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A chatbot that imitates the dead. Is it a good idea? | FT
I swear we have gotten to the point where people are implementing ideas from “Black Mirror” because they realise somebody will do a newspaper column on them: https://www.ft.com/content/fc099a19-edde-44b7-97d7-e58ca43131f2
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“Once the commander in chief says “I will not come to an ally’s aid if attacked,” why would anyone fear NATO, regardless of what obligations still exist on paper? “
Free link to article in The Atlantic by Anne Applebaum:
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Canada Moves to Ban the Flipper Zero Over Car Hacking Fears
Remember: (a) it’s never the vulnerabilities of extant systems (b) it’s never the prevalence of criminals https://gizmodo.com/canada-moves-to-ban-the-flipper-zero-over-car-hacking-f-1851242790
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Two thoughts on the Future of AI Regulation, Part 2: The Regulation of Public Power
We are less than 25 years past a time where games consoles were being classified as supercomputers and subjected to export controls, just in case they were purchased in bulk by China, Russia, Iran, or any other country lacking robust McDonalds revenues, and then repurposed towards modelling nuclear bomb simulations, searching for nerve agents, or
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Two thoughts on the Future of AI Regulation, Part 1: The Secondhand Market and the H100
I used to work for a company called Sun Microsystems. We (“Sunnies”) loved the company, and still do so today – there are ex-employee forums on Facebook which still overflow with tales of company culture and innovation, filled with names that – some of which – are even more famous, today. Sun died in/around 2009,
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I can call today a major success because…
… I found the missing part of the dinosaur puzzle.
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EU DMA Interoperability: Pundit Predictions | …courtesy of an epic article from WiReD
Interoperability (i14y) is a grift; my guesses: 1) EU privacy activists & legislators will rapidly sue Meta for not doing i14y correctly, i.e. not like they imagined (see below) 2) Several will call it monopolistic & exclusionary for Meta to push adoption of secure encryption via the Signal protocol 3) Zero of the top- or
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BRILLIANT IDEA: let’s bring about the end of the internet by embedding locally-running LLMs into Web browsers!
I’m having {a, yet another} discussion about software regulation and how it’s an illiberal and misconceived approach to try regulating, export-controlling, or otherwise restricting access to expressive speech any kind of software, even if it is an ostensibly malicious tool, because the concept of dual use which applies to practically everything on the internet. This
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Britain and France assemble diplomats for international agreement on spyware | I’ve got a bad feeling about this…
Whenever policy wonks get together in such circumstances they inevitably try banning software by the “shape” of it, rather than by the intent of the user. Doing so inevitably leads to stupidity and conflict and illiberal outcomes. https://therecord.media/britain-france-assemble-diplomats-international-agreement