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They did not present it “as if they don’t have a choice”. I think your personal biases are impacting your reading here.

No, I'm sorry but I think thats a cop out. The fact that LLM are stochastic and can give incorrect answers is not particularly difficult to comprehend, and the risks that fall out …

Yes but the key here is doing proper risk assessment. "What is the consequence if the LLM gets this wrong?" "How do we verify the output?" "What are the legal ramifications for usi…

Audit logs are only useful if they are used to action abuses. The issue is that police departments protect abusers due to the “thin blue line” mentality.

I don't believe that deportation is inherently morally wrong, but there are certainly ways to deport people that are less moral than others.

Thats not an accurate framing. There are some disagreements that are red lines and others that are not. I think Chrono Trigger is one of the greatest games of all time, and someone…

The bill does come due. I've seen it happen over and over. But management fails to connect current problems to past mistakes, especially when they happen over the course of years. …

I'd also argue whether ORMs actually save that much time in practice. In Java, for example, the main time sink is the JDBC plumbing and its easy to use something like JDBI that han…

Agreed. Usually an updated-on timestamp is sufficient to cover your bases without over-complicating the table. And your PII redaction is probably going to be shredding or nulling t…

For #4 I always tell people to assume 99% append only, but do consider the need for updates/deletes in edge cases. If any of the data is PII and you will be subject to GDPR (you pr…

Yeah I hate infinite scroll. I have no idea what actual common sentiment is because you’d have to do broad polling to find that out. I always wonder if UI designers fall into the “…

You have to get licensed to drive a car and there are rules. If you are caught breaking the rules you can be fined (or jailed if your rule breaking harms others enough). In extreme…

In 1978 loans were made non dischargeable for the first 5 years and extended to 7 years in 1990. In 1998 the waiting period was eliminated making them non dischargeable in perpetui…

They do not. This is nonsense.

Not that I want my kids looking at porn or violent content, but I’m far more concerned about man-o-sphere influencers than that other stuff.

I don't think anyone is expecting to seriously "derail AI" just by preventing data centers from being built in their neighborhood. But they can at least inconvenience the people th…

I'm not sure why this is relevant: > This doesn't make sense. The reason Congress is difficult is because of those same powerful people. Its much easier to put someone who is align…

> This is fair but I mean as long as people are agitating politically it seems like going after the data center is going after the wrong end of the equation, with similarly difficu…

> if there is UBI? At least in the US, the public simply does not trust that the United States government will consider such a thing. They won't even consider universal healthcare.…

This has an incorrect baked-in assumption that arguments should be equally weighed based on political leaning. But sometimes arguments are just wrong -- the right wing argument on …

Thats a double-edged sword in some scenarios. If you're trying to keep info private then feeding it into a shared agent basically means that you can't guarantee that privacy. I'd i…

Yes. It’s very easy actually. People think it’s hard only because they’ve built revenue streams on unethical behavior.

> I'm probably in the minority, but I do not want a "connection" with a business. I want transactional interactions that actually work. Every time a business tries to make a "conne…

I find it can often write correct code but not maintainable, performant, or reviewable code without additional human guidance. The "solution" frequently given is that humans don't …

It should be but often isn't. There's been a lot of threads on HN where the response to huge PRs wasn't "Don't do that, use AI when authoring better" but "The reviewers are actuall…