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nokcha commented on Google’s TOS doesn’t eliminate a user’s Fourth Amendment rights, judge rules [pdf] ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/deci... · Posted by u/coloneltcb

curiousllama · a year ago

Out of curiosity, what is false positive rate of a hash match?

If the FPR is comparable to asking a human "are these the same image?", then it would seem to be equivalent to a visual search. I wonder if (or why) human verification is actually necessary here.

nokcha · a year ago

For non-broken cryptographic hashes (e.g., SHA-256), the false-positive rate is negligible. Indeed, cryptographic hashes were designed so that even nation-state adversaries do not have the resources to generate two inputs that hash to the same value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preimage_attack

nokcha commented on EU AI Act is much worse than you think siliconcontinent.com/p/th... · Posted by u/pietergaricano

stellalo · a year ago

All “high risk” uses listed in the article (“Systems that are used in sectors like education, employment, law enforcement, recruiting, and essential public services, Systems used in certain kinds of products, including machinery, toys, lifts, medical devices, and vehicles.”) seem to me pretty high risk and in need of regulation. If that’s what EU’s AI act is really about, I cannot blame the EU at all. Quite the contrary.

nokcha · a year ago

> machinery, toys, lifts, medical devices, and vehicles

All of those seem high-risk except toys.

nokcha commented on Twitter/X will let people you've blocked see your posts theverge.com/2024/9/23/24... · Posted by u/Kye

mwfogleman · a year ago

More simply: people are increasingly blocking advertisers to hide their advertisements. This would prevent you from shielding yourself from ads.

nokcha · a year ago

It's the other way around: with the new change, the blockee will be able to see (but not reply to) the blocker's posts, but the blockee's posts will still be hidden from the blocker.

nokcha commented on Are Ultra-Processed Foods All That Unhealthy? openmindmag.org/articles/... · Posted by u/Hary06

nokcha · 2 years ago

> ultra-processed foods such as ... yogurts

> Frozen and canned vegetables are often classified as ultra-processed

I think this goes against the common usage of the term "ultra-processed".

nokcha commented on Among the A.I. doomsayers newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/preetamjinka

bamboozled · 2 years ago

Isn’t ChatGPT et all already a general intelligence that’s escaped the sandbox ?

nokcha · 2 years ago

ChatGPT is arguably a general intelligence, but it hasn't escaped AFAIK -- it's still contained within OpenAI infrastructure, and OpenAI can easily pull the plug on it.

nokcha commented on Could the world go PFAS-free? Proposal to ban ‘forever chemicals’ fuels debate nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

amelius · 2 years ago

> You have no natural right to a profit at other's expense

Another thing is that the stock market doesn't work here. It promotes shortsighted trading without an eye for long term side effects. In principle shareholders should be accountable too. If you owned stocks of a company that caused damage during the period when that damage occurred, you should be accountable and at least you should not be able to profit from it. The stock market should be retrofitted with an accountability system. This is the only way shareholders will start caring about our future.

nokcha · 2 years ago

Most individual shareholders (especially those who just buy index funds) have neither knowledge of corporate wrongdoings nor, in practice, power to prevent them. A better model would be holding accountable the particular individuals with power and responsibility, such as in the Volkswagen emissions case where Germany criminally prosecuted executives involved in the fraud.

nokcha commented on Climate change doesn't necessarily occur in a gradual, linear way theatlantic.com/science/a... · Posted by u/jseliger

nokcha · 2 years ago

I've heard that recent changes to reduce sulfur emissions from maritime shipping have caused a sharp increase in global warming:

https://twitter.com/RokoMijic/status/1674697743380430849

https://twitter.com/RandomSprint/status/1679851033424547840

Posted by u/nokcha 2 years ago

Ugh fields – Pavlovian conditioning can cause humans to unconsciously flinch lesswrong.com/posts/EFQ3F...

nokcha commented on GPT-4 details leaked? threadreaderapp.com/threa... · Posted by u/bx376

fallingknife · 2 years ago

Why would an LLM be any less copyrightable than any other piece of software?

nokcha · 2 years ago

The "software" part of an LLM is pretty trivial -- the interesting piece is the the weights. Since the weights are mechanically generated by a computer, it can be argued that the weights are not copyrightable, just like a photograph taken by a monkey isn't copyrightable.

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KarmaCake day1354November 12, 2010View Original