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I use Cloudflare WARP to avoid ISP traffic shaping. I feel a lot more comfortable when my ISP just sees one outgoing wireguard connection.

I don't even understand why it became political. What incentive do people on the left have to deny the obvious conclusion that it came from the lab?

Well, the best Reddit app available (Apollo) is made by one guy. So maybe start there.

For some reason I had in my head that they had 12 engineers... wow, 2000 people, of which I assume at least multiple dozen are engineers? That really makes their product look much worse than it already did in my mind...

What I find hilarious about this is that Google introduced the .zip domain and then shutdown their registrar a week later.

You're lucky that you got in touch with someone who understood the report and didn't refer you to the polizei, like happened in Hungary a few years ago when a 17 year old kid figured out he could change the price of a ticket in his browser dev tools.

Firefox with uBlock Origin and various about:config flags disabling telemetry, autocomplete, etc.

I don't think there's a big issue with an unreliable tutor; a Harvard professor can spit out incorrect information, too. It's up to the learner to cross-check and verify the information. If you're uncritically ingesting facts from some other intelligence (artificial or otherwise), you won't be learning much anyway. The best lessons come when you make connections between different bits of information, so if an unreliable tutor forces you to make more of those connections in the process of checking its work, so be it.

They were trained by people who agreed to do a job in exchange for payment.

I think it's much simpler than this. Either you're an autodidact or you're not. Children who are predisposed to teaching themselves stuff will now have more tools to help them learn what they want to learn.

He's not breaking any news here. This has been a well known and widely deployed attack for years, to the point that darknet markets impose multiple anti-phishing mitigations (as best they can, at least, e.g. signing a PGP message with the URL and then posting that PGP key on the landing page, and trying various JS tricks for reverse proxy detection to warn user they might be on the wrong site).

The API is still there, and it must still be usable without paying, since the mobile app is using it. So setup mitmproxy on your iPhone and sniff the traffic to figure out how it gets its key, and then replicate that in your scraper.

As an outsider, when I see drama in the Rust community, I always assume it has something to do with 2SLGBTQIA+ discrimination or racism. In this case, I was surprised when I skimmed the blog post to see none of that, although maybe I was missing some subtle subtext embedded in the pronoun usage or words like "discomfort." I can't follow this stuff anymore.

That the screenshots are from the mobile website for some reason makes this look even worse.

Reminder: you're welcome to join the Ukraine foreign legion, if you feel so strongly in favor of the war. Otherwise, you should acknowledge that you want other people to kill each other, despite being unwilling to die yourself.

Yes

How about a tool that ingests code (and tests) and creates documentation? Anything like this yet?

Quora has fulfilled its purpose of generating training data for large language models, by answering the majority of questions people have ever thought to search for on the premise of "I wonder if anyone's asked this question before." Now that ChatGPT has read all the answers, Quora can fade into the sunset while ChatGPT regurgitates its answers with precision as part of an ad-free conversation.

Outside of self driving cars

This is what I find so hilariously suspicious about Elon Musk's sudden anxiety about the dangers of AI chatbots. Like, dude, you've spent the better part of two decades making cars that drive themselves and have _already_ killed people with their faulty, ironically oversold "AI." Now all of a sudden someone else's AI, which isn't in the drivers seat of vehicles capable of 100mph+ speeds, and which actually works, is an existential danger to humanity?

Cloudflare has made demonstrable efforts to accommodate Tor users, and I've personally noticed a reduction in the number of CAPTCHAs I encounter while browsing Cloudflare sites with Tor. They were definitely not required to do this, especially considering that sites like Google give Tor users unsolvable CAPTCHAs or block them altogether. And yet they did, which I took as a gesture of good faith.

Some sites are still annoying to browse with Tor, but it's only those that opted into the strictest security settings with their Cloudflare plan. In my experience, the default Cloudflare behavior is not any more unfriendly to Tor than it is to any VPN (which is not too unfriendly, for the most part).

I do agree with you that the global MITM is a huge problem for privacy and access to information. I'm just pointing out that Cloudflare has made some good-faith effort to reduce the friction encountered by Tor users. If I had to choose an operator of such a global MITM, Cloudflare might be the least bad choice.

Note that this behavior is not enabled by default. Websites behind Cloudflare need to opt into it, and they can choose which security level they use (with higher levels necessitating more CAPTCHAs).

Also, as someone who browses 100% of the time with a VPN, I hardly ever encounter Cloudflare CAPTCHAs. I've also been encountering less of them when using Tor; it seems Cloudflare has made progress in their efforts to reduce friction for Tor users. On the other hand, Google search frequently doesn't work at all - it refuses to serve me search results and doesn't even offer me the chance to solve a CATPCHA.

Why not? Most of the complaints people have with Cloudflare regarding CAPTCHAs and user-hostile behavior are opt-in features that are not enabled by default. A website behind Cloudflare needs to enable extra protection to opt into the CAPTCHAs.

If your issue is more generally with a single provider becoming a global MITM for 10% of the internet, then that's a more understandable argument, albeit a meaninglessly existential one.

Is my assumption correct that Yudkowsky is unmarried with no kids? If so, I wonder how this shapes his pessimism on the subject. Perhaps it's more exciting to be an alarmist about the future when you've only got a few decades left on this planet and with no legacy in place to leave behind.

Cyclists on the pavement make me so angry. (Also, "pavement" means "sidewalk," for the Americans reading.)

Not to mention, you could easily kill yourself. If you're biking on the roads (especially in the UK where they're extremely narrow), you better recognize you're partaking in a dangerous activity and take it seriously. At least wear a helmet.

Also, cycling drunk is illegal in many jurisdictions and can get you a DUI in the same way as drunk driving a car. If you're on an e-bike, it's almost certainly illegal, since you're driving a motorized vehicle.

I'm not sure "product person" was the right choice of words for what Carmack is trying to say. It seems to me that the distinction he's drawing between managers and programmers is one of precise communication skills. The most talented programmers (and the best product managers - which is maybe what he was getting at) are talented because of their ability to communicate precisely - currently, that means communicating between stakeholders and computers. In the future, it will mean communicating precisely between stakeholders and AI tools. But the fundamental demand for people with a knack for precise communication is not going anywhere.

The early indication from some government agencies is that AI output will not be copyrightable.

I agree with this. When I see ChatGPT output a perfect React program, I don't think "oh shit, it's going to replace me writing React programs." I think "thank goodness I'm not going to need to write that shit anymore." Instead of writing 40 lines of React, I can write two sentences to ChatGPT. It's the same two sentences I would "write" to myself (in my head) before writing the 40 lines of React, but now I save all the hassle of looking up the details or typing out the same drudgery over and over again.

Though, the amount of engineers will be reduced for sure.

Why do you assume the demand for the output of engineers will remain constant? More likely it will continue growing (as it always has - "software is eating the world"), and engineers will be able to produce more output efficiently. This doesn't necessarily mean there will be fewer engineers.

The lesson I've taken from ChatGPT so far is that "consciousness" may be much less interesting or "special" than we thought. It may turn out that it's nothing more than an emergent property of a shared language that models the world around us and gives us capacity to plan and communicate our actions.