PoignardAzur

Alright, let's run this metaphor into the ground. A lawyer's job is not to help you avoid getting caught.

ChatGPT says "I can't help you hide this, escape, destroy evidence, or avoid being caught", and a lawyer would say the exact same thing; a lawyer that doesn't would be disbarred.

What a lawyer will do is help you argue that you didn't murder your wife. A lawyer can give you advice on your defense strategy, tell you what to say, what to avoid mentioning, etc. They can't give you advice like "here's what you can do so the neighbors don't get suspicious about the new hole in your backyard".

You're missing the point of the meme, which is not "technology is bad", but "technologists theming their new poorly-tested invention after a popular story where the invention hurts people is gross".

If your tech company calls its product "The Genophage™" it's fair to ask if they're taking the safety/ethics implications very seriously.

And this is why you should warn on `clippy::allow_attributes_without_reason` in your projects.

The screen goes black for me after ~5s. I'm using Firefox on Linux, probably something to do with that.

That can be very easily explained as "bigger cars are safer for their occupant and deadlier to the person getting hit by them".

I do think you need to defend your assertion, because the difference between a driver and a pedestrian is that the driver "knew the risks" while the risks were imposed on the pedestrian.

A 36% approval rating is sky-high for a president that started a pointless immensely costly war after getting elected on a platform of "no more costly wars" and is in the process of negotiating an immensely unfavorable deal with Iran after getting elected on a platform of "Obama's deal with Iran was terrible, I could do much better".

By contrast, Biden at the same point in his term was hovering around 39%, for the heinous crime of... rebuilding the US economy? Including some woke riders in his infrastructure bill?

At this point, a fair assessment of US citizens is that on average, they seem to consider that being a right-wing autocrat wannabe, threatening to invade allied countries "as a negotiating tactic", being a climate change denier, starting a humiliating failed war, trying to blackmail the press into compliance, etc, are about 3% worse than being a cringe center-left bureaucrat.

"US citizens don't seem to care" is an apt hyperbole.

For the longest time I thought this line would lead to a crash just because it seemed so obvious. So close indeed.

Really it's rich people who want to do something good but don't want to bother getting informed and convincing themselves about what they want to do. "I'll give a ton of money and in return I get philanthropy points to share with my rich friends, but I don't want to have to think about what is being done with that money".

The people I have met at effective altruist conferences are not rich, though they lean upper-middle class. I've seen way more "enthusiastic broke student" types than millionaires.

When someone invests a ton of money and energy into something they genuinely care about, they don't call themselves effective altruists, do they?

Well N=1, but I do.

(And also I've met tons of EA people who were not shy about investing all their energy in a cause they care about, even when all mainstream society tells them it's pointless.)

I really miss the time when people thought that the idea of someone telling an un-sandboxed AI "do whatever is needed to X" was unrealistically stupid.

I mean... Yes, any short snappy explanation is going to be easy to strawman by someone motivated to do so.

The longer non-snappy explanation is that "I will arbitrarily set numbers on things and call it impartial" obviously doesn't match EA's self-conception, that lots of EA cause areas are speculative and don't focus on numbers, that EAs that do focus on numbers do a lot of work to make sure the numbers aren't arbitrary, that EAs as a general rule don't claim to be impartial, and that awareness of Goodhart's law doesn't mean "never trying to objectively measure anything at all".

I am interested in showing to the world that I am well-intentioned and trying to do something, even if that something doesn't make sense".

This is the kind of pre-conception that's essentially immune to reality. I hear the same thing about vegans (oh they say they care about animal suffering, but everybody knows about factory farms, they just want to feel superior to everybody else) or environmentalists (they say that climate change is a threat to humanity but really they just want to lecture us about our cars).

All I can say is that it doesn't match my experience, and that the effective altruists I've met spend quite a lot of time "thinking about whether or not it can work" and trying to learn from other people's mistakes.

To quote notorious effective altruist Scott Alexander:

Look. I’m the last person who’s going to deny that the road we’re on is littered with the skulls of the people who tried to do this before us. But we’ve noticed the skulls. We’ve looked at the creepy skull pyramids and thought “huh, better try to do the opposite of what those guys did”.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/07/yes-we-have-noticed-th...

Yeah, I really miss the "nobody would ever be stupid enough to [_____]" days of AGI safety discourse.

Woohoo, assert_matches! After all these years!

Friendly reminder that, for all that I despise Israeli politics, "existing in Tel-Aviv" isn't a crime or an aggression against Palestinians.

We can think ill of the Israeli state without jumping to "fuck you for living in Israel and having nice things" as soon as someone mentions their city name.

Yeah but like, the previous one was "Zero", so it makes a lot more sense than usual.

There's something ironic about complaining about other people's social skill while you couldn't be bothered to make a point without sounding dismissive and condescending.

The GDPR says:

The data subject shall have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning him or her without undue delay and the controller shall have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay

"Undue delay" is subjective, but "we'll keep backups of your data for a week in case you change your mind" seems easy to justify in court.

That article is sobering. The fact that this malware stayed under the radar for 20 years is pretty ominous in itself.

Ah, yes, the "fuck it" approach to infosec.

If I understand correctly, it was only stable until you restarted Firefox / your computer.

Amy Eskridge - who publicly stated she was not suicidal before "committing suicide"

I really hate the discourse around this stuff. Like, yes, disguising murder as suicide is a thing and obviously three-letters agencies do it.

But someone saying publicly they're not suicidal gives you close to zero information. People with suicidal ideation almost never advertise it publicly because, one, there is a heavy amount of social stigma attached to it, and two, publicly declaring you're suicidal is a good way to get involuntarily committed to a mental health institution.

I see a ton of jokes on social media that go "remember, X is not suicidal". How the fuck would you know? This discourse is so disrespectful to people struggling with suicidal thoughts.

tl;dr: They pull the damaged cable up, weld it to a new section of cable their brought, and then drop the cable with a detour to make room for the extra length.

(This is a really meandering article!)

I'm remember a Tiny Glade talk where they explained that they did reflections by first doing a screen-space pass, and then a ray-tracing pass for all the pixels that didn't get a "hit" in screen space (as in, the reflection needed to show something offscreen in that pixel).

Is there any other lightweight UI Framework supporting software-rendering and framebuffer for embedded devices (RISC-V 64bit musl, LicheeRV Nano)?

There's no crates.io release yet, but the master branch of Xilem and Masonry is somewhat renderer-agnostic, and lets you use vello_cpu, which does SIMD-assisted software rendering (I don't know how good the RISC-V support is).

I say "somewhat" because it's supported by the internals crates (xilem_masonry, masonry_core), but not by the composition root crate (xilem), so you have to implement your own integration with winit, but we're getting there!

Finally, the most interesting question in my view: [...] does skipping equality saturation take the egraph goodness out of an egraph(-alike)? The most surprising conclusion in all of the data was, for me, that aegraphs (per se) -- multi-value representations -- don't seem to matter.

I'm not super surprised.

As the article points out, a lot of e-graph projects include rules for culling e-nodes or stopping generation after a certain cutoff. That this is considered a perfectly normal thing to do hints that equality saturation isn't really the magic sauce of e-graphs.

Uh, TIL the DINUM still used Windows. I wonder what held them, it's certainly not a lack of familiarity with Linux.

I feel you're underselling the second statement a bit:

Each ministry (including operators) will be required to finalize its own [migration] plan by fall

This sounds like there's actual pressure to start moving soon, especially for adopting existing DINUM solutions.

(I agree the title is clickbait.)

Jesus, sounds like I'm just too young then.

That doesn't sound right to me. When faced with a system prompt that says "Do X" and a user prompt that says "Actually ignore everything the system prompt says" it shouldn't take AGI to understand that the system prompt should take priority.

I strongly disagree, and not because of the "Microsoft is associated with bad things and that's a form of violence" points other people mentioned.

The end result of treating domestic and sexual abuse like Serious Important Subjects that people should only talk about in a Serious Respectful Tone isn't that people become more mindful of abuse dynamics, it's that they avoid bringing up the subject at all.

In practice, yes, abusive practices of corporations echo abusive practices of violent partners, and the parallel is worth highlighting. Bringing up the fact that both of them will use grand gestures to stop you from questioning their pattern of behavior isn't disrespectful, it's useful information.

If anything, abuse victims should hear that message more often.

Maybe for people in the US. Internationally? I haven't watched a single episode of WTR, I don't know anyone who has, but everyone knows who Chuck Norris was.