unityByFreedom

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by unityByFreedom 3y ago
That kind of "power" can turn on a dime. I'd be wary of it. In this case the mob learned they have influence when they work together. That doesn't mean they are loyal to Altman, rather that they are influential when unit
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by unityByFreedom 3y ago
> the level of "entanglement" into our daily life with massive core-AI systems, such as the capabilities of GPT-'N' has, cannot be understated. Entanglement of big business and government is not new. Yes, we should be
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by unityByFreedom 3y ago
Hah I just read about "Bohemian Grove." Do techies consider that sacred ground because Oppenheimer discussed the atomic bomb there? The idol worship present in SV is so thick I can hardly see anything else.
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by unityByFreedom 3y ago
> I hope that all the youngin's in tech (like the actual teenagers, like my children) are really paying attention to where we are in tech history with AI in general - and with OpenAI in particular - as SA can attempt to look like a
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by unityByFreedom 3y ago
And yet, he nearly lost his job. None of us are perfect, nor are any of us better than any other. Let's cut the idolizing.
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by unityByFreedom 3y ago
> he just posted a thread on how much of a visionary he is The thread you linked is from 2020.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
What is the case against them? You can't claw back without demonstrating some law was broken. Making a bad financial decision that causes a business to fail isn't against the law unless you somehow profited from it. And, from what
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> The mission of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation's financial system. I see nothing there about "we will guarantee deposits of any amount over $250k.&
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> odds are, just about every bank by now has either reviewed or scrambling to review their exposure The lesson they learned is to shout global emergency when your regional bank can't meet withdrawals due to poorly managed finances.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
The question is, what would it take for a bank to be allowed to fail? The FDIC insurance line of $250k must've meant something .
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Yes, now I wonder if anyone is allowed to fail. David Sacks complained that if the regionals aren't protected, then everyone will only bank with the big four. Yet if everyone is protected even when the bank makes poor decisions, that&#
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
The run they were tweeting about was a wider one on all regional banks. Did not happen at time of their tweets, they were speculating about the future. Why was it the VCs impacted by the SVB collapse, and not the wider banking world, who st
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
See also Jonathan Haidt's "Social Media is a Major Cause of the Mental Illness Epidemic in Teen Girls. Here’s the Evidence." https://jonathanhaidt.substack.com/p/social-media-mental-ill...
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
I'm sorry to see "I don't care" as the top response to your thoughtful comment. We are better off if we can argue the merits of both sides of issues. Trying to ram one answer down everyone's throats is not productiv
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
I like your honest answers here. It's refreshing to hear in the tech space after a decade of wanna-be Jobs copycats. Good luck with the business.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> After 1997 I don't see a single game being developed on the Doom Engine Because Carmack kept developing new engines that were better. He also made it easy for people to build maps and add onto the game. You can earn both money and
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
It's a tragedy no nation should face alone. There should be no "looking bad" here, just opportunities to help. Why not embrace that and do whatever you can? Any city would face horrible losses in this situation. Heck, Miami l
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
China's exit, as happened 70-80 years ago, would cause us to have to work more. That might not be such a bad thing, though I doubt it will happen to the same degree. It's still fresh in everyone's mind.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Many people self-describe as pro-life. It is not 'flamebait' for most people and neither is pro-choice.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Pro-lifers can be pro-sex ed and pro-contraceptive. It would be your misunderstanding if you assume those must all go together.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Okay. The topic was birth, not sex ed / contraceptives.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
That's one way of looking at it. But pro-lifers don't see it that way, so I was just presenting another point of view. I don't think telling them to stfu is productive.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> To be clear, many Christians hold the same view as this example atheist, particularly those who think living is defined by knowing, and being dead by not knowing And there are many Christians who regard support for abortion within the
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
Case by case. Generally, if they commit to no violence then they should be supported, even protected by police. Uncomfortable conversations should be allowed to happen.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> Do children still have this experience? Haha, yes, we are not that far gone..
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> That was just for scanning photos in general. Are you trolling? What Federighi proposed before was scanning "for CSAM" on device [1]. Same angle. > Doing it on device is probably preferable to on cloud and at worst no diff
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> Why couldn't they just do it with an OS update today? See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33903825 > None of us would know if Google was doing ad-hoc scans of particular users' photos
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
The point of the feature is to use the data in court cases, which are public record. So word would get out there, via journalist, a whistleblower, etc. They had to make the proposal public before implementing it.
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
I don't understand your question. Are you arguing in favor of on-device scanning? Or arguing against all scanning? Perhaps easier, what do you think they should be doing?
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by unityByFreedom 4y ago
> Something about the US Constitution, but I can't remember what. The first amendment comes into play. The government cannot compel Apple to write software in a certain way, such as "write your encryption so you have keys that

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