iambateman

I’d love to hear what an unaffiliated investigator has to say.

Of course they want it to sound like the world’s most sophisticated hacker

What makes it make sense?

This is like saying that the internet hasn’t created positive value for all but the biggest firms in 1998. Give it a second.

So, let’s do it. Human — what is your most controversial take on humans?

Thanks Pete. I appreciate you taking the time to post here.

I turned the server off on our app until this storm is over.

You guys. They made a car fly. It was damn cool. I know there’s more to the story and we all need a “take” but I remember watching Speed Racer as a kid and being totally enchanted by the idea of a flying car.

Yesterday, that’s exactly what we saw and it’s ok to just enjoy the spectacle.

People educate lawmakers without contributing money all them time. Think about AI…how many lawmakers could even tell you what a token is, much less how AI should be regulated? They learn from experts.

Not offended! So if you took money out of it, what would you do to substitute?

(IANALobbyist but I do work for a lobbying firm)

Lobbying is how businesses talk to government. And I get that that sounds nasty—and sometimes it is nasty—-but it’s necessary.

Most of us work for businesses and when a rule comes out that legitimately threatens your business, you want to be able to tell the government in realtime.

Remember the rule change to the amortization of software expenses, which inadvertently would have killed thousands of software companies? Well, a big push from businesses got the rule amended and eventually removed, which is better for everyone. That’s lobbying.

Many businesses and local governments hire people who specialize in that work due to the sheer volume (America has a lot of layers of government).

I understand why the profession has such a bad reputation. When we think of a “lobbyist” we think of Big Tobacco or Big Tax Prep Software…companies who are trying to preserve their position by paying off the right people. But for every one of those, there are a hundred companies trying to make sure the law doesn’t screw then over and a hundred local communities trying to convince their state capitol to fund their schools and parks and bridges.

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Edit: there’s a dangerous assumption that lawmakers are corrupt and in it for the money. If we allow that assumption, we discourage the best people from choosing civil service because they think the only way to make it is to accept backroom deals. We have robust ethics laws, and we should expect everyone to follow them.

I’ll take that bet up to all the money in the known universe.

Should the public have an expectation of total privacy for their chats? It seems responsible for a chat provider to report things like this.

If they were to offer total privacy, is it ok for the public to use chat to get advice on _how_ to commit a crime? Basically everyone agrees that crime-committing advice is inappropriate…but if it is not ok to get advice, that means there must be a portal for law enforcement to step in when that may have happened. Then the question becomes what is the line for when to report? In other words, the issue needs to be adjudicated.

But we don’t want OpenAI/Claude to have some $20/hour reviewer making decisions that are this high stakes…we need the courts to do the judicial work because they (1) have a public charter, (2) have meaningful expertise and specialization at interpreting the law and (3) we can hold them accountable.

I learned this the hard way with OpenAI last week. A key got hacked and a Chinese-language bot used $300 in tokens in an hour.

I had a spending limit on for $30, so why did it keep charging? Because the spending limit is meaningless without a hidden checkbox called “enforce spending limit,” which is (or at least was for me) off by default.

To OpenAI’s credit, they refunded the money.

Andy Reid is retiring when he gets his 303rd regular season win. At nearly the same time, Tomlin is going to find he once again has the zest for coaching.

It had also been 8 years since he had a decent QB. At some point it’s up to the GM to figure out how to get someone good.