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> while also supporting basically every obscure image format feature under the sun

Except for gain maps :)

I don't really mind because I don't use them anyway. I prefer to use the client's tonemapper. But they are a useful feature that's not supported by (chrome's implementation of) jxl

> jpg and mp3 and zip are effectively “final” image and sound and data codecs

In popular consciousness, maybe. When people think image they thing jpg. But most websites you use aren't delivering images as jpg. Most sites care about saving money on bandwidth and their site loading fast, and because of that they tend to use webp and avif, which are much smaller for the same quality.

It the Copenhagen theory of ethics. If an AI company had no operations at all in the global south, no one would blame them for the global south's position. But if they hire anyone there, it doesn't matter if they're objectively improving conditions there, the fact that they've interacted at all means that they're responsible all the bad parts about it.

Let's take math education as an example. If you look at the actual result, all math education past y=mx+b is a waste of time for most students. By and large, math students are taught by people who have memorized the quadratic equation, or certain operations with logarithms or imaginary numbers, etc. but don't understand it on any kind of deeper level. (Imagine asking a high-school math teacher to compute i^i. Almost none will be able to.) So it's presented as a set of random rules you have to follow to get the correct answer, with no underlying logic or justification. Most normal people understandably hate this, and even if they suffer through it to get a good grade they will not retain it and come away permanently hating math.

It's just sad. I sometimes help kids with math, and it's amazing how screwed they are. Like, smart kids with good grades who are totally unable to do basic manipulations with fractions. I mean questions like "write 25% as a fraction". They are getting absolutely nothing from math classes. How could they? Even the best teacher in the world can't pause class for everyone when they realize that one of their students is missing some foundational concepts. That student is just going to get left farther and farther behind, and they will never catch up. It happens to almost every student at some point. They'll get sick for a week or just have their mind on other things, miss some important concept, and then be left behind forever.

I honestly have a hard time imagining how we would possibly make the situation any worse with technology honestly. But if you just took Math Academy and made students use that instead of their math classes, I bet 99% would have better understanding and fluency with math than they do now.

> I'm so glad we have space rockets, flying cars and drone warfare...but I'd trade it all in for the reef to come back.

It's really just climate change. (Ocean warming is what causes bleaching.) Luckily, since the 80s we've had the technology to generate energy without releasing greenhouse gases. I wish more people knew about the harms caused by climate change because maybe if they were they'd be more interested in preventing them.

> XOR a global. XOR it back. Do nothing. Hundreds of times. It exists purely to make the decompiler output look like shit, and it does, congrats.

I don't know how to explain this style exactly. I think it's supposed to sound grizzled or cynical or jaded or something. It reads like they're trying to do an impression of Tracer Bullet from C&H:

> Yeah, that's me, Tracer Bullet. I've got eight slugs in me. One's lead, and the rest are bourbon. The drink packs a wallop, and I pack a revolver. I'm a private eye.

Anyway, it's amusing when Bill Waterson does it but when I'm hoping to read something interesting about how malware is implemented it's a little less fun.

> What are his actual credentials? What did he achieve?

He cofounded the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, an organization focused on AI alignment, in 2000, way way before it was a trendy topic.

He's also partially responsible for popularizing ideas such as the orthogonality thesis and instrumental convergence.

> Isn't he just some random dude on the internet?

Not really, most random dudes on the internet were not researching AI alignment in 2000.

> Why do people care what he says?

Many people were introduced to the concept of AI alignment thanks to him, so they are naturally interested in reading his reaction to progress in the field.

I have a stupid question: if I'm using nixos why do I need docker or systemd containers? Especially with systemd sandboxing

For security? If you're not using a password manager, that means you're using the same password for almost every site. Which means every site is a point of failure for every other. This means some way of generating and saving random passwords for each site (i.e. a password manager) is absolutely required for security. You are welcome to use the password manager that comes bundled with the device you paid for (apple, android), or use paid cross-platform ones like 1password (which works well), or use free cross-platform ones (in which case you might get what you paid for).

Same. It just told me "agent execution terminated due to an error". There was a little chevron underneath it that let me expand the error to view more. I was hoping to see what the error was, so I clicked it, and it said... "agent execution terminated due to an error".

It's crazy to me how care there is in most of these vibe-coded vibe-coding harnesses. I don't like oai's models much but I have to say their UI has by far the best attention to detail of any major player.

I must be misunderstanding something because this is how your comment reads to me

> Anthropic: you can't use our product to fully-autonomously make decisions that affect human health, finances, etc with no human in the loop.

> victor9000: If you review a draft document with claude, anthropic will send your entire file to opposing counsel

What is the connection here? Anthropic has obviously never done anything like this and it's not indicated that they will by the thing you quoted.

So your theory is that i'm going to generate code with google AI, but google will secretly embed my watermark into it, then scrape the internet looking for text with my watermark in it, then put it all together to form a profile of me? Wouldn't it be easier to form a profile of me based on my conversation history in google AI apps?

I'm confused why no one came up with this terminology for stenographic watermarks before. Now that there's an actual prosocial use for them (helping encourage clear labelling of AI-generated content), suddenly people are coining negatively-loaded terms for it, even though the technology has been in use for nefarious purposes for ages.

Surely I can't get unlimited free groceries by just always paying with a credit card and then doing a chargeback, right? Like, it might work a couple times, but then wouldn't they just close my account?