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zhubert commented on Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-... · Posted by u/sandbach

chwahoo · 15 days ago

I'll confess that I like my Meta Ray Ban glasses: I love using them to listen to podcasts at the pool/beach, while riding my bike, and it's cool to snap a quick picture of my kids without pulling out my phone.

I wish this article (or Meta) were a bit clearer about the specific connection between the device settings and use and when humans get access to the images.

My settings are:

- [OFF] "Share additional data" - Share data about your Meta devices to help improve Meta products.

- [OFF] "Cloud media" - Allow your photos and videos to be sent to Meta's cloud for processing and temporary storage.

I'm not sure whether my settings would prevent my media from being used as described in the article.

Also, it's not clear which data is being used for training:

- random photos / videos taken

- only use of "Meta AI" (e.g., "Hey Meta, can you translate this sign")

As much as I've liked my Meta Ray Ban's I'm going to need clarity here before I continue using them.

TBH, if it were only use of Meta AI, I'd "get it" but probably turn that feature off (I barely use it as-is).

zhubert · 15 days ago

So you believe that you are in control?

zhubert commented on The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter opennhp.org/blog/the-inte... · Posted by u/windcbf

Nevermark · 24 days ago

There are still a major asymmetries.

There is an economic asymmetry between having a frontier model that people pay to use vs. being someone paying them so they can keep improving it.

Also, from the outside, we only know about the advances that get shipped/put on servers. Presumably, a lot more promising advances are uncovered than are shipped. Maybe they don't fit the product, maybe they are not ready, or maybe they provide a competitive advantage if used and improved internally without disclosure.

So there is a potential growing development/information/frontier asymmetry, of unknown magnitude and velocity.

zhubert · 23 days ago

Yep. I agree. I’m assuming that the best model for coding is always six months advanced ahead for the investors. Even with that assumption, there’s a huge democratization effect.

I’ve never seen a tool more accessible for people of all backgrounds and abilities. It should be celebrated. And yet “engineers” are worried about their identities.

zhubert commented on The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter opennhp.org/blog/the-inte... · Posted by u/windcbf

throw0101c · 24 days ago

Are you expecting people will 'just' read the three books to get the context of "dark forest" and then come back to this post after that?

zhubert · 23 days ago

Yes. If they want to understand the author they should spend time with the author (via the books).

I didn’t draw the original premise. I just pointed out that they didn’t understand the Dark Forest. At all.

zhubert commented on The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter opennhp.org/blog/the-inte... · Posted by u/windcbf

zhubert · 24 days ago

This sort of low effort post, we can all recognize right?

Read the book series. Battle with a culture different than your own. The absolute depression by the third book helps you experience this more than this bullshit Cliff’s notes.

Spend a few hours. Jesus.

zhubert · 24 days ago

And yes, Greg was 100% about grappling with the nuances. One of the smartest men I’ve known.

We had an awesome book club talking about historical sci-fi and modernity. He always saw the optimistic side, how humanity could conquer, but I, child of Amazon, could see the end-stage capitalism.

Makes for fantastic dialogue. Read the book series. It’s worth it!

zhubert commented on The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter opennhp.org/blog/the-inte... · Posted by u/windcbf

throw0101c · 24 days ago

For anyone not familiar with the concept of "dark forest":

> […] In Liu Cixin's 2008 novel The Dark Forest, the author proposes a literary explanation for the Fermi paradox in which countless alien civilizations exist, but are both silent and paranoid, destroying any nascent lifeforms loud enough to make themselves known.[181] This is because any other intelligent life may represent a future threat. As a result, Liu's fictional universe contains a plethora of quiet civilizations which do not reveal themselves, as in a "dark forest"...filled with "armed hunter(s) stalking through the trees like a ghost".[182][183][184] This idea has come to be known as the dark forest hypothesis.[185][186][187]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#Communication_is...

> The "dark forest" hypothesis presumes that any space-faring civilization would view any other intelligent life such as theirs as an inevitable threat and thus destroy any nascent life that makes itself known. As a result, the electromagnetic radiation surveys would not find evidence of intelligent alien life.[8][9] […]

> The name of the hypothesis derives from Liu Cixin's 2008 novel The Dark Forest,[11] as in a "dark forest" filled with "armed hunter(s) stalking through the trees like ghosts".[12][13] According to the dark forest hypothesis, since the intentions of any newly contacted civilisation can never be known with certainty, then if one is encountered, it is best to make a preemptive strike, in order to avoid the potential extinction of one's own species. The novel provides a detailed investigation of Liu's concerns about alien contact.[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_forest_hypothesis

* Kurzgesagt (10m): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAUJYP8tnRE

(Cixin's novel probably made the idea famous, but others (Brin, Bear) have explored it previously.)

zhubert · 24 days ago

This sort of low effort post, we can all recognize right?

Read the book series. Battle with a culture different than your own. The absolute depression by the third book helps you experience this more than this bullshit Cliff’s notes.

Spend a few hours. Jesus.

zhubert commented on Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents twitter.com/karpathy/stat... · Posted by u/Cyphase

zhubert · 24 days ago

The challenging thing for those of us that have gone around the sun a few times is that…you’re just going to have to figure it out yourself.

We can tell you to be cautious or aware of security bullshit, but there’s a current that’s buying Mac Mini’s and you want to be in it.

Nothing I can say changes that and as a grown up, you get to roll those dice yourself.

70% of you are going to be fine and encourage others, the rest are going to get pwnd, and that’s how it goes.

You’re doing something that decades or prior experience warned you about.

zhubert commented on The Internet Is Becoming a Dark Forest – and AI Is the Hunter opennhp.org/blog/the-inte... · Posted by u/windcbf

zhubert · 24 days ago

Not quite. Cixin Liu’s series had a premise of dramatic asymmetry.

AI in our context is the inverse. Everyone can spend “credits” to get a supergenius coder.

zhubert commented on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution boristane.com/blog/how-i-... · Posted by u/vinhnx

zhubert · 24 days ago

AI only improves and changes. Embrace the scientific method and make sure your “here’s how to” are based in data.

zhubert commented on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong aol.com/articles/a16z-par... · Posted by u/paulpauper

zhubert · 24 days ago

I can’t believe I’m responding to an AOL article, but…

You don’t understand what’s happening if you dismiss the leverage provided by AI as “vibe coding”.

zhubert commented on A real-world benchmark for AI code review qodo.ai/blog/how-we-built... · Posted by u/benocodes

zhubert · a month ago

I'm trying to bring a slightly different take to the pricing of ShipItAI (https://shipitai.dev, brazen plug). I've got a $5/mo/active dev + Bring Your Own Key option for those that want better price controls.

Still early in development and has a much simpler goal, but I like simple things that work well.