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Apple’s AI tools were built with responsible AI principles to avoid perpetuating stereotypes and systemic biases.

This is either a straight up lie or an extreme stretching of the truth.

This is from the Danish models but literally this is what it puts as autocomplete for “woman are …”

woman we not worth as much as men

And it’s not a one off. It’s been going around social media that autocomplete for a long range of other initial phrases are just as stereotypically chauvinistic or racist. It’s pretty clear that no effort was taken at all to sanitize the models.

And no, it’s not using your chat history, though it used to do this. Which just makes things worse as there things are being spread because everyone who draws attention to it on things like Facebook are immediately accused of being a racists or chauvinist.

The negatives of ~Tiktok~short form videos have nothing to do with …

It feels silly with this coloring of TikTok as the evil when meta, Google and a dozen other American companies are doing the same, just less successfully because they let advertisers and corporate interests buy priority in the algorithm which literally just boils down to “you likely like the same stuff as people who like the same stuff as you”.

For anyone who actually has the app this claim comes of like someone going “The night sky is yellow, trust me, don’t look up!”

That is to say it’s so obviously false if you want to see for yourself just download the app.

creators may still flock to a credible TT-alternative for better monetization

Seems people are already mass migrating to Rednote. I’m not sure how that plays out though.

This is the entire purpose of LLCs.

It’s not. A lot of weight should be put on the concept of “legitimate business”. Let’s say you decide to open up a car dealership and you use an LLC to buy cars then transfer them to another LLC and sell them. Then declare bankruptcy on the one containing the bills. You won’t be shielded, and you’ll likely go to jail for fraud.

The construction is to allow a business to go bankrupt with limited liability not to allow the expense account of a business to go bankrupt.

If OpenAI had run its company by hiding their hardware around a university campus they would have gotten in trouble too. It is not as much about the scraping as it’s the the part where MIT sees a masked person sneaking into backrooms hiding equipment that got AS in trouble. And of cause that he literally disrupted service to jstor because he did a poor job of scraping it. He could have gotten through all of this if he had appeared less like a cyber terrorist in his execution of his plan, but of cause he though he wouldn’t get caught doing it, so he never considered how it would look if he did.

The framework for clinical trials it to go from “there doesn’t appear to be any harm” to “we have reasonable proof that no harm is expected”.

If this is as promising as it sounds it’ll surely process through the stages as it should and eventually reach human trials.

but no one has really brought it up in years

Yes, it hasn’t been brought up during the last four years because he wasn’t president. Now that he’ll be president again it’s suddenly relevant.

For instance, a friend in Europe had to do a 250K GoFundMe campaign to pay for a life-saving treatment for his daughter because well, the only place in the world that performed the surgery she needed was... Guess where? The US.

Interesting, do you have a link? It’s the first time I’ve ever heard of such a case.

One of the reasons that we don't have Universal Healthcare in the US is that things that are categorically unhealthy would be prohibited from being sold.

Counter argument: Pretty much every other nation has socialized healthcare and still allows sugary beverages and tobacco products.

People use the term iPad to refer to non Apple tablets as well. That’s not an argument against Apples trademark.

People may not like Oracle, but the arguments against them owning the trademark on the grounds that it’s used to refer to the thing that it actually is, are extemely weak. I can see the non-use argument being a viable path though.

Whenever anyone says "JavaScript" they actually mean "ECMAScript", which is the language browsers and scripting engines actually implement.

It’s the exact opposite though. Whenever someone says ECMAScript they actually mean “I want to say JavaScript but for legal reasons I’m using another name for it” but that also happens so rarely that it’s not worth considering.

If I invent a new term for iPads and say “well actually when people say iPad they mean ECMApad which is technically the same just a different branding of it” that doesn’t give me grounds to have Apples trademark on iPad discarded.

Programmers may not like it, but JavaScript is a pretty well established and robust trademark and people use it correctly to refer to the same one thing. The problem really just is that people don’t like the owners of it, but that’s hardly a case to have it invalidated.

You mean ban advertisement?

with no seeming explanation

Oddly though every such thing that “defies explanation” also defies being reproducible in controlled experiments.

That’s the thing a about non scientific stuff like this. If it actually worked it would literally just be science and we would be able to reproduce it.

If you buy a magic moon rock that lets you only roll 6’s on dice, you would equally be left feeling that the 1/6 of the time that it worked was proof enough to you that it was actually true, because you bought yourself a bias along side the useless rock.

Same is true a lot with things like yoga for anything outside the Pilates component, it only “works” if you dedicate enough time and money to it, at which point you’re just biased because you don’t want to feel you’ve wasted your time and money. Sure 1/20 might find that it “cured” their illness, but only if that’s the rate of improvement in a control group as well.

If you pay someone to deliver post, and they get their leg blown of because you order them to go through a minefield, you can’t just avoid responsibility by going “that’s what they signed up for” obviously the responsibility of ensuring that the job can be carried out not physically and r safe is with the employer and workers are well within reason to demand compensation if the employer hasn’t ensured the job can be safely carried out.

I think one of the major obvious changes from generation to generation is that it’s now the norm that anyone who’s too drunk or acting up because of drugs will expect to be instantly live broadcast to the world and have those videos shared to anyone who knows them.

Back 20 years ago if you got too drunk it was just a funny story people would retell, now at least in college it’s a fixed part of your online persona as anyone who knows you will have videos of it share with them.

Yes, if only people called it something different. Quantum mechanics similarly immediately understandable if you just call it mechanics of discrete amounts. No need to read a lot of books, do a lot of math or calculation. You now know quantum mechanics at a fundamental level because I have told you the magical recital of a boiled down version. I’ll get back to you with a link to my blog explaining why university courses on the subject should just be replace with a picture of a cat and my magical phrase which will have the same effect.

Honestly do you not even see how naive this idea is that the only thing standing between a subject that literally everyone spends a ton of time on getting good understanding of is a renaming or a catch phrase? Even people who read tons of blogs of “actually it simple just…” end up spending time getting to know it. And every one of those people writing those blogs spent a ton of time on it which is why they are writing blogs about their “eureka moment” that will forever make the subject and instantly learned matter.

Monads aren't weird. Basically it's …

Says everyone after having spent months getting the hang of it and more months writing blogs about how everyone is wrong to think it’s difficult because when you think about it “ A Monad is just a Monoid in the Category of Endofunctors”

It’s incredible just how blind most programmers are to the time they spend on learning things to come to the point where they think a subject is simple and how they all assume that any junior should just listen to their magical recital of a boiled down explanation and immediately understand it at a fundamental level.

Interesting take on the paper. From my perspective I’d say that developing this wouldn’t take 8 hours in python or JavaScript, but it might just be a preference thing.

These days I’d be surprise if asking Copilot to start the product wouldn’t cut of the equivalent of 6hours of the Haskell development time.

Exactly. Even with Twitter bought and paid for it was to close to Elons and Trumps liking, so the platform has to go, or bend the knee and start running rightwing propaganda.

What do you mean “end up believing” are you insinuating that the shown example isn’t true? It very much is true. The reason it’s true might initially be confusion to you as a viewer because you have a difficult time telling the difference between 3/8 and 2/5 and assume the triangles have identical slopes, but the visual proof very much and truthfully shows that this is not he case.

The study is saying people couldn’t turn the information into a reliable advantage and your arguing why information leakage might explain why there would be a reliable advantage.

So you were only trying to say that page refreshed aren’t common on some subset of pages where it isn’t common? What’s the point of that argument.

Also curious, why are you arguing so intensely for a “solution” that seems to only be worse and introduces issues as explained, without ever having stated any problem you are trying to solve with the change?

Yeah, this. Anyone who criticizes this project is simply revealing their ignorance of what it takes to build a product like this

I don’t know what it takes to build a computer, but I know what it takes for me to buy one. The feedback given is all constructive from people who are saying that this product is as it’s currently presented to their taste and the customer is always right in matters of taste.

Also there is a matter of knowing your audience. The website looks top notch to people who build websites not to people who buy expensive coffee equipment. There doesn’t seem to be a single non cgi or cgi-like image of the machine or video of it running. These things a trivial to add, so it’s fair to give OP the feedback that this should be added.

For OP, this is also a great reference for what their website should look like.

Feedback on your website: If you have designed a product and you are proud of the visual design show it. Don’t do a thousand different strange angles and moving pans around it to obscure what it actually looks like. The impression your site gives is that you’re trying to convince yourself that it might actually look good, but that you don’t really believe it yourself, so you are doing everything in your power to change the perception of it away from what people will actually see if they just look at it.

If someone is claiming that global climate change has melted all the arctic ice and created a Vulcan into spring up in lower Manhatten, they are a crackpot. But that doesn’t mean global climate change isn’t real or isn’t bad.

Two can be true. Atrazine can be bad, and Alex Jones claims about it can be outrageous unfounded conspiracy theories.

Being overweight increases the risk of developing quality of life reducing conditions and that is bad (it’s not being overweight itself that is bad). This is the case even if it doesn’t lead directly to dying. I would be careful about pushing the narrative that being overweight but not obese is just fine just because it won’t significantly increase your chance of straight up dying. Type 2 diabetes is a treatable condition so might not lead to a significant increase in deaths, but not exactly something you would want to develop if you can avoid it. And your chance of developing just that does increase if you are overweight even if you are not obese.

Who importantly, supposedly doesn’t have any money, because he doesn’t want to pay the families of the victims what he owns them.

Incitement means means explicitly encouraging.

He was literally, as in literally, comparing the families of the victims to Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

I don’t know about you, but if someone has been screaming at me for years that I need to be ready for armed conflict with “the enemy” and then points to someone screaming “that guy’s Hitler”, I would definitely take that as explicit encouragement. But obviously it’s all “just comedy” right?