cold_tom

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by cold_tom 4mo ago
Project Gutenberg feels like the opposite of modern internet design philosophy. Quiet, useful, accessible, and built to last.
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by cold_tom 5mo ago
you can get surprisingly far with files, but the moment you care about things like concurrent writes or not losing data on crash, the whole thing changes at that point you're not choosing speed vs simplicity anymore -you're choosi
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by cold_tom 5mo ago
feels like the real shift is not open vs closed, but reaction time AI attackers don’t need perfect access anymore, just enough surface and time. So the question becomes: can you detect+respond faster than they can iterate in that sense, ope
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by cold_tom 5mo ago
This is one of those cases where preservation clashes with ownership. Without this, a lot of those recordings would just disappear.But at the same time, they’re not really his to share. Hard to draw a clean line here.
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by cold_tom 5mo ago
Feels like a classic “we’re just the processor” answer But in reality you have no way to find or contact whoever actually controls the data, so it doesn’t really help. Kind of shows the gap between how the law works on paper vs how these sy
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by cold_tom 5mo ago
Feels like people are mixing two different things here-alignment in small groups (family,teams) vs alignment at scale. The first happens naturally, the second almost always needs structure, incentives, and enforcement
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by cold_tom 5mo ago
What’s interesting here is not whether the model is 'self-aware', but how easily it can simulate introspection when prompted in that direction. This reads less like a window into the model’s internal state, and more like a very st
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by cold_tom 5mo ago
Is the real issue succession-or lack of structured decision-making before succession even starts? In many family businesses, knowledge and decisions are never formalized, so transition becomes guesswork