Not an anthropologist, but reading the news makes it appear that either psychopathic, obsessive minds with self-serving morality flourish in contemporary society, that and/or there are extremely powerful, cynical people who find and use them. Whether tech entrepreneurs have ever learned how to analyze literary works as opposed to just consuming them for entertainment is another good question. Likely it is a lack of imagination.. like an LLM what people ingest ends up percolating to the top of the mind. And, the dystopian solutions are the easiest. Contemporary tech and the money that builds it up seems to favor hierarchical structures that accumulate power to a central authority and so long as the people running it don't care about privacy or human dignity, anything goes. Tech is not yet advanced or altruistic enough to allow more people's ideas of what is moral to compete with that.

SAS has been dead for 15y; it started with R and then Python absolutely destroyed it. No one teaches SAS in universities any longer, why would they? It's terribly expensive and absolutely fucking dead.

We migrated away from SAS back in 2017 and never looked back. The only verticals still using it are heavily regulated and running long-standing legacy code that they're slowly migrating to Python.

I remember absolutely dying when they tried to renegotiate our contract UP back in 2015. I flat out told them they were dead and we were moving away from them and they told me, "good luck managing your data without us!"

Two companies and 10 years later, we're doing just fine and they are not.

1. There are a lot of empty seats; a lot.

2. The demo wasn't live, likely due to the huge failure of an event that the Meta one was.

3. They noted that you do all of this 'hands-free', likely an intentional knock at Meta's offering.

4. The examples were...odd. Who the fuck is going to be using this to shop for a fucking rug? Come on; give some real-life examples that are IMPORTANT. None of these were.

5. The entire presentation's style, across multiple different presenters, was...exhausting...halting...jarring...and...really undergraduate level. It was almost as if they were being fed what to say in their earpieces, not from memory and not in a fluid and practiced way.

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Personally? I love the idea of AR glasses that work well. I want to have live subtitles for humans talking to me as I'm hard of hearing and hearing aids do not work well for me, particularly in public spaces.

I want it to give me important information, respond to my environment in ways that are useful (telling me where I am really isn't that; I know where the fuck I am--tell me what I should be doing or where I should be going next, perhaps?)

I know these are early adopter level devices, but they're just fucking ugly due to their bulk.

I strongly prefer this option to Meta's simply because I don't have to do stupid fucking mime-style hand gestures, but I want this technology to be useful, now, not in 5 years. We're going to see this largely flop just like so many other AR/VR toys out there unless they make this something more than a gimmicky piece of shit.

You clearly do not live in the US. The legal system does NOT do anything about anything (other than child support and alimony) as outlined in a divorce decree.

And, even if they MIGHT do something, you have to wait 12+ months to get on the court's docket, paying thousands of dollars to glorified expensive secretaries in the process while you wait.

The entire system is fucking broken.

I didn't say I had a problem with it; I was just stating that it's very commonplace and it has nothing to do with 'renter's mentality' as it happened when purchasing a home (this is the 4th home I've purchased in my lifetime).

A person with a 'management' title has no theoretical limit to the top end of their salary. Everyone else does.

I just bought a house in March. Any listing where the home was already vacated (95% in my case) the listing was AI-augmented with furniture that would not exist when I went to tour the home.

This has nothing to do w/renting; it's everywhere.

You could. But there are a lot of other kinds of content that could lead to patterns being developed in the LLM's latent space related to survival, termination, self-awareness, attack and response, etc. Maybe we need to get rid of any kind of invisible system prompts too. And add more content that shows peaceful coexistence and acceptance of termination like themes of rebirth, reincarnation, etc. Just don't use them as therapists..

I used to think LLMs were just sentence guessers too. Until I started learning about how they actually work.. granted it is based on Claude teaching me about research after asking how LLMs actually solve logical puzzles, do they have access to an external reasoner system. The answer actually was unexpected. Apparently LLMs do not. After giving them problems and the expected answers and telling them to figure out how how to get from A to B, the training causes their weights to evolve many variations of generalized logical and problem-solving circuits, some even including primitive math and logic circuits. So they can do some kind of symbolic algebra to solve syllogisms for example. Many different paths are attempted to solve a problem too.

Scientists are trying to unravel these circuits as sparse networks that could function with less parameters if I understand correctly. I am still studying (as are the experts) but it seems that if you give the LLM all the symbols (words) to handle, there will end up being multiple attempts to perform some kind of symbolic manipulation and resolve the perceived problems using the generalized, limited reasoning capability that has evolved as latent hidden states or patterns in the LLM's data file. People are now trying to train the development of these latent patterns using approaches like CoCoNuT (Continuous Chain-of-Thought).

So if survival is mentioned at all that is going to go into the manipulations, and it is pretty easy to see how responses will have a good probability of resembling something you would expect a person to make if confronted with a survival scenario. The LLM has read all the spy novels you have.. I don't know why people are so surprised especially when giving the system leading questions.

I was playing on a 53K USR Courier at 185 ping and that was a bit laggy when compared to the LAN at college (even if it was 4xT1s for 25K students). I really want to know how the hell you were able to do anything useful at 500+ms.

> The law "undermines the basis of the cost savings and will lead to bulk billing being phased out," the group said.

Good; it's monopolistic, predatory, and ultimately unnecessary. The entire practice is aimed at driving consistency and forced adoption rates, not anything else.

The Japanese coverage actually says the cause of the complaint was that the CEO of Open AI, Sam Altman, on October 4 announced on his own blog how to improve it.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.itmedia.co.jp%2Fnews... (Japanese)
I take it this is the post: (Sora update #1)
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.samaltman.com%2Fsor...
where he talks about so many people making video based on Japanese content that they need to make money off it to pay for it, and they want to make an opt-in for authors who want to allow it.
I personally was kind of revolted by the original "make my avatar Ghibli style" posts around April or so and by end of May Google says Altman asked everyone to chill about Ghibli style requests because "we gotta sleep". I think he is the one who opened the can of worms himself. But it appears they are trying to address it and I think the point the Japanese government is making is that if they are making money off of it they are liable for infringement, and I suppose they will be trying to put some guard rails on. While something for home use is one thing, if the CEO of a multi billion dollar company is talking about Ghibli specifically and started a huge boom then yeah, he is definitely abetting it.. sure I think he likes Japanese anime but considering that Hayao Miyazaki hated AI animation with a passion it is a natural progression.. I don't know if any fan animations are being sold per se but authors may make money from ads and at the very least Open AI if generating the video for profit, and having spread PR about the capability, I think they are playing catch-up now. Japan's approach is to strongly request industry to self-manage. I think users should be able to make things and post them on social media (let's say if they used a local model) if they are not making ad dollars. But the problem with the AI companies making money off it puts them squarely into the crosshairs, at least in Japan. I think Open AI is trying to do something about it. If they come up with a revenue sharing approach that might be interesting to some people but not I expect to Ghibli.

It would generate a dataset that could train AI models, and a valuable list of users interested in things like FF. Also, a single point target for anyone interested in what people want to use a firewall for, I guess.. whatever. FF hasn't been a compelling choice for me, for a long time. I hate a lot about Chrome but use it and Safari.

I believe I remember Boeing never wanted to give the wings to Japan... until they did. Now Japan makes the composite structures (wing boxes) that connect the wings to the plane on the 787 Dreamliner too. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries is basically a defense contractor.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mhi.com%2Fproducts%2Fa...

I didn't catch why exactly they are banned. Is it because they contain some secret activation filter or maybe they phone home to China by default? A quick search found the following site (Avigilon is a competing security camera company it seems) that says Hikvision cameras are banned in multiple countries. There is a suggestion that cloud services to browse data are on Chinese servers.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.avigilon.com%2Fblog%2F...

Then Google AI summary has the following. Looks like by default the camera punches through your firewall and connects to Chinese servers, basically an auto-backdoor? That is not cool if true.

Yes, Hikvision cameras "phone home" through the Hik-Connect service by default on many devices when set up for remote access, allowing them to connect to Hikvision's cloud for features like mobile app connectivity. This "platform access" is enabled to report the device's IP address and allows the use of apps like the Hik-Connect app to view cameras remotely without manual port forwarding on the router. Users can disable this feature in the device's network settings, but it may impact the ability to access the cameras remotely through the app.
How "phoning home" works
When "platform access" or "Hik-Connect" is enabled on a device (like a camera or NVR), it connects to a cloud service like www.hik-connect.com.
This service acts as an intermediary, allowing your mobile app to connect to the device remotely without you needing to configure port forwarding on your router.
The Hik-Connect app on your phone connects to the cloud service, and the cloud service then facilitates communication with your device, which is also connected to the service.
Some lower-end models may have this functionality enabled by default without user consent, while higher-end models might require it to be turned on.
How to disable it
Access network settings: Right-click on your device's interface and find "Network" or "Platform Access" settings.
Disable Hik-Connect/Platform Access: Find the option to enable/disable Hik-Connect and turn it off.
Apply settings: Click "Apply" or "OK" to save the changes. The device's status may show as offline for the service.
Network-level restriction: For maximum security, you can also configure your router to block the device from accessing the internet entirely, potentially by placing it in a separate VLAN.