Without coverage of David Do [0], this is a very incomplete summary, basically minimum-effort rage-bait.
[0] https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/en/news/2163333/canadian-pha...
Readit NewsHard_Space commented on The story of Mr DeepFakes – the world’s most notorious AI porn site theguardian.com/society/n... · Posted by u/c420
Hard_Space commented on Autism should not be treated as a single condition economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
It has always bothered me that by "spectrum" they mean not the sort of continuous thing that spectra actually are, but instead some disjoint set of "colors" any one of which might describe a person. That's called a partition, and its in an entirely separate thing.
When I tell this to people they understand immediately that I am in fact on that "spectrum".
It seems a poor analogy, since it's impossible not to be on the spectrum somewhere, even if it's #000000.
The only reason I am still using gmail is due to choice paralysis. I do not know which email service to choose and pay for. I do not like Proton. Is Fastmail the way to go? There is also the German one posteo. Should I just use Apple's mail? I'm taking suggestions if you have anything to share.
Fastmail; I moved nearly three years ago, and never regretted it. If you can stand the five-eyes aspect, of course.
Also, I use its under-publicized 10GB of free space (i.e., additional to the 10GB of mail space allowance) to more than comfortably host LDAP data such as my Joplin data, and Floccus bookmarks.
Hard_Space commented on What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality nytimes.com/2025/11/23/te... · Posted by u/nonprofiteer
There are plenty of reasons why having a chatbot partner is a bad idea (especially for young people), but here's just a few:
- The sycophantic and unchallenging behaviours of chatbots leaves a person unconditioned for human interactions. Real relationships have friction, from this we develop important interpersonal skills such as setting boundaries, settling disagreements, building compromise, standing up for oneself, understanding one another, and so on. These also have an effect on one's personal identity and self-value.
- Real relationships have the input from each participant, whereas chatbots are responding to the user's contribution only. The chatbot doesn't have its own life experiences and happenings to bring to the relationship, nor does it instigate autonomously, it's always some kind of structured reply to the user.
- The implication of being fully satisfied by a chatbot is that the person is seeking a partner who does not contribute to the relationship, but rather just an entity that only acts in response to them. It can also be an indication of some kind of problem that the individual needs to work through with why they don't want to seek genuine human connection.
This. If you never train stick, you can never drive stick, just automatic. And if you never let a real person break your heart or otherwise disappoint you, you'll never be ready for real people.
very interesting! This feels like one of the most effective possible tools in the "fight" against AI - insurance companies have a lot of sway and it says a lot that several large companies are looking into carving out exclusions for AI usage.
Agreed. This is the firewall rule against the 'wild west' climate of AI that I would have expected to kick in much earlier than this; and I wonder if any presidential edict can brute-force past this obstacle.
Hard_Space commented on AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power chrbutler.com/what-ai-is-... · Posted by u/delaugust
I'd like more people to talk about AI and surveillance. I think that is going to be one of it's biggest impacts on society(ies).
We are a decade or two in to having massive video coverage, such that you are probably on someone's camera much of your day in the world, and video feeds that are increasingly cloud hosted.
But nobody could possibly watch all that video. Even cameras specifically controlled by the police, it had already outstripped the ability to have humans monitoring it. At best you could refer to it when you had reason to think there'd be something on it, and even that was hugely expensive to human time.
Enter AI. "Find where Joe Schmoe was at 3:30pm yesterday and show me the video" "Give me a written summary of all the cars which crossed into the city from east to west yesterday afternoon." "Give me the names of everyone who entered the convenience store at 2323 Monument St last week." "Give me a written summary of Sue Brown's known activities in November."
The total surveillance society is coming.
I think it will be the biggest impact AI has on society in retrospect. I, for one, am not looking forward to it.
I think the cost of inference will massively reduce the possible benefits AND harms of the AI society. Even now, it's practically impossible to get ChatGPT to actually hard-parse a document instead of just reading the metadata (nor does it currently have any mechanism for truly watching a video).
That metadata has to come from somewhere; and the processes that create it also create heat, delay and expense.
Be aware that the project page has the wrong Arxiv link at the time of writing. This is the correct one:
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Likewise, when we talk about the "autism spectrum," we're not including every exhibition of traits associated with autism. You can have some traits associated with autism without being "on the spectrum."
Also, perhaps as importantly, "spectrum" isn't a term that generally applies only to color, or even electromagnetism.