And that they’ve observed that once groups reach a certain size, it’s inevitable that the group contains at least one asshole.
It’s like the fable of the scorpion and the frog. It doesn’t mean that it’s impossible to cross the river. It just means that you need a more complex plan than just carrying the scorpion across on your back.
It’s the nature of humanity that in any reasonably sized group, there are always a few assholes.
There was cooperation, sure. There was also a lot of killing.
It’s not just human nature, even chimps kill chimps from other groups who stray into the wrong territory.
Probably near zero. Any ad that slips through is noticeable and it’s a company I especially hate, and am less likely to ever do business with.
This sounds like something the advertising world would want you to believe. It’s in their interest to keep the public thinking that advertising works. It’s good for their bottom line if people believe that even if you don’t act on an ad immediately it’s something that eventually nudges you.
Maybe that’s not true. Maybe, in fact, sometimes advertising is a net negative because you’re bombarded so often with an ad that you come to resent the company pushing it. I don’t know what Raycon is, but based on what you’ve said I’m also not interested in ever giving them money. So, the worst case for the advertiser is that not only do their ads reduce sales from people who are reached by those ads, they also reduce sales in anybody those people talk to.
The idea that advertisers’ psychological manipulation just works on people needs to die and stay dead. If you saw it, it had an effect on you, and if that effect is negative then it’s obviously worse than nothing.
Sure, they’re reasonable requests. They’re things that he should have looked at before letting spicy autocomplete loose on production.
If I put a supposedly trained monkey into a tractor’s cabin and had it try to do farm work, I don’t think people should be listening to my ideas about what kinds of skills monkeys should be taught before they’re assigned farm work. I think people should be laughing at me and calling me an idiot for assuming a monkey could do farm work.
Crane bullet points five things that need to change as the AI industry scales faster than it builds a worthwhile safety architecture. Specifics he calls for include; stricter confirmations, scopable API tokens, proper backups, simple recovery procedures, and AI agents existing within proper guardrails.
“I hooked up spicy autocomplete to our production systems and it nuked them. What have I learned from this? Here are some bullet points for how the spicy autocomplete industry needs to do better.”
Are you even more worried about the failure of possible legal protections when the government decides to use the navy to sink fishing boats and come back to kill the survivors?
There’s a limit to what you can do when the house and senate refuse to impeach a president who is obviously breaking the law constantly, and when the justice department sees itself as the president’s lawyer.
The sanctions on the ICC judges were just one of a number of illegal things that the Trump admin has done, including their attacks on fishing boats in the Caribbean and the killing of the survivors of those attacks.
A judge ruled that these sanctions were illegal and ordered the Trump admin not to enforce them, but the Trump admin refuses to stop doing illegal things.
I haven’t seen a single example. You’ve hand-waved things that you think maybe sometimes do happen, but no examples of it actually happening.
Debanking, afaik, is more of just something government agencies do at their discretion
Can you provide an example of that happening?
There’s also the way it bypasses many of the protections and assurances we have about the latter, like due process.
How does it bypass due process?
Also, it will make economic sense for phone manufacturers to have as few battery models as possible. So, it’s possible that there are some pretty standard batteries. It’s also the case that batteries that sit in a warehouse for years are still better than batteries that have been discharged and recharged repeatedly.
I’ve paid a technician to replace the non-replaceable battery in one iPhone and in one iPad. Even though Apple doesn’t officially make batteries replaceable, if you are willing to pay for it, you can get a new battery and extend the life of your device by a couple of years. I imagine that will only get easier once the batteries are actually user replaceable.
It’s an alternative to using more serious threats, like physical violence. The state can freeze your bank accounts to get you to comply with its demands, or it can send a SWAT team in to arrest you.
disrupt the logistics of protests
Again. This wasn’t just a protest.
They could have just used the pen and paper with no cash.
The people who side with the so-called “trucker convoy” that was mostly non-truckers defend it as simply being “free speech”, and “being critical”.
But, what actually happened is that the so-called “truckers” occupied downtown Ottawa for weeks, including areas with high-rise residential buildings. They prevented any traffic from moving, and harassed anybody who came nearby that weren’t part of the occupation. They also leaned on their horns at night keeping people nearby from being able to sleep. Eventually two of the organizers of the occupation were tried and convicted for “mischief”, a crime that can lead to up to 10 years in prison. They got off extremely light with home detention for 1 year and another 6 months of a 10 pm curfew.
Fallout boy?
Why do you think you’d be able to buy groceries with cash if the power grid goes down?
I don’t think so. Good things can’t happen because of human nature: making good things happen involves groups making decisions, and in every group there are bound to be some assholes because that’s human nature, that limits the kinds of good things that can happen.