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> online-first activists have always been a key driver of the success
Eh, pressing X to doubt that. Maybe way back in the early GPT days, but once we got to GPT-4 these people could have completely disappeared and wouldn't have changed the trajectory we're on.
Yea, that user made the most ridiculous statement.
I think the Onion did a piece saying something like "Netanyahu dead, Trump must go back to being the only president of the United States", and while satire, is a bit enlightening of the actual situation here.
In the case of the "Gulf of America" thing there was a clear and open statement by the executive that they wanted the maps changed (note that even in the US the name is still legally "Gulf of Mexico"). Apple and Google both decided to acquiesce to curry favor.
TMK there is no current government order to eliminate large swaths of Lebanon from maps. So the fact that Apple is doing this (seemingly on its own, despite all other mapping services reflecting the original place names) is the thing I'm explicitly calling out as being weird.
Nobody is being entitled or demanding that others do work. We just also aren't saying "it's fine; there's no problem".
In any case just paying people do to a ton of auditing is clearly a terrible solution. We need structural changes, like:
* Namespaces on crates.io (I believe people are working on this).
* Crate level effects systems ("zlib shouldn't be able to access environment variables, the filesystem or network"). No idea if anyone is working on that or if it is already possible. CHERI provides one solution which people definitely are working on.
* Probably a bigger standard library, or at least a set of crates that are maintained by core Rust developers. I vaguely recall that this might happen.
Anyway the sensible among as aren't demanding this work. We're just saying it would be really good if it happened.
Whereas this misguided person is saying "nothing more is needed" which shows a lack of understanding and imagination.
Yep once the system is set up, no matter how good its intentions, the government will get a group of bad people who then use said monitoring system to entrench their power.
The disincentives to nuclear war are glaringly obvious enough that even politicians (and their masters) get it.
AI isn't like that. One problem is that it's rather generally misunderstood at this point. "AI" is not "intelligence". It's intelligence-adjacent, and something like LLMs is part of our psyche...the subconscious facility that allows us to form sentences without really thinking about it.
At any rate, I have to agree with most of the points the blog author brings up.
I mean, not really. The only reason we've not died in a nuclear war is building nuclear bombs is very very difficult and expensive. If suddenly it became quick and easy to get nukes, we'd flash fry pretty quick when any and every suicidal nut with convictions got their hands on one.
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