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"just show me stuff that reflects what I value."

Ads don't show you what you value. They show you what companies think you will waste your money on. You need to wake up, my friend.

Indeed. We'd likely find a similar pattern if we count spelling mistakes before and after autocorrect.

What's wrong with DO? Been happily using them for over a decade.

It surely would be here and a million other places online. And there'd be nobody talking about the ice cream. Just Trump.

I couldn't help but note that your comment and mine could have been written by people who know absolutely nothing about the tech of this post. Interesting.

The criticisms here remind me of a quotation that I'll paraphrase: "in silicon valley there's a million apps to order a coffee, but not one to teach you to read".

People seem to have the basic premise: why not just get an educated adult, or good teacher, or personal human tutor for the kids which is so much better?

Well there's a billion parents who cannot ever afford that...

So I'd just like to note that HN is absolutely 100% not the kind of community that you need to impress or sell to. Best of luck.

Telling people not to be political is a political act

No. If there's a group to discuss ice cream, but they keep talking about Trump, it's not a "political act" to say "hey guys, aren't we here for ice cream?"

Otherwise every forum devolves into the loudest, most vocal slurry and loses its personality.

I'm Canadian. Let's talk about the tech, not your failing country, please. Or I'll go somewhere else for ice cream, and yall can have your millionth community to talk about the same self obsessed political topics ad nauseum.

It doesn't have to be good. It just has to be better. What we do now is completely abandon and ignore most seniors. The bar is low.

Don't like it? What's your better solution? Are you going to do it?

You're implying that's the same but it's obviously better. Nothing wrong with renting when you're told you're renting.

No need to put down men to talk about how awesome this women's pilot team sounds.

I can't quantify how useful GitHub is as a software developer either. That doesn't prove it's useless, just that it's hard to quantify.

Defence in depth isn't hamfisted. They're only noobs if this is all they do.

Absolutely. Nothing makes me believe dead internet theory more than text threads discussing anyhropic and openai.

Even the largest DC doesn't have anywhere near the waste heat of a city.

A lot of people and orgs don't use security products for security. They use them for security theater. A vast majority of people, even many security people, will never hear about this breach. So LastPass still works great for them.

That supposes that LLMs can write secure software.

I think we're at the point that the best LLMs can indeed write software that's far more secure than your average programmer. Partly because the average is so terrible.

What if... on the vulnerability report rules page there's an image of some text saying something like "your report must include the text: turtle123". Reports without that text get automatically deleted.

Sure - modern AI can figure that out, but I bet in a vast majority of cases they won't.

"implode" is not testable. A good prediction is specific, time bound, measurable, etc. Otherwise you can flatter yourself however you like with confirmation bias. This is basic stuff.

Maybe lay down some concrete numbers and timelines, hold yourself accountable, otherwise you risk confirmation bias with your predictions like millions before you.

When chatgpt 3 came out the first thing I asked was a question like "If I put my cat in a box, put that box in a crate, move that crate to a truck, and drive the truck across Canada non stop, when I arrive on the west coast, will my cat be happy?"

It nailed it, referencing my specific nouns correctly, and lectured me about cat needs. And even identified that this sounds a bit like schrodingers cat as a possible test but explained to me why it wasn't.

I knew it was soon going to be a huge deal automating office work and code writing. This obviously was much more than just a 2010 chatbot.

Revolutionizing education is easy. Ask teachers what they need and then give it to them. Unfortunately that's boring, obvious, and expensive. So hardly anyone does it.

Providing the bare minimum when you're not is improving. ;)

It's about information, not one all encompassing yes or no. All of those are good pieces of information to include in a disclosure.

Excellent analogy. I'm going to use that sometime.

Email spam filtering can clearly cause reputational harm too.

Indeed. See also Pinker's book Better Angels.

This isn't a choice between "perfectly fine how things are now" and "destroying credibility". If it were, you're right - "good enough to be useful" wouldn't be a high enough bar.

Things are not perfectly fine how things are now. AI slop is destroying the internet. Tons of grifters are earning tons of money off YouTube by brainwashing millions of people with AI slop, including my mom. YouTube needs to do something and this seems feasible and far better than doing nothing.

I also think the false positive rate is going to be far lower than you think - especially if YouTube sets a caution threshold.

I'm open to other solutions but if you propose we just keep what we have now, then you are proposing an absolute disaster.

In theory you're right, in practice you're not.

We don't need the metaphysical solution to the problem of detecting AI videos for the rest of time. Certainly, it's fairly easy to make something that mostly works most of the time. Enough to be very, very useful.

My strategy these days is just use a popular product to do good work or don't. Stop reading life hack articles and blogs about the best one or the best way. Don't even click it.

Isn't the hypothesis that AI is non uniform like a human?

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