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- Comment on Developer Builds Tool That Scrapes YouTube Comments, Uses AI to Predict Where Users Live 6 days ago:
“I decided I launched [sic] these tools in the first place as a project to build the tool that could be use by LEAs [law enforcement agencies] and PIs [private investigators.]”
According to the developer, they’ve provided the tool to cops in Portugal, Belgium, and “other countries in Europe.” They told 404 Media that the website is meant for private investigators, journalists, and cops.
It sounds like they’re actively peddling it to cops.
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
My kids aren’t really interested in the movies I like. They actively avoid the music I listen to. I’ve gotten them copies of the books I love and they give up after a few pages. They get bored with the games I played as a kid.
My dad loves Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, the Whole Earth Catalog, and Bruce Springsteen. I do not. If he wills me his copies, I will keep some out of guilt and then my kids will have to throw them away.
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
Yeah - I’m totally for full, real, actual ownership of digital stuff, and we should be able to give it away.
But I’d be surprised if my kids would be interested in more than a tiny fraction of it. Or anyone else, for that matter.
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
I’m trying to curate a few hundred photos for my kids. I’ve written a couple of bios of relatives. I’d like to record something like a story for them. If they want to trash it, that’s fine, but at least there will be something meaningful for them if they want it.
Assuming it survives the climate wars. 🫠
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
Doesn’t archive.org provide that?
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
Nobody wanted my grandparents collected crap. Or their photos. Or their books. I tried giving them away. I tried consignment. I tried posting them on Facebook. Most ended up in a landfill.
- Comment on Most of us will leave behind a large ‘digital legacy’ when we die. Here’s how to plan what happens to it 1 week ago:
Keep in mind that your descendents probably won’t care about a huge majority of what you leave them. Photos annotated with a date, time, people in them, and an explanation, maybe, but generally my generation hasn’t given a shit about the tonnes of books, music, photos, furniture, knick knacks, and antiquities bequeathed to us. It would be bizarre if our kids didn’t maintain that tradition.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure it’s Whirlpool, but I think they repackage devices built by other companies.
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
I don’t want my fridge to play a melody, but it might help if it oinks.
- Comment on The technology to end traffic deaths exists. Why aren’t we using it? 1 week ago:
Have you considered more trains?
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
I enjoy technology that feels like it has a little personality.
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
I’ve disabled notifications for everything except certain contacts. I was all about news notifications for a while, but that was obnoxious.
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
Every device should sing its own song. Maybe if you start them together they can form a chorus? Like some sort of appliance band.
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
Being able to plug in a notification device would be awesome.
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
Yes
- Comment on “How you design the beep is important.” Behind the movement for calmer gadgets. 1 week ago:
I’m not sure where whimsy fits into that list, but my dishwasher plays a little victory tune when it finishes washing. It sounds like something from an early 90s jrpg. It makes me smile every time I hear it.
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- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 1 week ago:
if you put the exact same person in the exact same situation (a perfect to the molecular level) they will behave differently.
I don’t consider that relevant to sentience. Structurally, biological systems change based on inputs. LLMs cannot. I consider that plasticity to be a prerequisite to sentience. Others may not.
We will undoubtedly see systems that can incorporate some kind of learning and mutability into LLMs. Re-evaluating after that would make sense.
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 1 week ago:
An LLM is a deterministic function that produces the same output for a given input - I’m using “deterministic” in the computer science sense. In practice, there is some output variability due to race conditions in pipelined processing and floating point arithmetic, that are allowable because they speed up computation. End users see variability because of pre-processing of the prompt and extra information LLM vendors inject when running the function, as well as how the outputs are selected.
I have a hard time considering something that has an immutable state as sentient, but since there’s no real definition of sentience, that’s a personal decision.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 2 weeks ago:
Cool! Good luck with it. It sounds like a fun project.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 2 weeks ago:
This is starting to signs pretty awesome, tbh.
It’s like Uber, but for random violence.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 2 weeks ago:
just call it Boxing 2.0. It’ll be fine.
- Comment on What level of interest do you have in "empire building" location based games? 2 weeks ago:
When you’re saying “real world” you mean mobile devices where your actual position dictates your position in the game world, right?
I really like the idea of these. Ingress started out cool, but didn’t hold my interest. I think the actual play loop kinda sucked, but it built up a decent community around the novelty.
- Comment on Explaining British Naval Dominance During the Age of Sail — LessWrong 2 weeks ago:
That was a great read. Thanks for posting!
- Comment on Unlock Your Computer With a Molecular Password 2 weeks ago:
i know i left it here somewhere
- Comment on Japan enacts the Active Cyberdefense Law, which permits the country's authorities to preemptively engage with adversaries through offensive cyber operations 2 weeks ago:
begun, the cyberwars have
- Comment on xkcd #3090: Sail Physics 2 weeks ago:
simple as
- Comment on Grok’s “white genocide” obsession came from “unauthorized” prompt edit, xAI says 2 weeks ago:
There goes Adrian Dittman again. That guy oughta be locked up.
- Comment on Books that keep you awake 2 weeks ago:
Count the folds to get to sleep
