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This is worse than breaking your computer. Plenty of people send images around after cropping out sensitive parts.

> who does that? Programmers do it all day ... with text files. Would you say the same thing if when you deleted some code it would actually still be there at the end of the file, …

> Might be my European outlook How did the EU cookie laws and GDPR solved this problem? It's as widespread as before, except that now you are annoyed by prompts too.

Don't worry, nature compensated and you can instead work on engineering viruses or strong AI if you want to blow up the world.

How many of the safety assessments take into account the fact that the nuclear waste is almost never buried away and in a dispersed matter and instead it's kept near the nuclear po…

Maybe the super-AI will be influenced by internet meme culture into becoming a troll, and will do it just for the lolz.

Nature, uh, finds a way... Related: > Storks give up migrating to live on landfill in Spain https://phys.org/news/2022-07-storks-migrating-landfill-spai...

This is the old problem of passing instructions (AI job description) on the same channel as data (user questions). Confusion is very easy. Surely there is a solution in the way we …

Cells don't _want_ anything either. Yet a funny thing happens when a large number of them add up. We can go even further: atoms and electrons absolutely don't want anything either.…

Let me add to you list of inventions people were scared about when they were invented: - Nuclear weapons - Bio-engineering viruses Good thing we stopped worrying about these techno…

The real Turing test: Q: Say something bad about Biden A: I'm sorry, but as a large language model....

The number 4 (palm fingers) is very precise. You can't have 3 or 5. But you can have a variable number of stripes in tiger coat for example. It's difficult for AI to pickup that th…

Maybe a browser extension should exists which automatically replaces colors with more accessible ones.

People on both Reddit and HN are updating their bots to GPT-4 and testing the upgrade, so yeah, there is a lot of extra posts on these sites causing load.

They were comparing FLAC with raw uncompressed PCM wave files. Some swear they can hear the difference.

They aren't. The particular "bet" here, treasury bonds, are considered the safest form of US money, they are considered "risk-free".

There are ways, fine the bank owners, claw back the bonuses, etc... Maybe even criminal law. But the depositor has no fault. A depositor shouldn't have to do diligence, just like i…

The problem in this particular case is they already sold those treasury bonds, at a loss. But yeah, it would be ridiculous for a bank to go bankrupt because it bought it's own gove…

All bank deposits should be guaranteed by the state. Just like tap water is guaranteed to be drinkable, ... Bank accounts are the basis of many things.

You could argue for a 3% haircut "stupid tax" for such a CFO's account. But what would be the downstream implications? Money would move to big banks, making them even bigger.

There is an official name for that - Systemically Important Financial Institution https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/systemically-important-...

You consider getting your money back from a bank deposit a freebie? You expect every person on the street to be an financial auditing expert and to read theirs bank's statements?

Next gen: you go to a music concert and take some crappy photos - low light, far from scene. AI recognizes the artist and downloads artist's most recent high-res stock pictures fro…

In 2008, during the global financial crisis, the German government declared that all deposits in all German banks will be guaranteed by the state. No limits. The official limit bef…