To be fair there’s all the shit with dollar denominated oil, SWIFT, terrorist regime change on countries that don’t want to play along, etc. It might not be based on any kind of fair exchange of value, but that’s not quite the same as the USD’s global reserve currency status being vibes-only.

p*rnography

Even media sites have to do this hiding from the algorithm shit now I guess

Didn’t they ban Huawei phones in the US

Seems like a shame that it is so difficult to get past the assumption that someone is representing a generic political agenda by deploying empty rhetoric rather than raising a disagreement with the specific thing they said they object to from their own perspective.

Could you distribute such programs in a way accessible to nontechnical users? I think most people will just nope out the second they’re asked to type anything into a terminal. Not to say it’s a bad idea, pretty cool concept regardless.

Cool style of tutorial where it points out places it’s necessary to do something different from the readme instructions

Laptops let you run arbitrary programs. Many people now only have mobile and no PC. I’m not sure if there’s already pressure to have PWAs registered with Google, but if they’re already doing that with browser extensions and apps, doesn’t seem too far fetched they would go there too, even setting aside all the stuff PWAs can’t do.

I really don’t understand why they just put LLMs in direct control of stuff and also reading the public internet without any kind of sandboxing, you’d think this concern would be the main design problem that needs to be worked around.

The county has been under a non-disclosure agreement since at least June 2024.

This part is bullshit and should not be allowed, people have a right to know what their government is doing and considering.

To be fair, in the quoted passage the author is explicitly not referring to Bolt, but asking for explanations of specific, probably small scope issues from non-agentic AI tools.

Personally even while in school for CS I spent a large number of hours staring at a screen being totally unsure how to proceed to figure out what I didn’t understand, most of it trivial details, or making random edits and hoping it would fix something. I’m sure there are advantages to learning by stumbling around, but I really don’t think it’s the ideal way unless you’re already a very methodically curious person.

The temptation to jump directly to asking the AI to just do everything for you without yourself understanding it is definitely going to be a stumbling block for people learning, and I’m not sure if there’s a good way around that one, but otoh something available 24/7 that can mostly accurately answer beginner questions in context and as you have worded them seems like it would be crazy helpful, so many times I just wasn’t able to progress until I could get some attention from someone.

What worries me about it is how it applies very broadly, so it would mean stuff like the reddit piracy megathread could be prohibited, and make it actually more difficult for people to find or discuss places to safely pirate things

The crazy part to me is how the sensors company advertises as a selling point how much “smoking fine revenue” increases with their product

I don’t think anything is more likely to work. I don’t think they are capable of preventing terrorist attacks on planes directly, just like they aren’t capable of preventing any mass killings. I think TSA procedures are there to serve the purpose of pretending that they can. If it isn’t happening, it’s because no one happens to be trying hard enough. The only thing that could work is creating an overall situation in society where people are less motivated to do it, not preventing specific acts.

It would’ve prevented the guy we’re both talking about from sneaking a bomb on the plane in his shoe.

He would have known they were going to make him take his shoes off and so tried something else instead that would probably have been more likely to work.

I think they’re taking it away because people don’t like doing it.

But we’ve never liked doing it

Well I also remember that, but it doesn’t mean making people take their shoes off actually improves safety. And the point I’m making here is, if they are not doing that anymore, doesn’t it mean they don’t think it helps? If it doesn’t help now, then why would it have ever helped?

So it was always useless bullshit? You’d think tensions would be ramping up at this point in terms of terrorism threats

When I open my task manager I see flatpak-session-helper near the top of the list for ram usage and am suspicious

Literally billions of instances of censorship every year, the DMCA is such an awful law

That seems more coherent than the alternative to me…

But I believe that if AIs are passing the Turing test, we need to update the test.

Uhh that’s kind of not how tests are supposed to work. If you want non-falsifiable conviction in human specialness, maybe try religion instead.