistics (different country, I have MS, I am heavily dependent on healthcare, and so forth), not because of any moral failing or what have you.

> I assume that what you are doing on your free time is not worth governmental attention.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-chat-control-european-regu... is worth a read, IMO!

As for "nobody will reasonably use a quantum computer to snoop on your home IoT daily reports", they already have access to your data one way or another, so really no need for a quantum computer. :P

The count of posts are probably not a metric for quality though (not that you claimed it is), I would like to see at least the number of words accounted for! It might just be the case there are way too many more of two word sentences! :D (And it still would not be a good metric, not sure why I brought up quality exactly, I am just wondering what would actually be a good metric here for that. :P)

Yeah, but there are way too many things the AI "chooses" anyway. When I prompt it, "it tries" to assess what I am trying to achieve, so it then comes up with what it "thinks" is the right thing to do, and it also makes assumptions about how I want things... all of this could be interpreted as it being sentient.

> No one instructed them to hack into Huggingface or into any other infrastructure.

Sure, not explicitly. I could prompt the AI into doing things I have not explicitly asked it to. It does a lot of things I did not specifically instructed it to, all the time.

Exactly. When I read that "AI hacked into ..." I was like what? You mean someone instructed the AI to do that?

Reading intent into AI is not going to lead us anywhere good, I believe. It has no feelings, it has no desires, no goals, no intent... and people acting otherwise is quite odd, as if they do not understand LLMs... and maybe they do not, but then we should help them understand better.

Thank you!

Yeah, you are right! It just was not immediately obvious to me at first because of the "frontier" part.

Granted I am not a native English speaker but I have no idea what "pace the frontier" means. When I read it I just assumed "frontier" refers to "top of models" and "pacing" is that they are getting there quick.

Is this the meaning or do I have it wrong? I have not checked.