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Comment on Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents in ~science
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Comment on Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents in ~science
unkz LinkSo this is a post copied from https://www.ahmath.org/statements but I think it's notable that it's Terry Tao posting this.So this is a post copied from https://www.ahmath.org/statements but I think it's notable that it's Terry Tao posting this.
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Association for Human Mathematics statement on OpenAI’s October 6 release of mathematical documents
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Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health
unkz Link ParentWith the acrimony I have seen in some divorces, can you imagine if someone’s ex-spouse also ended up taking their liver voucher after taking (house/pet/kids)? Yikes.With the acrimony I have seen in some divorces, can you imagine if someone’s ex-spouse also ended up taking their liver voucher after taking (house/pet/kids)? Yikes.
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Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health
unkz Link ParentI guess that’s an American thing, we don’t have vouchers in Canada. Even still, I’d feel a bit silly if I picked the wrong five people. I would be tempted if it were a completely unlimited...I guess that’s an American thing, we don’t have vouchers in Canada. Even still, I’d feel a bit silly if I picked the wrong five people. I would be tempted if it were a completely unlimited transferable voucher. I can see how that would lead to coercion and black market sales though.
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Comment on Approved for altruistic kidney donation in ~health
unkz Link ParentI would donate to a close friend or close family member. Every human is not equal to me.I would donate to a close friend or close family member. Every human is not equal to me.
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Comment on With most information hidden, the game Stratego had stumped AI—until now in ~games
unkz Link ParentI played this a lot here Canada, I think it is well known.I played this a lot here Canada, I think it is well known.
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Comment on Our AI midwife in ~health
unkz LinkThis is me right now. I had relatively major surgery last week, and the entirety of my follow up is a phone call scheduled in 6 weeks and a four page pamphlet from the hospital (with my particular...This is me right now. I had relatively major surgery last week, and the entirety of my follow up is a phone call scheduled in 6 weeks and a four page pamphlet from the hospital (with my particular surgery circled and a note to ignore the advice for some related surgeries the pamphlet also discusses). In the meantime, I have about a hundred queries to LLMs about what’s happening and what I should be doing to recover.
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Comment on Chat Control 2.0 Trilogue update: No mass scanning deal for now in ~society
unkz LinkThis will sound a bit defeatist, because I guess it is, but I don’t think it matters what happened just now. Ultimately, this will pass because of the authoritarian streak in the majority of...This will sound a bit defeatist, because I guess it is, but I don’t think it matters what happened just now. Ultimately, this will pass because of the authoritarian streak in the majority of people that want to be in government in the first place.
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Comment on Someone ‘torturing’ LLMs in a robot prison has triggered the dumbest debate in AI yet in ~tech
unkz Link ParentFor those who don’t know the Creatures drama, https://creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Norn_torture This is also similar to what people do with the Sims. For some reason my kids just love trapping Sims...For those who don’t know the Creatures drama,
https://creatures.fandom.com/wiki/Norn_torture
This is also similar to what people do with the Sims. For some reason my kids just love trapping Sims in swimming pools which seems pretty innocuous, but I have seen weirdly elaborate Sims torture scenarios on the internet.
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Comment on OpenAI hacked Australia's Medicare portal in ~tech
unkz Link ParentReally, accidental "hacking" has been around since the dawn of the internet. Google, Yahoo, Altavista etc. were and are constantly accidentally downloading confidential materials. That's basically...Really, accidental "hacking" has been around since the dawn of the internet. Google, Yahoo, Altavista etc. were and are constantly accidentally downloading confidential materials. That's basically all this is too. A very sophisticated spider that uses heuristics to get access to stuff on the web. Is it hacking when a spider spoofs a useragent or uses a mobile IP instead of a datacenter to get around blocks? I posted elsewhere in this thread about a time I accidentally "hacked" a government server just a few years ago -- but I didn't intend to, and I don't think it was a crime, nor did the courts who I talked to about it.
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Comment on OpenAI hacked Australia's Medicare portal in ~tech
unkz Link ParentI mean your prior assumption is wrong. Lots of people intentionally hack or otherwise illegally access government systems and don’t receive jail time. Suspended sentences and probation are all...I mean your prior assumption is wrong. Lots of people intentionally hack or otherwise illegally access government systems and don’t receive jail time. Suspended sentences and probation are all very common.
I actually have an interestingly similar personal case: I wrote a spider for a government operated court records system, and inadvertently bypassed a guard that was supposed to prevent access to domestic violence records — the “guard” was UI gated only, and my API based spider ignored it. I ended up downloading thousands of sensitive documents.
I noticed this a few months into the project, reported it to the government, and they fixed the issue. I am not in jail, nor was I ever charged.
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Comment on The literary world’s DEI checklist in ~books
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Comment on The literary world’s DEI checklist in ~books
unkz Link ParentWhich browsers do you use? Firefox/Chrome?Which browsers do you use? Firefox/Chrome?
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Comment on The literary world’s DEI checklist in ~books
unkz Link ParentWould you be interested in a browser plugin that let you collaboratively filter users/posts?Would you be interested in a browser plugin that let you collaboratively filter users/posts?
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Comment on Fitness Weekly Discussion in ~health
unkz LinkI had a two level disc replacement to decompress nerves due to stenosis. 3 months of recovery before I can do proper gym stuff! Anyone been through this before? It has been less than 24 hours, but...I had a two level disc replacement to decompress nerves due to stenosis. 3 months of recovery before I can do proper gym stuff! Anyone been through this before? It has been less than 24 hours, but I feel pretty good aside from the obvious soreness.
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Comment on Stanford violated its AI policy by turning a Hispanic student into a fake Black woman in ad in ~tech
unkz Link ParentI’m not saying all white people look the same, but I couldn’t distinguish the two supposedly different middle guys in a police lineup if my life depended on it. I do see that the shirt and...I’m not saying all white people look the same, but I couldn’t distinguish the two supposedly different middle guys in a police lineup if my life depended on it. I do see that the shirt and headphones are changed.
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Comment on In fighting for every black child, did I forget my own? in ~life
unkz Link ParentYes, no question whatsoever. How fantastical a scenario are you willing to contemplate? I would not commit genocide to give my child a leg up. To the rational extent of consequences that could...This feels overly simplistic to me. Best available opportunities for what? On what axis/axes? At what cost? If you could pay an affordable-to-you but exorbitant sum of money for your child to take another child's place at a high school with a very high acceptance rate to Ivy League colleges, would you? What if you knew that the student you replaced would be forced to go to a school with abysmal test scores and acceptance rates, but your child would otherwise be at a mid-tier school?
Yes, no question whatsoever.
What damage to your community are you willing to cause or abide at the expense of your child's success?
How fantastical a scenario are you willing to contemplate? I would not commit genocide to give my child a leg up. To the rational extent of consequences that could realistically come from moving my child to a different catchment, I would probably accept any possible negative outcome to the community.
As to the rest, I would say there are many better avenues for trying to benefit the community that don't involve depriving my children.
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Comment on In fighting for every black child, did I forget my own? in ~life
unkz Link ParentWhat happened here is she ran into reality and failed to recognize the error in her previous thinking. I think there's a combination of things going on here. conflation of ideals with policy --...how she couldn't face herself in the mirror if she spent her entire career trying to convince parents with choice not to flee bad schools and then did exactly that when she had skin in the game
Her ideals ran into the cold hardness of reality, that's true. But she's not the first to face that and won't be the last. And frankly, I admire idealists as much as or more than I pity them.
What happened here is she ran into reality and failed to recognize the error in her previous thinking. I think there's a combination of things going on here.
- conflation of ideals with policy -- the actual ideal is all kids should get the same quality of education, the incorrect policy is giving your children a bad education to lift up other children
- sunk cost -- she was so invested in this incorrect policy that she couldn't recognize the need to find a new policy
- social capital -- I don't think it was facing herself in the mirror that was the problem, it was facing her peers who would condemn her "hypocrisy"
I don't see this as idealism which should be applauded, I see it as dogmatism that should be condemned.
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Comment on In fighting for every black child, did I forget my own? in ~life
unkz LinkUh, yeah. I would never consciously avoid giving my kids the best available opportunities. If I’m going sacrifice, I sacrifice myself, not my children’s futures. They talk about how they could...When Najya was entering pre-K, my husband, Faraji, and I decided to send her to the type of school that wealthier families with choices uniformly avoid — one that is low-income and mostly Black.
Uh, yeah. I would never consciously avoid giving my kids the best available opportunities. If I’m going sacrifice, I sacrifice myself, not my children’s futures.
They talk about how they could donate to the school because they are rich. Guess what: you can donate to any school you want, even if your kids aren’t suffering there.
Terry Tao is perhaps the world's most prominent mathematician at the moment. Notably, Terry is not a member. I don't think he's fully aligned -- he's a big proponent of AI in math. I think he just doesn't like the latest thing OpenAI has done.