Gentle nerd freak of the pacific northwest. All nation states are vermin.
鬼島 “ghost island” is the phrase taiwanese use to talk about the general feeling of malaise that comes with taiwan’s precarious political position, the difficulty of finding good work, new opportunities or hope for the future.
I can imagine that makes organizing much harder.
effort of producing journalism
I don’t think this has been true of the nyt for some years.
Between a “privacy” browser that steals ads and trains ai on the one hand, and a declining mouthpiece for elites with pretensions of journalism on the other, it’s hard to work out who to oppose more.
Without that legal fiction, new businesses would grind to a screeching halt
Thats not true though. The world abounded in businesses before the modern corporation and it will after.
There’s no way that making the board or c-suite personally liable could increase the power of monopolies. It would encourage smaller corps with less centralized risk.
Global warming is a great example of how terrible we are at dialing in the correct priority for issues beyond human scales.
When some humans worked out it was coming, nothing happened - the opposite of nothing. As more humans became aware, more effort was put into styming efforts than actually doing anything.
Even now, as the effects are near-universally understood, present, and killing people - still we fail to act on the threat with anything like an appropriate level of seriousness.
The fact is that humans are just not well equipt to deal with problems beyond human scales.
We’re not good at accurately assessing risks beyond human time scales and we’re not good correctly prioritizing action when the benefit is beyond human time scales.
For those who don’t know, delaware is basically three taxhavens in a trenchcoat pretending to be a state.
This move is Delaware taking a bold step into 21st century ways of hiding the crimes and wealth of the rich.
Nuclear plants - with high start-up costs, national security risks and high output - will always require concentrating large amounts of power in few hands.
Solar has much greater potential for decentralization.
Greater inequality results in a worse society in just about every imaginable way. And nuclear will always encourage that more than solar.
Uplink. I played the mac version released by the legendary Ambrosia Software.
“I am the administrator, my voice is my password, verify me”
Digging stick
All new things are just existing things put together or modified very slightly.
People talk about iphones being this moment of ingenuous creation, but we already had phones, mobile phones, webcams, texting, predictive text, applications, touch screens, mobile web browsers, mobile games, video calling, etc. Even the concept was fairly well-trod in fiction. There was literally new about the first smartphone.
A hafted spear is an incredible innovation, but we already had fully wooden spears, sharp rocks, string and adhesive resins before we put them together. Like a smart phone, that tool opens up new options and lifeways that weren’t viable before, though not a single input is new.
because it literally can’t innovate.
I was with you 100% until this. “Innovation” is super easy. It will always be easy to extrapolate new things from existing things. People just over-romanticize “innovation” as some kind of magic.
I think chances are good that human produced newness will be on average more useful, complete and safe.
Exactly. Anthropic are notorious for pretending to be terrified of claude to hype up how powerful their product is. This unsourced rumor smells like marketing.
The rich will never feel save while we, their victims, have privacy.
They know better than even we do how much reason we have to be plotting against them.
Objectively untrue. He lacks the cognition to realize anything of the sort. “Mythos is so scary!!1!1” is a PR line.
Most AI music will just end up with the badge, right?
Lol the gizmodo article about the preview of mythos has this incredible openly line:
If Anthropic is kind of like a kid at a Halloween party with a bowl full of spaghetti, telling its blindfolded friends the spaghetti is brains, European cyber agency leaders are like kids who are mad that they still haven’t gotten to stick their fingers in the brain bowl
Anthropic in particular seems to use “we’re scared of what we can do” as their marketing strategy. So maybe this unauthorized use is real, or maybe it’s just more PR.
If there’s one thing fascism has taught us, the two are hardly mutually exclusive.
It’s going to make snr devs get fired, surely?
They either refuse to sign off when boss wants them to and get fired or sign off and get fired when ai code they signed off on causes issues.
I looked at the headline and thought it said peter capaldi 😆