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Leadership encourages this because from what they can tell, there is no downside.

This was my big fear before we saw price increases. Now I'm pinning all my hopes on AI being too expensive to justify further big corporate pushes. (Sigh.) I love having new tools, but I hate being pushed to use ______ tool to meet some managerial metric.

In comparison, tech sisters advocating for an absolute right to privacy seem to be a very rare, and maybe mythical, species.

Care to amend your statement? I don't see any qualification about building software there.

Face it, the author was just searching for another reason to be mad at men in the software realm.

I finished the article. My own bad prediction: If FOSS "dies" it will continue to thrive in 3rd world countries, where no one bothers to administer punishment for the heinous crime of not letting your government's LLM read every word you type. The 1st world will ignore all this until it becomes apparent that the (former) 3rd world countries are suddenly in a position to economically surpass everyone else, and at that point the wise will see that their desire to keep a stranglehold on online activity was actually a bad idea that allowed their dominance to wane and wither.

I had to stop reading halfway through to respond.

In comparison, tech sisters advocating for an absolute right to privacy seem to be a very rare, and maybe mythical, species.

Ever heard of Meredith Whittaker?

We could have designed our protocols to be minimally compatible with “a nation of laws,” but the tech bros insisted that compromise was treason, and, as a result, we will lose more privacy than necessary.

This has to be a joke. There's private, and there's not private. There is nothing in between. This is not about tech bros. This is about guiding principles, about personal liberty, and about freedom from tyranny.

It may not quite be a law of nature, but my personal guess is that the opportunities for anonymity on the Internet will shrink until mothers no longer are forced to have “the talk” when their daughters get their first mobile phone.

In addition to "the talk" guess what else they won't be forced (or allowed) to talk about? Political dissent.

This chunk of the article is both sexist and defeatist. Now to read the rest.

Genuine question: if the LLM possesses the ability to use Secretive to retrieve secrets are you not back to square 1? I'm not familiar with Secretive but if it's just another way to store secrets that's not enough. For proper security the LLM needs a black box intermediary to do anything privileged. I don't know what that looks like in terms of software.

Or better yet it needs dead-end privileges with a system and data that doesn't matter.

The games industry will push us even harder toward streaming everything.

The company was acquired days ago. You think this was implemented since then?

"The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

Or reworded: "Belgian police stop our reporting simply because some foreign ambassador asked for it"

We are about to see this increasingly frequent commentary put to the test.

lowbrow Microsoft tactics

It's funny you say this because when I read the solution my first thought was that's such an Apple thing.

I'm probably a good candidate to direct a platoon of agents. I'm a generalist and I think in terms of business requirements. But I'm not sure I want to. Coding captures my imagination, and directing agents just plain doesn't.

Or maybe it's more than that: maybe I'm off-put by people who have no need to be in the immediate AI race spending a lot of money to get ahead without asking what near-term problem they are trying to solve. It's depressing and makes the whole field more depressing. My advice for them (if they cared) would be that soon all this will be even more batteries-included, to where any dunce can dial up a production-ready app with a sentence. There's no need to rush; when it happens you'll be better off not having wasted millions trying to be on the bleeding edge.

they should be more rigorous about carefully defining the knowledge objectives of the class, thoroughly breaking down complex skills into components, and doing lots and lots and lots of practice

As someone who makes use of AI quite a bit in my own learning, I can say that it’s still relatively weak at having a good model of an individual’s skill gaps and conceptual weaknesses

Why not spec out the curriculum and spec out the approach (regular quizzes, etc.), then use that to guide the AI? Make the skill gap an objective thing.

...which generates usage data, which in turn feeds itself? Circular economics, how convenient.

This was such a good discussion. So many interesting topics hit.

I find his take on open source software interesting; that pushing for free and open software is inevitably serving the interests of those who will collect and profit from it. And that by attempting to make everything free we are making it more difficult for young people to make money. Lots more to say about that I'm sure.

On social media I agree with him that the current economic rules are creating the undesirable effects we see now. My solution for this was to ban the sale and purchase of user data. His perspective was that policing the data was more difficult, and that a better solution would be to police the software; that we should outlaw software that attempts to predict human behavior. There might be unintended consequences there, but it's not a bad idea.

The business owner was just being rude.

For the GitHub discussion, I don't know how you asked the question, but it would be wise to include in your question what sources you have already consulted, so that they don't also consult the same sources. This is true whether we're talking about AI or Encyclopedia Britannica or microfilm.

Asking questions well is a useful skill that is not at all new.

As someone who finds Japanese corporate culture interesting or even desirable in some ways, it definitely doesn't seem like the most efficient way to run a company. And I'm sure there are plenty of cultural aspects that would not be my cup of tea.

the J-firm, run by its employees and largely indifferent to the interests of shareholders, exists simply to continue existing

I don't know if all companies should be run like Japanese companies, but there's something very heartwarming about this. Some companies exist for the purpose of employment, and that's okay. In fact it's admirable and makes me want to cheer.

For people, they hear a news report and avoid affected intersections. With autonomous cars they can have people (or AI or both) monitoring affected areas and blacklisting streets and intersections in real time.

It remains to be seen where we'll converge on capability, incident rate, and acceptance.

I think we're already there with Waymo as the example. We may later choose to diverge from this now-accepted path, but for the moment we have a blueprint, and fixing edge cases with a software update is apparently acceptable, if you just look at all the Waymos operating legally right now.

On a normal day it should suffice to train the model to use its judgment and maybe monitor how other cars are reacting to water covering the road, but when it starts flooding everywhere maybe they should pause the service until it dries out.

Plenty of snow and ice in parts of the US. Hopefully you'll get a chance to try the self-driving for yourself.

They are winning because West is forbidden to use Chinese models for anything work-related.

Because the models hosted in China are not trusted. This is 100% a part of what makes up commercialization.

Most digital things in Europe are in fact much better.

I'm see a lot of "worse" in your comment and not seeing any "better". Can you give some examples of that?

Mostly dismissive comments, it seems. Maybe justified. But I think a more interesting conversation is what happens if this or other devices like it become a hit? I wonder if the next generation of users will look at computers with no AI features the way we look at MS-DOS.

Yeah the Pro Pinball series cstarted arriving around the same time as Windows 95. I guess people liked the Windows game because it was just a few clicks away.

One chargeback for your 5$ game can consume you 55$ or more, handful and you permanently lose the ability to accept the payment anywhere including future businesses outside of games

This sounds like personal experience. Can you elaborate?

Edit: OHH perhaps you are saying this is one of the benefits of Steam; that it shields you from all this.

I had to look up a name for this. "Utopian Fallacy."

You don't have to get rid of genuine progress just because your utopian vision has something better. The USA is on the path to autonomous vehicles. They are not on the path to public transportation excellence.

The CEO gets charged with manslaughter?

Well then forget autonomous vehicles altogether and allow the human joyride to continue, because no CEO is stupid enough to risk that.

What about AV? $10 million? Executives go to jail? What if $10 million fine per X AV miles driven is an OK cost of doing business?

If AVs will save lives, we need to be sure we aren't punitive to the point of making them disappear.

Dear flagger, did I say something incorrect?