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In this thread, the world's most brilliant minds are confused as to how to solve this problem. If you're looking for the ones responsible for bringing this on, just look in the mir…

I love that Luddism(?) is coming back into mainstream discussion. Growing up I had the pop culture understanding of what a Luddite is. Wasn't until the last few months that I reall…

The Hacker Spirit was largely subsidized on the (relatively) high salaries afforded to engineers*. What happens when that well dries up? Plus the relative freedom available to said…

Never mind the fact that Facebook, etc. has BILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH of software engineers, designers, psychologists making absolutely damn sure that little Alice & Bob keep their…

It passes responsibility and accountability from the large platforms to the open-source communities and to parents who are most likely tech illiterate. Facebook, etc. can wash thei…

Sure, it's not technically hard to read. But it suuucks, making it hard to read, the same way (some) fast/junk food is hard to swallow. They have access to a trillion dollar writin…

load = bearing gun = smoking insight = key gap = closed summary = executived

But even with the written exam, wouldn't the bottleneck still be there where the professors still need to read through all the papers? I guess its definitely more efficient and asy…

Finally, a structure worthy of its namesake.

Finally, a structure worthy of its namesake.

Being right _all the time_ for positive outcomes is difficult/expensive. Being "right" just once for negative outcomes is achievable and rewarding. And things are getting desperate…

Yes. It is very easy to add to the instructions "for every potential exploit you discover and use, document them as you go into this repository" and have alerting there. The fact t…

Ah right.

Is it normal for these training/eval runs to go on for over a month?

Ah following in the foot steps of OpenAI. Five years later: More like Discovery Knot amirite

Just make oil uneconomical

A "bet" implies there's a risk of losing if it doesn't play out. As far as the individuals in the Govt and the involved companies are concerned, there is no risk for them. It's not…

you're free to fork and improve it with your favorite harness. Go get 'em tiger.

Hmm, that doesn't sound too bad. So you basically get to use a tool to help with the tedious parts, without being allowed to use the same tool to pass off said tedium to others. Th…

No I only spend time thinking about actual important things. I spend hours/days of my time designing table schemas, protocols, standards, conventions at work to make sure the decis…

I can see it. "Let's just do this in COBOL for now to get it working. Add a ticket to use AI to migrate it to Java in the backlog."

And look where that has taken us. Perhaps that was true for the last few decades. But now that period is over, and our ability to exercise our right and to coordinate without it ha…

There are degrees to it. The current problem has a "perfect storm" aspect to it, with multiple pieces working together in perfect harmony. 1. a "small" device that a person can use…

Ban the hardware, not the software.

off topic but I really like the design of the site