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You can still get your session cookies stolen. If you have good password hygiene passkeys only protect you in extremely niche scenarios.

OK now say you're on a work/library/friend's computer and you want to look up an account in 1password on your phone so you can type in the password. Passkeys don't support this very basic and common workflow. Meanwhile there's no real security benefit over password manager generated complex and not reused passwords.

Wrong hands? The model did this on a benign instruction. We're going to get paperclip maximized once these things get capable enough regardless of whether bad actors are involved.

Ignoring patent law has done great things for 16th century continental Europe and more recently China. Rent-seekers and ladder kickers shouldn't always be respected, they'll slow down societal advancement to a crawl if you let them. The question is whether the gains these AI companies are making from their transgressions are overly privatized.

Ethics are probably internalized long before someone commits to an engineering career. I'm not sure they can be taught later.

That's a very mercenary attitude. If less than 2% of your (potential) users had a particular disability, would you implement accessibility features for them without being forced to? I'd argue that it's the right thing to do. Some restrictions like using an old browser may be more or less a choice, but it's still a much better look to be inclusive.

Or it's self-dealing from these funding parties, and the hiring is business continuing as usual.

My understanding is that one of the advantages of being VC funded is that sales among sister companies become easier, sometimes going as far as the VC influencing purchasing on your behalf.

That's positively incoherent. You can't even interpret an instruction without relying on prior knowledge. Not to mention LLM's are in essence made of knowledge.

Relaxation isn't really a goal of meditation. When you do it you cultivate a kind of meta-cognition, an awareness of - and control over - the kind of invasive thinking that usually dominates our awareness.

As a fellow ADHD person I didn't get out the first few times I tried, but now find it quite helpful.

Exactly, this is called a marginal effect and it's very relevant for our bodies which basically need their homeostasis disrupted to be prompted to adapt.

That's what swap is for.

In the past with harmful refrigerants and lack of renewable energy AC simply was not justifiable in most of Europe. Progress on both fronts plus global warming is changing that only recently.

There is a more nuanced argument against deportation as a policy. First of all it causes migrants to destroy their documentation and to be less coöperative with the immigration process. Second, some migrant countries refuse repatriation, which is currently an unsolved problem. Finally there's something to be said for immigrants to be registered regardless of status, rather than incentivising them to avoid authorities.

Now some of these problems could be solved, but there's a legitimate argument that the policy causes more problems than it solves.

Rising demand induces inflation because more money is chasing the same goods.

It's not just minimum wages. If productive sector employees' demand for goods causes inflation, prices will rise. If you want to keep your nurses/doormen/teachers you'll have to increase their wages regardless of what the minimum wage is.

I've been to staffless hotels (numa) that were good and noticeably more affordable than their neighbors. I don't know if the housekeeping was outsourced though, I imagine that, without at least some local management staff, conditions would deteriorate rapidly.

Labour was cheaper back then. Even valuable jobs can stop making sense if the costs outweigh them. That's the difficulty with automation making other sectors more efficient, wages get driven up while your productivity stays the same.

Data.table is a masterclass in bad API design. Its lack of success despite its technical merits is entirely of their own doing.

Sounds like socializing the harms instead of requiring these companies to bear the burden themselves. Could still be a valid approach but I'm afraid it will make them take less responsibility, not more.

Recently finished the Starfish quadrilogy and adored it as well. One thing I particularly like is how this theme of evolutionary pressure applies to everyone alike; characters, software, ideologies, neural nets.

Also Watts manages to conjure this feeling of future shock I've only previously felt with Charles Stross' work.

REAMDE's description of MMO economics is farcically bad. It undermines the whole book.

The conclusions seem overly broad. Just because these languages are Turing complete doesn't mean they aren't massively hampered by expressiveness and amount of batteries included. To attribute all of this to training data memorization is premature.

Of course they do, error messages get tokenized and put into the context window just like anything else. This isn't a Markov chain.

The aggregate effect of the chemical gradients in the antheap controls the ants. It's similar in these giant companies where the combination of all the incentives makes for a gradient towards certain outcomes. I can see little intentionality or individual agency in what the likes of Google have produced in the last two decades.

Language is intersubjective (its meaning is in the minds of the participants). Referring to the history or composition of a word is interesting but entirely insufficient to justify its use.

State governments are very much not under "management" of the federal government.

Not definitively. LLMs are stochastic with respect to input, temperature and the exact prompt. It's possible that the model was already capable of it but never received the exact right conditions to produce this output.

That's not how it works in many countries. You can have regional governments that raise their own taxes and aren't beholden to the central government organizationally, just legally.

We're trying to have a discussion about facts, not opinions.

Ecological footprints are more about the distribution of resource burdens between first and third world countries. Predictions about resource exhaustion have proved mostly false.