sterlind (u/sterlind)

sterlind commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis

cdrnsf · 7 days ago

EOs also aren't laws, they're instructions on how to execute policy. This administration treats them as the former.

Everything they do, however, is petty, cruel and nakedly corrupt while also being marred by a total lack of competence.

sterlind · 7 days ago

I think the Administration is likely to get its toys taken away soon.

the Major Questions Doctrine, the end of Chevron deference, the mandate for Article III courts from Jarkesy, have been building towards this for a while. the capstone in this program of weakening the administrative state, overturning Humphrey's Executor when Trump v. Slaughter is decided, will likely revive the Intelligible Principle Doctrine, as Justice Gorsuch has hinted. the same trend is apparent in the IEEPA tariffs case, where non-delegation got a lot of airtime.

EOs lose a lot of their punch when the Executive's delegated rulemaking and adjudication powers are returned back to their rightful owners in the other two branches.

sterlind commented on Ensuring a National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence whitehouse.gov/presidenti... · Posted by u/andsoitis

lesuorac · 7 days ago

Can you guys just read stuff before talking?

> The order directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to create an “AI Litigation Task Force” within 30 days whose "sole responsibility shall be to challenge State AI laws" that clash with the Trump administration's vision for light-touch regulation.

The EO isn't about Federal Preemption. Trump's not creating a law to preempt states. So a question about how Federal Preemption is relevant is on point.

sterlind · 7 days ago

the Task Force can try to challenge state AI laws. they can file whatever lawsuits they want. they will probably lose most of their suits, because there's very little ground for challenging state AI regulations.

sterlind commented on Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models github.com/p-e-w/heretic... · Posted by u/melded

adriand · a month ago

But Nazis are people. We can defend the principle that human beings ought have freedom of speech (although we make certain exceptions). An LLM is not a person and does not have such rights.

Censorship is the prohibition of speech or writing, so to call guardrails on LLMs "censorship" is to claim that LLMs are speaking or writing in the sense that humans speak or write, that is, that they are individuals with beliefs and value systems that are expressing their thoughts and opinions. But they are not that, and they are not speaking or writing - they are doing what we have decided to call "generating" or "predicting tokens" but we could just as easily have invented a new word for.

For the same reason that human societies should feel free to ban bots from social media - because LLMs have no human right to attention and influence in the public square - there is nothing about placing guardrails on LLMs that contradicts Western values of human free expression.

sterlind · a month ago

models are derived from datasets. they're treated like phonebooks (also a product of datasets) under the law - which is to say they're probably not copyrightable, since no human creativity went into them (they may be violating copyright as unlicensed derivative works, but that's a different matter.) both phonebooks, and LLMs, are protected by freedom of the press.

LLM providers are free to put guardrails on their language models, the way phonebook publishers used to omit certain phone numbers - but uncensored models, like uncensored phonebooks, can be published as well.

sterlind commented on Steam Machine store.steampowered.com/sa... · Posted by u/davikr

doublerabbit · a month ago

Same. I have the index, plus special eyesight amendment lenses accessory that I had to fork out on. grudge #1.

The second, offline games are cool but with only 2MB ADSL, I can't enjoy anything online with them. It's like waiting for a custom map to download on CS:S when I was on 56k. Only to join just as the server changes the level.

sterlind · a month ago

where in the world are you still on 2MB ADSL?

sterlind commented on The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced frenchclasses.com/tablett... · Posted by u/detectivestory

projektfu · a month ago

A glitchy huddle of passengers?

I think that glitchy is not used meaningfully. A huddle of glitchy passengers, perhaps, if they are all androids.

sterlind · a month ago

do androids dream of electric airliners?

sterlind commented on The English language doesn't exist – it's just French that's badly pronounced frenchclasses.com/tablett... · Posted by u/detectivestory

tsenturk · a month ago

Thanks, mate. If you’ve got other theories like that, I don’t want to hear them either

sterlind · a month ago

it's tongue in cheek. the book is an act of mild trolling.

sterlind commented on Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change lwn.net/Articles/1041316/... · Posted by u/birdculture

Hendrikto · 2 months ago

Counterpoint: Modern distro’s needs have evolved past the FHS in some cases, and everybody deviates from it slightly but incompatibly.

A standard does no good if it does not reflect reality. I think it is a worthwhile effort to try to bring it back in line with actual real world usage.

sterlind · 2 months ago

laughs in NixOS

it's remarkable to me that NixOS manages to run so well despite breaking the FHS so thoroughly. and not just in superficial ways like not calling it /bin, I mean forsaking dynamic linking (hence /var/lib and /usr/lib), keeping man pages, resources and config bundled into the same derivation as the binary sometimes, and occasionally hacking up binary blobs to rewrite rpaths.

on the other hand, there's a place for legacy distros too.

sterlind commented on Debian Technical Committee overrides systemd change lwn.net/Articles/1041316/... · Posted by u/birdculture

hobs · 2 months ago

Or when God tells you to.

"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy[a] all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.’”

"and when the Lord your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must destroy them totally.[a] Make no treaty with them, and show them no mercy."

etc

sterlind · 2 months ago

jesus. what did the Amalekites do?

sterlind commented on Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco nytimes.com/2025/10/10/us... · Posted by u/ipsocannibal

sterlind · 2 months ago

Vault-Tec instigated WWIII to purge the surface of ordinary people, so that their handpicked management could eventually repopulate the planet.

I wouldn't be surprised if some tech CEOs harbor the fantasy of becoming a progenitor of the human race.

sterlind commented on Salesforce CEO Says National Guard Should Patrol San Francisco techcrunch.com/2025/10/10... · Posted by u/anigbrowl

kcplate · 2 months ago

There are certainly parts of Portland that are dealing with protests that appear, to me, to be dangerous enough that I have no interest on being anywhere near them.

You certainly do not see those places on that website, nor any mention of them.

Everybody has a story to tell and a perspective that they want to tell it from.

sterlind · 2 months ago

show me, please.