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Comment · 2 months ago
That isn't a crime. It's not a crime to travel across the border with a factory reset phone. That is a fine thing to do and a regular practice for people working in some sensitive areas.

The issue here is only that he deleted it after they started an investigation.

The legal eagle video in the post says this explicitly that he would've been fine if he had wiped his phone prior to the flight.

Comment · 5 months ago
In my book, the single most effective way to spend tokens is having it review code/specs you've written. One advantage to putting the ai in that position is that unreliable competence isn't much of a problem as you can ignore bad suggestions.

I would also recommend explaining the specs and doing a lot of your back and forth with a lower end model and set it to a higher end model only once the conversation history has all the context you feel the higher end model needs.

Comment · 9 months ago
Musk said in his autobiography he announced the hyperloop plan without any intention of doing it to distract from the California high speed rail plans.
Comment · 9 months ago
They always show me my total before the cars swipe, so as long as the obfuscation works until the card swipe, at least it would prevent dynamic pricing.
Comment · 10 months ago
It isn't just how fast or slow it is. Reading at a slow pace gives you time to think in a way that is flexible from sentence to sentence.

To borrow the same analogy from the article, image trying to savor a meal where someone else was deciding when you take each bite. Even at a slow pace, the rigidness of the pace and your lack of fine control would still pose a problem with giving each bite it's rightful consideration.

That being said I love audio books and think I would struggle to apply this article's advice in my own life. Slowing down your audiobook is still a step in that direction, though I sometimes find that slowing it down can cause my mind to wander and my comprehension goes down and not up.

Comment · 1 year ago
No, just the opposite. In general, the things wealthy people buy (luxuries) experience much larger swings in demand due to price changes like added taxes (in economic terms, "the elasticity of demand"). It's because they are only wants and not needs. They are also usually easily swapped. Instead of buying your wife those diamond earrings, you could get her a painting or a trip to Spain. And rich people are often very money savvy.

It's the necessities that people will continue to buy (or at least replace with close substitutes), regardless of what happens to the price.

Obviously, in this case it worked out much differently, but no, in general you can't say the wealthy people don't respond to price changes due to their wealth.

Comment · 1 year ago
I feel like we watched different videos.. Seemed like the AI (or other monitoring system) recognized a problem with the 18000 cups of water order and quickly transitioned to a real human. That instance looked pretty production ready to me.
Comment · 1 year ago
A lot of digital ones are "local" too in that they are context specific. As long as it stays context specific, your Uber rating is closer to being liked by your local bar tender than it is to the Chinese social credit system. Even your local bartender has a little context leakage.

I agree there is a scarier potential there. And also some do, on occasion, escape their context (mostly credit score). They also have bigger contexts, but not so big that I would jump to the Chinese social credit comparison.

Comment · 1 year ago
That's absurd. That doesn't pass the sniff test at all for being remotely true that people would react like that to only a 3 percent tax.

I looked it up, and it was a 3 pence tax per pound. When tea was selling for 2 to 3 pence per pound. So yeah, a 100-150% tax combined with the fact that the East India Company was allowed to sell without paying the tax. That is very unjust and threatens their business a lot more than the tax alone.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree Hyundai should fix this for free (would make up a small portion of the bad PR for having this issue in the first place), but don't forced recalls usually only apply to defects that cause safety issues?

I'm not sure this would fit the definition of a product safety defect.

Comment · 1 year ago
I think your take makes more sense in a world where you actually own the car fully and have the freedom to do what you want with it. Even if someone was able to write this patch themselves without the source code, distributing it would require owners to root their devices, which isn't legal in all jurisdictions.

You don't expect Microsoft or Adobe to issue fixes any time someone finds a remote exploit that let's attackers gain control of you system though security issue in their software? I 100% expect this of my software vendors even for this purchase in the past. The expectations for software and hardware are certainly very different, but even for hardware we have laws that force companies to fix their hardware in some situations.

Comment · 1 year ago
> sometimes called prompt canarying or decoy system prompts.

Both "prompt canarying" and "decoy system prompts" give 0 hits on google. Those aren't real things.

Comment · 1 year ago
Getting GTP5 to lie effectively about it's system prompts while at the same time bragging during the release about how GPT5 is the least deceptive model to date seems like contradictory directions to try to push GTP5.

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