MattGaiser

I guess this is just going to be the next few months/years, as HN right now is just breach after breach.

Are there many serious companies using PHP?

It overwhelmingly seems like the language of the cheap and not very technical or providers of services to the cheap and not very technical.

I think it is irrelevant, as PhotoShop is notoriously poor in UX. GIMP has even worse UX. The battle is not in cloning PhotoShop, but in rethinking complex photo editing.

There is already mass spamming emails. I already get hundreds of emails per day that are spam as I post my emails publicly for people to get in touch. If you want to truly and maliciously spam, you can do that.

The fix is already AI triage.

That is the current state of email today.

So why couldn’t this scale unless for some reason our reaction to this is to shut off email and not build better classifiers?

Yeah, I do not get the dismissiveness given that the researchers themselves were not as dismissive.

> The connection was a “little bit far-fetched,” she says. “But I could imagine a first-year Ph.D. student coming up with exactly those same questions and ideas.”

This one in particular made it seem like a very ordinary interaction.

It depends on whether you bought books to learn or bought books to solve.

There are a vast number of books that I purchased not for any interest in the topic, but to solve a particular problem. I have zero interest in understanding Docker. I find it tedious. But I do have a book on it as I did need to know it at some point.

I wouldn’t buy that book today, as AI means I no longer need to know Docker.

All these analogies are kind of tortured as they ignore the elephant in the room. The students want to be there to get their job getting paper. They aren’t there to learn.

If society offered some reward for lifting the weight while not enforcing how, forklifts would absolutely be used to lift weights.

We tend to accept lawbreaking if it is for a product we want.

There are several multi billion dollar companies where the founding thesis was “what if we just ignore the law?”

Sure, but we currently find that acceptable. Codebases are full of such bugs.

> No, society does not want corporations with no responsibilities.

It voted otherwise.

It depends. Society allows a lot of harm because we consider things otherwise useful.

Those killed by climate change will never get compensation. Killing people with a car is not quite free, but very cheap.

Does publishing it matter? You would almost have to keep it out of the cloud to avoid it being ingested as policies change. So even sharing it may become higher friction.

The challenge here is that the business world doesn't really recognize the concept of cheating.

In particular, tech is very open to people cheating and if billions of dollars could be had by somehow communicating the chess engine's work to a human at chess, the world of business would cheat at it.

Tech has a number of large startups that basically started with the assumption of "what if we assumed the law had no teeth?"

This whole discussion is basically a field demanding that their field be preserved for them alone to discover. No competition allowed besides the monks of mathematics.