"I'll let the system admin set a birthday for the user" is exactly how Linux should comply with this legislation. That is what this does.

I disagree with this law. I like that https://agelesslinux.org/ is challenging it. Expecting the rest of Linux ecosystem to actively NOT comply with a law isn't the right response.

Where do you draw the line? Compliance with every law that every country passes?

So every distro out there has a GOAL it exists for a REASON. If achieving that reason requires that compliance. Then comply.

Ageless Linux exists for a simple reason. It does not comply for the benefit of that reason.

Every other Linux distro has different goals. Thats why they exist.

Its a thing that isn't part of the "subject", used with the subject, to manipulate the state of the "the subject" to be closer to what we want.

"tit-for-tat" trading of chunks only happens between peers that both are actively downloading. Seeding nodes just let anybody leech.

You totally CAN disable all uploads in the torrent protocol. Just set the "upload budget" to zero in most clients. Just nobody realizes they can do that.

Bittorrent is wildly successful in part because every popular client makes it nontrivial to "opt out" of it's more socialist components (chunk trading, DHT participation, seeding by default).

Making an "leech behavior only" torrent client is straightforward and viable.

Tit-for-tat kicks in. It's fine for smaller files to just jump peers with zero upload, but i reckon Meta would have found it challenging to download very large files without sharing. It's certainly much faster if you don't get throttled or banned by many peers.

> i reckon Meta would have found it challenging to download very large files without sharing. It's certainly much faster if you don't get throttled or banned by many peers.

You're not that likely to get throttled by seeds though, and most torrents that are downloadable at all have a few seeds. Seeds have no way of verifying whether you're contributing the network, they're just there because someone (implicitly) decided to make the file available to whomever drops by and asks for it.

Would you say that generally books would be considered a small file or a BIG file?

they'd most certainly go for very large curated collections like those of Anna's Archives, we're talking about 10s or 100s of TBs per archive

going 1 by 1 would be quite the exercise in itself considering just how much variety of formats, styles, crap added in the files, random password crapware, etc etc you find for anything other than the most trendy stuff

Intellectual property laundering is the core and primary value of LLMs. Everything else is "bonus".

Lets offer you a "trade up" on that "Golden Rule"

In order of priority, if possible while maintaining the health and safety of yourself and your loved ones:

- Treat others as THEY wish to be treated

- Treat others as YOU would wish to be treated in their situation

- Treat others with as much kindness and compassion as you can safely afford

When we are safe, we can do BETTER than the Golden Rule. We also have to admit that safety is a requirement that changes expectations.

I have to give credit to Dennis E Taylor's "Heaven's River" for this root idea.

"AI Safety" got suborned, then dropped when it wasn't needed anymore.

Every misalignment/AI safety paper is basically a metaphor for how corporate values can misalign with actual human values under capitalism.

The first thing that happened when "AI Safety" became useful to corporate interests, is that the "goal" of it instantly became "profitability" not safety. "AI Safety" became about liability minimization, not actual safety for humanity. (Look! the system is now misaligned with the goal, wonder how that happened!?)

AI Safety concerns were instantly proven true, it happened, and now we live in the world where it is too late to prevent the superintelligences that we call "corporations" from paper-clipping us to death in pursuit of profit.

When i started learning about prompt engineering I had vivid flashbacks to this story. Figuring out the deterministic series of inputs that coerce the black box to perform as desired for a while.

Even if you're not using red motivation, you've no idea if the LLM provider is using that under the hood... :p

Yeah, this strikes me as just selecting against conservatism, which in turn correlates with worse health outcomes.

mirror of: http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera... (ctross, give your poor website more power)

Seemed relevant to recent AI lobster fads

I suppose brittle code is fine if you have cursor to update and fix it. Ideal really, keeps you dependent.

To be fair, that was always the case when working with external contractors. And if agentic AI companies can capture that market, then that's still a pretty massive opportunity.

At least AI is (and unlike many contract dev shops) keen to write unit tests…