version_five (u/version_five)

version_five commented on Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016) businessinsider.com/pubs-... · Posted by u/moat

dang · 2 years ago

Could you please stop taking HN threads further into ideological battle? We had to warn you about this just the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37699522.

It destroys what this site is for, so we end up having to ban accounts that keep doing it.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

version_five · 2 years ago

That seems awfully harsh, the comment I replied to had done the usual "let's find some reason this is discriminatory" thing and I was pushing back on it. I'm happy to stop commenting.

version_five commented on Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016) businessinsider.com/pubs-... · Posted by u/moat

terminous · 2 years ago

> "I deal only with my regulars … I refuse strangers."

> ‘They are mostly strangers to us, and we just have to play it by ear in deciding whether to accept a cheque’, said an official.”

Sounds like a recipe for discrimination and inequality, which isn't mentioned in either article.

version_five · 2 years ago

Right, much better for everybody to be screwed in the name of equity.

version_five commented on Pubs replaced banks in Ireland for several months in 1970 (2016) businessinsider.com/pubs-... · Posted by u/moat

version_five · 2 years ago

Lots of decisions in the last 50 years have made "the system" more fragile. This makes me realize that outsourcing trust is another one. This would never happen now because businesses have no connection to their customers, either a payment provider or credit bureau does the vouching which becomes meaningless when things don't operate as usual and human judgement is needed

version_five commented on MyPowerbank hacks Santander bikes so London's homeless can charge their phones dezeen.com/2023/09/29/myp... · Posted by u/gjvc

version_five · 2 years ago

I have an emergency radio with crank for power outages. I know it probably takes a lot of cranking to charge a phone, but I think that would reduce complexity and make it more universal than having to occupy a specific kind of bike sharing bike

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version_five · 2 years ago

The Haskell version is the best one imo: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ADqLBc1vFwI

version_five commented on South Korea has jailed a man for using AI to create sexual images of children cnn.com/2023/09/27/asia/s... · Posted by u/Jigsy

version_five · 2 years ago

Is there a precedent for locking people up for being victimlessly deviant? Maybe drug use?

version_five commented on Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift? · Posted by u/pharmakom

cwillu · 2 years ago

It's ok that you don't believe a problem exists, but that doesn't make the people who do believe it exists into swindlers.

version_five · 2 years ago

That's not logically consistent. Someone selling solutions to a nonexistent problem is a swindler.

version_five commented on Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift? · Posted by u/pharmakom

braza · 2 years ago

I love all of the openness of the AI technology and the whole Geist of Open Source and open debate. Said that one downside of this is that as a whole AI has a quite low barrier of entrance that you can have tons of grifters capturing (or trying to) the whole discussion.

Maybe I am overreacting but when I worked in way more critical industries if someone with no credentials or track record came up and say that is a “Financial Safety” to people in Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank or Ing people on those places would call those charlatans out in less than 10 seconds.

version_five · 2 years ago

I think I mostly agree, but what kind of credentials or track record would be automatically credible in "AI safety". There are conflicting views and not an agreed upon body of practice for what it means, so yes there are charlatans but also just different viewpoints. Arguable the charlatans stick to some of the more mainstream stuff (if your model passes a "bias" test it's good to go). Whether someone is good or bad at AI safety is still much more of a holistic assessment. Whereas in established industries it would be obvious.

version_five commented on Ask HN: Is “AI Safety” a Grift? · Posted by u/pharmakom

version_five · 2 years ago

"AI" doesn't work reliably enough to be used for most stuff. Safety from that perspective is real.

There are grifters who talk about existential risk, which is pure BS and people who play up identity politics and call it safety.