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drawfloat commented on Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking oxism.com/trystero/... · Posted by u/haxiomic

ronsor · 2 hours ago

Do those laws even apply to P2P apps without central servers?

drawfloat · 44 minutes ago

They do, but unlike what the OP claims, you do not need to age verify your site just because you added a social element. If the purpose is not to distribute pornography/other age restricted materials and you are able to moderate the site (ie: are not facebook scale), this is not required.

The law sucks but the misinformation around it is getting out of hand.

drawfloat commented on Make any site multiplayer in a few lines. Serverless WebRTC matchmaking oxism.com/trystero/... · Posted by u/haxiomic

dsign · 2 hours ago

Just a reminder that this kind of user-to-user interaction feature makes your website a "social network" according to UK regulation (and Mississippi's, and more jurisdictions coming soon), and therefore you must get copies of government ID of your users so that you can deny them access if they are underage, and rattle them to the police if you suspect they are committing thought crime by sending certain fruits. Obey the law.

drawfloat · an hour ago

This is factually untrue and either venting or wilfully ignorant of the actual law.

drawfloat commented on Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations anthropic.com/research/en... · Posted by u/virgildotcodes

LeafItAlone · 13 days ago

> even if someone is simple minded or mentally unwell enough to think that current LLMs are conscious

If you don’t think that this describes at least half of the non-tech-industry population, you need to talk to more people. Even amongst the technically minded, you can find people that basically think this.

drawfloat · 13 days ago

Most of the non tech population know it as that website that can translate text or write an email. I would need to see actual evidence that anything more than a small, terminally online subsection of the average population thought LLMs were conscious.

drawfloat commented on Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/blueridge

bubblyworld · 17 days ago

Not sure why everyone is downvoting you as I think you raise a good point - these anthropomorphic words like "reasoning" are useful as shorthands for describing patterns of behaviour, and are generally not meant to be direct comparisons to human cognition. But it goes both ways. You can still criticise the model on the grounds that what we call "reasoning" in the context of LLMs doesn't match the patterns we associate with human "reasoning" very well (such as ability to generalise to novel situations), which is what I think the authors are doing.

drawfloat · 17 days ago

""Sam Altman says the perfect AI is “a very tiny model with superhuman reasoning".""

It is being marketed as directly related to human reasoning.

drawfloat commented on The Quiet Disappearance of Skeptics in the AI Gold Rush middlelayer.substack.com/... · Posted by u/prmph

drawfloat · 17 days ago

Skeptics think A.I. is an overhyped tool, not an existential risk. Why would they be shouting about it from the roof tops?

Plenty of comment sections with reasonable skeptical takes, they’re just not good headline fodder.

drawfloat commented on Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act bbc.com/news/articles/cjr... · Posted by u/phlummox

bArray · 18 days ago

> The government told the BBC it welcomed the High Court's judgment, "which will help us continue our work implementing the Online Safety Act to create a safer online world for everyone".

Demonstrably false. It creates a safer online world for some.

> In particular the foundation is concerned the extra duties required - if Wikipedia was classed as Category 1 - would mean it would have to verify the identity of its contributors, undermining their privacy and safety.

Some of the articles, which contain factual information, are damning for the UK government. It lists, for example, political scandals [1] [2]. Or information regarding hot topics such as immigration [3], information that the UK government want to strictly control (abstracting away from whether this is rightfully or wrongfully).

I can tell you what will (and has already) happened as a result:

1. People will use VPNs and any other available methods to avoid restrictions placed on them.

2. The next government will take great delight in removing this law as an easy win.

3. The likelihood of a British constitution is increasing, which would somewhat bind future parliaments.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Labour_Party_(UK)_sca...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_immigration_to_the_Unit...

drawfloat · 18 days ago

The law was passed by the previous government and everyone assumed the next government would take great delight in reversing it.

I wouldn’t be so sure that any next government (which, by the way, there is still a non zero chance could be Labour) will necessarily reverse this. Maybe Reform would tweak the topics, but I’m not convinced any party can be totally trusted to reverse this.

drawfloat commented on Online news publishers face extinction-level event from Google AI-powered search npr.org/2025/07/31/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/sogen

Biologist123 · 18 days ago

Can I sketch out one future of news for input?

- Personalized

- No adverts

- No hidden dopamine hooks

- Assigns probability of accuracy

- Explains relevance to you personally

- Explains emerging news events and context, highlighting propaganda/news manipulation where relevant.

drawfloat · 18 days ago

This is like a news editor suggesting a future of development: zero bugs, never goes down, can be used anywhere, usable be anyone. Yes these all seem nice, but they're just a wishlist that is borderline impossible in practice.

Also personalisation of news is almost the number one 'hidden dopamine hooks', and in many ways the most insidious in its impact.

drawfloat commented on “No tax on tips” is an industry plant newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/littlexsparkee

CalRobert · a month ago

I spent half my adult life in Ireland, had kids there, built a house there, etc and like to think that during said time I learned a few things and noticed changes. I do think part of it related to POS systems normalizing it. But it is certainly possible that our experiences differed. It was more common in Dublin 2 than in Offaly I'd say...

Honestly something that was a bit galling was that the Irish would moan about Ireland morning day and night but the instant a foreigner made _any_ observation that wasn't rainbows and sunshine we were out of our lane and needed to shut up. And I spent much more of my time extolling Ireland's virtues than complaining about it! It was surreal to be chatting with taxi drivers and trying to make the point that Ireland wasn't an utter kip.

drawfloat · a month ago

America has spent the last century proclaiming itself the greatest country on earth, whilst simultaneously causing untold political and social problems in "lesser countries" to its own benefit.

Some deep rooted resentment when an American criticises a place is natural.

drawfloat commented on Show HN: Use Their ID – Use your local UK MP’s ID for the Online Safety Act use-their-id.com/... · Posted by u/timje1

hkt · a month ago

Labour appear to be talking about wanting to repeal the OSA judging by this morning's news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/jul/29/uk-pol...

drawfloat · a month ago

Nigel Farage isn't part of Labour.