It’s great that umbrellas can now contain more toxic chemicals, rare minerals and disposable batteries, but can we also please make it depend on an app and a paid subscription, contain an AI assistant that tells you whether it’s raining, and report in real time on all your movements and conversations?

One single kind of bacterium.

Or leave Android altogether and get a Linux phone. You’ll have more control but it won’t be as slick.

At first Google does plan to offer something called “advanced flow” that will let you install what you want. But this doesn’t address the chilling effect for developers (some are just getting out of Android rather than registering and paying Google), or the censorship power it hands to Google to make “undesirable” apps harder to obtain and install. And there’s no guarantee they won’t just withdraw “advanced flow” one day.

https://developer.android.com//developer-verification/guides/faq#advanced-flow

The best way to avoid it is by installing an OS that doesn’t include the developer verification component.

This the same sociopath whose excellent judgement tells him Greta Thunberg is the Antichrist.

Do not expect it to raise your pay or your margin for you. The research is blunt: the gain goes to whoever deliberately banks it, and mostly no one does yet.

I guess they’re talking to CEOs and the like, because for many of us efficiency gains have not borne any relation to pay for 15 years or more. It’s Hacker News after all, where the existence of people who work for pay tends to be forgotten.

Peter Thiel is a nutjob with far too much power.

Maybe you’re confusing tokens with the “credits” you pay for. Tokens have a technical meaning, but some companies are charging per AI credit, where they don’t tell you the conversion rate of credits to tokens, so they can change this at any time, or vary it between models, etc.

No need for the /s. That’s exactly what it is. It’s a money grab and a bid for more control and surveillance we cannot dodge.

Without paywall:

https://archive.is/dghny

I think you’ve missed the point a bit. It’s “better” only from the Nazis’ point of view. Stuart Russell is not saying that it would be better. He thinks it would be worse, because people or AIs being better at Nazism is worse for the world overall. He’s saying AI is a threat to the world because right now it’s in the hands of people (many of them fascists) who ignore the dangers.

Here’s the whole thing without paywall:

https://archive.is/dghny

Ah, but they’re pedophiles who understand the value of mass surveillance.

It will only have an effect if the fines threaten their profits, and that seems unlikely.

It says something about our current world that, having read the headline and not knowing who this guy is, I expected him to a booster of both AI and Nazism. It’s a relief to find he means this as a criticism.

Reticulum is more versatile.

Or just make life unpleasant for you because you use a different OS, maybe by adding you to a terrorism list.

You’ll only have privacy if everyone you talk to also uses a private server and a noncompliant client app that’s relatively hard to get. The chances are that your carefully encrypted texts just get scooped up after decryption at the other end. And if they get it built into mobile OSs so that apps can’t bypass it, even that won’t work.

Last time they pushed for this, the politicians planned to exempt themselves from the surveillance they’d force on everyone else:

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/leak-eu-interior-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves-from-chat-control-bulk-scanning-of-private-messages/

We could always just not, and use whatever RAM we can get. I’d rather have a thriving market with slightly worse RAM than motherboards that require a RAM no one can afford.

Unsurprisingly, right-wing media is lying, claiming that these were lefties:

some conservative media outlets have seized on aspects of the story to imply that the plotters were actually bad seeds of the far left. One of the alleged plotters, an article in the Federalist argued, “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein”.

Also, Donald Trump does protect child predators connected to sex offender and former best buddy of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.