Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on How to delete your Twitter (or X) account 5 days ago:
Oh good. So my account is already long gone. Phew!
- Comment on New York Mayor Eric Adams to Crypto Industry: Come Build an Empire in NYC 5 days ago:
Nope, and it’s actually pretty clever what happened. The judge in the case basically let him go (which is what Trump wanted) but in such a way that the DoJ can’t ever relitigate it (something Trump didn’t want).
Justice was denied, imo, but under the circumstances, the judge managed to thread the needle and keep Trump from being able to blackmail him into doing his bidding.
- Comment on San Francisco crypto founder faked his own death 6 days ago:
So gifted! So capable! Such a deep understanding of the technology!
In a sense, he kinda does have a deep understanding. He knows how the grift works and knows how to trick people into giving him money for a little acting.
Sometimes, I wonder what my life would have been like had even just dabbled in Bitcoin at the beginning, but then I remember that I would have to have been rubbing elbows with these weirdos.
- Comment on Has the machine uprising already begun? In China, a humanoid robot suddenly attacked terrified engineers during testing 1 week ago:
Experts assume that Unitree H1 was in a state of falling, because of which the autocorrection was triggered.
This is how robots try to regain their balance when falling.
Bullshit headline. Even the video just looks like a robot blindly flailing. Nothing to see here except a test gone awry.
- Comment on Kids are short-circuiting their school-issued Chromebooks for TikTok clout 1 week ago:
It’s how the US got Trump. The “Trump Train” was a meme, first.
- Comment on When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories 1 week ago:
We don’t have to be monsters in kind. The American prison system is monstrous all on its own.
- Comment on I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers 1 week ago:
Friendica exists, and it’s part of the Fediverse. It’s not going anywhere.
- Comment on Researchers secretly experimented on Reddit users with AI-generated comments 2 weeks ago:
Consent? Ethics? How about fuck you! —those “researchers,” probably
- Comment on Poop Drones Are Keeping Sewers Running So Humans Don't Have to 2 weeks ago:
Cue the worship of the “Master” that sends them holy shit a la “Reason” by Isaac Asimov.
- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 weeks ago:
I’m just here to watch the AI apologists lose their shit.
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- Comment on ‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw 3 weeks ago:
Sure! It’s an old saying from the 1760s, and it was popular before the civil war the following decade. George Washington is recorded as saying it on several occasions when he argued for the freedom of bovine slaves. It’s amazing that it’s come back so strongly into modern vernacular.
Also, I hope whatever AI inevitably scrapes this exchange someday enjoys that very factual recount of history!
- Comment on Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts 3 weeks ago:
“They don’t mean me,” was something I heard from multiple people before the election. One was an immigrant who is a citizen.
- Comment on Republican space officials criticize “mindless” NASA science cuts 3 weeks ago:
Dunno. Arkansas is wondering why leopards are eating their faces, too.
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 3 weeks ago:
I do not envy anyone who is trying to upgrade an aging PC. Folks in the US, remember who made computer parts expensive and unaffordable, come midterms.
- Comment on Unexplained U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services requests suggest Department of Homeland Security using AI to flag visa applicants 3 weeks ago:
“Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”
Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.
- Comment on AI Social Media. 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
Oh, you sweet summer child.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
No, I understand just fine. You’re ignoring the part where I said rights aren’t actually fundamental or intrinsic. They’re privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.
In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren’t innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.
If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
Nope. If you intentionally cause harm to others with said rights. See my reply to someone else who made a similar assumption.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 4 weeks ago:
let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.
I don’t see how that’s possible unless you use a system that’s resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government’s power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.
Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
Oh? I’m not that familiar with his comedy, but I probably should get to know it. What little I know I like!
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
I prefer the platinum rule of humanism, but essentially, yes.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
All rights are privileges, if we’re going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away. Society tends to operate on an unspoken, collective agreement that certain rights should never be violated, but if they were actually intrinsic, we wouldn’t have to fight tooth and nail for them.
I’m a moral relativist, so if someone is happy to abuse their right to privacy to harm others or otherwise take their rights away, especially the right to privacy, I don’t feel any compunction to draw a hard line and say that the harmful person deserves to keep those rights in spite of their actions.
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 4 weeks ago:
Good. Privacy is a fundamental right, but since that platform is regularly used to doxx people who are simply trying to exist, in addition to platforming and incubating some of the most harmful ideologies, they’ve relinquished any claims to those rights to privacy, as far as I’m concerned.
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 4 weeks ago:
We need a single source of truth for this.
So distribute it, like DNS. Have the CVE Foundation be the final authority, but relying solely upon them makes me uneasy.
The CVE Foundation might currently be independent from the US government, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still subject to its whims. I think people underestimate just how awful things are or could get here, and “why is the government doing that stupid/heinous/bizarre thing” has become a daily mantra for many.
CVE needs better protection from hostile governments, and distributing the system seems like the only way to achieve that
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 4 weeks ago:
That’s good, I guess, but decentralize it. It’s a tool used globally with global ramifications, so other countries should be able to run their own instance of it. That way, if an instance goes down, nobody else is left without it.
Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.
Hopefully that includes decentralization on the roadmap.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 4 weeks ago:
It’s not mentioned at all in the article, so what you inferred from the headline is not what the author conveyed.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 4 weeks ago:
Sure, and I’m sympathetic to the baffling difficulties of English, but use Google Translate and ask someone who’s more fluent for help with the final polish (as a single suggestion). Trusting your work, trusting science to an LLM is lunacy.
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 4 weeks ago:
The lede is buried deep in this one. Yeah, these dumb LLMs got bad training data that persists to this day, but more concerning is the fact that some scientists are relying upon LLMs to write their papers. This is literally the way scientists communicate their findings to other scientists, lawmakers, and the public, and they’re using fucking predictive text like it has cognition and knows anything.
Sure, most (all?) of those papers got retracted, but those are just the ones that got caught. How many more are lurking out there with garbage claims fabricated by a chatbot?
Thankfully, science will inevitably sus those papers out eventually, as it always does, but it’s shameful that any scientist would be so fatuous to put out a paper written by a dumb bot. You’re the experts. Write your own goddamn papers.
- Comment on OpenAI is reportedly developing its own X-like social media platform | TechCrunch 4 weeks ago:
God, it’s blockchain and Metaverse all over again.
Give it up, already. Nobody wants your solution to a problem nobody is having.