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Your looking at this from a legal perspective. Consider a diplomatic one instead. Model training is expensive. Model distillation is cheaper. If you train models, and that lets you…

It’s more like eating your own fiber supplement in public, and then shitting your pants and telling everyone about it. Sure, it’s embarrassing. But it shows how potent your product…

I especially wonder about the quality of N big models in a delegation harness against M smaller models in a delegation harness with N and M tuned to use the same amount of total co…

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/tourism-... It states regarding a visa: "A visa allows a foreign citizen to travel to a U.S. port-of-entry (generally an airport…

Under the assumption that this framework is somewhat sane and only shares biometric data of those people who actually request an ESTA, I don't see the issue. This data already leak…

That's a valuable extra distinction between Mathematics and Software. In Mathematics there is much more clarity on what question you want to answer. It's much less likely you get a…

It seems to me you hooked onto the wrong part of proofs vs software compared to what OP meant. The difference OP cares about isn’t how much one cares about style. Instead the impor…

Do you want others to have an identity? Say policemen, someone who borrowed something, the postman, people asking for donations, your doctor etc? And does it make sense that at lea…

A significant risk with ZKPs is that they can make a lot of explicit control rules palatable by making the side effects much less extreme. If a company can come up with a reasonabl…

The attestor gives you a credential once. You can think of it as a dob (in e.g. days since 1900) with a digital signature. Then when you want to access something age gated, you loc…

We definitely need identity attestation in some places. A basic example is when authorising tax return payments. Or when opening a line of credit. Also when getting e.g. a conceale…

Sure, blame the people not the system. Our whole education system is setup as a skinner box for grades. People finding tricks for better grades are massively rewarded. Study method…

Someone else suggested the bell character. But you can also just set tmux pane names or color. Which you can also do from your agent harnass.

The issue is that lobbying extends to PAC and Super PAC campaign donations. Which is pretty close to a bribe. Lobbyist giving opinions, isn’t anywhere near corruption. Lobbyist giv…

This isn’t about keeping people from having the power of frontier LLMs. So tricks that let others have it aren’t a defeat of this policy. This is export control, where the US gover…

There's a very strong podcast series about the common failure of Epidurals: "The retrievals" season 2, by serial productions. I found it rather eye-opening. The series includes rep…

See this comment in the same thread for sources: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48541563

Not vacuous, but tautological. Which is different, because tautologies can actually be quite directly informative. Whereas vacuous truths tend to be oblique. Also, “Microsoft is ly…

Which licenses allow usage for training? MIT, BSD, etc likely do. But I would expect it gets weird for all the various copyleft licences.

It doesn’t fully guarantee that. But it guarantees you don’t have a huge class of bugs. And it makes concurrency a lot easier to reason about. No system will likely ever guarantee …

Microsoft themselves won’t do that. They are already under severe scrutiny internationally for fear of the US using Microsoft as leverage. They don’t want to stoke those fears. Onc…

This is a rather strong analysis. And especially the point on behaviour change once market growth plateaus was new to me. Thanks! I do want to nitpick on “unregulated free markets”…

At least the servers bit seems very related no? I’d love to know more though.

If this removes people’s access to products (software licenses count as products here) someone payed fir once. Then you should only be allowed to do that if you enable people to co…

It’s not just vaguely bad because of corruption. But its corruption that very directly increased the price of oil payed by everyone else.