SepiaSapient

The worry about people from other countries kinda implies it, but maybe I'm misreading.

I found the auto translate thing very funny. Like this woman is some train station in Mexico and after getting an invitation in Spanish to some music event she doesn't even try to say "Gracias".

Like yeah, obviously anyone would understand "Thanks" but come on. Was this part of the discussion of some long meeting? Like if she said a word in Spanish it would imply the Air Pods translate your words?

I'm obviously nitpicking but I just found it oddly funny.

I think there's plenty of interest, Samsung, Pixel and Motorola are just some of the companies with multiple generations of foldables. Besides enthusiasts, the type of person that might want an iPhone duo is someone that doesn't really use a laptop. The utility of a tablet for media consumption and light productivity with a small footprint is real thing.

The problems besides price (which are still insane) until now where:

- Materials not catching up, things like the older creases, dust ingress, etc.

- Software in Android being hit or miss, specially on with third parties. Apple has the muscle to make apps compatible with the form factor.

- The "standard" foldable aspect ratio sucking ass, the only major exceptions being the Surface Duo, the original Pixel Fold and the recent Galaxy Fold. Passport format is simply better.

>Imagine if Apple dedicated this huge engineering effort onto existing products.

For what? Slab phones are practically solved, the only things that might make a normal iPhone better besides incrementally better camera, battery and processors are not Apple approved. No expandable storage or cheap battery replacements for you. The only place for real advancemnt will be foldables for a while.

Ah, now the pearl clutching makes sense. Some of other children in daycare are from the bad and weird ethnicity. Would a 23andme be a good requirement for playdates then?

How well does the average person know their neighbors when they move to a new place? Maybe if you had a routine where you and your children meet other families that live close to you... hmmmm

"Local man shocked that human child rearing is communal"

Maybe they are trying hedge due to the original book not being satirical?

This is a non sequitur. Yes, if someone doesn't actually believe in imminent AI doomsday they are not going full Sarah Connor on Anthropic. Yes, HN will not like if someone pipe bombs the office. What does it have to do with @ericmay's point?

He directly says "They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives", that's a claim of imminent threat to humanity. If he truly believes that, direct action shouldn't be off the table nor even be immoral. Obviously he might not have the temperament or simply be a pacifist, that's totally normal but the point is that tweets are weird even then.

Why just make some tepid tweets if you think humanity is at risk? Why doesn't he leak documents and messages with the unfiltered opinions of leadership? Why isn't screaming "we are going to die" in CNBC? You'know, try anything?

That's where the "take it with a grain of salt" is important, maybe this is just a jumping point to a better job in the next super safe AI lab (for realsies this time)

>Because if you don't, then you will be one of its targets when it does, inevitably, come into being.

Only if you don't spend 5 minutes thinking about the Self as a concept. Resurrecting someone by perfect simulation is a cool plot device for a novel like Altered Carbon (which ironically is really about wealth inequality) but not a serious hypothetical.

Even if we ignore that, no, super intelligent MechaGrok17 cannot make a perfect copy of you posthumously from your embarrassing Character.AI chats and IoT toilet data, the copy it still wouldn't be YOU. It would (supposedly) think and behave like you, but for all purposes it would be the Basilisk torturing a future stranger, or your descendants. I'm very much a fan of people not being potentiality tortured, so the rational action is to stop the creation Basilisk, or even just delay it so you aren't around for it. There's a bunch of other big assumptions that makes Roko's Basilisk really stupid, but they are unimportant. It's just theory crafting, like talking about the lore of video games or marvel comics. It doesn't help you understand their real motivations.

Roko's Basilisk is just recontextualized protestant Hell in a sci-fi coat of paint. It's the childhood anxieties of American nerds about hell and sin. The problem is that they are still culturally protestant. God doesn't exist or he's hands off, but in their minds there's still a open position for the wrathful and proactive God. If you think that you actually can create God for realsies, your very rational™ prediction of its behavior will coincidentally line up with your childhood fears.

Why is the spooky AI mad at you? Because you didn't worship it correctly.

Why do you obey it? Because if I don't it will torture me for eternity.

How will it do that? God is omnipotent, don't think about it.

Why don't try to stop it's creation? “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, “who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.”

All the scifi scaffolding and stuff like acausal trade is paint over Timmy's first panic attack on Sunday school 30 years ago.

My country has stronger worker protections (for now) than the US, but employers would be happy (and do try!) to externalize pay to customers via tip. It doesn't work because people find it insane and refuse the US inspired nag tip screens.

The US will never fix the externalization of salaries until the public refuses to tip at ridiculous percentages and situations. You'll see a 40% tip expectation at restaurants, your local dentist will install a tip screen. Just tip 10% at sitdown places and refuse emotional blackmail. If you feel any guilt, just make the habit to tally the dollar amount of "normal" tips and make monthly donations to your local food bank.

EDIT: My point is that tipping culture is unrelated to worker rights. Many countries with large informal economies (i.e minimum wage isn't enforced for most people) have no expectation of tipping. The reason Norwegians don't tip drivers isn't because they have a wonderful safety net, it's because there's isn't a social pressure to do so.

Mixing charity and payment of services is stupid and a moral hazard. Servers have shit wages in the US by law because people tip and the same is true (via algorithm) with rideshare drivers.

>who tips on Uber? People who aren't sociopaths, I'd say.

Non-americans don't. To me, being socially expected to tip for a Taxi feels like a parody from a sketch comedy. ditto for tipping barbers or expecting tips over 10%. The only time I've tipped a Uber was when me and my friends were at risk of losing a train. The driver (unprompted) went pedal to the metal to make it on time, so afterwards I gave him a couple of bucks.

Tip culture is bad for rideshare drivers in aggregate anyways. The apps carefully manage the pay of drivers on each market so necessary supply is guaranteed at minimal cost. If a expectation of tipping exists, the platforms simply pay less. Now drivers also have maximize for tips instead of just driving the goddamn car.

Nobody tokenmaxxes because they like it, so it doesn't even produce joy. Besides, your argument is that something being wasteful is a simple binary, so we cannot make a value judgement without being the grinch.

For sure, it's arm twisting and/or individual moles, I doubt Apple is brimming with patriotism. As far as I remember participation in the OG PRISM wasn't really optional, the only "perks" were immunity from civil liability. I assume that any of the "lucky" individuals that have to interface with the NSA are well compensated. They also know they are on a veeery short leash.

The other option is good ye old agent cultivation, there must be a degenerate gambler high up in Apple that the MSS or FSB can exploit.

It's mostly bragging, it's impressive after all. Still... after the alleged Apple industrial espionage kerfuffle, I'm kinda suspicious about it being fully an accident. Y'know, your model finds a vulnerability and it stops, it's a cool one, so maybe you run it again. Nudge the prompt a little.

Could be perfectly natural.