mikeyouse

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by mikeyouse 5d ago
They were using it in 2024.. https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-01-31_-_...
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by mikeyouse 5d ago
They’ve massively expanded into Lebanon and Gaza, settlements are continuing to grow at an alarming pace, the Saudis have little choice but to get massively more involved in fighting Iran and their proxies, A less feckless US campaign could
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by mikeyouse 7d ago
It isn't hard to conceive of things that plateau so perhaps OP thought that the 'intelligence' underlying these models would reach some mark and then level off. If instead they just keep getting smarter/better, that can
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by mikeyouse 9d ago
There is a lot of good analysis of the Appeals process on this specific point - the CFAA as written required unauthorized access: Section 1030(a)(5)(A), covers anyone who (5) intentionally accesses a Federal interest computer without author
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by mikeyouse 10d ago
Not remotely true. Mens rea is a necessary precondition to establish criminal culpability for tons of crimes. Well before sentencing is ever considered. The far opposite, ‘strict liability’, where you’re guilty of a crime purely due to some
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by mikeyouse 13d ago
> We seem to be operating on the assumption that unsupervised children will immediately succumb to sudden and irrational urges to kill themselves in creative ways. That’s like 90% of parenting until kids age out of it. That being said,
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by mikeyouse 19d ago
They can skip the legalese because Musk had testified under oath that Grok was distilling OpenAI models while Elon was on the board of OpenAI. https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/921546/e...
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by mikeyouse 1mo ago
More concretely and timely for this discussion - the beneficial ownership registry was passed in the 2021 NDAA by congress and signed by Biden. So there's a law on the books that FinCEN needs to collect the ownership data for all US co
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by mikeyouse 1mo ago
Looks like it was a strike-slip fault, so a much lower tsunami risk compared to a subduction / dip-slip fault.
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by mikeyouse 1mo ago
As someone who lives in the Great Lakes region - there are a ton of 100 mile flights that would take 4 hours to drive - often as the first leg in a two-flight trip. Also places like Denver -> Ski resorts (Vail/Aspen/Crested Bu
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by mikeyouse 1mo ago
I think those specific examples, they'd release them publicly because the benefits to humanity are so clear -- however, if they found some new option-pricing model or futures market correlation, I highly doubt we'd see that...
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by mikeyouse 1mo ago
One other bit in support is that the person you’re replying to read “university student” but OP said “Post-Doc” which I guess technically is a student at a university but a post-doc EE is an exceptionally skilled and specialized role who’s
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by mikeyouse 1mo ago
In 2025, Ad revenue was down 60% as compared to 2021.. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-approach-advertise...
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by mikeyouse 1mo ago
In some number of cases, the business partner who would have passed you the requirements will just generate the code themselves.. I’m shocked shin some engineers don’t see a massive disruption coming..
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
Crank author at a crank “institution” - I can’t assess whether the OpenAI paper is accurate but I highly doubt this is going to be the paper to disprove it.
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
Even in the first option, it is so much easier to destroy something than to build it. This is causing damage that will take a generation to reverse. Why would any foreign students choose to study here if we’re one election from deporting t
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
> If no images are released on the internet (and users consume them privately), no one is harmed in the process. Yikes. A. They were released all over the internet - from the article.. > The chatbot has a public account on X, where u
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
> Optimal corporate taxes are zero (or close to it) anyway, same as tariffs. From a purely theoretical standpoint about the optimal allocation of private goods, that might be true -- but the reality is that when corporate taxes decrease,
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
My great annoyance with all this blather about UBI and post-scarcity and new economic models is that it relies on taxing and redistributing the ~infinite profits of the largest tech companies on earth. What in the history of our world gives
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
Not so.. He’s being sued personally as well. the lawsuit is Apple vs. “ CHANG LIU, TANG YEW TAN, OPENAI FOUNDATION f/k/a OPENAI, INC., OPENAI GROUP PBC, and IO PRODUCTS, LLC f/k/a IO PRODUCTS, INC.”
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
I can't believe we need to rehash these tired arguments every time this is discussed. At this point, I'm convinced that some people are too jingoistic and simple-minded to believe the immense benefits that attracting the smartest
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
Nuking international students and then making it so they can't stay after getting degrees here is one huge issue: https://www.piie.com/publications/policy-briefs/2026/class-d...
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by mikeyouse 2mo ago
And far too people are aware that Xi is extraordinarily corrupt.. "Similarly, Xi’s siblings, nieces, and nephews held assets worth over $1 billion in business investments and real estate" https://www.dni.gov/files&
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by mikeyouse 3mo ago
Sure but it’s like self driving vs piloted cars.. both are impressive in their own way but if someone proposes to sell 10 billion humanoid robots like Musk has, they obviously can’t be human-controlled.
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by mikeyouse 3mo ago
Nearly 50,000 Americans died of Covid in 2024… and 20% of those were under 65 years old. It’s thankfully much better now than at the peak but tens of thousands of people are still dying..
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by mikeyouse 3mo ago
I’m confused because you said credible doctors and then linked to one of the biggest cranks on the internet.
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by mikeyouse 3mo ago
Not CGI - just human-controlled: https://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/comments/1ph3scw/tesla_opt... https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-optimus-robots-bartend...
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by mikeyouse 3mo ago
They detail the work they did with that grant money here: https://www.journalismai.info/programmes/innovation/innovati... Looks like it built an AI editing assistant with Google News and Polis.
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by mikeyouse 3mo ago
Yep - a very common view/philosophy outside the Valley. For whatever reason, that's not the culture at all in SV. Actually "vouching" for someone is still gated by people's reputation, but introductions are understo
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by mikeyouse 3mo ago
There is a really tremendous streak of people helping people with no strings attached that I hadn’t found anywhere else I’ve lived. Especially but not exclusively on the engineering / product side - for a long time you could take a gre

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