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Of such excuses, I would hope that "it's so smart and humanoid that we can't be liable" immediately segues into "then isn't your relationship illegal slavery?" Not because I think …

I'd caution that some corrections become harder to make over time, rather than easier. A bad architecture now can become much harder to fix once other things have grown up around i…

One thing we could do is abolish the "anti-circumvention" laws, where the government goes after you with criminal penalties for "contempt of business-model" for interfering with ho…

Rather than "on/off" I think we need to distinguish between at least four things: 1. Connected naively to the internet. 2. Behind a hardened VPN endpoint which is on the internet. …

I sometimes wonder how much damage (and potential damage) to US infrastructure exists simply because intelligence-agencies prioritize being able to exploit it globally over fixing …

> The technology of today does not enable, or empower To say much the same things stuff a slightly different framing: The promise of "personal computers", and then the internet, ma…

It seems like we've got chaos-machines that are just orderly enough to to try all sorts of branching script-kiddie / guess-n-check / research-paper-suggestions in a tireless and pa…

Yeah, I found it odd that the author started talking about bandwidth and data concerns, but then testing part is only about power-transfer.

Between US federal immigration "enforcement" and workplace "AI workflows", I think that style of dystopic game becomes uncomfortably close to real life twice-over...

> This allowlisting approach is often defeated See also: https://gtfobins.org/ > GTFOBins is a curated list of Unix-like executables that can be used to bypass local security restr…

Recently I was trying to fix something in the production database, and had called over a co-worker as sanity-check. I ended up telling them about point-and-call because I felt a li…

> It was never the 2 lines of code. It's the Adding to that, there's this negative-space of changes that aren't there because some human briefly thought about them and then decided…

Yeah, that's definitely the frustrating zeitgeist for me these days, which extends to LLMs. I'd also emphasize that it's not just error rate , but the shape/distribution of errors,…

That reminds me of story where the US Air Force attempted to design a cheaper cockpit and chair that would fit the "average pilot".. but in practice it fit nobody well. They went b…

Similarly, I have a rant from last night [0] which connects it to Federal versus State laws and enforcements. > TLDR: Corrupt crooks have sabotaged the normal careful legal-comprom…

177 comments on front-page right now: "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game run" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49195468

I'm not sure which numbers everyone is using, but US usage stat [0]: 82 gal/ day /person Days to years: ~ 30,000 gal/ year /person To metric: ~ ~113.4 m^3/ year /person [0] https:/…

In a rare bit of still-sane news, the US National Highway and Safety Administration staff aren't dumb: Their policy is to consider whether any automation was active in 30 seconds b…

Related: "Accountability Sink", a system which is designed to channel responsibility away from the people making the decisions, e.g. a powerless "complaints department".

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Dang, I think I lost my Kali [0] license-key. :p [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_(software)