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What are you suggesting should have been done here?

To be fair, there are important differences between open source and closed source software.

I’m curious how it’s considered a “layoff” if it’s based on performance rather than the job itself being eliminated.

Reminds me of the old trick on HTML forms where you use CSS to make one of the form fields invisible to humans and reject any submission that filled in that field.

The problem is that an AI built to maximize paperclips might conclude that converting the planet to paperclips is an acceptable cost of maximizing paperclip production. It might understand why humans think it’s bad to convert the planet, but disagree. It would need to be explicitly programmed to prioritize human life over paperclips.

otherwise we would just switch it off

If it were super-intelligent, it could probably trick us into leaving it turned on.

A paperclip maximizer driven by self-preservation? What could possiblie go wrong?

Are there examples of censorship or prior restraint you’d like to highlight?

And stop sighing so much.

For soon, the quivering mass of life within me will depend on us both. Even now, I can sense it feeding, squirming, searching, questing. And shortly, it will rend my loins in twain, burst forth and pull us down, down, down into the deep, dark waters of commitment.

‘Billy West’? What a stupid, phony, made-up name!

I can wire anything directly into anything; I’m the professor!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGKxWatPkd0

Try HTTrack: https://www.httrack.com/

Mine can because it also has Netflix, Hulu, etc. built in.

If social media companies exist to collect massive troves of personal info from users–and they do–then there is a valid national security concern over social media controlled by an adversary. This is distinct from the individual privacy concerns towards domestically-controlled social media.

The value of the DNS is that we all use the same one. You can declare independence, but you’d lose out on that value.

https://www.code.gov/

Why Windows doesn’t have an ‘expert mode’ (2003)

It’s the second largest multi-ethnic democracy on Earth.

That’s the opposite of what the court said.