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Post by whimsicalism »

orwin wrote: post #249
whimsicalism wrote: post #225

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I was not making an argument, just asking for any factual basis to the parent comment. I guess that is deserving of 5 downvotes. > I think they forgot about that, thank god. All the innocent citizens we sent there are still being tortured daily, but that somehow lost their interest. God forbid they remember before the midterms and ruin more lives for a stunt… But thank you for providing other cases, I had heard of th…

The issue with the "i'm just asking questions" is that it is overused by disingenuous (i started writing nefarious but i think you can be nefarious but mean good, whereas people who do this _always_ mean to trick other humans) people. So nowadays, if you want to go ask a question to go further on a topic because you're interested in it, you need to add a preamble that explain. See: "How did ancient egyptian managed t…

I hear what you're saying, but I don't think it really applies to a question asking for the veracity of a previously stated claim, especially when the claim is actually false. I think there is more than enough bad things the government actually does wrt immigration enforcement, we don't need to start making things up.

Re: QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes

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Post by gchamonlive »

stephbook wrote: post #117
gchamonlive wrote: post #48

Is there any need to actually download things anymore if you just want to watch them? Better to add debrid via WebDAV to the stack: virtually unlimited space, no download time if it's on cache, nothing illegal from the part of the consumer.

They're not "permanently stored" or "downloaded", they're just cached on his personal, geographically advantageous edge device for low-latency interaction.

You can question the methods, but the results are solid ;)

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Post by Dusseldorf »

alt227 wrote: post #185
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #133

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JS is a vector for browser exploits and privacy invasion. No other language is commonly used for these things.

Not even things like batch files and visual basic scripts on windows? Everyone seems to forget we had decades of dodgy scripts and activex controls in our browsers for years before javascript became the thing it is today.

I can't recall ever needing to run a batch script to read a paragraph on a website, so doesn't seem like a very apt comparison. Are you claiming there's some group of people who have JavaScript disabled but would be happily running Activex if it were still around? Seems reasonable for some people to dislike and disable JavaScript in 2026, even though another, separate group of people had ActiveX enabled in 2009.

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Post by cyanydeez »

pllbnk wrote: post #196
sph wrote: post #173

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> do a lot of stuff in it's name that you can't do as a private individual Can you do murder? Otherwise I’m not interested. Joking aside, what exactly could you do legally with an NGO?

> Can you do murder? Only if it kills many people over the long time.

In the 90s a bunch of charities installed wells in Africa but didn't get them tested for water quality and poisoned whole villages.

Intent is such an interesting moral stance as opposed to actual outcomes.

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Post by tikimcfee »

ryankrage77 wrote: post #230
tikimcfee wrote: post #97

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> But when a hyperscaler does it, they just get inflated stock prices I also keep coming back to this, and I find it harder and harder a fact to live with. It's not a conspiracy theory, we're not crazy for pointing it out, and worse, there are people here I read about constantly what-abouting and number gaming and "well what would you have done?"ing like somehow the destruction of the concept of equal justice isn't j…

> My magic wand would be waving it at those humans to force them to suddenly and powerfully experience their version of an overview effect in their lives [...] I've daydreamed about this too. I want to sit them down in an interview and try and dissect their thought process/morals. I doubt it's possible to succeed.

Thanks for sharing this. I'll be completely honest about my oddities and eccentricities that this has brought me to a place of trying to understand linguistics in a way I am simply not learned enough to do.

I have a barely substantiated hypothesis that a lot of what fails us as humans in communication is language, intent, and the inability to visualize the same thing with the same words. I have things I've tried to build around this, and the science has been around for many decades and beyond, but I have to try something. I can lie to myself in this and say that at least I'm trying to help people understand each other.

But linguistics is hard and my science is not strong and I am one person trying to convince my local peer groups my ideas about language isn't just goofy and worth a pat on the head. That's less a rant and more a point that I think we're on the same page in some ways: being able to dissect someone's thoughts and morals starts with knowing what tools to do it with, and the only tools I'm really good with are software and language. So, that's what I'm trying to do.

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Post by tikimcfee »

shmeeed wrote: post #205
tikimcfee wrote: post #97

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> But when a hyperscaler does it, they just get inflated stock prices I also keep coming back to this, and I find it harder and harder a fact to live with. It's not a conspiracy theory, we're not crazy for pointing it out, and worse, there are people here I read about constantly what-abouting and number gaming and "well what would you have done?"ing like somehow the destruction of the concept of equal justice isn't j…

You got my standing ovation.

Cheers to you. Maybe one day we'll be able to stand in ovation together for someone that is working more earnestly on this problem than I know I am.

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Post by pojzon »

collingreen wrote: post #54
ghosty141 wrote: post #43

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I never understood how anybody would think this way. At work for example from day one of using AI our rule was, AI is just a tool and if you break something due to not reviewing the code properly etc. it's on you as if you wrote that code yourself.

Nobody ACTUALLY thinks this way, they just want to break all the laws and make their billions without any consequences. We've already seen the big ai labs turn around and cry foul when others try to use their content but they are happy to continue doing it themselves. The hypocrisy and willingness to play dumb are kind of staggering.

Accountability? Never heard of him, probably works in another department. Check out with Carol.

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

jdm2212 wrote: post #194
hn_throwaway_99 wrote: post #178

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Baloney, lots of people go to jail for DUIs, and that's the right analogy here. People don't drink and drive with the intention to kill people. They drink because it's fun and then get behind the wheel because it's easy and convenient, even though they know the dangers they convince themselves nothing that bad will happen. AI companies are creating these dangerous, powerful models (that they keep telling us are dange…

Drunk driving is an actus reus offense basically everywhere, so it's not analogous at all.

It's certainly analogous to the behavior exhibited by these AI companies in deliberately performing dangerous actions and then letting other innocent people deal with the consequences.
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