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Comment · 8 months ago
Yep, where does your trust lay now? It's been a minute of pretending it'll be okay.
Comment · 8 months ago
I'm glad I upvoted. Your perspective and questions are valid, no matter the depth of conversation. You'd be surprised what fresh questions can do for a topic.
Comment · 8 months ago
You should definitely ask your local homeless veteran of their opinions of other forces. I highly doubt many will have anything but praise to express.

When these things done right you won't hear about it.

Comment · 8 months ago
Upvoted because you were genuinely asking a question and don't deserve to be down voted for that.
Comment · 8 months ago
It's for people who want the context of what's going on here who have neither the time nor stupidity to be on X.

I presume you're on X so no offence to you directly.

Comment · 8 months ago
Exactly. Attracting talent is not the same as having talent.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education...

You attract talent for the same reasons china attracts sales; at the cost of your very own rights.

Look at the towns suffering around data centres for a start. The rest of us are happy to pay for what you'll do to yourselves.

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Comment · 8 months ago
Hoorah! shock and awe
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Comment · 8 months ago
See here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473#47188709

They are very much not a part of the initiative. Their involvement is and will be non-existent. Unless of course, you want their lay staff to make some noise?

Comment · 8 months ago
I wouldn't call senior AI researchers / scientists laypersons. In fact in this sense politicians are laypersons.

There are already several comments here showing xAIs involvement. Please save clutter and read before posting.

Comment · 8 months ago
Piggybacking on deeply integrated information and connectivity within society that was marketed and adopted under the guise of trust and an ethos of not being evil is pathetic.

Build, train, develop and maintain an AI for military if needed. When a government is scared of individuals they've clearly lost their edge.

Comment · 8 months ago
Do you have any references for this? I'd like to know more.
Comment · 8 months ago
If you believe marketing hype, then that's exactly what it is... Hype.

If you speak to industry professionals and retain a healthy scepticism, you don't have to look far to find people that absolutely do not believe the marketing.

Quite frankly I like that advances in say quantum computing are publically announced. The hype around what that means for society and our view of the universe is probably where you want to put on that reserved scepticism hat.

Similarly smart glasses were and are a thing, but society is rightly apprehensive about the impact, so the hype has dropped off.

Comment · 8 months ago
Why would they encourage more resource use, increasing their cost?

Gemini should have had it's own API key separate from their traditionally public facing API IDs (which they call keys) and API keys should default to being tightly scoped to their use case rather than being unrestricted.

Who cares if you have three API keys for three services.

Quite frankly putting any API information in things like url params or client side code just doesn't sit right with me. It breaks the norm in a way that could be, and is now security concern.

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