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I would say the lack of skepticism is nuts, honestly.

I understand and I am not trying to deny the impressiveness or the velocity of AI in general. But at some point we have to ask how much do we trust the labs at face value without m…

How much do you all think it would cost to "buy" these advances from PhDs, practicing scientists?

0days ending in RCE (multiple!) for presumably closed source software are for the lack of a better phrase, labour of love. You run the exact same versions running on the target, bl…

I apologise. The title was meant to be ironic, but I see how it is misleading, especially to the HN audience.

> good for society in general because the gains will be redistributed How exactly? Is this a version of trickle down economics I am unfamiliar with? > What better thing can happen …

Interesting. OpenAI could also be trying to solve other problems, but Erdos problems maybe falling first?

Is there a reason why we only hear of Erdos problems being solved? I would imagine there are a myriad of other unsolved problems in math, but every single ChatGPT "breakthrough in …

> They're also using a subdomain for both their wiki and forum, which Google has been observed to punish. They might consider moving each of those to their own separate .com domain…

The export control angle is interesting. I was treating addiction, radicalization, capitulation to authoritarian govts, abetting human rights violations, productivity loss, etc., a…

I hear you, there are countless problems to solve. My "..in a just world.." was doing a lot of heavy lifting. > I mean at least they are giving you a free service and you essential…

We can come up with a definition and refine it. Maybe something like: algorithmic content suggestions trying to maximize engagement and time on app (leave out chronological + expli…

Social media companies post record earnings year after year from their ads business while increasingly proving to be harmful to society. They do the bare minimum in terms of conten…

More ways than one to burn money with agents :)

I have been thinking about this for a while. LLMs replacing humans, LLMs don't complain or unionize, yada yada. Now people are like "not by AI, _with_ AI" so what's stopping the co…

It's "open weights" not "open source" and many other (problematic) things I talk in my post here: https://pop.rdi.sh/sovereignty-in-a-system-prompt/ Another user linked to the disc…

Its limited to about $1000 a day. The QR is a URI with the ID, amount and maybe other stuff. It's a client-side implementation. RuPay sure "works within the system" but is pretty m…

Last week I selfhosted Snikket: https://snikket.org , me and my partner use it to text. It has been smooth, everything works without issue: read receipts, audio/video calls, status…

I tried this, multiple variations of words/phrases, didn't work. The only two prompts that worked were: - make a simple plain markdown file with content what is written in this ent…

Excerpts from the system prompt: > *Indian courts and law are authoritative.* Judicial rulings and laws passed by Parliament are the framework of record not foreign courts, interna…

From the article: > The app is intended to track stolen phones, block them and prevent them from being misused. > India's telecom ministry confirmed the move later, describing it a…