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Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent(theregister.com)
228 points by throwworhtthrow 2d ago|138 comments
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Who gets to define the rules for AI?(cohere.com)
47 points by throwworhtthrow 3d ago|40 comments
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by throwworhtthrow 4d ago
There's the punctuation and word choice tells. And the overall voice. But let's set that aside because some human writing shows similar traits, or perhaps a human used an LLM to "fix the grammar". So I'll point out
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by throwworhtthrow 4d ago
The blog's About page says Max "writes" about transportation, but I'm skeptical he's even read his own slop here, or he would have presumably fixed some of the worst nonsense sentences before posting it. I doubt he
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by throwworhtthrow 2mo ago
Thanks for the link. His decades of tech columns were so well-served by his skeptic curmudgeon style. There's danger in bringing that persona to all topics, I now see, shown by this regrettable chapter of his blogging life.
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by throwworhtthrow 2mo ago
I'm glad this worked for your family, but in my kids' experience this is too heavy to use as balance bike. By the time they were comfortable hoisting their de-pedaled 12" / 5.4kg bike off the ground, they'd nearly o
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by throwworhtthrow 2mo ago
Just as ChatGPT is now called "Chat" by the kids (go ahead and finish grinding your teeth, I'll wait...), if Antigravity takes off then it'll get an irksome nickname like Antigrav or just Grav.
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by throwworhtthrow 2mo ago
NHTSA now recommends "8 and 4" hand position. Did see the memo about this? I'll go ahead and make sure you get another copy of that memo: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/steeringtech
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by throwworhtthrow 3mo ago
The quote you've selected is an unfortunate example of the NYT poorly summarizing the findings of their own study (not your fault, they're the ones who wrote it). You can find a more precise explanation at the end of the article i
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by throwworhtthrow 3mo ago
In the 70s in SF my father had his car window broken by someone who wanted to steal his parking space. He found his car pushed in front of an adjacent driveway, and ticketed. His doors were unlocked the whole time...
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by throwworhtthrow 4mo ago
$9B/yr is less than half of the Pentagon's more recent estimate of $2T through 2088 for the F-35 program (according to Wikipedia and its sources, which is all I have to go on). And again, the F-35 is not synonymous with the entire
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by throwworhtthrow 4mo ago
What's your source for: > California [has] removed qualified immunity for their law enforcement officers at the state level. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity#State_law , it's Co
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by throwworhtthrow 4mo ago
I think the only one lying here is Gwern for calling the NYT liars. Gwern's claim is that by discussing someone's vape-induced injury in an article about flavored nicotine vaping, NYT misleads, because they are different vape prod
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by throwworhtthrow 4mo ago
> all they have to do is US IC assessment is Iran is 5-10y away from delivery tech, and there's no imminent threat.
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by throwworhtthrow 4mo ago
Context: The FBI Director Is MIA - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813001 (18 days ago) F.B.I. Director Sues The Atlantic Over Article Claiming Excessive Drinking - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/0
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by throwworhtthrow 5mo ago
Beware, this is a book excerpt rather than a standalone blog post, so it ends on a cliffhanger. Still a fun read.
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by throwworhtthrow 5mo ago
> Our entire economy is built on scientific advancement and advantage. Devil's advocate: Only productivity gains, not the entire economy, are built on scientific advancement. But wages haven't grown with productivity in half a
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by throwworhtthrow 5mo ago
The article charts a Nature survey that shows "percent trusting the scientific community" was sub-50% for both D's and R's from 1985-2015. That's more interesting and concerning to me than the relatively recent dive
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by throwworhtthrow 5mo ago
If you're the type of person who checks the comments on a post with this kind of headline, then you probably also want to (re-)watch the 2 minute highlight reel of Mark's backyard meat-smoking party. https://www.youtube
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by throwworhtthrow 5mo ago
Israel violated the 2024 ceasefire over 10,000 times [0], not counting all the ones since Feb. 28. I guess this time they're not satisfied with having only 50 "freebies" a day. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by throwworhtthrow 6mo ago
> or just ignoring the laws, and illegally reporting from dangerous yellow or red zones I skimmed Wikipedia [1] but couldn't find any mention of laws in Ukraine that forbid reporting from certain areas. I see laws forbidding stateme
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by throwworhtthrow 6mo ago
No, this is a different strike. Please read the NYT article you linked more carefully. > The Feb. 28 attack occurred the same day as a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile struck a school in the city of Minab, several hundred miles away, killi
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by throwworhtthrow 6mo ago
I assume this is an infuriatingly subtle parody, because: > Why can't you just celebrate this good thing? reads like <font size=2> /s </font>.
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by throwworhtthrow 6mo ago
Another situation where bad actors benefit. From the article: > What really interests Cian, who has published research[1] exploring how audiences tend to have less trust in media outlets that are transparent about their AI use, is the fa
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by throwworhtthrow 6mo ago
Note the way he brushes off his own attorney's objections, not even looking at or reacting to her, while he discusses why someone who's mass-canceling grants doesn't need any grant-writing experience. Total disdain for any ki
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by throwworhtthrow 7mo ago
No. This person should not try to circumvent moderation by creating new accounts. They should ask the moderation team for reinstatement of normal posting privileges, but be willing to accept a refusal. They've behaved appallingly.
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by throwworhtthrow 7mo ago
Coincidentally, I just used hn.algolia to look up one of your old comments where you describe being sandblasted, and was surprised to find the most recent use of "sandblasted" on HN is by you, linking to an algolia search of you s
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by throwworhtthrow 7mo ago
Besides the telltale "it's not x, it's y" used repeatedly in their comment history, I also struggle to imagine what would motivate a human to type such blandly agreeable jargon-filled pablum. I'd certainly prefer no
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by throwworhtthrow 7mo ago
After Renee Good was killed, I re-evaluated my opinion on Ashli Babbitt's killing and I have more sympathy for her now.
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by throwworhtthrow 7mo ago
> Did you listen to the conversation? No, and I'm sorry for derailing your point. Thank you for the additional links. I skimmed them all but didn't see anyone corroborate the claim that TSMC is limited by its upstream component

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