BillyClark

This is vigilantism. When the official authorities don’t seek justice, vigilantes often pop up. I may disagree with their methods, but I think the fault lies with these oligarchs for courting the injustice.

Saturn is currently about 1 light hour from Earth. That’s a hell of a ping.

I guess if you had french doors and opened the “wrong” door, it would be similar to a reversed deadbolt.

The engineer added that employees are now pressured to ship products as fast as possible, leaving them with little time to review Claude’s output or understand the code being created.

Companies have always pressured software teams to ship products as fast as possible.

What’s new is the part where all of the worst coders can shit out code a lot faster and pretend like they’re doing a good job. It used to take them a while to write garbage that they didn’t understand or review themselves, but now they can do it so quickly that it makes the actual good coders look like they’re taking a long time.

This is why you absolutely have to have documented coding and review standards. The idea that you’d ship any code that has never been reviewed by a human is horrifying.

The idea that you’d work 12 hour days is so stupid to start with. I’ve seen people consistently work that long and… surprise, they don’t actually work that long. They work about the same as anybody else and goof off the rest of the time. I doubt you can even just press enter for that long. People just don’t work that way.

If we ever have free elections in the future, whoever the next president is should order that Donald John Trump be officially and irrevocably renamed to Orange Adolph Hitler, and all of Trump’s properties be seized, demolished, and rebuilt into affordable housing.

My first thought was wondering why The Onion chose Super Intelligence instead of the more believable American Intelligence, which keeps the AI abbreviation. I really just thought this was going to be some worse Onion knockoff website.

Too Stupid to be The Onion

Fuck, I’m surprised he didn’t rename it to Gulf of Intelligence.

I mean, you are describing modern copyright.

But copyright is an example of something where the US Constitution, at least, explicitly says its purpose is to “promote” something:

[the United States Congress shall have power] To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.

I like how straightforward the Copyright Clause is. It even gives a testable standard. The length of “exclusive Right” for IP should be the “limited” length of time that “promote[s] the Progress of Science and useful Arts.”

So, the plain reading here is that IP laws need to give exclusivity long enough to encourage creation, by making authors and inventors think it is worth the time and money investment, but not so long that they discourage creation, for example, where a person doesn’t create something because they are afraid of violating IP laws.

Originally, in the US, copyright lasted 14 years, with an option for renewing for 14 more years, and this is one example where I think they got it about right.

True. The Republican incumbent that he’s running against, Tim Burchett, promised to legislate against Flock cameras. While that’s nice, I no longer trust the promises of any Republican.

As far as I’m concerned, we need to replace all Republican politicians. If their opponent is a Democrat, we need to be a little careful not to elect a wolf in sheep’s clothing. But if they’re independents like the guy we’re talking about, I think just about anybody would do. Like an animal or an inanimate object would even be infinitely preferable to a Republican.

Wikipedia itself is still one of the best resources on the internet, and they actually make it pretty easy to back up their data, which is why there are so many clones out there.

If Wikimedia foundation died, somebody else would take over, and hopefully the quality wouldn’t decline too much.

Besides, we have seen it work recently. A bunch of local stations took Kimmel off the air, pressuring Disney to cancel his show. So Disney was about to cancel Kimmel, and instead everybody canceled their Hulu/Disney+ memberships, and a couple of days later, Kimmel was back.

I get what you’re saying, but it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth. What I’m saying is that SpaceX would have to be run by a complete idiot for them to think they have an incentive to ruin the planet… Wait… It is run by a complete idiot.

I worked in software for, well, let’s say 20 years, at some elite places, too. And the one thing that I never understood was how few people ever bothered “to make sure it is correct,” as you put it, even before this new problem with AI. They didn’t even bother to make sure it was correct even when they wrote it themselves.

You don’t know how many times I’ve been sent a request to review code, and it should have only been like 20 lines of code, but instead it was page after page of irrelevant stuff, because they created the review from the wrong baseline. But they never even took a single look at it before they sent it to me.

So many people don’t write tests for their code that generally my biggest achievement at any given assignment was creating test frameworks that let them write tests using domain specific language, because it made it much easier. At a certain point, if it’s easy enough, even those people will write tests, especially if they know that I’ll be doing the review.

I honestly don’t see AI code as being all that different. People still don’t even do the minimum, but they just get exposed and embarrassed more easily.

I don’t know that the article was all that badly written, but you missed a couple of points that I’d call essential:

One, it was 32 students out of 35 total who used AI and then didn’t even bother to check it, so only 3 students even made an honest attempt in the entire semester.

Two, the professor told the students that they were allowed to contest the grade if they wanted, and only 2 out of the 32 students even tried to contest it.

The guy from the article was referred to as “a US man,” so I’m assuming he has US citizenship.

The border cannot legally deny US citizens from entering the US. But they can do all sorts of other things, like detain or delay or prosecute people for not complying.

OpenAI’s general model doesn’t give out reliable medical advice. So, they need to instruct it not to give out medical advice, and instead to tell the user to consult a real doctor. Hopefully they have done that already.

But beyond that, there’s a quagmire. Some people will move mountains to avoid talking to humans about anything, or even about some certain things like their health, and if ChatGPT refuses to give advice, they’ll either find a way around the instructions to the AI, or they’ll just find another AI that is willing to give medical advice. So part of me is glad that these people will get a specialized medical advice AI model, because it’s better than nothing, and if OpenAI wants to risk the lawsuits, that’s their problem. But it’s still dangerous if their new medical advice model hallucinates like all of the current models seem to. I personally wouldn’t recommend people use it.

I’m reminded of how Disney pulled most of their movie ideas from the public domain, and then pushed hard to try to extend copyright so that none of their movies would ever enter the public domain themselves.

What I thought the article was going to be about, assuming it was clickbait: Tech Executives losing their jobs after losing their company’s money on AI, or Tech Executives realizing that it’s their jobs that could most easily be replaced by AI.

What the article was actually about: Literally murder threats and firebombing their houses and that sort of thing.

I have no comment beyond being surprised that the headline was literal.

If that was the proposal, then maybe the end product would have looked like these ones.

Those things are all good ideas, and I have literally used all of those things for my mother, only to see that she will carry medicine around and then put it down mindlessly in strange places. One time, she even just held the medication in her mouth so long that a capsule dissolved in her mouth. Yes, she has dementia, but most of those things happened when her dementia was pretty mild.