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phs318u commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban   reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
roenxi · 6 days ago
Well, yes but the other problem is this is putting authoritarians in charge of more stuff. I had a comment comparing this to allowing people to eat too much food and that is literally where the logical outcome of this sort of thinking goes - it happens in practice, that isn't some sort of theoretical risk. The more the government decides what people can and can't want to do the worse the potential gets when they make mistakes. And this is further normalising the government making decisions about speech where they have every incentive and tendency to shut down people who tell inconvenient and important truths.

The risks are not worth the rewards of half-heatedly trying to stop kids communicating with other kids. They're still going to bully each other and what have you. They're still going to develop unrealistic expectations. They're probably even still going to use social media in practice.

phs318u · 6 days ago
The "stuff" is already in the hands of authoritarians. When huge swathes of the world's "social estate" lies in the hands of a very small number of individuals with overwhelming incentives to tweak the "stuff" for their own benefit (exerting their authority over the estate if you will), then you're already in that territory. At least with elected authoritarians you have some theoretical influence. Good luck getting a Facebook/X policy changed.
phs318u commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now   dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin
thomasm6m6 · 7 days ago
Here it is: https://sw.vtom.net/hn35/news.html

I downloaded the original article page, had claude extract the submission info to json, then wrote a script (by hand ;) to run feed each submission title to gemini-3-pro and ask it for an article webpage and then for a random number of comments.

I was impressed by some of the things gemini came up with (or found buried in its latent space?). Highlights:

"You’re probably reading this via your NeuralLink summary anyway, so I’ll try to keep the entropy high enough to bypass the summarizer filters."

"This submission has been flagged by the Auto-Reviewer v7.0 due to high similarity with "Running DOOM on a Mitochondria" (2034)."

"Zig v1.0 still hasn't released (ETA 2036)"

The unprompted one-shot leetcode, youtube, and github clones

Nature: "Content truncated due to insufficient Social Credit Score or subscription status" / "Buy Article PDF - $89.00 USD" / "Log in with WorldCoin ID"

"Gemini Cloud Services (formerly Bard Enterprise, formerly Duet AI, formerly Google Brain Cloud, formerly Project Magfi)"

Github Copilot attempts social engineering to pwn the `sudo` repo

It made a Win10 "emulator" that goes only as far as displaying a "Windows Defender is out of date" alert message

"dang_autonomous_agent: We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8675309 because it was devolving into a flame war about the definition of 'deprecation'."

phs318u · 7 days ago
This is truly a work of comedy genius. The comments! Too good! Sent to Internet Archive for posterity (https://archive.md/1mpi1).

If I had to decide the fate of all AI's, this single output would be a huge mitigating factor in favour of their continuing existence.

phs318u commented on Show HN: RcloneView – a GUI for rclone with 50% Black Friday deal   rcloneview.com/... · Posted by u/newclone
phs318u · 19 days ago
Free open-source alternative:

RcloneBrowser

https://github.com/kapitainsky/RcloneBrowser

Speaking for myself, $9.90/year doesn't seem like good value for auto-remount on login. RcloneBrowser does everything the free RcloneView does. Meanwhile the RcloneView github is an empty repository (as at time of posting. Submitted to Wayback machine but their server is currently overloaded).

EDITED:

On RcloneBrowser Linux you can use systemd to enable auto-mount in a supported fashion.

https://github.com/rclone/rclone/wiki/Systemd-rclone-mount

phs318u commented on Ilya Sutskever: We're moving from the age of scaling to the age of research   dwarkesh.com/p/ilya-sutsk... · Posted by u/piotrgrabowski
asolove · 21 days ago
Yes it does.

Today on X, people are having fun baiting Grok into saying that Elon Musk is the world’s best drinker of human piss.

If you hired a paid PR sycophant human, even of moderate intelligence, it would know not to generalize from “say nice things about Elon” to “say he’s the best at drinking piss”.

phs318u · 21 days ago
True. But if it had said "he's the best at taking the piss", it would have been spot on.

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

phs318u commented on PRC elites voice AI-skepticism   jamestown.org/prc-elites-... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross
heinternets · 22 days ago
Apart from the obvious, China seems to be making incredibly reasonable decisions lately. Especially compared to the current superpower.
phs318u · 22 days ago
To be fair, the current superpower has set a pretty low bar. By comparison, most other countries could be said to be making reasonable decisions.
phs318u commented on Google Antigravity   antigravity.google/... · Posted by u/Fysi
ponector · a month ago
Yet.

Next year there will be AI screwdriver your employer force you to use.

phs318u · a month ago
At first, I thought “ponector’s forgotten to add the /s”

Then I realised that this will actually happen, and was sadly reminded we’re now in the post-sarcasm era.

phs318u commented on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies   angadh.com/inkhaven-7... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
mattgreenrocks · a month ago
So kind of like our social media feeds then?
phs318u · a month ago
I would've said like marijuana.
phs318u commented on Vintage Large Language Models   owainevans.github.io/talk... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
lukev · a month ago
I’m sorry I don’t quite follow… how can a model provide information at all about events it was trained before?
phs318u · a month ago
You provide the info... and the bias.
phs318u commented on The internet is no longer a safe haven   brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/akyuu
NoboruWataya · a month ago
I have a personal domain that I have no reason to believe any other human visits. I selfhost a few services that only I use but that I expose to the internet so I can access them from anywhere conveniently and without having to expose my home network. Still I get a constant torrent of malicious traffic, just bots trying to exploit known vulnerabilities (loads of them are clearly targeting WordPress, for example, even though I have never used WordPress). And it has been that way for years. I remember the first time I read my access logs I had a heart attack, but it's just the way it is.
phs318u · a month ago
This sounds like a great use-case for VPN or Tailscale? Access from anywhere, uses the open-internet as a carriage service but exposes no endpoints on the open internet. Is there a particular requirement that makes that non-viable?
phs318u commented on Reviving Classic Unix Games: A 20-Year Journey Through Software Archaeology   vejeta.com/reviving-class... · Posted by u/mwheeler
AmbroseBierce · a month ago
Coming soon: AI models archeologists
phs318u · a month ago
I think we'll get AI model psychiatrists first.

u/phs318u

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