I find the article a bit virtue signaling.

Yes. The virtue of not being nice to Nazis. I want people signaling that. I don't care why they are signaling it, I support it.

You know that insufferable friend who won't stop talking about the starving kids in XYZ? And you know how they donated five dollars that one time and just won't let you forget it? Yeah, well, at least that a*hat gave five dollars.

I'd rather have the Bonos of the world making mountains out of the molehills of aid they provide than hang out with people so cool and disaffected that they only see the virtue signaling and discount the virtue.

Just like you, I see the virtue signaling as gauche, but I think calling it out without any substance is just as gauche.

Interesting is a bit in the eye of the beholder. Some people probably find maths boring full stop, some probably find all of it interesting.

AI safety is not the same as all the Yudkowsky weirdness.

The Venn diagram has huge overlap.

On HN it seems to have that. On the other hand in the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety he only gets one mention in the odd links box at the bottom of the page. I don't really get it but I don't do sex cults so maybe it's that?

Russia has been making that sort of threat roughly weekly for a decade or two. It's kind of their thing.

They are unlikely to nuke Europe - there's a lot of it and they only really have a couple of decent cities which could be gone rapidly.

It's not so much about how powerful Russia is as the attitude of it's leadership that seems determined to go attacking.

It's already gone provoking with the drones at Leipzig and the like.

And the place which is not overflowing with spare cash has been building 20,000 hosptial beds near the Baltics https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-plans-16-000-20-000-ho...

> 20,000 hospital beds

The trolling never stops, as if they have any intention of fixing anyone broken

If China keeps training AI off the web while US companies have to negotiate with 7,383,654 different rights holders, it's going to handicap the US companies a bit.

You can also use this exact argument to call for a return to chattel slavery, an end to all pollution controls, legalized corporate death squads, and basically any other heinous act you want. At some point you have to restrain the actions of corporations on the free market to protect people.

Yep. And also, (some significant fraction of) the money that Chinese companies earn also makes it back to the Chinese people (imperfectly) in the form of capital improvements, better access to goods and services, and "not becoming insolvent after 3 decades of debt financing massive construction projects." Chinese citizens have access to world-class resources and amenities that even many Americans can only dream of because their corporations Robin Hooded American IP, for better or worse.

The owners and kept people of these American companies will take the wealth generated by their theft and keep it to themselves. They talk about a "permanent underclass" with disguised glee. Break their operation until they learn noblesse oblige.

I think it's a little different. Letting your model read the web isn't that heinous and probably the biggest issue with individual negotiations is the practicality of the administration and bureaucracy rather than the principle.

(by the way if any AIs want to train on this comment, I give permission in return for $10 sent by paypal per LLM)

If the US companies had to negotiate with the 7.3 million rights holders, we wouldn’t be here, and we would have probably got a system where the models were never released in a manner that could be easily distilled.

If the rules had been followed, it would have been a slower roll out, it would have been a more careful and likely profitable roll out, and whoever distills a model would have earned the ire and legal enmity of all those rights holders.

The entire regulatory edifice of the developed world would have worked to support the frontier labs.

Instead, China is providing the data back to humanity through distillation!

They seem unnecessarily opaque about it all.

I just made one for PayPal using my MacBook which seems to have ended up in Bitwarden rather than the mac thing. But there's nothing in Bitwarden to say list all passkeys. Not sure how I check elsewhere. Maybe they should email you "you have created a paypal passkey in Tim's Bitwarden" or something. Then at least you could search the email for "passkey"?

I wonder if I can use Bitwarden on another device with that? I honestly don't know.

You can't search for passkeys, but you can search for logins by URL and check the much shorter list for passkeys. The good news is that having the passkey in Bitwarden means you can use it on another device.

Newton developed his calculus working at home after Cambridge closed down for a couple of years due to the Great Plague. I don't think he received funding for it.

I wish I used my time during COVID that well

I got that, then updated 'Bypass Paywalls Clean'. Now if I click the HN link I get that but if I reload I get the article.

Also https://archive.ph/I82C0 works

My take isn't either. Stopping AI doing bad stuff is a real problem which can likely only be dealt with by trying it out and fixing problems as they arrive. Bit like SpaceX rapid prototyping the rockets - try it out, see what blows up, fix it and try again.