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The Frontier Act Is Congress' Best AI Regulation Bill Yet(thefai.org)
3 points by randcraw 11h ago|1 comments
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AI Safety Requires More Than Just Slowing Our Pace – Stuart Russell(theguardian.com)
4 points by randcraw 1d ago|0 comments
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by randcraw 8d ago
I get reCaptchaed-to-death all the time in iOS and MacOS using both Firefox and Brave. I use a big name VPN which probably makes it worse, since I'm routinely blocked outright by Cloudfare services, assuming cluelessly that I'm a
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by randcraw 13d ago
It turns out that some foods counteract the formation of kidney stones. If you drink milk when you eat oxalates, the oxalates will not fuse into stones and will be excreted normally in your urine. Oxalates are present in tea too, though no
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by randcraw 21d ago
And there were an unimaginable number of tax loopholes available back then that ultimately reduced the individual tax rate enormously. You just had to reinvest your income in a multitude of increasingly bizarre tax dodges devised by increa
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by randcraw 25d ago
I think reading short stories is a great way to develop both writing and storytelling skills. A SS compresses the storyline and character development into a more palatable and succinct morsel than can a full-sized book. And the brevity of
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by randcraw 25d ago
AI-cloned shows will suffer on day #1 what the original show suffered after the 5th year or so -- the plausible and original plot lines have been used up. So the AI-gen story lines will be implausible or derivative copies of familiar plots
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by randcraw 25d ago
"The Machine-Made Muse" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM4xISBsUcY Only Data looks and sounds fully 'natural' in this 10 minute clip of STTNG, but it nicely demonstrates the imminent plausibility of syn
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by randcraw 28d ago
> Points to the future where my bots talk to your bots. I think that’s healthy. I can't imagine why. You have become a robot. You've automated yourself out of existence. And due to your consistently mindless replies, everyon
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by randcraw 2mo ago
Agreed. When tools evolve significantly the old production process has to be reworked into a new process and that takes time. In complex production lines that will include changes to subcontracting, supply chains, and even finance models.
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by randcraw 2mo ago
Or you could just submit a photo of someone else's poodle.
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by randcraw 2mo ago
In the late 1960s daily TV news coverage revealed the horrors of war to the American public as never before (just as Brady's photos had done in the Civil War). That palpable gruesomeness was instrumental in the rising tide of unpopula
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by randcraw 2mo ago
Emergency is the mother of making exceptions. During both US gulf wars, the army broke from its long tradition of over-regulating new systems before they could be fielded, especially for small semi-autonomous platforms like flying drones a
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by randcraw 3mo ago
I look forward to following this issue. We're at an inflection point in AI adoption where, for some uses, it _must_ be trustworthy. Failure to stick to the facts must doom it for such uses until its wild hair reliably and accountably
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by randcraw 4mo ago
I think you would most certainly NOT prefer any Constitution, nor especially any Bill of Rights, that was rewritten by today's version of "We the People".
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by randcraw 4mo ago
> It’s crazy how much worse Google search results are now than they used to be. I could not agree more. Each time I do a google search, I feel like I've stepped into a severe reality distortion field. The results are simply WORTHL
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by randcraw 4mo ago
Present generations see the primary role for AI as being identical to the biggest disruption to US business in the past century — namely the gigantic sucking sound from the outsourcing of millions of US jobs in order to reduce labor costs.
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by randcraw 4mo ago
I've noticed the same thing. IMO, the heyday of computing coincided with the peak of WiReD Magazine. Around 1995 interconnected computers and the WWW bootstrapped a revolution in spreading+sharing information that seemed certain to r
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by randcraw 4mo ago
> Surely in the long run… And that's the rub. PE is all about short term ROI at any price. Their business model doesn't take product superiority or brand loyalty into account. If a widget can be made cheaper, you do it, damn
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by randcraw 4mo ago
Yeah, I've seen the same thing happen to data miners in the pharma industry. An increasing fraction of young biologists have skill in basic statistical DM as well as web search proficiency sufficient to gather DM code analysis example
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by randcraw 4mo ago
Yeah, IEEE Spectrum has responded to the dissimilar roles in SW dev by ranking programming language popularity contextually, by separating the project domains and ranking the languages only within each domain. That's a lot more usef
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by randcraw 4mo ago
Rather than coining a new word like adaption, I'd call this acculturation. It's reshaping not only SW dev but natural language too -- how we read and write and how we speak. Everyone knows that AI-written slop isn't worth ac
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by randcraw 4mo ago
Yeah, 95% of the available advancement in computing is in people management, not technical mastery. Businesses much prefer to hire externally to serve any non-core capabilities, especially to minimize internal culpability should anything g
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by randcraw 5mo ago
Clothes are a good example of what ails online shopping. When you physically visit a clothing store, you chose it knowing the quality and style of that merchant -- you thereby filter out a huge fraction of the market that you want to exclu
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by randcraw 5mo ago
And it ignores the fact that, if you refuse to remember any facts because they can be looked up, you'll be unable to form any new ideas because you'll know nothing, and you won't know what is out there to be looked up. And of
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by randcraw 5mo ago
The more the role of the tool, the less the role of the craftsman.
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by randcraw 5mo ago
That coordinated effort also includes the buying up of US media sources by billionaires and gigacorps to control the content of not just news sources and social forums, but every electronic window we have onto the world. Remember, the panop
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by randcraw 5mo ago
So far.
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by randcraw 6mo ago
Just as "there is no royal road to mathematics", no AI can do your learning for you. The need for memorization of essential math identities (like multiplication tables and use of fractions) or rules of grammar (like verb conjugat
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by randcraw 6mo ago
And s/he was right. Most students who were brought up with calculators in math class cannot do basic math without one today. When shopping in groceries, they have no idea if one product costs more than another by weight. They'r

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