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‘Can Artificial Intelligence Speak for Incapacitated Patients at the End of Life?’ No, and what the hell is wrong with you?
  • I do not recommend using the word "AI" as if it refers to a single thing that encompasses all possible systems incorporating AI techniques. LLM guys don't distinguish between things that could actually be built and "throwing an LLM at the problem" -- you're treating their lack-of-differentiation as valid and feeding them hype.

  • Proton Mail goes AI, security-focused userbase goes ‘what on earth’
    • high willingness to accept painfully inexact responses
    • high tendency to side with authority when given no information
    • low ability to distinguish "how it is" from "how it seems like it should be"

    Meta:

    • default expectation that others are the same way
    • indignant consent-ignoring gesture if they're not
  • Crowdstrike takes out last remaining threat vector (the users)
    infosec.exchange BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)

    Attached: 1 image This is fitting. The top topic on Xitter right now is of course the global Crowdstrike/Windows clusterfuck. But the AI summary of the discussion is hilarious, b/c it summarizes a bunch of sarcastic posts and makes it sound like a positive (or at least can-do) story.

    BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)

    The machines, now inaccessible, are arguably more secure than before.

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 July 2024
  • A friend who worked with her is sympathetic to her but does not endorse her: this is a tendency she has, she veers back and forth on it a lot, she has frequent moments of insight where she disavows her previous actions but then just kind of continues doing them. It's Kanye-type behavior.

  • The Nation: Silicon Valley is fully MAGA-Pilled
  • The media again builds a virtual public consisting of billionaires of a variety of positions and ask you "which one do you agree with?" This is a strategy to push the public closer to the beliefs of billionaires.

    I don't know who these fucking people are. The real public in California still supports Biden by a 25% margin.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 21 July 2024
  • I don't understand why people take him at face value when he claims he's always been a Democrat up until now. He's historically made large contributions to candidates from both parties, but generally more Republicans than Democrats, and also Republican PACs like Protect American Jobs. Here is his personal record.

    Since 2023, he picked up and donated ~$20,000,000 to Fairshake, a crypto PAC which predominantly funds candidates running against Democrats.

    Has he moved right? Sure. Was he ever left? No, this is the voting record of someone who wants to buy power from candidates belonging to both parties. If it implies anything, it implies he currently finds Republicans to be corruptible.

  • AI does stand-up: ‘cruise ship comedy material from the 1950s, but a bit less racist’
  • Stuck in my brain: I used to work at a dating site for Indian people, and one of the things we tried was "LLM-generated pickup lines."

    I don't remember most of them and we never made the feature public, but one of them sticks out in my mind for being the most incomprehensible.

    Guy-to-girl:

    What's your remedy for a Bollywood love affair?

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