Readit NewsTeever commented on Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight karpathy.bearblog.dev/aut... · Posted by u/__rito__
This is my plan at least
1. Don't build the Torment Nexus yourself. Don't work for them and don't give them your money.
2. When people you know say they're taking a new job to work at Torment Nexus, act like that's super weird, like they said they're going to work for the Sinaloa cartel. Treat rich people working on the Torment Nexus like it's cringe to quote them.
3. Get hostile to bots. Poison the data. Use AdNauseum and Anubis.
4. Give your non-tech friends the vague sense that this stuff is bad. Some might want to listen more, but most just take their sense of what's cool and good from people they trust in the area.
Do you have any suggestions on how to interact online with people who work at Torment Nexus?
Teever commented on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux heise.de/en/news/Valve-HD... · Posted by u/OsrsNeedsf2P
yeah I am curious too. Could I legally just reverse engineer that binary and re-implement it?
Everything old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
It worked out pretty okay for DVD Jon but I imagine it was a little scary for his dad and brother at the time.
Teever commented on Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight karpathy.bearblog.dev/aut... · Posted by u/__rito__
> But if intelligence really does become too cheap to meter, it will become possible to do a perfect reconstruction and synthesis of everything. LLMs are watching (or humans using them might be). Best to be good.
I cannot believe this is just put out there unexamined of any level of "maybe we shouldn't help this happen". This is complete moral abdication. And to be clear, being "good" is no defense. Being good often means being unaligned with the powerful, so being good is often the very thing that puts you in danger.
The time for discussion and action on this was over a 15 years ago when Snowden and the NSA with their Utah data centre was a big story.
Governments around the world have profiles on people and spiders that quietly amass the data that continuously updates those profiles.
It's just a matter of time before hardware improves and we see another holocaust scale purge facilitated by robots.
Surveillance capitalism won.
Teever commented on How private equity is changing housing theatlantic.com/ideas/202... · Posted by u/harambae
Build enough housing and all of the sudden it isn't such a sure thing investment.
Not easy to do of course, but the problems that come with building more housing are better then the problems we have now.
That may be the case but it would still be a good idea to look at regulating these run away feedback loops writ large so that people can't just play a game of whack-a-mole where they play the same old tricks in different sectors or invent whole new mediums to play the same old games afresh
Teever commented on Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines? · Posted by u/embedding-shape
I have seen Google Translate hallucinate exactly zero times over thousands of queries over the years. Meanwhile, LLMs emit garbage roughly 1/3 of the time, in my experience. Can you provide an example of Translate hallucinating something?
Every single time it mistranslates something it is hallucinations.
I mean, what's more likely - that the binaural beats retune brain, or that someone forgot that any straight-ish piece of wire is a radio antenna, and the signal being seen comes straight from headphones? Using pneumatic headphones would make it go away too.