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This kind of passive-aggressive bullshit is exactly what's wrong with tech. People don't decide things: they just passively resist, and authority ends up being a muddle of truncate…

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No, we can't draw such a line. Where would you draw it? What is the minimum friction? How would you quantify it? If you try, you quickly end up codifying absurdities like the 80%-f…

A prediction market is a murder-for-hire service. See https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8e4QNySp4LjvdBstx/how-predic... Shall we ban prediction markets?

The need to fight CSAM also provides a pretext for broader censorship. Look at all the people in this thread salivating over the prospect of using Grok generations to take down Mus…

If you follow the "tool-maker is responsible for tool-use" thread of thought to its logical conclusion, you have to hold creators of open-weights models responsible for whatever pe…

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Do you understand, intellectually, that quite a few of your colleagues find gestures like juxtaposing the Rust logo and the LGBTQ* flag off-putting and resent being unable articula…

Anthropic has jumped the shark with this one. Where's the "poison"? In this experiment, model (a small, stupid one) just learned to associate the string " " with gibberish. That's …

> Trump himself said "When 97 percent of the stories are bad about a person, it’s no longer free speech Pulling this quote out of context fits in a general pattern of demonization …

> Universities (especially private ones) are allowed to have ideological biases Universities as private associations can have whatever biases they want. What they can't do is take …

You have to take Trump "seriously but not literally". The government threatened to revoke a broadcast license , a right to use a limited resource for the public good. Broadcast lic…

Are they wrong though? On our side, people like Spengler also model societies as pseudo-organisms with lives that go through birth, adolescence, adulthood, senescence, and death. T…

Are you just going to ignore the 2016-2024 state-directed viewpoint censorship on social media?

Who gets to rule, then, and why? Your position that the masses shouldn't rule is at odds with a government legitimized by the consent of the government. Why should I or anyone else…

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> weird Adj, something the speaker wants the audience to dislike without the speaker being on the hook for explaining why. > screed Noun, document the speaker doesn't like but can'…

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The worst case scenario being, what, someone implementing the spec instead of using the SDK and doing it in a way you didn't anticipate? Security and interoperability will not yiel…

> I somewhat agree with author’s comments, but also want to note that the protocol is in the extremely early stages of development, and it will likely evolve a lot over the next ye…

You'll come around to my perspective in time. Don't take it personally. This generation isn't any worse than prior ones. We go through this shit every time the tech industry turns …

You must understand that when you deal with AI people, you deal with children. Imagine the author of the spec you're trying to implement is a new grad in San Francisco (Mission, no…

And if LLMs can generate plausible social security numbers, our civilization will fall /s Christ, I hate the AI safety people who brain-damage models so that they refuse to do thin…