sirreal14

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by sirreal14 3mo ago
Attempting regulatory capture is not “working with safety or morals”, I’d argue it’s the opposite.
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by sirreal14 10mo ago
> In fairness I’ve seen humans make that mistake These were (formerly) not the kinds of humans who regularly made these kinds of mistakes.
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by sirreal14 10mo ago
As a Seattle SWE, I'd say most of my coworkers do hate all the time-wasting AI stuff being shoved down our throats. There are a few evangelical AI boosters I do work with, but I keep catching mistakes in their code that they didn'
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by sirreal14 10mo ago
This Canadian group (Canadian Centre for Child Protection) is awful. They simultaneously receive tax dollars while also being registered as a lobbyist, meaning Canadians are paying taxes to the government to lobby itself. Last year they lo
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by sirreal14 11mo ago
It absolutely is, but the “joke” is manufacturing consent for considering drug cartels as terrorists, and for considering wars for regime change in Latin America as dealing with terrorism.
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by sirreal14 1y ago
Israel is fully dependent on the support it receives from western governments, and it knows that support will vanish if it wages a loud open genocide and brags about it. So no, it's not trivially in their power to kill everyone in Gaza
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by sirreal14 3y ago
AI safetyists have already called for airstriking """rouge""" data centers, don't play coy and pretend that your worldview stops at KYC for infrastructure.
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by sirreal14 3y ago
Obviously the government can stop issuing services to a certain ID, but being run on a decentralized computing platform (plan is an Ethereum layer 2 I believe) means that they cannot stop you from interacting with other governments or with
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by sirreal14 3y ago
> I am all for privacy and encrypted communications. Until a legitimate law enforcement.... So you're against encryption then. Simple as that. > Outsourcing some, or all of that to some VC backed companies, facilitating access fo
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by sirreal14 3y ago
> The while premise of needing a nin-centralized wax of confirming ones identity is, at its core, deeply un-demicratic. As of bow, government issued documentation confirms anyones identiy. These governments can be democratic, and are. Pu