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I don’t know if there’s enough context in those links to say that anyone’s foolish.

That still sounds like it would be the company’s fault. If I asked it to hack a nuclear reactor, maybe it would be different. I’m also thinking about instances where OpenAI’s own test models escaped their own sandboxes — I would expect them to be responsible for the damages they caused.

I agree with this take generally, but I also think it’s a gradient, not a spectrum. I think they claim that OpenAI is not considering safety and has become bad, not that AI is bad. Seen from a different lens, the author no longer stands to profit from OpenAI, so they’re empowered to speak openly. Plus, if I was going to say bad things about a former employer as powerful as OpenAI, I would want to have lawyer money handy.

I don’t think that’s the point they’re trying to make at all.

I opened this thread to post about Dungeon Crawler Carl. I just finished the fantastic Three Body Problem series, and reading something so pulpy in contrast feels like cheating, but it’s making me happy and that’s what I’m looking for anyways.

Some other bits I’ve read recently that I’ve loved: - Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie” is a beautiful short story by the Three Body Problem’s translator - Cryptonomicon feels like a great balance between heady reading (it goes into WWII-era crypto thinking) and pulpy humor. I loved reading it. - “Stoner” by John Williams (not the Stoner you think, and also not the John Williams you think) is kinda in a different direction, but it’s a really well paced and beautifully written book about a farmer’s son who falls in love with literature. It’s one of those books that’s hard to sell in a sentence, but is effortless to read and makes you think a lot in a non-engineering-brained way.

yes and no (thanks for looking); I know it still loads on mobile, but I know it's pretty garbage. I haven't thought of a way to make the UI work ergonomically on mobile without a totally different fork (lots of moving around depends on having a mouse or a track pad), but I also don't have the heart to have a "your device isn't supported" overlay because I want to daydream about it.

Yeah, that's very true. I've gotten a lot of mileage out of Claude's `design` skill, which does an accessibility pass that I've found pretty decent as someone with only minor experience in the area — contrast, tab/focus ordering, things of that nature. The catch is that you have to actually have to want to check these things, just like you have to want to not ship slop.

Anything that you use to show stuff on your tv is gonna have this problem. Apple is a little higher on the trust spectrum than, say, Roku. You’re paying Apple in part for the convenience of not doing a homebrew setup, and in part for the trust.

I think that’s about pull tabs (the old kind where you removed a small disc from the top of a can) vs pop tabs (the kind where you punch a hole into it and nothing detaches).

Who would have owned the centralization? I always thought that one of the lovely parts of the WWW was that anyone could have a part of it in theory, even if it was easier to let someone else host your website for you.

> My 1983 home had been used as a rental for years, so much of the maintenance had been neglected.

This quote is ironically a weighty argument for why living in a rental sucks, even if it nets out the same or better on paper.

Why would you even imply something like that?